New Media Strategist Brandon Sheats of the National Black Arts Festival
I recently had the chance to have a talk with Brandon Sheats, consultant and new media strategist for the National Black Arts Festival. Sheats has established himself as a social media and web development professional through his work with the Henry W. Grady Debate Foundation, Appfrica Labs, the Ujima Project, and other non-profits and educational [...]
Read MoreComing Soon, Twitter in Your Language!
Long limited to English and Japanese, Twitter is crowd-sourcing translations for its interface. Starting with German, French, Spanish, and Italian, Twitter is going multi-lingual. The Twitter blog says:
Read MoreAre You Following @FricaFact !?
A few months ago, I launched a fun little mash-up application called FricaFact. The basic premise being that I would tweet one fact about Africa every day. As I got busier setting up Appfrica Labs, I found it more and more difficult to sustain this as a hobby. Now that things are running more smoothly with the company, I wanted to make sure I found the time to bring it back online with a new podcast, tons of new @fricafacts and new ideas.
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