NAACPConnect Creates New Project “Digital Collective” to Help Youth Gain Multimedia Skills
In Nov. 2011, The NAACP launched its own social network, NAACPConnect. The networking site while giving members a way to connect with each other, also offers written and multimedia content, skills training, micro-mentoring aimed at educational and professional development. To compliment that they have launched a new project called NAACPConnect Digital Collective. Those accepted into the [...]
Read MoreHow Google’s New Artist Hub Will Help Independent Music Artist
Remember back when MySpace was popping, and everybody and their mother was making those music pages to promote their music and hopefully catch the attention of some music exec to get signed to an actual label? Well, Google is bringing something similar to the table with Artist Hub, a new feature that launched with Google [...]
Read MoreWatch the Throne’s Simple Online Marketing Tools Everyone Should Be Using
Just about all record labels are doing online marketing and distribution nowadays. It’s safe to say that Watch the Throne hit the online world by storm which contributed to the success of the album and the anticipation leading up to the tour that kicked off this weekend. Although Watch the Throne is one of the [...]
Read MoreThe Root Continues to be the Leading News Site for African-Americans
The Washington Post Company’s African- American news and commentary site, The Root has been bringing quality online news to the African-American community since 2008 and since then have continued to grow. The Root has been ranked the number one black news site for four straight months, with an average of 1.7 million unique visitors and [...]
Read MoreThe 2011 VMAs Get Interactive With Big Announcements on the Black Carpet
Well, we got through another year of the VMAs. Of course year after year MTV tries its hardest to integrate the show with as many digital aspects as possible. This year on the not red, but black carpet, the awards show incorporated their twitter tracker for the second year in a row. The twitter tracker [...]
Read MoreGoogle Launches Free Music Blog for Music Beta Users
One of the main failings of Google’s new music service, Music Beta, was that it didn’t feature a store — it’s basically a music locker in which to store music that you already own. Well, it seems like Google is starting to take steps toward making the service more discovery-based with the launch of Magnifier, a music [...]
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