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Lynne d Johnson - who has written 25 posts on Black Web 2.0.
Lynne d Johnson is the Director, Social Media for FastCompany.com, a leading website and community for people passionate about business ideas that also offers the complete content of Fast Company magazine. She also writes Digital Media Diva, a technology blog following web, media, and consumer trends for FastCompany.com, and has also recently contributed to TheDailyVoice, techPresident, Black Web 2.0, and Rushmore Drive. As a consultant Lynne works with technology and Web clients in the areas of content, community, and brand strategy.
Lynne also serves on the Board of Directors of the Literary Freedom Project, a nonprofit arts organization, which seeks to empower communities of color through literature, creative thinking, and new media. Prior to joining Fast Company, she was the General Manager, New Media for VIBE, SPIN, and VIBE Vixen where she she managed marketing, editorial, production, business development, and sales operations for the magazines’ websites and mobile properties. Her personal blog, Lynne d Johnson || music, media, my life, which launched in July 2001, is the recipient of the 2006 Black Weblog Awards Black Blogger Achievement Award.
African-American Internet Summit
Media and research company, Target Market News, recently announced what it calls: The first comprehensive conference examining how African-Americans are connected to the Internet and are creating new business opportunities. The conference, the 2008 African-American Internet Summit, will be held in downtownChicago on October 30, 2008 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Target Market hopes to [...]
Continue reading...Q-Tip Shweets on Spin
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
For the digeratti of us all up in Tweetspace, that’s Twitter for those not in the know, Q-Tip of the legendary A Tribe Called Quest just unleashed a tweetstorm on SPIN magazine over there. And no, I couldn’t find a better way to capture “Shits on Spin,” and converging shits with tweets — well it [...]
Continue reading...Gorilla Nation Broadens Its African-American Reach
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Online advertising rep firm Gorilla Nation recently signed four leading African-American Web properties to its GNMulticultural Vertical giving its advertisers access to 16 million unique visitors per month. The four sites added include, BlackPeopleMeet.com, BlackChristianPeopleMeet.com, BlackWebPortal.com, and Rap-Up.com. “The addition of these new AA properties now brings our GNMulticultural vertical to an estimated 13 million [...]
Continue reading...Pras Joins Revver’s Lineup of Video Bloggers; Launches Platinum Brand
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Revver just brought new talent to its site, with the Pras Michel video blog. (See the announcement here.) Of course he isn’t the first urban celebrity to vlog, it’s just that most of them do it as a channel on YouTube, like Diddy. Then most of them don’t have their own site where they cross [...]
Continue reading...GlobalGrind to Launch Hip-Hop Network with Glam
Friday, June 27, 2008
There’s been big news for Glam Media lately: It acquired Monetise Ltd, an online media sales company based in the UK. It formed a partnership with Brightcove to boost video content for Glam’s network. Expanded to include video distribution across its network of sites, in partnership with Sony BMG, E! Online, Lifetime Networks, and TV Guide Broadband. And it’s [...]
Continue reading...Maybe 50 Cent Gets Social Media After All
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Back in April, on RushmoreDrive, I wrote What Does 50 Cent Know About Social Media?. I didn’t have the space to do a real analysis of the efforts there, but there are other sites that have dug in a little deeper, such as ReadWriteWeb and even the Tech Observer blog over at Portfolio in 50 [...]
Continue reading...Remember Urban Box Office?
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Before Radio One’s OnOne, before GlobalGrind, there was Urban Box Office. The hopes for it were right up there with BlackVoices, BlackPlanet, and BET.com. But it was supposed to be even bigger. It was like a network of sites of everything urban. But what happened? It looks like John Threat is directing a movie that answers [...]
Continue reading...MySpace Latino > MiGente
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
It looks like MySpace is stepping on to CCI’s turf. For those who don’t know about CCI, it’s Community Connect, the parent company behind ethnic community sites like BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, and AsianAvenue.com, as well as a GLBT site and faith-based site. MS’s parent, News Corp., must be smelling all that immigrant money. (J/K) But [...]
Continue reading...The Muxtape Buzz — How Long Will It Last?
Friday, March 28, 2008
Recently launched Muxtape, has been all the buzz on Twitter the past couple of days. Considering the site just announced its launch March 25, the amount of muxtapes being created was phenomenal. In fact yesterday, I saw a few tweets stating that the service wasn’t allowing any new signups. Well, I got in there today, and [...]
Continue reading...The SEO Rapper on Design Coding
Friday, March 28, 2008
Just what you need to start your weekend off — a YouTube video of a rapper — Poetic Prophet — who fancies himself the SEO Rapper. For what he lacks in delivery, he makes up for as a writer. There are some clever phrases in here on the relationship between design and SEO. Too bad [...]
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