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Updates from our colleagues at We Media & iFOCOS

December 15, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Rants & Raves

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 [...]

More Beatles Trivia

November 28, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Rants & Raves

Apparently there has been quite a bit of interest in our Beatles trivia courtesy of “Pop Goes The Beatles” so here’s another one:
Q: What Beatles Song was Number One on America ’s Billboard Chart when the boys arrived in America on 2/7/64?
Before I give you the answer I just wanted to remind you about our [...]

Mixing it up in NYC: Obama 2.0 and We Media

November 15, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Rants & Raves

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

November 14, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Rants & Raves

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.

NY:MIEG Event in Newsday

November 9, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Industry News

Special thanks to my buddy Ellis Henican in his column in Newsday today (Sunday Nov. 9, 2008) for a great write-up about our breakfast event this coming Thursday.
RACING AHEAD: Guerrilla blogs, social-network sites, 24-hour cable, print, wires and assorted smashups of each: No wonder Campaign 2008 felt like a breakneck new-media-old-media-any-media collision course! But Brian [...]

WeMedia: Making the World better through Media

October 27, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Rants & Raves

I am pleased to announce that NY:MIEG and SobelMedia have become partners, supporters and members of WeMedia. In addition, WeMedia and their partner iFocos will be co-producing our event on November 13th entitled: “The Next President and the Media: Who’s Really In Charge Here?.” We will be providing details later this week, however in the [...]