Tyler Perry is stepping into the live streaming world for his upcoming film Good Deeds. Perry will be answering fans questions live about the film and then will make his red carpet premiere available to his fans via an official livestream on the Good Deeds Facebook page and Yahoo.

Good Deeds will be  in theaters Feb. 24

(Photo: The  Hollywood Reporter)

SXSW is back again, taking place March 9- March 18 in Austin, Tex. The interactive portion is a great opportunity to learn about new innovative ideas, companies, and people. The schedule is out and there are several interesting panels that continue the discussion on black tech and innovation.

Here are 5 that black tech entrepreneurs should check out:

1. The Bombastic Brilliance of “Black Twitter” 

About: Will demonstrate the phenomenon “Black Twitter’s” intelligence, humor, unique language production, emotions, hashtags, corrective narratives, cultural critique, organizing and entrepreneurial success, enhanced by fictive kin relationships that stun, amaze and inspire the world.

2. CNN’s Black in America/Silicon Valley: Aftermath

About: This panel will discuss the issues raised and footage not seen in the Black in America documentary, and the aftermath since airing.

3. Popping Your Bubble:  Stories of the Digital Divide 

About: Discussion will be around obstacles to and solutions for getting broadband access, as well as how people creating sites and online tools that want to reach these audiences can engage with them.

4. Mining Diversity: Developing a Community of Color 

About: The session will discuss best practices and examples from companies & brands who have successfully developed communities.

5. Social Media Sharecropping: Black Tech Adoption 

About: This panel is about the many ways in which modern internet adoption and use mirrors the development of agrarian sharecropping in the South following the Civil War- whereby African Americans provided massive amounts of labor to make other people rich, but could never move beyond basic subsistence living.

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6. Race: Know When to Hold It and When to Fold It
About: This panel seeks to change the conversation from “What can technology conferences do about diversity?” to “What can attendees do about diversity at technology conferences?” The panel is composed of speakers who have each presented at multiple technology conferences on topics that did not focus on race or diversity but instead spoke on topics of sci-fi, electronic ownership of email and digital wills, the influence of mobile development via comic books, social media for youth and business automation lessons from Amazon.

7. Pay-It-Forward: Building Successful Startups
About: This workshop session is taught by Black Founders Startup Ventures. Black Founders Startup Ventures was founded to increase the success of black entrepreneurs in tech through educational workshops and events.
To see the full schedule go to SXSW.com

What panels and workshops are you looking forward to seeing this year?

Looking back on hot topics in the past couple years, education tops the list. But low performance in public schools is just one side of the conversation. Recently there have been discussions about how technology and innovation can reform education.

There have been numerous educational technology tools that have emerged in the past year, but actually implementing them in the schools is the next challenge.

Capella University will host a much needed discussion on the shaping of education with innovation tomorrow Wednesday, Dec. 28 in Orlando, Fl. The event features a keynote presentation by education reform leader and founder of Harlem’s Children’s Zone, Geoffrey Canada.

Mr. Canada is an innovation advocate and has had a passion for education reform for more than 25 years. Through his visionary leadership, Harlem Children’s Zone has helped thousands of disadvantaged children and families gain access to a quality education and the resources needed to assure academic success. He will share his experiences and incite on innovation in the educational space at tomorrow’s discussion.

This event is great for those who have taken an interest in education reform and how technology and innovation effects the classroom today. This is an excellent opportunity for parents and professionals alike to learn more about how innovation can drive the success of our future leaders.

Promoting technology to youth, especially within public school systems is imperative to create innovative thinkers and leaders in a space that has become increasingly popular over the years.

The event will take place in Orlando, Fl. but it will also be live streamed for people around the world to tune in.

Geoffrey Canada’s presentation will be followed by continued discussion of critical issues with expert leaders in the field.

Panelist include:

Dr. Steve Perry: Author, commentator, and founder and principal of Capital Prep Magnet School on Connecticut 

Dr. Curtis Johnson: More than 30 years experience in major education policy innovations.

Dr. Christy Hovanetz: Senior policy fellow for the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Capella University Dean, Dr. Barbara Butts Williams shares her thoughts on education and says with the number of resources available there isn’t a reason for kids not to have a quality education.

See what she has to say about the importance of education today:

Event Details:

Reception: 5:00 p.m. EST
Keynote address: 6:00 p.m. EST
Panel discussion: 7:10 p.m. EST
Location: Hilton Orlando, 6001 Destination Parkway
Orlando, Florida 32819 & Online Livestream
Room: Orange Ballroom D

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AT&T is bringing back the AT&T 28 Days speaker series for a fourth year to motivate consumers to be innovative and give incite about African-Americans who are currently making history every day.

The AT&T 28 Days speaker series features some of today’s influential and respected leaders offering their own unique perspectives in the areas of technology, media, business, politics, and fashion.

Last year Common served as the moderator and host of the series. This year’s moderator has not been announced yet but AT&T has revealed they are expanding having added four new cities to the tour.

Tour dates include:

• House of Blues, Monday, Jan. 16 in Dallas, Texas
• Scottish Rite Center; Wednesday, Feb. 1 in Oakland, Calif.
• Fletcher Opera Theater; Wednesday, Feb. 8 in Raleigh, N.C.
• Howard University-Cramton Auditorium; Wednesday, Feb. 15 in Washington, D.C.
• Ohio Theatre; Monday, Feb. 20 in Cleveland, Ohio
• Park West Theatre; Thursday, Feb. 23 in Chicago, Ill.
• Shriners Silver Garden Events Center; Wednesday, Feb. 29 in Detroit, Mich.

Three of the speaker series events will be streamed live at facebook.com/att28days. AT&T has also included an interactive sweepstakes on att.com/28days that will interface with Facebook and Twitter, for consumers to share inspirational comments and photos in relation to the series. When consumers post comments and photos, they will be entered for a chance to win technology prizes and autographed merchandise. .

The tour will kick off in Dallas, Texas at the House of Blues on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Monday, Jan. 16.

Tomorrow Google will hold a Google Music event in Los Angeles, Calif called the “Experience The World of T-Mobile and Google.”

There hasn’t been much information disclosed about the event, but the L.A. Times reports,  Google will launch their music service, Google Music that has been rumored about. The partnership with T-Mobile for the event indicates that they may play a major role in the new music service.

There will be guest appearances from some artists such as Drake, who just officially released his new album “Take Care” today, Busta Rhymes, Dirty South, Maroon 5, and more. The performances will take place after the major announcements are made.

The event will be live-streamed via the Android YouTube channel. Tune in to see what Google and possibly T-Mobile has to announce and see the performances by some of the greats in the music industry.

Poverty and unemployment are only two out of many issues America faces, especially within the black community. The White House will host a special “Open for Questions” event moderated by The Root to address the American Jobs Act and the steps they have to take to help more Americans reach the middle class.

During a 45 minute live stream discussion, domestic policy council director, Melody Barnes, and senior advisor Valerie Jarrett will answer questions that have been submitted via email, Facebook, and Twitter.

Users can watch the entire “Open for Questions” event on TheRoot.com or WhiteHouse.gov tomorrow, Thursday Oct. 20 at 5:30 p.m. ET. Tune in and ask your questions, the official hashtag is #TheRootWH

The Council of Urban Professionals, Interactive One, and BET Networks partner up to host the second annual Digital Summit on Sept. 28 at the SVA Theatre in New York.

The 2010 Digital Summit was one of the first comprehensive conference to bring together digital leaders, venture capitalists and marketers in a dialogue regarding the evolving economic opportunities on the web and the importance of minority online consumers.

This year, the Digital Summit will advance the dialogue further with in-depth panel discussions with some of the industry’s most innovative companies and executives.

Mara Schiavocampo, digital correspondent for NBC News, will lead a discussion that explores whether social media has empowered multicultural communities and examines the balance between transparency and anonymity on the Web.

Digital lifestyle expert, Mario Armstrong will also lead a discussion about digital strategies with brands AT&T and Pepsi on how best to leverage online media that translates to financial business success.

Featured speakers include:

Ty-Ahmad Taylor, CEO, FanFeedr

Jared Hecht, Co-Founder, GroupMe

Alex Iskold, Founder & CEO, GetGlue

Kay Madati, Entertainment Marketing Strategy Lead, Facebook

Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent, NBC Nightly News

Laura Hernandez, Executive Director, AT&T Diversity Marketing

Mario Armstrong, Digital Lifestyle Expert, Host & Contributor, NBC TODAY Show

Richard Cruz, Lifestyle Marketing Specialist | Cultural Branding, Pepsi

For more information and to register for the Digital Summit, please visithttp://www.nycup.org/2011-digital-summit/.

This year the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation are focusing on a topic that is increasingly popular by the day, technology. Technology entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, along with members of the African-American tech community will take part in the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 41^st Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

During the Annual Legislative Conference, held on September 23, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas will host an issue forum, entitled “African Americans Joining the Leading Edge of the High Tech Boom.

The panellists who will speaking on the growth in technology are: Scott Case, Chief Executive Officer of Startup America Partnership and Co-founder of Priceline.com; Ben Horowitz, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz (investor in Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Groupon); Rep. Jared Polis, Co-founder of ProFlowers.com and Techstars Incubator; Charles Hudson, partner at SoftTech VC; Tristan Walker, Business Development at Foursquare; Pauline Malcolm-John, Executive Vice President at WeeWorld Inc.; Regina Wallace-Jones, Senior Director at Yahoo Inc.; and Amos Winbush III, Chief Executive Officer of CyberSynchs Inc.

The forum is open to the public and there will be opportunities for attendees to ask the panellists questions after.

This will be a great opportunity for the African-American community to really address the technology world and discuss the issues they have within it.

For more information on the conference go to cbcfinc.org

The Online News Association (ONA) is offering a new two-day series of panels called J-Camp where leading experts from Google News, Facebook, and Twitter will teach journalists both the basics and more advanced aspects of social media.

The camp features hour-long panels filled with some impressive representatives from the technology space. Speakers include Erica Anderson, manager of Twitter’s journalism content; Richard Gingras, head of news products for Google; Steve Grove, manager of news and politics for YouTube; and Vadim Lavrusik of Facebook.

Some of the panels include:
Twitter for Newsrooms, Toolkit 101
This basic session is for early adopters or late comers to get an overview of Twitter as a platform, the top tools to use, how to search and tips for new features and resources that are available to everyone. The Twitter team will answer questions and invite feedback and ideas for how they can improve the platform for newsrooms.

Master Class: The Craft of Twitter
Hear journalists well-versed in Twitter discuss the core competencies — sourcing, verification, breaking news and distribution — they have experimented with in their work. The Twitter team will be on hand to join the conversation, ask questions and answer technical or feature queries.

A Journalist’s Guide to Facebook Pages
Dig deep into Facebook Pages for best practices and practical applications. Find out how you or your news organization can use them to find sources, drive traffic to your site, feature content and connect with your readers.

Google News and Newsrooms
Google News does more than send traffic to news websites. It can also be used as a resource and a tool for helping journalists follow and further develop stories that they’re working on. This talk will also explore ways that news organizations and Google News can work together to help improve the overall quality and reach of online journalism.

YouTube for Journalists
With 48 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute, YouTube can be a tremendous source for reporters to find news footage, and to reach new audiences. But how does a journalist make sense of such a vast content library? How do you verify news clips and find breaking news quickly? Come discover the tools that YouTube has created to help enhance your reporting and to bring new audiences to your video content.

 The J-Camp is a great addition to ONA, offering firsthand knowledge from some of the top companies in technology. There is still time to register for this year’s conference taking place in Boston. To register and get the entire schedule and details go to www.journalists.org

Texas Southern University, one of the three Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) offered on HBCUs Online, will be hosting a private networking event next week on Wednesday, August 3^rd.

This exclusive event is an opportunity to learn about career paths and how Texas Southern’s online degree programs can position you on an executive path in as few as 16 months.

Attendees will be able to mix and mingle with Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis, Texas Southern University President Dr. John Rudley, deans from the schools of Business and Public Administration, corporate leaders from Houston’s high-growth energy sector, and executives from top public and private companies. In addition, founder of HBCUs Online, Tom Joyner will be in attendance.

Joyner founded HBCUs Online to provide access to accredited online degree programs at HBCUs to help educate the community in an easier way that fits into the digital space today. He has been successful thus far having partnered with Texas Southern, Florida A&M, and his alma mater, Tennessee State University.

This exclusive event will allow people interested in these programs to get a better understanding of how online education works straight from the founder himself and the administrators who work day to day with current students enrolled.

The event will be held at the Westin Gallaria in Houston, Tx. While space is limited, they require an R.S.V.P.

To R.S.V.P and learn more about online degree programs at Texas Southern and other HBCUs visit HBCUsOnline.