BlackWeb 2.0 is sponsoring a series of giveaways from Microsoft who has generously provided them with three copies of MS Office 2007 Standard Edition (PC only). You must join their mailing list and leave a comment on the giveaway post to be eligible for a drawing on Christmas Day. The drawing is open to US [...]
December 26th — Umoja (Unity) Habari Gani (What’s the News)? Umoja (Unity)! The first principle of the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) is Umoja or Unity. This principle means to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. For Black Online Marketers, this means focusing on methods and means through which [...]
Many who are familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs will appreciate my application of his theory of personality and human needs to social media. At a basic survival level are presence needs where a weblog or website is a necessity and at the self-actualized end of the hierarchy are social optimization needs where a fully [...]
Art imitates life and Artist Merletta Martin combined her passion for painting with imitatations of real-life success as portrayed in her Black Legends greeting card series. Read all about it here. You can also visit Merletta’s Black Legends community site.
New America Media reports that minority businesses have been significantly disadvantaged by recent economic stimulus initiatives based on information provided by the Small Business Asministration. Read more here.
Web 2.0: The Revolution will be Computerized The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised will not be televised, will not be televised The revolution will be no re-run brothers The revolution will be live –Gil Scott-Heron, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, 1970 These are the last lyrics from an often referenced [...]
By Iceman Baldy. The Hustletown Chronicle (THC) is to Black Business entrepreneurial collaboration what the Huffington Post is to participative online news. Seeing a need for black entrepreneurs strengthen their community connections while discussing and the unique challenges each may face on the road to success, Black Marketing Media founded the online newspaper as a [...]
By Iceman Baldy There are countless internet marketers who want to prosper in their online businesses and they’re wondering what things they really need to get right to get things going and make some money online. I was one of them who stumbled through what seemed more like art than science until I began to [...]
By Iceman Baldy I’m not trying to be controversial, but over the last several years that I’ve been mastering what it means to be an online marketer (and I’m still learning–any savvy marketer knows that the learning never stops and hardly keeps pace with new technologies & techniques), I’ve notice a few things about how [...]
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