28 Days of Diversity: People of Color Impacting the Social Web
As we all know, February is Black History Month. It’s a month where we honor those who have made an impact on American culture for equal rights, those who have invented, those who have helped others and those who have inspired everyone to be the best they can be. Not only as a person of color but as a human.
As someone in the technology/web/social space, I often travel and attend various events in the industry and notice a huge lack of diversity, and when it comes to getting attention from mainstream media/tech blogs it’s almost impossible. That’s why I’m starting 28 Days of Diversity on SocialWayne.com. The goal of 28 Days of Diversity is to feature someone new everyday for the month of February for just being awesome in their own right. The list will include some of leaders in the social web space, startups, bloggers, conference organizers, IT professionals and friends not ranked in any particular order. Each post will include a picture, bio, two links from the selected person and this paragraph. So for the next 28 days, visit SocialWayne.com to see who’s on the list. First up, Angela Benton…read more.
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About the Author Wayne Sutton is an entrepreneur, advisor & technology Journalist. Co-editor at BlackWeb 2.0 . Partner at NewME Accelerator. You can find Wayne active on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook.
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lol, i know they're not in any order but what a way to kick of 28 days of diversity. Angela and her team have wholeheartedly tuned me into black web 20 and inspired me to find more cutting edge communities online. I love it. Awesome.
Nice start Wayne. Glad to see you take the initiative to do this list.
this is great and totally needed. thank you. hope to see some creative bloggers on the list.
Thanks for posting. I'm looking forward to sharing with the community the people on the 28 days of diversity list.