Susan Mernit has been a friend, collaborator and advisor for many years. I’m pleased to announce she’s taking on a new role at iFOCOS - Entrepreneur-in-Residence. It’s a virtual residency. She’ll still be based in Palo Alto, where until recently she was a Senior Director of Product Development for Yahoo! Susan will contribute to a variety of projects at iFOCOS.

Last month at We Media Miami Susan led and moderated two sessions - one focused on social media and social experiences in business; the other focused on women in media and technology. If you don’t know Susan, you can get to know her through her widely-read blog and connect with her through the We Media Community [here's her profile]; and starting now through her contributions to guiding and growing iFOCOS. Welcome Susan!

And, for those of you reading this who know Susan but don’t know iFOCOS and We Media: Welcome to you too! We hope you’ll dive in, join the community, and find people, ideas and activities here that make a difference in your work and help you make a difference for others.

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We’re please to announce a new service for members of the We Media Community. The iFOCOS Media Intelligence Report is a periodic review of key trends, ideas and issues in media, along with analysis of what these findings mean for the connected society.

In the new Intelligence Report we’ll consider trends in media and their implications from a variety of perspectives (enterprise, social, creative, investment, culture, technology). As usual, the analysis reflects our broad definition of We Media - the world in which everyone and every institution is media.

The report will be made available first to members of the We Media Community - so if you still haven’t joined, now there’s additional reason to make the modest investment as an individual or corporate member. You can learn more about membership here.

The report joins our iSIGHTINGS blog, which includes faster “realtime” analysis and findings. The Intelligence Report is a longer-form PDF, with more reflective synthesis of what we see and what it means - and it’s also more visual than our blog. We hope you’ll find value in both and appreciate the difference between the two.

The first edition of the Intelligence Report includes a recap of the Media Matrix Dale and I have have developed for our consulting and strategy projects, and thoughts on the Amazon Kindle, cell phone novels, the design dividend at CES, endowed social journalism - and more.

You can access and download the January 2008 issue here.

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Here’s a just-confirmed addition to the We Media Miami schedule: Richard Sarnoff, President of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). BDMI is a venture fund launched in 2006 by one of the “big six” global media firms - and regardless of what you may think of those big six or their dizzying portfolio of brands and products, for sheer might and influence alone it’s worth noting the direction of their investments.

Meanwhile, here are some others coming for what’s shaping up to be a pretty amazing and unusual gathering in Miami later this month:

The Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., CEO, Hip Hop Caucus
Darya Shaikh, Executive Director, OneVoice
Ellen Miller, Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
Catherine Geanuracos, Live Earth
Michael Silberman, EchoDitto
John Della Volpe, SocialSphere
Chris Nolan, Spot-On
Amy Schatz, Wall Street Journal
Anthony Wojtkowiak, MTV Street Team
Josh Cohen, Director, Business Development, Google News
Sara DeWitt, Senior Director, PBS KIDS & Parents Interactive

… and many others.

It’s a strange and wonderful mix that hints at the scope of what we mean by We Media. It spans sectors, causes and professions. It’s independent, it’s corporate, it’s journalists, marketers and bloggers - and it’s powered by people and companies around the world who want to use media not simply to make better media, or more of it - but to make the world better through it.

The We Media conversation is heating up now in the conference blog, so please dive in and check it out.

And, of course, it’s happening in realtime later this month in Miami.

If you haven’t already registered for the conference, yes, there’s still time. But not much. To register now click here.

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For members of the We Media Community, or anyone coming to We Media Miami, or anyone else who thinks the We Media conversation is worth tracking and recommending to your friends: now you can show you’re part of it. Use one of our handy-dandy badges.

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