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Here at The Media Center, things are getting more exciting by the day. Not only will Al Gore keynote the We Media conference on Oct. 5 at The Associated Press, Yahoo! will be there as a sponsor.

Other great companies have signed on to help us spread the word. Our media sponsors are: Ogilvy PR, Red Herring, Digital Media Wire, the Producers Guild of America and Guidewire Group.

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Help us create the story of We Media. We’re asking participants to contribute stories about a collaborative experience. These stories will become part of the collaborations at We Media. Your story can be in any form: a short narrative, haiku, photo, email exchange, anecdote, audio file, podcast, video, office memo, napkin scribble, or brilliant idea. You decide – be creative.

The Media Center offered 15 fellowships for nonprofit, academic and independent media to attend the We Media conference at The Associated Press word headquarters on Oct. 5.

We received about 140 applications from all over the world. It was a highly qualified, exceptional applicant pool, making it very difficult for us to select just fifteen people. Somehow we managed.

Here are the We Media fellowship recipients and their statements about why they wanted to attend We Media:

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Al Gore, chairman of Current TV and former Vice President of the United States, will deliver the keynote speech at The Media Center’s Oct. 5 We Media conference at The Associated Press.

Yahoo! is a conference sponsor.

We are very excited by Al’s participation because it will bring heightened interest to our conference, which is intended to be a major step in advancing The Media Center’s mission to help create a better-informed society.

Al joins an amazing line-up of speakers, including:

Craig Newmark, Founder of craigslist
Farai Chideya, Founder of Pop and Politics
Dan Gillmor, Author of "We the Media"
Andrew Heyward, President of CBS News
Larry Kramer, President of CBS Digital Media
Ana Marie Cox, Editor of Wonkette
Richard Edelman, President of Edelman PR
Tom Curley, President of The Associated Press
Nick Kristof, NYT Columnist
Watts Wacker, CEO of Futurist

See our full roster of speakers here.

In an eye-opening and inspiring exploration of the We Mediascape, the program will include sessions on "We Media and the Collaborative Society" and the "Business of Collaboration."

Media sponsors include: Ogilvy PR, Red Herring, Digital Media Wire, Producers Guild of America and Guidewire Group.

Full conference information here.