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Until then...

Just checking in to make sure you know where to find me while we're still working on the relaunch of this site.

My FastCompany.com Blog: Digital Media Diva
My Personal Style Blog: Change Clothes

And I'm still working with the folks at BlackWeb2.0 so be sure to check them out when you can. They cover technology and the Web from an urban perspective.

I might be contributing to a few other blogs from time-to-time, so I'll keep you posted.

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Tactical Transparency Giveaway

I'm giving away free copies of tactical transparency. The first people to speak up, will be the ones who receive the book. Leave your request in the comments or send me a message through my contact form.

Tactical Transparency: How Leaders Can Leverage Social Media to Maximize Value and Build their Brand
Authors: Shel Holtz and John C. Havens, Foreward by: Lynne d Johnson

(Claim your copy before the folks on Twitter get them all.)

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Still On Hiatus, Speaking and Writing Updates

If you're still following me, I just wanted to let you know that I'm still on hiatus over here on my personal blog. Still trying to figure out how and when to come back to officially blogging. It probably won't be until some time after the New Year though.

In the meantime, you can use my original Summer Time Hiatus post that features a lijit widget linking to all the social media places where I'm pretty active.

Currently, I guess I could say I'm most busy on FriendFeed. FriendFeed is a community where you can input all of your feeds from all of your social media sites and blogs, and it aggregates the content there and shares it with your friends. It also enables you to share images, videos, and other content with people on the site. Here's my FriendFeed profile. Also starting to reactivate my blogging on my Fast Company blog, Digital Media Diva. (Note: there are some posts in there that don't belong to me, and I'm sure you can guess which 3 or 4. somehow when editing others posts, they ended up in my blog flow.) Recent posts include my review, including video, of the T-Mobile G1, the Google powered Android phone.

Anyway, here are the updates I wanted to share on my upcoming speaking engagement and some writing that I've been involved in. As usual, you can always check both my writing and speaking pages for updates (in the future, they'll have their own RSS feeds).

New Writing:



Tactical Transparency: How Leaders Can Leverage Social Media to Maximize Value and Build their Brand
Authors: Shel Holtz and John C. Havens, Foreward by: Lynne d Johnson

 

Upcoming Speaking Engagement:
December 9
"The Customer is the Company: How Social Media is Changing Business" Panelist
Mediabistro Courses | New York, NY

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The State of Black Media - 9.16.08

The evening entitled “The State of Black Media” will feature a panel discussion with some of the most dynamic Black executives in the areas of online, magazines, television, and blogging. We will explore how far black media has come, where it's going, and how it is being effected by the fast-changing technology landscape.

The panelists will include a diverse panel highlighting the breadth of Black Media:

• Len Burnet – CEO of Uptown Magazine
• Rahman Dukes – Senior Producer MTV News
• Abiola Abrams – Host of BET J show Abiola NOW and author of “Dare”
• Lynne Johnson - Senior Editor and Community Director for Fastcompany.com
• Courtney Williams -SVP, Development & Strategy at Interactive One, LLC, a Radio One Company

WHEN: 7pm, Tuesday September 16th 2008.

WHERE: 92Y Tribeca - 200 Hudson Street New York, New York

Demand for this event has been extremely high, so please RSVP without delay to avoid disappointment. Seating is limited.

RSVP by emailing: rsvp@youaremedia.com

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Stay up-to-date with my speaking engagements here (RSS Feed coming soon)

* Note: This site is still officially on hiatus. Both this site, and BlackThoughtware are undergoing renovations behind the scenes.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

September 4
"Reaching Millions Online: Editors at Top Media Sites Reveal Best Placement Target and Tactics for PR" Panelist
Bulldog Reporter Audio Conference | Audio Conference

September 10
"Magazines of the Future: Maximixing your print and web strategies" Moderator
Mediabistro Panel Discussion | New York, NY

September 23-26, 2008
"New media - new business" Keynote
Web Directions South | Sydney, Australia

Stay up-to-date with my speaking engagements here (RSS Feed coming soon)

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A Moment of Clairty, Sanity, and Transparency

A couple of weeks ago, I was at the center of some controversy due to an interview I conducted with NPR News & Notes, "Video Blogger Dropped Over Racially Charged Posts."

There seems to have been loads of confusion and misunderstanding about why I was even involved in that interview, especially by people not familiar with my background with NPR or even with the video blogger I discussed with them. There was also some backlash around my recollecting facts about the video in question inappropriately, I published an apology regarding this on FriendFeed the same night that I realized my error. Still I was misunderstood.

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