WeMedia returns to Miami this week

It may not be the most well-known conference, but WeMedia is certainly not an event to be missed for this student journalist.

Take a look at the schedule and a list of participants.

This will be my second WeMedia and, as with last year's, I am able get in for free with a guest code from the School of Communication, one of the sponsors.

Compared to the regional (SPJ) and national (SPJ and ACP/CMA) conferences I've attended, which are great in their own respects, WeMedia is much more cutting-edge.

Let's look at some highlights of WeMedia 2007:

• Professionals from multiple facets of media in the same, non-keynote events (gasp!)
  
• An entire session by Reuters on Second Life
  
• Livebloggers galore
  
• A session moderated by The New York Times' futurist-in-residence that featured Craig Newmark, who some journalists would like put in a pillory for creating Craig's List
  

And how many conferences use (effectively) video players, tags and widgets in their online presence? Have their own social networking site? WeMedia Community

Continuing with my recently established tradition, I plan to liveblog as many of the events I attend as possible.

Will you be there? Drop me line.