I’m struck by how many non-profits are here at WeMedia – and not just not-profits technically-speaking, but inspiring starts ups and people of all sorts who want to encourage action and change (I was at BarCamp Miami and Future of Web Apps earlier this week and it was definitely more geeky of course, but businessy […]
Bono is a rock star musician. Jeffrey Sachs is a rock star economist. This week, they were also bloggers for FT.com. Read their posts and you can see clearly how people with passion and purpose can produce journalism that stands out from the routine, gutless reporting we’ve been indoctrinated to view as normal and right.
Awards honor people, projects and ideas that use media to change the world. An international panel of pioneers from media, technology, business, social activism and blogging will judge nominees for the new We Media Game Changers Awards. The awards recognize people, projects, ideas and organizations leading change and inspiring a better world through media. Winners […]
Or, if we want to get highbrow about it: Widgetized political discourse Amid the sea of online opinion, polls and analysis, maybe less is more. That could be a selling point for a pair of new political widgets launched by Civis Online. Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison is founder of We Media. He lives in Reston, Virginia. […]
One of our partners, LaunchBox Digital, is an early-stage Internet startup incubator fund. It’s similar in structure to TechStars in Boulder, Colorado. Startup companies – or founders with ideas that could become companies – apply to participate. The projects selected for the fund commit to spending the summer working with the fund’s founders and their […]
(Here’s the update sent to our friends today via email. If you aren’t on the list you can use the form on the right rail of our web site to sign up.) We’ve been on the move in Europe and the U.S. in recent weeks – and also hunkered down at We Media HQ working […]