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I'm not experienced in any way, but it would appear that D&D Encounters are like miniature campaigns. Just about ever 3 months they start a series of ~12 linked short (approximately 2 hour) adventures. I may be wrong here but it looks like each session consists of just a single fight, with some roleplaying before and after of course.
I'd like to get involved in a Living Campaign as well, if they did one for any setting other than Forgotten Realms. The Encounters system doesn't appeal to me because it's too bare-bones, but YMMV.
Wonk has the right of it. Each Encounters session is one encounter out of a short adventure.
Forgotten Realms is the only Living Campaign for 4e, and I'm not certain that that is recieving support anymore. Depending on your issues with the Realms, if you can find a DM running LFR, you might want to check it out. I've played more than a few of the adventures, and some of them are pretty good. Most of them don't have anything locking them into the realms, except for location names or organizations.
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Forgotten Realms is the only Living Campaign for 4e, and I'm not certain that that is recieving support anymore.
I think it has sort of been "outsourced" now.
Personally I would love an Eberron Living Campaign, as long as they come up with a central conceit as to why a bunch of strangers may be adventuring together (something LFR didn't have). Pathfinder Society has the PFS, maybe Living Eberron could use the Wayfinder Foundation :)
I really want to Play 4e, But I abhor forgotten realms, I would love to play an Eberron or Dark Suns living campaign, but I know there isn't any.
A few questions.
A news on other living Campaigns?
What is D&D Encounters?
What is the difference between D&D Encounters and LFR?
There is very little information about it right now, but apparently Baldman Games is starting its own Dark Sun "shared world campaign" called Ashes of Athas at D&D Experience next year.
Sparse official page
DDXP Listing
WotC forum thread with semi-official responses