Traffic To theRoot.com Soars After Skip Gates’ Arrest
theRoot.com showed impressive editorial and marketing savvy with its coverage of the arrest Monday of Harvard University professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. No surprise there. Gates, one of America’s preeminent scholars, started theRoot.com with Donald E. Graham, chief executive of the Washington Post Co. The affiliation with Gates helped theRoot offer some of the best coverage of the incident, which drew national headlines.
Read MoreMicrosoft School of the Future: West Philly
As many of you know in the black community we constantly pontificate about how schools in our urban communities are inferior to schools in the suburban areas of our major cities, especially in Math, Science, and Technology. The problem is we never get around to really discussing solutions to solving these problems.
Read MoreFonera 2.0n: “TIVO for your Laptop”
Let’s face it. When you think of sexy, exicting tech the wireless router rarely if ever makes the list. Even though it resides in many of our households, giving us access to a world of funny videos, breaking news, and social networking that we greedily consume, the router sits gathering dust — an unsung gadget [...]
Read MoreVideo: Urban League CEO Marc Morial discusses Web Strategy
We caught up with the Urban League’s CEO Marc Morial to discuss the company’s usage of social media to communicatate and connect with urban communities. Currently the company’s Twitter and Facebook accounts have been used primarily to promote the Urban League’s news and events. Morial would like to refocus their social media efforts to affect [...]
Read MoreUsing thisMoment to Create Your DreamBoard
e all know how important it is to have goals, but many of us don’t really focus on them like we should. You should have a clear picture of your long-term goals, maybe a few years out. From those goals, you want to create short-term goals that you can accomplish in the near future. In the end, you should have broken down your long-term goals into tasks you can accomplish on a daily basis to take you there. This process is boring for some, including me, but you have to have a clear vision of your success.
Read MoreSlumping Auto Sales Could Mean Less Ad Revenue For Black Sites
Could the near collapse of the U.S. automotive industry have a devastating impact on popular black Internet sites such as blackvoices.com or BET.com? Absolutely, says, Roosevelt Gist, owner of autonetwork.com. Gist, one of the country’s leading African-American automotive journalists, says GM, Chrysler and other car manufacturers are drastically cutting back on the number of ads [...]
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