Rachel Sterne: A Social Entrepreneur and a FOBS!

Congratulations to our friend (and past NY:MIEG panelist) Rachel Sterne, founder and CEO of GroundReport.com being selected as one of BusinessWeek’s “individuals who apply business practices to solving societal problems”
UPDATE:  BusinessWeek is asking readers to vote on the ventures, and will announce a winner May 2nd.
Please vote now for GroundReport and help us win!
GroundReport.com
Rachel [...]

Updates from our colleagues at We Media & iFOCOS

Knowledge, ideas and information are flowing like never before. Even in the face of daunting economic challenges, creative companies and individuals continue to unleash a torrent of game-changing services, business models and experiments to make the world better through media. My colleagues at We Media and iFOCOS have a couple of exciting initiatives that I [...]

Groundreport.com: How does the world feel about Obama?

As many of you know Rachel Sterne, Founder and CEO of groundreport.com is a true FOBS as well as a panelist at two of our recent events: “Social Media & The Presidential Election” in October and a few weeks ago “The Next President and the Media: Who’s Really In Charge Here?”
For those unaware of [...]

Mixing it up in NYC: Obama 2.0 and We Media

A special shout out to Dale Peskin for a fantastic write up about our event on Thursday (November 13th) at Samsung. This was the first of what we plan to be many exciting events with iFOCOS and
We Media.
Many thanks to Bill Sobel, the New York: Media Information Exchange Group and bright-eyed and just-plain-bright conversation leaders [...]

NY:MIEG Panel on November 13th

Moderator Ellis Henican

Panelists Michael Oreskes, Rachel Sterne, Amanda Michel and Brian Reich
First off…a thank you to our incredble panel at our event “The President & The Media: Who’s In Charge Here?” featuring 5 of the best speakers we ever had.

WrapUp: Social Media & The Presidential Election

Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in our event on Thursday night “Social Media & Presidential Politics” the first one in a series of programs NY:MIEG will be producing in partnership with The Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York.