Gina McCauley
This week’s Peeps of the Web profiles Gina McCauley, Lawyer, Blogger, and Coordinator of the Blogging While Brown Conference. Gina shares with us her thoughts on social media, blogging, and the future of the Blogging While Brown Conference. Black Web 2.0: Let’s start by telling the people who you are…in a nutshell. Gina McCauley: Well my [...]
Read MoreA Troubled Marriage: Journalism and Blogging
The crux of professional journalism is the first amendment of the constitution, enabling the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. As with most interpretations, the definition of this fact is slanted with the ubiquity of perspective the internet provides. Blogging and its popularity is the quintessential example, and most bloggers just want [...]
Read MoreIt’s Time for an Ad Manager
So you have a great blog, your traffic is up, and now it’s time to make some money. You have signed up with an ad network, and you’re getting multiple offers from companies interested in purchasing your ad inventory. But how do you manage it all? A few months ago I would have recommended OpenX, [...]
Read MoreVerizon V740 EVDO
As many of you know this year at the Democratic National Convention in Denver there are more bloggers than ever covering the happenings 24/7. However, in order for a blogger to really be successful covering a live event you absolutely need consistent internet access. Internet access and “live blogging” is a marriage kinda-like ‘turkey and swiss’ or ‘cherry and [...]
Read MoreClutch Magazine’s 1st Annual Blog Academy
So if you haven’t heard yet Clutch Magazine is having their 1st Annual Blog Academy this summer. Along with others Black Web 2.0 will be partnering with Clutch to share social media tips on how you can succeed online in this Web 2.0 world. The academy will last for 2 months and will include how-to’s [...]
Read MoreWordPress 2.5 Released
WordPress released the latest version of the ever so popular blogging software. WordPress 2.5 includes a completely redesigned backend, with a new user interface, a customizable dashboards, full screen writing, enhanced searching features and an auto suggesting tags feature. WordPress 2.5 also includes multi-file uploading capabilities, for those image latent posts, and a new galleries [...]
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