Here’s a news release we’re distributing today about the We Media Film Festival …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Online Festival Celebrates the Power of “My Community”

ifocos.org today announced a call for entries and viewer-judges to the 2007 We Media Film Festival. The user-generated online film festival, launched in conjunction with the We Media Miami conference to be held Feb. 7-9, is organized in cooperation with the University of Miami School of Communication and Magnify.net, an online resource for community-powered video.

Video creators can upload or link to their videos and anyone can review and judge the entries online at: http://video.ifocos.org

The theme of the video festival is “My Community.”

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Conference Archive

Here’s where you can find details on what happened, background on the program and archived audio and video (soon).

• Program
• Sponsors
• Participants
• Photos
• Blog | RSS
• Film Fest

Audio and Video Archive

• Introduction – Dale Peskin and Andrew Nachison
• Community session
  Part 1 | Part 2
• Investment session
  Part 1 | Part 2
• ‘Soft Power ‘ session
  Part 1 | Part 2
• (ADDED 2/17/07) Gen Next: The Content Creatives
• (ADDED 2/17/07) Town Hall: Behold the Power of Us: The future of media, democracy and community
  Part 1 | Part 2

Mashup

Di-Ann Eisner of Platial hosted a mash-up breakout. In less than an hour, the group brought together video, photos, blogs, their own information. The site explains how they did it and what they used.

• WeMedia Mashup
• Pet Rescue

More Background and Pre-Conference Details

When: February 7-9, 2007
Where: Storer Auditorium, University of Miami
Presented with major support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
In cooperation with the University of Miami School of Communication and the University of Miami School of Business.

View The Program (PDF)

What?

We Media Miami explores and fosters the use of digital media to build and improve real communities in a connected society.

This is the third year for the We Media conference. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore spoke at We Media 05 hosted by The Associated Press in New York; BBC Managing Director Mark Thompson, Reuters CEO Tom Glocer, actor Richard Dreyfuss and Nitin Desai of the United Nations participated in the We Media Global Forum in 2006 hosted by Reuters and the BBC in London.

In Miami, the conference will focus on two connected themes:

• Community: How can media and communications in a multitude of forms, produced or influenced by an ever-expanding multitude of sources, serve and strengthen the communities where people live?
• Investment: In a shifting communications marketplace, how will investors, public and private funders or new formulations of social entrepreneurship pay for and sustain the civic enterprises of news and information?

The program includes a series of roundtable discussions and a variety of participatory activities involving communities, individuals and organizations to help participants understand and address the challenges of a changing multi-media world, and to stimulate innovation and investment in projects and services that strengthen communities.

Who Attends?

We Media gathers about 300 international participants: senior executives, decision makers, storytellers, artists, investors, innovators, strategic thinkers, developers of information technologies, entrepreneurs, community leaders and researchers from media, advertising, public relations, marketing, news, entertainment, finance, telecommunications, technology, philanthropy, government, NGOs, social activism and academia.

Why Attend?

A diverse group of leaders from a variety of industries and professions come together to learn from each other and to think about, explore, be inspired by and build upon the shared knowledge and the collective intelligence of the connected society. Their collective efforts spawn new ideas, information, services and businesses.

Roundtables bring together diverse groups of thought-leaders to expose and cross-pollinate thinking about strategic communication. The audience participates in discussion on site and online. Through discourse participants come to a new awareness of the challenges they lead and the values they find important.

Meetups, Mashups, Collaborations and Pitches

We Media Miami functions as a marketplace of ideas AND actions – and a meeting ground for an eclectic and ambitious group of funders, entrepreneurs, community activists, media executives and strategic thinkers on social action. Together they seek new collaborations, new relationships and new ways of thinking about opportunities to build a better-informed society.

Conference organizers facilitate presentations and discussions with venture capitalists and other funders, as well as facilitate independent meetings and discussions among speakers, participants and exhibitors.

Get Personal

Speakers will conduct small-group discussions or question-and-answer sessions. Funders and venture capitalists are available for pitches and collaborations to achieve new partnerships and projects.

Counseling and Mentoring

Speakers and other participants are available for a series of informal meetings, interviews and mentoring sessions on key, emergent issues and developments shaping the changing media ecosystem and the communities that are forming around them.

Plan. Meet. Collaborate.

Registered participants will have advanced access to collaborative networking software to create profiles and identify participants and speakers at the conference with whom they can arrange one-on-one meetings, mentoring sessions or interviews. Plan some meetings in Miami with other participants. The conference will facilitate these and other collaborations.

Workshops and Demos

In an exhibit area, organizations conduct workshops on technologies, tools, applications and systems that stimulate civic engagement and which organize and benefit communities.

Random Acts of Media

A showcase of innovative stories, ideas and applications that are being expressed through collaborative media, interspersed through the conference.

Video Festival

Submit videos from personal media devices for the conference’s “We Space” – a video festival open to community groups and the public. Videos will be shown at the Cosford Cinema on the University of Miami campus. Public workshops open the discussion and demonstrations to the community. Individuals and organizations contribute ideas and projects.

Register Online Now

When: February 7-9, 2007
Where: Storer Auditorium, University of Miami
5250 University Drive, Coral Gables, FL | Map

Arrive: Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Reception: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Wednesday, February 7, 2007. Dinner on your own.

Start: Check-in for registered participants begins at 8 a.m. and the program begins at 9 a.m. on Thursday, February 8, 2007.

End: The program concludes around 3 p.m. on Friday, February 9, 2007.

Depart: Book your return flight for 5:30 p.m. or later on Friday, Febraury 9, 2007 – or find a way to stay longer and enjoy Miami.

Click Here To Register Online Now

Registration Fee

• Before November 15: $795
• Before: January 3, 2007: $995
• After January 3: $1,195

Participants are responsible for making their own travel and hotel arrangements.

Numerous hotels with a range of prices are convenient to the conference facilities at the University of Miami, including these (suggested prices via Yahoo!):

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• Wyndham Grand Bay-Coconut Grove, 2669 S Bayshore Dr, Coconut Grove, FL | Phone: 305-858-9600 | Price: $118.00 or more
• Doubletree Hotel Coconut Grove 2649 S Bayshore Dr Miami, FL Phone: 305-858-2500 Price: $89 – $339
• The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove | 3300 SW 27th Ave, Coconut Grove, FL | Phone: 305-644-4680 | Price: $149 – $340
• The Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave Coral Gables, FL | Phone: 305-445-1926 | Price: $279.00 or more
• Holiday Inn University of Miami, 1350 S Dixie Hwy Coral Gables, FL | Phone: 305-667-5611 | Price: $59 – $125

Program (subject to change)
Updated: January 25, 2007

Wednesday, February 7

We Media Miami is presented by iFOCOS with major support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in cooperation with and hosted by the University of Miami School of Communication and the University of Miami School of Business.

Other Sponsors:

LANACION.COM is one of the leading news sites in Spanish. Monthly, LANACION.com gathers more than 2.4 million users who believe the most valuable attribute for a media company is to be trustworthy. Participation, interaction, opinions, and debate are the guidelines that LANACION.com follows to build a permanent conversation, a dialogue with its readers. LA NACION group has also led the development of virtual communities in Latin America since 1995, building successful sites such as DeRemate.com (auctions), DeMotores.com (autos), ZonaJobs.com (Job search), RollingStoneLA.com (youth culture), ZonaCinemania.com (movies), nexolocal.com (free classifieds), ZonaTicket.com (Entertainment) , Tegumi.com (contents for cell phones), and Igooh.com (Citizen Journalism).

NOKIA NSERIES is a range of high performance multimedia computers that delivers unparalleled mobile multimedia experiences by combining the latest technologies with stylish design and ease of use. With Nokia Nseries products, consumers can use a single device to enjoy entertainment, access information and to capture and share pictures and videos, on the go at any time.

REUTERS is a global information company providing indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Its information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe. Its core strengths lie in providing the content, analytics, trading and messaging capabilities needed by financial professionals. Reuters’ open technology, based on industry standards, enables its customers to search, store and integrate its information with content from other sources, facilitating the way they work. Reuters provides financial institutions with specially designed tools to help them reduce risk and distribute and manage the ever-increasing volumes of market data. Its electronic trading services connect financial communities, helping them to gain access to the best prices and to trade efficiently and effectively.

The idea for SCRAPBLOG was born during the first Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco in October 2004. We wondered how photo sharing would evolve, now that many of the technical limitations of the Web are disappearing. After comparing a photo album to a scrapbook, we realized that the existing photo sharing sites are the online equivalent of the traditional photo album. So, we set out to take the craft of scrapbooking online! Scrapblog was founded by the same four partners of Nobox Marketing Group. Nobox is an award-winning interactive agency whose long-term clients include Toyota, Scion, Lexus, Verizon Wireless and Procter & Gamble. We are a winning team that knows how to build a profitable business. Furthermore, we are passionate about creating amazing online experiences and contributing to the development of the Internet.

TOPIX.NET: Topix.net is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. town and city. A Top 25 online news destination (Hitwise, November 2006), the company links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated forums. Topix.net also works with the nation’s major media companies to grow and engage their online audiences through forums, classifieds, publishing platforms and RSS feeds. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Topix.net is a privately held company with investment from Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB). For more, visit www.topix.net.

WASHINGTONPOST NEWSWEEK INTERACTIVE is the online publishing subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO). Its mission is to develop the company’s editorial products and businesses on the internet and across all electronic content delivery platforms. WPNI’s flagship products include Slate, washingtonpost.com, Newsweek.com, and BudgetTravelOnline.com. The company is headquartered in Arlington, Va.

Media Sponsors

DIGITAL MEDIA WIRE launched in early 2000 with a simple yet compelling proposition to provide busy executives with a daily briefing of the most important news stories about the business of digital media. On July 20, 2000, we published the first issue of Digital Media Wire Daily — our daily email newsletter dedicated to objective coverage of news stories about the convergence of media, entertainment and technology. Today, the newsletter is considered a “must read” by industry insiders and has a senior level readership at the majority of the major media, entertainment and technology companies.

TECHNORATI is the world’s leading authority on what’s happening in the world of blogs. Currently tracking more than 30 million blogs in near real-time, Technorati surfaces new content within moments of its being published. With services for bloggers, readers of blogs and businesses interested in the blogosphere, Technorati helps you to see who’s saying what — right now — on the world wide web.

MEDIABISTRO.COM is dedicated to anyone who creates or works with content, or who is a non-creative professional working in a content/creative industry. That includes editors, writers, television producers, graphic designers, book publishers, people in production, and circulation departments—in industries including magazines, television, radio, newspapers, book publishing, online media, advertising, PR, and graphic design. Our mission is to provide opportunities (both on- and offline) for you to meet each other, share resources, become informed of job opportunities and interesting projects, improve your career skills, and showcase your work.

Other Support

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation was established in 1982 for charitable, scientific and educational purposes, including the improvement of the quality of the practice of journalism among various media. This support includes funding for creative projects and research that promotes excellence in journalism and instills and encourages high ethical standards in journalism. Funding is not available to individuals, but is available to formal organizations via an application and review process.

For information about additional sponsorship opportunities, contact:

email: dale AT ifocos DOT org
phone: (703) 251-4807

Researchers

Bowman

Willis

In 2002, The Media Center commissioned Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis to document an emerging phenomenon: the rise and impact of participatory journalism. We called it “We Media.” Their prescient report published in 2003 has become the reference point for a movement that engages citizens everywhere in the transaction of content and commerce online.

We Media launched a global conversation. The report, which has been translated into Spanish, has been downloaded more than 25,000 times. To participate in a thread of that conversation and to learn more about Bowman and Willis, go to:

Hypergene MediaBlog

Tom Glocer, CEO, Reuters
Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC
Jeffry Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute (via satellite from New York)
Nitin Desai, Special Assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
Richard Dreyfuss, Actor and Activist
Wadah Khanfar, Director-General, Al Jazeera Network Channel
Carolyn McCall, CEO, Guardian Newspapers
Richard Sambrook, Director of Global News, BBC
Dave Sifry, CEO, Technorati
Nikesh Arora, Vice President of European Operations, Google
Scott Heiferman, Founder & CEO, Meetup.com
Chris Ahearn, President, Reuters Media
Rafat Ali, Editor & Publisher, paidContent.org
Nihal Arthanayake, DJ & Music Journalist
Ros Atkins, Presenter, World Have Your Say, BBC
Timothy Balding, CEO, World Association of Newspapers
Jihad Ballout, Director of Corporate Communications, Al Arabiya
Angela Beesley, Board Member, Wikimedia Foundation
Emily Bell, Editor-in-Chief, Guardian Unlimited
Jeff Belk, Senior Vice President, Qualcomm
Kamla Bhatt, The Kamla Bhatt Show
David Brain, European President & CEO, Edelman
Helen Boaden, Director of News and Current Affairs, BBC
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times of London
Merrill Brown, Founder & Principal, MMB Media LLC; Media Center Advisory Board
Matthew Buckland, Publisher, Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa
Rudy Chan, ex-CEO, China.com
Jean-Marc Coicaud, New York Head, United Nations University
Adam Curry, Podcaster, Curry.com
Nitin Desai, Special Assistant to the UN Secretary-General
Richard Dreyfuss , Actor and Activist
Graeme Ferguson, Director of Global Content, Vodafone
Stephanie Flanders, Economics Editor, BBC Newsnight
Dan Gillmor, Author, We The Media
Nik Gowing, Presenter, BBC World
Sebastian Grigg, Partner & Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
David Dunkley-Gyimah, Video Journalist/ Senior Academic
Andrew Hawken, General Manager, MSN Portal Experience
Paul Holmes, Global Editor for Political and General News, Reuters
Dr. Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm
Jeff Jarvis, Blogger, Buzzmachine.com
Spencer Kelly, Presenter, BBC Click
Rhami Khouri, Editor-at-Large, Lebanon Daily Star
Wilfred Kiboro, CEO, Nation Media Group, Kenya
Megan Knight, Middlesex University
Dr. Michael Kraig, Director of Policy Analysis & Dialogue, Stanley Foundation
Geert Linnebank, Editor-in-Chief & Global Head of Content, Reuters
Sunil Lulla, CEO, Times Global Broadcasting Co. Ltd., India
Rebecca MacKinnon, Co-Founder, Global Voices
Carolyn McCall, CEO, Guardian Newspapers
Andrew Nachison, Director, The Media Center
Salah Negm, News Editor, BBC Arabic TV Service
Rachel North, blogger, Rachel from North London
Rabiya Parekh, Presenter, World Have Your Say, BBC
Bertrand Pecquerie, Director, World Editors Forum
Dale Peskin, Co-Director, The Media Center
Keith Porter, Director of Communications & Outreach, Stanley Foundation
Shoba Purushothaman, CEO, The NewsMarket
Scott Rafer, Chairman, Wireless Ink
Rachel Rawlins, Managing Editor, Global Voices
Richard Sambrook, Director of Global News, BBC
Mark Sandell, Editor, World Have Your Say, BBC
David Schlesinger, Global Managing Editor, Reuters
Karen Stephenson, President, Netform; Media Center Advisory Board
Neha Viswanathan, South Asia Editor, Global Voices
Katherine von Jan, Co-CEO, Infinia Group
Marcus Xiang, CEO, PDX.CN, China
William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group; Media Center Advisory Board
Dean Wright, SVP & Managing Editor of Consumer Services, Reuters

Online Curators:

Brian Reich, Senior Strategic Consultant, Mindshare Interactive Campaigns
Suw Charman, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
Vanessa Fabiano, Editor, Shortcut: A European City Blog

BEHOLD THE POWER OF US

We Media fosters collaboration through conversations, connections and shared knowledge. We organize conversations with individuals and organizations who are using the Internet as a collective force of unprecedented power. We create a setting for you to talk to them and to each other – a day for learning, sharing, ideas and opportunities.

No ordinary conference, We Media is about how we create a better-informed society by collaborating with one another. Arrange meetings in advance or during scheduled meet-ups at the conference.

The Media Center encourages engagement by all attendees. We rely on attendees to set the course for We Next.

Wednesday May 3, 2006 | BBC Television Centre | West London

8.00 Registration

9.00 Welcome | The We and The Media
With Richard Sambrook (BBC) and Andrew Nachison (Media Center)
:: About the conference
:: Dale Peskin (Media Center) introduces the WeJays: Emily Bell (Guardian Unlimited) and Jeff Jarvis (buzzmachine.com)

9.15 The Power of Trust Forum | How Trust and Empowerment Shape Our Global
Society

:: Transformations: Know-and-Trust
:: BBC-Reuters-Media Center global poll
:: Conversation: Trust, Media and Society, moderated by Merrill Brown (Media Center), with Nihal Arthanayake (BBC), David Brain (Edelman), David Schlesinger (Reuters), Karen Stephenson (Media Center)

10.15 Future Forward | Exhibition, networking and break
Moderated by roving reporter Andrew Nachison, with BBC, British Telecom, Integrated Media Lab, Microsoft, Nokia, Picsel

10.45 Big Idea 1 | Media and the Connected Society, Part 1
With Nitin Desai, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

11.15 Leaders Forum | Media and the Connected Society, Part 2
Moderated by Nik Gowing (BBC), with Akwe Amosu (OSI), Timothy Balding (WAN), Wadah Khanfar (Al Jazeera), Nikesh Arora (Google), Mark Thompson (BBC)

12.30 pm Future Forward: Exhibition, networking and lunch

13.40 Big Idea 2 | Media and Civic Discourse
With Richard Dreyfuss, Actor and Activist |

14.10 Citizen Journalism Forum | Who’s Making the News?
:: BBC video on citizen reporting

:: Conversation moderated by Paul Holmes (Reuters), with Helen Boaden (BBC), George Brock (The Times), David Dunkley-Gyimah (Video Journalist), Andrew Hawken (MSN.com), Rachel North (blogger Rachel from North London)

15.10 Real World Forum | Meet the Digital Assassins
Moderated by Spencer Kelly (BBC)

16.00 Big Idea 3 | Conversation With Richard Sambrook (BBC)
Interviewed by Andrew Nachison (Media Center)

16.20 Future Forward | Exhibition, networking and break

16.45 Real Time We Media | World Have Your Say
Live-radio and online broadcast, with Ros Atkins, Vera Kwakofi, Solomon Omollo, Rabiya Parekh, Mark Sandell (all BBC)

18.05 Tomorrow | Meet the World at Reuters
With Dale Peskin (Media Center) and Dean Wright (Reuters)

Thursday, May 4, 2006 | Reuters Global Headquarters | Canary Wharf

8.00 Registration

9.00 Welcome | We, The Media and The World

With Geert Linnebank (Reuters)
:: From yesterday to today, with Dale Peskin (Media Center)

9.15 Big Idea 4 | The Democratization of Media – Where Does Trust Fit In?
With Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters

9.45 Global Forum | We the World
Global conversations via satellite from Reuters bureaus around the world

Asia and China (with satellite from Hong Kong)

Moderated by Rebecca MacKinnon (Global Voices), with rapporteur Rachel Rawlins (Global Voices), and Jean-Marc Coicaud (United Nations University), Rudy Chan (China.com), David Schlesinger (Reuters), Marcus Xiang (PDX.CN), We Media Fellows

10.45 Break and Exhibit Rooms
With BBC World Service Trust, Reuters Foundation, We Media Global Initiative, Interviews

11.00 We the World (cont’d) | South Asia (with satellite from Delhi)
Moderated by Rebecca MacKinnon (Global Voices), with rapporteur Rachel Rawlins (Global Voices), and Sunil Lulla (Times Global Broadcasting), Neha Viswanathan (Global Voices), Khamla Bhatt (The Khamla Bhatt Show), WM Fellows

12.00 pm Lunch and Exhibits

13.00 We the World (cont’d) | Middle East (with satellite from Baghdad) Moderated by Keith Porter (Stanley Foundation), with Zuhair Al-Jezairy (Aswat Al Iraq),
Jihad Ballout (Al Arabiya), Rami Khouri (Lebanon Daily Star), Dr. Michael Kraig (Stanley Foundation), Salah Negm (BBC), WM Fellows

14.15 Big Idea 5 | A Global Call to Action
With Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute (via satellite from New York)

14.45 We the World (cont’d) | Africa (with satellite from Johannesburg, South Africa)
Moderated by Rachel Rawlins (Global Voices), with Ory Okolloh (Reuters), Megan Knight (Middlesex University), Mathew Buckland (Mail & Guardian), Wilfred Kiboro (Nation Media Group), WM Fellows

15.45 Break and Exhibit Rooms

16.00 Business Forum | Investing in We: Where’s the Money?
Moderated by Stephanie Flanders (BBC), with Rafat Ali (paidContent), Sebastian Grigg (Goldman Sachs), Carolyn McCall (Guardian), Shoba Purushothaman (TheNewsMarket), Dave Sifry (Technorati), Chris Ahearn (Reuters Media)

17.00 Call to Action | The We Media Global Initiative

Moderated by William C. Weiss (Media Center) and Andrew Nachison (Media Center), with Jeff Belk (QUALCOMM), Graeme Ferguson (Vodafone), Scott Heiferman (Meetup), Dr. Paul Jacobs (QUALCOMM, pre-taped), Katherine von Jan (Infinia)

17.45 Closing Remarks | We Media Next
With Dale Peskin and Andrew Nachison (both Media Center)

18.00 We Party | Reception and Reuters Photo Exhibit

Hosted by Reuters and sponsored by Neighborhood America

QUALCOMM is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2005 FORTUNE 500 company traded on the Nasdaq stock market under the ticker symbol QCOM.

RECEPTION SPONSOR

Only NEIGHBORHOOD AMERICA provides you with the complete solution designed to help you engage your audience, build strong communities of interest, and offer your advertisers effective interactive marketing opportunities. Web-based and easy to use, Neighborhood America’s solutions empower you to easily manage the capture and review of online content including audience feedback, large video and audio files, images and surveys – without worrying about resources or your network. So go ahead.encourage citizen journalists to help you break the next big story; launch the next wildly successful advertising campaign; or cast next season’s hottest new reality stars. With the help of our solution, the sky’s the limit. Find out how Neighborhood America is helping media companies interact with millions of audience members by visiting us online at neighborhoodamerica.com .

The Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) industry group at Deloitte consists of more than 500 partners, directors and senior managers supported by other specialists dedicated to helping clients evaluate complex issues, develop fresh approaches to problems and implement practical solutions. We understand the challenges linked to decreased technology spending, industry convergence and new management strategies. Our greatest strengths include our professional principles, multidisciplinary capabilities and outstanding thought leadership publications – which all add up to a wealth of trusted and worthy resources. We invest heavily in TMT industry-specific training, audit approach, research and knowledge management, to ensure that our people are continually learning and applying global best practice to our clients. This means we deliver a more informed service, tailored to each client, which focuses on key issues and risks, and draws on global best practice and knowledge in each industry area.

SESSION SPONSOR

THE NEWSMARKET: Global journalists – representing 7,500 media outlets in 140 countries – visit www.thenewsmarket.com to search, preview and download free broadcast-standard video for their news stories. The NewsMarket services journalists at all European stations, including the BBC, ITN, ARD, RAI, TF1, TVE, the U.S. networks and international media, including CNN and Bloomberg, and agencies like Reuters and APTN. Its fastest-growing user base is in Asia and the Middle East, within Channel News Asia, ZeeNews, CCTV and Dubai TV. Organizations such as Adidas, UNICEF, World Bank, BMW, PUMA, Google, Yahoo!, Volvo and the UK Ministry of Defence use The NewsMarket to distribute video content in support of their media relations. The NewsMarket has operations in London, New York, San Francisco, Munich, Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai. For more information, visit www.thenewsmarket.com.

SUPPORTER

TOPIX.NET: Founded in 2002 with the specific mission of providing users with the ability to quickly and easily find targeted news on the Internet, Topix.net is a news aggregator with unique technology to find and categorize news into 300,000 topics, from Autos to ZIP code level local news. Topix.net enables Internet users to talk back to the news through a network of over 300,000 local and topical news discussion forums. Topix.net is a privately held company with equal investment from Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Knight-Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB). Topix.net distributes content via partnerships with Citysearch, Ask Jeeves, My Yahoo!, Bloglines, Metro Newspapers, Newsgator, Findory, Wondir, Infospace, Link Silicon Valley and HelloMetro.com

PLUCK Corporation’s mission is to empower media companies to embrace and monetize open content models. With a suite of social media products, Pluck transforms how online editorial teams and their site users discover, create and distribute information. Powered by Pluck, publishers can aggregate rich content, build vibrant communities, foster user-generated content and deliver new syndication services. Pluck SiteLife products enable capabilities ranging from community blogs, to photo galleries, comments, submissions, user profiles and more. A hosted and managed software platform ensures seamless site integration, editorial management, search and other shared services. Ultimately, Pluck products increase user registrations, time on site, page views and revenue. Clients and partners of Pluck Corporation include CNET, Cox Newspapers, The Hearst Corporation, Reuters, TheStreet.com and The Washington Post. The company is backed by $10M in funding from Mayfield and Austin Ventures. More information is available on www.pluck.com. To explore a meeting, please email bizdev@pluck.com.

MEDIA PARTNERS

WORLD EDITORS FORUM: The Paris-based World Editors Forum is the organisation of the World Association of Newspapers that represents senior news executives. WEF publishes The Editors Weblog, a unique professional source for editors around the world seeking advice on newsroom management, editorial quality, online strategies and citizen journalism. WEF is a platform where you can share ideas, experiences and new initiatives on how to defend editorial excellence.

TECHNORATI is the world’s leading authority on what’s happening in the world of blogs. Currently tracking more than 30 million blogs in near real-time, Technorati surfaces new content within moments of its being published. With services for bloggers, readers of blogs and businesses interested in the blogosphere, Technorati helps you to see who’s saying what — right now — on the world wide web.

The Guardian is currently the UK’s ‘Newspaper of the Year’ and its website, Guardian Unlimited, is the UK’s most popular online newspaper, with a massive global audience. Last September the Guardian relaunched in the ‘Berliner’ format, a UK first, combining the sensibility of a broadsheet with the convenience of a smaller format. Since this, the paper’s circulation has achieved sustained growth, outperforming its market. Last year Guardian Unlimited was the first UK newspaper to win a Webby, the Oscar’s of the Internet, and in this year’s awards the paper is short-listed in two categories, once again demonstrating that the Guardian is firmly established as one of the world’s leading news brands.

Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide is a global communications firm built upon the best brand-building heritage. In this age of complex, networked marketing, our strengths in consumer marketing, corporate communications, social marketing, health, public affairs, technology, entertainment and our new 360 degree Digital Influence offering fuel innovative and creative solutions for the most important brands: our clients.

The United Nations University (UNU), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with Research and Training Programmes in Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East contributes, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the global problems that are the concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States. UNU is 1) an international community of scholars 2) serves as a bridge between the United Nations and the international academic community 3) a think-tank for the United Nations system and 4) a builder of capacities, particularly in developing countries.

Mapable Headquartered in Texas, specializes in developing highly interactive online messaging solutions. It is a web-based chat service enabling anyone to automatically create chatrooms to discuss blog posts, online articles, pictures or anyone else you may feel like spawning a discussion for. Businesses use Mapable Chat to create, fully customize and integrate chat-based applications into their websites and corporate blogs. Chatrooms can be created just by composing a URL and anyone who follows the link is placed into the chatroom. All chat conversations are searchable and chatroom owners can easily edit conversation archives. Any chatroom can be imported into any website and with a subscription can be customized to give it have a very unique look and feel matching the style of the hosting site.

WINKsite is the quickest, savviest, and most cost-effective way to build a mobile audience. Our publishing tools let you simply and easily add your information to the mobile web in ways that thrill mobile users — and immediately put your new experience in the hands of users around the world. Before WINKsite, launching a successful mobile site was difficult, expensive, and frustrating. Now, with our RSS-driven publishing services, it’s quick and easy for web site publishers to build mobile communities and to promote them. WINKsite aggregates thousands of communities into a portal where mobile and broadband users find each other by interest and location.

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo!’s global network includes 25 world properties and is available in 13 languages.

Yahoo! aims to be the best place for consumers to find, use, share and expand their knowledge, and the highest value partner for advertisers and publishers communicating with those consumers. Yahoo!’s open content platform helps publishers syndicate and distribute all types of media content via RSS feeds on My Yahoo!, the Internet’s most popular personalized start page. The Yahoo! Publisher Network offers new revenue opportunities for publishers and advertisers – creating an ecosystem that connects businesses with the right online audience.

The NewsMarket, Inc. (www.thenewsmarket.com/) is the only web-based, on-demand platform that enables news producers and journalists to browse, preview and download broadcast-standard video clips free-of-charge from organizations including UNICEF, Pfizer, BMW, Roche, Yahoo!., Motorola, General Motors, Intel, Google, adidas and the American Red Cross. These content creators pay The NewsMarket to ensure that their stock footage and B-roll is made easily available to the news media for inclusion in news and feature programs. By creating an on-demand digital platform, The NewsMarket is transforming how the world’s news media access video content from third parties. More than 5,000 news organizations in 140 countries today source video clips from www.thenewsmarket.com

The Company is headquartered in New York and has operations in Europe and Asia. It is privately held by management and investors including venture capital firms such as Apax Partners and Softbank and media organizations such as Hearst Corp.

MEDIA SPONSORS

Digital Media Wire is a news organization, publisher and events company serving the digital media industry since May 2000. We publish a well-respected free daily email newsletter and an industry directory(www.digitalentertainmentdirectory.com) and produce six annual conferences in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and New York City featuring the leading minds in digital media: www.digitalmusicforum.com, www.gamesandmobile.com, www.digitalmediaconference.com, www.televisionconference.com, www.digitalentertainmentawards.com and www.digitalcommercesummit.com. For more information, please visit www.digitalmediawire.com or call 323-822-0936.

Guidewire Group is a global research firm focusing exclusively on emerging technology companies and markets. The company’s online media, reports, and executive events bring the right people together at the right time with the right information to accelerate market development and business opportunity for entrepreneurs and those who support them. Chris Shipley hosts Guidewire Group’s next conference, BlogOn 2005 Social Media Summit, in New York this October. For more information, visit www.guidewiregroup.com.

Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide is a global communications firm built upon the best brand-building heritage. In this age of complex, networked marketing, our strengths in consumer marketing, corporate communications, social marketing, health, public affairs, technology, entertainment and our new 360 degree Digital Influence offering fuel innovative and creative solutions for the most important brands: our clients.

LinkedIn is the world’s largest and most effective business network. On LinkedIn, more than 3.6 million professionals find jobs, people and service providers through their existing network of business relationships. LinkedIn offers four premium services. Hiring managers posting jobs on LinkedIn Jobs receive candidates recommended by fellow employees or other trusted contacts.

The Producers Guild of America New Media Council is the premier industry resource and representative body for producers of New Media entertainment. The PGA New Media Council represents the interests of producers of Digital Animation, Digital Visual Effects, Videogames, Mobile Entertainment, DVD, CD Rom, Broadband, Interactive Television, and integrated story telling. Given this mandate, we are here to provide our members, and the PGA members at large, with networking, educational and employment opportunities. To find out more about our schedule of events, check back often by going to www.pganewmedia.org.

PR Newswire provides electronic distribution, targeting, measurement, translation and broadcast services on behalf of corporate, government, association, labor, non-profit, and other customers worldwide. Using PR Newswire, these organizations reach critical audiences including the news media, the investment community, government decision-makers, and the general public with their up-to-the-minute, full-text news developments.

Red Herring is the global weekly magazine and digital news source that technology entrepreneurs, investors and industry observers read to stay ahead of the curve and to be better informed about the global marketplace. Red Herring covers technology, innovation, financial strategies, important personalities and trends globally that are transforming the world of business with unique insight, opinion and forward-looking analysis. Readers turn to Red Herring and Red Herring.com for knowledge to make strategic decisions, build companies and create a competitive advantage for their businesses. Red Herring is available by mail, digital subscription, Web, email newsletters and RSS feeds. Many of the magazine’s articles, research and event information can be found online at www.redherring.com.

We Media fosters collaboration through conversations, connections and shared knowledge. We’ve organized conversations with individuals and organizations who are using the Internet as a collective force of unprecedented power. We’ve created a setting for you to talk to them and to each other – a day for learning, and sharing, ideas and opportunities.

No ordinary conference, We Media is about how we
create a better-informed society by collaborating with
each other. Arrange meetings in advance or during scheduled meet-ups at the conference

Engagement by all attendees is encouraged. We rely on attendees to set a course for We Next.

7:15a – Registration; Bagels with bloggers

8:30a – We Media 2.0, Presented by The Media Center – Dale Peskin, Andrew Nachison

9:00a – We News – Tom Curley, Richard Sambrook, Farai Chideya, Larry Kramer, Merrill Brown

10a – 15-minute meet-ups / AP Tours

10:15a – Keynote – Al Gore

11a – We Inc. Executive forum – Jason McCabe Calacanis, Jennifer Feikin, Craig Forman, Andrew Heyward, Scott Rafer

Noon – Mid-day meet-ups / AP news center tour

1:15 – Three Sessions:
Media Gawking – Jessica Coen, Ellen Kampinsky
We Invest – Brad Feld, Paul Ginocchio, Susan Mernit
Culture, Politics & Buzz – Dominik von Jan, Farai Chideya, Patrick Phillips, Jay Rosen, Rick Ducey, Brad Burnham, John Gerzema

2p – Three Sessions:
Citizen Journalism – Susan DeFife, Dan Gillmor
We Marketing – Fernando Espuelas, John H. Bell
Activism & Democracy – Rebecca MacKinnon, Nicholas D. Kristof, J.B. Holston, Lex Alexander, Henry Copeland, Steve Rubel
Marcus Xiang, Brian Reich, Seth Green

2:45p – Afternoon stretch

3p – In Us We Trust – Craig Newmark, Richard Edelman, Watts Wacker, Karen Stephenson

4p – Collaboration Cafe with Speakers

5:30p – Cocktails

6:30p – Adjourn

Al Gore, Chairman, Current TV; Former Vice President of the United States

Craig Newmark, Customer Service Rep & Founder, craigslist

Tom Curley, President & CEO, The Associated Press

Richard Sambrook, Director, BBC Global News Division

Andrew Heyward, President, CBS News

Larry Kramer, President, CBS Digital Media

Karen Stephenson, President, Netform

Ana Marie Cox, Editor, Wonkette

Dan Gillmor, Founder, Bayosphere

Watts Wacker, CEO, Futurist

Craig Forman, VP & GM, Yahoo!

Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Columnist

Farai Chideya, Editor & Founder, Pop and Politics

Jessica Coen, Editor, Gawker.com

J.B. Holston, President & CEO, NewsGator Technologies, Inc.

Jennifer Feikin, Director of Google Video, Google

Patrick Phillips, Founder & Editor, I Want Media

Brad Burnham, Partner, Union Square Ventures

John Gerzema, Chief Insights Officer, Young and Rubicam Brands

Steve Rubel, Blogger, Micro Persuasion

Rich Skrenta, CEO & Founder, Topix.net

Richard Edelman, President & CEO, Edelman PR

Fernando Espuelas, Chairman & CEO, Voy

Merrill Brown, Principal, MMB Media LLC

John Bell, Senior Vice President & Creative Director, Ogilvy PR

Rebecca MacKinnon, Co-Founder, Global Voices

Susan DeFife, President & CEO, Backfence.com

Jay Rosen, Founder, PRESSthink

Ellen Kampinsky, Senior Editor, Glamour

Jason McCabe Calacanis, Co-Founder & Chairman, Weblogs, Inc.

Henry Copeland, Founder, BlogAds

Brad Feld, Managing Director, Mobius Venture Capital

Scott Rafer, Chairman, Wireless Ink

Susan Mernit, Senior VP, 5ive

Marcus Xiang, CEO, PDX.CN

Paul Ginocchio, Media Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Seth Green, Executive Director, Americans for Informed Democracy

Seth Goldstein, Co-Founder & Chairman, Majestic Research

Dominik von Jan, Director, NextNextBigThing

Rick Ducey, Executive VP, BIA Financial

Lex Alexander, Citizen Journalism Coordinator, Greensboro News-Record

Brian Reich, Director, Mindshare Interactive Campaigns

Andrew Nachison, Director, The Media Center

Dale Peskin, Co-Director, The Media Center

Van Andrews,
CEO, Rhinotek Computer Products

Leonard Apcar,
Editor in Chief, New York Times Digital

Gilberto Arias,
Vice President, Editora Panama America SA

MJ Bear,
Principal, mjbear.com

Ralph Biesemeyer,
Manager, Intel Corporation

Mike Bloxham,
Director/Testing & Assessment, Ctr. for Media Dsn., Ball State University

David Bohrman,
Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, Cable News Network

Shayne Bowman,
Principal, Hypergene Media Solutions

Thomas Brandenborg,
Research Analyst, CCI Europe

Florian Brody,
Director of Business Development, Red Herring, Inc.

John Burke,
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Motorola, Inc.

Daniel Burrus,
CEO, Burrus Research Associates, Inc.

Marta Buscaglia,
President and Publisher, Duluth News Tribune

Chad Capellman,
Managing Editor, The Media Center at API

Jennifer Carroll,
Director, News Development, Gannett Company, Inc.

Wayne Cerullo,
Partner, The Sonar Group

Gerald Chamales,
Chairman, Rhinotek Computer Products

Neil Chase,
Managing Editor, CBS.MarketWatch.com

Laura Chiappetta,
GM New Media, Colorado Mountain News Media

Bruce Christensen,
President, KSL-TV

Steven Cistulli,
Portfolio Manager, Smartphone Platform, Panasonic Mobile Communications

Sandy Close,
Executive Editor, Pacific News Service

Sabrina Crow,
Vice President, Reed Business

Chuck D,
Rap Artist, Social Commentator

Frank Daniels,
President and CEO, Vital Source Technologies, Inc.

Andrew Davis,
President & Executive Director, American Press Institute

Carin Dessauer,
Senior Fellow, The Media Center and Principal , mc2

Justen Dyche,
News Director, BBC News

Esther Dyson,
Chairman, EDventure Holdings, Inc.

Robert Enderle,
President, The Enderle Group

Judy Faber,
Executive Producer, Spanish Broadcasting System

Clive Ferguson,
Assistant Editor, BBC News

Roger Fidler,
Director & Professor, Institute for CyberInformation

Howard Finberg,
Faculty/Interactive Learning, Poynter Institute for Media Studies

Dennis Flynn,
CEO/Founder, The Sonar Group

Thomas Friedman,
Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Bill Gannon,
Editorial Director/Managing Editor, Yahoo! Inc.

Leah Gentry,
Managing Director, Finberg-Gentry/The Digital Futurist Consultancy

Dan Gillmor,
Business and Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury News

Jeff Greenfield,
Senior Analyst, Cable News Network (New York Bureau)

Jennifer Griggs,
Online Director, The Star-News

Lynn Hamilton,
Operations Manager, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Jay Harris,
Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Communication, University of Southern California

Christian Hendricks,
Vice President, Interactive Media, The McClatchy Company

Mary Hodder,
Graduate Student, University Of California, Berkeley

Michelle Horowitz,
Vice President/Content Development, PR Newswire

Ed Horowitz,
Chairman, EdsLink LLC

Anne Hunter,
Director of Sales, Tacoda Systems, Inc.

Flemming Hvidtfeldt,
Editor-in-Chief, NORDJYSKE Stiftsidende/Nordjyllands Avisselskab

Lars Jespersen,
Editor, NORDJYSKE Stiftsidende/Nordjyllands Avisselskab

Gary Kebbel,
News Director, America Online, Inc.

Melinda Keirnan,
Former General Manager & Senior VP, San Jose Mercury News

James Kennedy,
Director of Strategy, Associated Press

Brian Kirlik,
Vice President of Product Development, Nando Media

Ezra Klein,
Blogger, Pandagon.Net

Jeffrey Klein,
President & CEO, 101communications

Lawrence Kramer,
Chairman & CEO, CBS.MarketWatch.com

Peter Krasilovsky,
Senior Partner & Vice President of Consulting, Borrell Associates Inc. (Southern California Office)

David Liu,
CEO, The Knot, Inc.

Albert Lopez,
Director, UberMedia, Motorola (Strategic Web Communications)

Rebecca MacKinnon,
Shorenstein Center Media Fellow, Harvard University – Kennedy School Of Government

Alison Macondray,
Publisher/Executive Producer, Wired News

Geoff McGhee,
Enterprise Editor, New York Times Digital

Chris McGill,
Director, News and Information, Yahoo! Inc.

Kevin McKean,
CEO, InfoWorld Media Group

Susan Mernit,
Senior Vice President, 5ive (West Coast Office)

Stephen Messere,
Head of North American Sales, Independent Television News

Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid),
Musician, Artist, Conceptual Writer

Dean Mills,
Professor and Dean, University of Missouri

Bryan Monroe,
Assistant Vice President for News, Knight Ridder

Markos Moulitsas Z√∫niga,
Founder, Armstrong Z√∫niga LLC

Ian Murdock,
Digital Media Director, Hearst Newspapers

Andrew Nachison,
Director, The Media Center at API

Michael Noe,
Internet News Editor, Rocky Mountain News

Vikki Pachera,
Vice President/Alliances & Business Developments, Hewlett-Packard

Dawn Paduganan,
Vice President/ Sales and Market Dept., Freedom Communications, Inc.

George Patience,
President, VNT:,

Dale Peskin,
Co-Director, The Media Center at API

Joseph Pilotta,
Vice President-Research, BIGresearch

Thomas Porter,
President/Freedom Interactive Community Newspapers, Freedom Communications, Inc.

Scott Powers,
Arts Editor, Chicago Tribune

Jeffrey Rayport,
Chairman, Marketspace, LLC

Donna Reed,
Vice President, News, Media General Publishing Division

Howard Rheingold,
Author, Howard Rheingold Associates

Michael Romaner,
President, Morris Digital Works

Conrad Saam,
Director, Smashing Ideas, Inc.

W.E. Tige Savage,
Vice President, Time Warner Ventures

Jan Schaffer,
Executive Director, J-Lab

Jerry Schuman,
Chief Technology Officer, Versifi Technologies, Inc.

Jonathan Segal,
President, Community Newspaper Division, Freedom Communications, Inc.

Michael Silberman,
Deputy Editor/East Coast, MSNBC.com

Robert Stern,
President, Projects In Knowledge, Inc.

Michael Stroud,
CEO, iHollywood Forum

Jake Tapper,
Correspondent, ABC News (Washington Bureau)

Gilbert Thelen,
President and Publisher, Tampa Tribune

John Twohey,
Vice President/Multimedia, Tribune Media Services

Vivian Vahlberg,
Director of Journalism Programs, Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation

Mike van Niekerk,
Online Managing Editor, John Fairfax Group

Katherine von Jan,
Ethnofuturist, Glueh

Chris Waddle,
President, The Ayers Family Inst. For Community Journalism

Alan Webber,
Founding Editor, Fast Company Magazine

William Weiss,
Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group

Lawrence Wilkinson,
Chairman of Heminge & Condell / Co-founder of GBN, Global Business Network

Christopher Willis,
Principal, Hypergene Media Solutions

William Winter,
President, William Winter & Associates, LLC

Leonard Witt,
Robert Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication, Kennesaw State University

Tom Wolzien,
Senior Media Analyst, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC

Dean Wright,
VP & Editor in Chief, MSNBC

Owen Youngman,
VP/Development, Chicago Tribune

Robert Zadek,
President, MacroThinking, Inc.