Lynne d Johnson - who has written 27 posts on Black Web 2.0.
Lynne d Johnson is SVP, Social Media at the Advertising Research Foundation, where she guides members on how they can best utilize social media to gain insights and achieve their business objectives, directs the activities of the ARF’s Social Media Council, and expands the ARF’s social media presence. Previously she was Director, Social Media (and Senior Editor/Community Director) for FastCompany.com, a leading website and community for people passionate about business ideas also offering the complete content of Fast Company magazine. There she wrote Digital Media Diva, a technology blog following web, media, and consumer trends. As a consultant Lynne works with technology and Web clients in the areas of content, community, and brand strategy.
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.
Lynne also serves on the Board of Directors of the Literary Freedom Project, the advisory board of Black Web 2.0, and the Key Influencers of Interactive One. 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.
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...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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Wayne Barrow, Producer of the film NOTORIOUS, has started a blog at the Fox Searchlight site to document the making of the movie about your favorite rapper the Notorious B.I.G (aka Biggie) [née Christopher Wallace]. Barrow and his partner, Mark Pitts, managed B.I.G throughout his career and have helped Ms. Wallace build the legacy of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 4, 2008
In the event of bringing people closer to celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Legacy Recordings teamed up with SpringWidgets to create Thrillercast, a year-long podcast event featuring legends of music, film and culture taking you behind the scenes to their own experiences with Michael and hearing the album for the first time. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 31, 2008
Photo by Jordan Hollender for Inc Magazine This week, Inc Magazine published an article about Allhiphop’s real state of affairs on its website: Allhiphop.com’s Founders Thought a Weeklong Event Would Raise the Company’s Profile and Boost Growth. Written by Kermit Pattison, the article goes into great detail about how 2006’s AllHipHop Week almost brought the business [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 19, 2008
A roundup of this week’s hot hip-hop/technology related news. Software Morphs Rapper Prodigy Into Global CipherMobb Deep’s Prodigy has a new album coming out, “H.N.I.C. Part 2.” I didn’t realize that enough people purchased the first one for there to be a part 2, but nonetheless the rapper is hooking up with technology company, Voxonic, to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 17, 2008
Video: CNN American Morning: Soulja Boy: How’d He Become So Popular? Back in October, I talked about the social media forces that were leveraged to bring Soulja Boy his success in Soulja Boy Is A Web 2.0 Wonder. But now that he’s nominated for a Grammy, MSM (that’s mainstream media for you newbies) just had to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The National Black Family Technology Awareness Campaign, will celebrate the tenth annual Black Family Technology Awareness Week (BFTAW), February 10th – 16th, 2008. BFTAW is a national public awareness campaign designed to encourage more African Americans to incorporate technology into their daily lives. Over the past nine years, more than 200 cities across the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 9, 2008
If you’ve already read our “2008 Predictions in Black,” then you know that our site’s founder, Angela Benton, predicted the rise of The Black Ad Network. Then Markus Robinson, our site’s GM and co-owner turned around and validated that claim when he reported that BET.com launched an African-American advertising network. I expect the trend to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Many blogs and sites have cropped up to help get the word out about the post-election violence in Kenya. One site playing a great role www.Ushahidi.com, where you report an incident and it appears in a map-based view for others to see. The Ushahidi team is working with local Kenyan NGO’s to get information and [...]
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Friday, March 28, 2008
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