Venture Capital for Minority Tech Interests
I am a frequent visitor of techcrunch.com. And lately, I have noticed the large amount of coverage the site lends to venture capital funding. Start-ups in the technology sector are booming with secured funding from various sources. The attention to venture capital data may just be the nature of the Techcrunch beast. But it is impressive! How can we get a piece of that pie? Continue >
Getting to Know Posterous.com
Posterous.com is a web sub-site that allows you to post to any/all of your social networking sites via email! I decided to give the service a limited run this month to determine if their claims of uber-usability are indeed true. The initial setup is standard fare simple. I was a little wary of importing my blog content, but that fear was laid to rest with well placed site affirmations. Here is our new posterous!
Researching the BlackYouthProject.com
I had the pleasure to meet two young gentlemen from Chicago, Edward James and Johnathan Lykes, while attending Blogging While Brown this year. I asked them about brochures being passed out concerning their blog, blackyouthproject.com. In a nutshell, the project seeks to research how external factors affect black youth and their decision making. Check it out!
BwB 2010: Town Hall
This session discusses the foundation of social media with a focus on local, state, and federal government uses.
Presenters:
Mayor Shirley Franklin, Chris Rabb, Jioni Palmer
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BwB 2010: Beyond Gossip, Hip Hop, Hair, and Politics: Bloggers as Change Agents and Educators
This session is focusing on the Black community and its need for change, solution, and non-mainstream blogger based content. A very entertaining session! Video is coming soon!
Presenters:
Danielle Lee, Luvvie, Latoya Peterson Continue >
