This entry was originally posted on the infoneeds.org blog for the Miami seminar on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. Find more on the site; the seminar continues until this afternoon.

Moderated by Paula Ellis, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Knight Foundation, three community foundation leaders shared their experiences.

Andrea Bazán of the Triangle Community Foundation talked about balancing history and future with community foundation strategy:

Josie Heath of the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County talked about a shared future if not a shared past:

Paula Ellis talked about the current conversations about journalism in service to history:

An audience member talked about the upcoming launch of the game Ruby's Bequest about community and donorship:

Emmett Carson of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation talked about ageism and its detrimental effects:

And all the panelists talked about where their leadership journey has taken them:

Comments or thoughts for the panelists or other attendees?

This was first posted on the event site, infoneeds.org. Find more video and previous posts there. The event continues until this afternoon.

Last night, Kati London and Kevin Slavin of the serious game development firm area/code talked about how games can change how we live in the real world.

Kevin talked about the "fundamental cognitive shift" games have produced:

He also talked about the role of games in culture in response to an audience question:

and making games social:

Katie presented three projects addressing specific information needs, including this one, called "Ant City":

And Kevin reminded everyone that games have to be fun:

What did you think about the panel?

From the infoneeds.org blog for the Information Needs event today and tomorrow in Miami, video from this afternoon's session with media experts Amy Webb, Bryan Alexander, and Richard Cardran below.

Amy Webb of Webbmedia Group was part of an afternoon panel on current trends in media.

Here she talks about why not to just go by demographics when evaluating the potential audience:

And fellow panelist Bryan Alexander on how to deal with disinformation and use media to draw the community together:

Richard Cardran, Bryan, and Amy on how to find staff to implement media strategy:

This is Amy Webb's presentation link; links from other panelists will be listed in the comments later.