Social Awareness: The New Networked Frontier
by Lesly Simmons
No one yet knows exactly what Web 3.0 is, but there are brilliant minds at work shaping and designing our internet future today. Social networking on steroids will most definitely be part of whatever evolves. Right now that conjures images of tweets beaming directly into my brain (a truly scary thought) or Facebook status updates [...]
Read MoreGetting Everyone Plugged into Broadband
by navarrow wright
It’s a good sign that the government is finally addressing broadband issues in our country. Unfortunately, everything these days seems to be framed around politics and ideology, red or blue, left or right, R or D. Some so-called pundits have already figured out the next wave of political fortunes — just based on the elections [...]
Read MoreBlackVoices Diversifies with Domains
by Angela
Like most of you I primarily use Quantcast and compete to measure the traffic of other websites. When someone happens to hook me up I use Comscore as well. BlackVoices.com looks to have had a huge dip in traffic on sites like Quantcast and compete. this is largely because they are not classified into a network, Comscore’s equivalent to a media type (M). being classified this way has it’s benefits especially if you are hard at work serving niches as part of your strategy. September Comscore numbers show that Black Voices is actually at about 4.9M unique visitors (October numbers aren’t out yet) classified as a media type. I chatted briefly with Tariq Muhammad today about Black Voices’ new strategy.
Read More10+ Tips to get the most out of an Ad Network or Rep
by BW 2.0 Staff
Some of the most liveliest discussions here in the past have occurred around topics related to advertising networks. Most of us have been an associated with an ad network at some point in time, some of us still are, while others have moved on to an ad rep or direct sales. When joining an ad [...]
Read MoreBlack Media, Instead of Mimicking Blogs Why not just Acquire?
by Angela
As of late we’ve seen so many traditional Black/Urban Media companies either redesign as blogs, create blog properties as part of their holdings, or transform their content channels into blogs. In nearly every case that I’ve seen this happen not one company has been able to knock it out of the park. In many cases [...]
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