Mar 06

Counting down to #wemedia - it's gonna be huge on Twitter, for good reason

I'm getting ready to head down to We Media Miami 2010, where Genuine Interactive is a media sponsor this year. As the former web producer for the conference and someone who has attended/worked every one of them since the beginning, there are a lot of reasons why I am drawn to this event. It's eye-opening, thought-provoking and best of all, it provides a glimpse of the future reality that we will all be living in. But that would take too long to fully explain.

Instead, I made a Wordle that lists the sessions, speakers and sponsors of this year's event (click the thumbnail for the larger version).

Wordle: We Media in a Nutshell ... Sam Grogg, University of Miami, School of Communication, Richard Sambrook, BBC, Global News, Edelman PR, Paula Kerger, PBS, Almost nothing has been invented yet, Dale Peskin, Andrew Nachison, We Media 2010, Game Changers, The Power of Everyone, Planet 4E Decade 2010, Off the grid, Michael Wolff, Newser, Vanity Fair columnist, Lunch on The Patio, We Media Live, World Have Your Say, BBC, Ros Atkins, How everyone is changing everything, Stowe Boyd, /Message on social tools, Steven VanRoekel, FCC, Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation, Tom Curley, Associated Press, Alberto Ibarguen, Knight Foundation, John Hockenberry, The Takeaway, Invention sessions, Nonprofit journalism, Suzanne Turner, Turner Communications, Andrew Sherry, Center for American Progress, Jonathan Aiken, Red Cross, Jim Barnett, AARP, Community matters, Chris Tolles, Topix, Ben Ilfeld, Sacramento Press, C. Renzi Stone, SaxumPR, Anders Gyllenhaal, Miami Herald, Link economy, linked content, Oren Michels, Mashery, Krista Thomas, Marketing & Communications, OpenCalais, Mojito reception, Pitch It!, The Mutiny Hotel, Poolside wisdom, Diana Wells, Alan Webber, Be The Media, David Mathison, Be The Media, Lauren McCullough, Social Networks, News Engagement, Associated Press, The AllVoices Story, Aki Hashmi, AllVoices, Dorian Benkoil, Teeming Media, How do You Know Your Media Matters?, Jessica Clark, Tracy Van Slyke, Patrice O’Neill, NIOT.org, The Social Life of Innovation, Andrew Nachison, Media entrepreneurship, Francois Raignet, Xerox, future of documents, 3D visualization, Juliette Powell, how to build a successful business with social networking, Pitch It! Challenge, Beth Laing, Brian Reich, Jacob Colker, The Extraordinaries, Ben Berkowitz, SeeClickFix, Andrea McGrath, Center for Applied Philanthropy, Michael Smith, The Case Foundation, Matthew Jacobson, LaunchBox Digital, Steve Rosenbaum, Magnify, Diana Wells, Ashoka, William Weiss, The Promar Group, What matters now, Alan Webber, Fast Co. Magazine, School of Communication, University of Miami, The Associated Press, The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Changemakers, BBC, Allvoices, Calais, Genuine Interactive, Trylon SMR, Marketwire, Be The Media, PoliticsOnline, Inc., Online News Association, World Editors Forum, Fixedia, The Knight Digital Media Center, Center for Social Media, Sobel Media, IssueLab

If you have any requests or comments, email me at chad AT genuineinteractive DOT com, comment here, or @reply to @wearegenuine.

Be sure to follow the #WeMedia hashtag between March 9-11. It's gonna be HUGE. But don't take my word for it. Look at these screengrabs from the two days of the conference last year. At its peak each day, #WeMedia was only competing with Jesus and Apple. 

   

You can make your own Satan and Microsoft jokes, and of course #iestories had a few of those last year as I recall too.


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