Wanted to point out some of the great coverage we got at BlogHer that let people basically speak for themselves. I thought a lot of the more traditional media coverage was very, well, traditional. Some folks came knowing the story they wanted to tell, and they interviewed folks until the found the soundbites that supported the story, and then they crafted that story for public consumption. But those...
I encourage all villagers to join us on our current blog safari ? Our rhino-guide ( she still needs a name !) wants to take you through the cyber-jungle to see some talented bloggers and creative blog posts. Enjoy the flow!! Afrospear - To Kill a Mockingbird: The Eric Frimpong Story Black Web 2.0 - Blogging While Brown Wrap-Up Booker Rising - PHOTOS: Obamas in Ghana Jack & Jill Politics - The...
Wow! Things are shaking up in the Blog Your Way to Antarctica contest! Each day, new people throw their hats in and many of them are terribly interesting folk...and funny, too. I've been keeping my eye on the competition, especially the fast movers -which include me P. Harris (@twitchhiker), M. Menzuel, and B. Cohen. Though I still have many votes to get to get in the lead, I've been keeping my eyes...
Here’s a cool video which was recently posted on the Blogging While Brown website that recaps some of the presentations and panels that took place. I’m not just promoting it because I have a cameo at the beginning, there’s some good info here. Hopefully this will inspire some folks to attend next year who weren’t [...]
The 2nd annual Blogging While Brown Conference, held at the University Center in Chicago, IL, was an extraordinary gathering of participants from diverse backgrounds and a wide range of technological skill levels with many ideas. Though the participant’s backgrounds were diverse, they gathered with one common goal; to discuss the issues affecting bloggers of color. [...]
I feel like the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. I’m late! I’m late! Late to share my experience at Blogging While Brown and the fabulousity that was my Welcome to Chicago party. Mea culpa, bellas! It’s been almost two weeks since the best conference weekend ever, and I swear I’m still feeling the afterglow. Big, [...] Related posts: Chicago in the Summertime Rock the...
Last week, I spoke at Blogging While Brown. It was fantastic and I had an ever-better-than-expected time. It was probably twice as big this year as last year. It was cool to be a mentor to other bloggers while meeting bloggers I look up to like Afrobella and Concrete Loop. You can see the slideshow presentations [...]
Have you heard of Gina McCauley? If you haven't, listen up--this is a woman who's on the cutting edge of the internet and social media and you need to get to know her right now. If you do know who she is, read the following interview anyway, because I defy you not to be inspired by her story, her passion and her good old fashioned smarts. Just the kind of black woman the MSM almost never talks about....
Hi All, Wow, here are videos from the Blooging While Brown Conference. Check me out in the first video!! http://www.nextgenweb.org/news-and-blog-clips/nextgenweb-blogging-while-brown Thanks Regina Hopper for the post!! http://www.nextgenweb.org/author/regina-hopper/ Join The Blacks Gone Geek Community http://blacksgonegeek.org/JoinTheBlacksGoneGeekCommunity.aspx
Blogger Angel Laws started her blog Concrete Loop with five dollars in her pocket. That was just about four years ago. Now Angel says she gets 700,000 unique visitors a day and makes about $250,000 a year through ads on her blog. Her advice for bloggers during last weekend's Blogging While Brown conference in Chicago:
NextGenWeb, a sponsor of the second Blogging While Brown Conference, which was held over this past weekend in Chicago, has uploaded full video of all of the conference workshops and panels, and made them available to view and share online. That’s great for those of us who would have liked to attend the conference, but [...]
Next Gen Web, one of the conference sponsors has placed the full video of all of the conference workshops and panels online. You will likely find panel IV of interest. its a panel featuring Monroe Anderson, Bruce Montgomery, and Eric Easter of EbonyJet. com. From Regina Hopper of NextGenWeb: Overall the conference was terrific; full of [...] ShareThis
"Fish where your buyers swim," said Milton Haynes of Blacks Gone Geek. Before you hit publish, check your headline, "That's the most strategic choice you're about to make," said Megan Tady of Save The Internet.com. "Own your digital real estate," said Hajj E. Flemings, branding expert and author of "The Brand YU Life." These quotes came from presenters at last...
Everyone keeps asking me, “How was the Blogging While Brown Conference” and I either answer “great” or “excellent. I then think that this may sound vain in some way because I was responsible for helping to put the program together. In actuality, I didn’t feel much different from last year when I enthusiastically sat on [...]
My brain is completely fried right now trying to recover from a very successful Blogging While Brown conference, but apparently Rihanna is going to testify today at a preliminary hearing involving Chris Brown. The folks at The New Agenda Report did a post analyzing the media’s coverage of her. Please stay on top of this [...] ShareThis
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