Innovation World | Knight News Challenge
$25 million (Knight News Challenge) invested in innovative approaches to journalism – the result: strengthened local communities. This is the goal of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.This is...
View ArticleLiveblog: News World, Traditions and transformation
Here we are, about to start “News World | Traditions and Transformation” — what fun! Description: “Traditional (legacy) news organizations have no choice but to continue to change in order to respond...
View ArticleWeMedia 2008 Activist World Forum
Activist world forum: Innovative applications of media emerge in every sector of life. It’s not just about blogs,Facebook and You Tube. Session Chair: Suzanne Turner, CEO of Turner Strategies was the...
View ArticleSocial World Panel
This is a good panel but it has been a long day. After this panel, the Mojito in the Grove session. Dean Isaac Prilleltensky, Dean UM School of Education starts with an anecdote about women in Kerala,...
View ArticleTalking unconference at one that isn’t structured that way
An audience member noted that the online back channels are valuable. The big-screen has the Weme twitter posts, that is one kind of back-channel. Someone noted that back channels can become snarky and...
View ArticleCivil Discourse
Sponsored by Washington Post – newsweek Interactive Location: Storer Auditorium at 4:15 pm Session Chair: Hal Straus, Interactivity and Communities Editor, Washingtonpost.com Robin Miller, Editor,...
View ArticleHow nonprofit journalism pays off
The past several decades have been marked by two trends in journalism, neither of them conducive to an informed public or the furtherance of democracy. On the one hand there is the growing...
View ArticlePitch It | Tomorrow’s best start-ups, Part 2
Pitch It #3 – A website that brings important information and sparks conversation around local schools. Robert Park Bringing laws to parents and providing a space to react to issues. User case: A...
View ArticleSocial World as a commercial as well as strictly personal world
Todor continues with anecdote about Fiat getting community built around adding features to the car. Car owners post about vacations in their cars, their cars as steppingstones to social engagement. The...
View ArticleThe amazing work of Bolivian Voices
What will be the result if you put together millenary cultures that preserved their memory and traditions in spite of repression and poverty, enthusiastic youth and volunteers discovering new media?...
View ArticleMernits asks us what do you not know and what do you want to know
“Any community that is large and diverse, will have sub-communities” says Elisa, but these sub-communities need rules that apply to everyone to lead to express disagreement without flaming. Blogher did...
View ArticlePRO-AM World
The relationship between professional and amateur journalists is starting to emerge. Explore how non-professionals connected by social networks and tools influence new models of storytelling and...
View ArticleDeveloper’s World
The idea, for developers, is to produce the tools that allow us to share the content that is important to us and our world. This can even extend to the most emotional and historically important of...
View ArticleNetworked Economics
Networked Economics | Leveraging connections Everything is networked: friendship, professional life, customers, knowledge, causes and commerce. These networks represent new opportunities to invent,...
View ArticleNetworked Economics cont…
Question: What is the dialogue like in business today? Is it fear/excitement? Lawrence: The dialogue in business is a spectrum from anxious to terrified! The logic from one to many may no longer apply,...
View ArticleNetworked Economics – key quotes cont…
Here’s some key quotes that Craig Smith noted: jen: connects moms together randy: care2 “[care2 is all about] Helping people feel empowered” chris: topix “nobody reads the newspaper but everyone wants...
View ArticleAudio from opening, keynotes and Change the World sessions
Audio from the opening remarks of We Media 2008, the Print is Dead, Print Reincarnated and The Power to Change the World sessions are now available for streaming through this post or individual...
View ArticleSocial Entrepreneurs
“Journalism should have a profound social impact,” said Alberto Ibarguen, president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This quote defines the root of the Knight Foundation’s partnership...
View ArticleWe Media News Recap: Americans are deeply dissatisfied with their journalism;...
More than 300 people from 13 countries gathered last week in Miami for our annual deep dive into the emergence of We Media as a defining force for the connected society. We’re already working on...
View ArticleIn case you didn’t meet them at the conference…
Last week’s We Media conference in Miami was a blur of interesting people I wish I had more time to talk to. Some people, of course, I didn’t get a chance to speak with at all. I was delighted, then,...
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