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What's the best way that you've generated ad revenue on your personal website?

Lamar — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:49:52 GMT

What is the best way that you've generated ad revenue on your site/blog? Direct sales (if so how did you find advertisers), ad networks (if so was it by impressions or click throughs, what was the cpm rate, etc... details, details), pay per post etc... Share with the group if you will. This is something I'm discussing with someone at least once a week, what I'm doing, what they're doing, what's good, what sucks etc... Lets talk about it.

"Education, the Key to Prosperity"

Jeffrey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:32:43 GMT

When are, we, as a people, going to start

working with our youth to eliminate the lies that are fed to them

by the media that prevent them from achieving to thier fullest

potential? When are we, going to stand up and fight the idea,

pervasive in our youth, that if you are excelling in school, in

advanced classes and dominating (academically) you classmates, you

are "acting white". This idea is absurd! Throughout history, we

have pushed education when it was forbidden upon pain of death!

Even during Jim Crow, we created over 150 colleges to serves our

children when the mainstream ones refused to let us in. When

mainstream businesses refused our money, we became entrepreneurs

and set up thriving districts such as Little Hayti in Durham,

North Carolina and Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This all

happened, because we educated ourselves, either formally or

informally!!

Now, after our people fought to open doors to the

mainstream of American intellectual life, a thief come in the

night to steal the victory and perseverance from our kids; the

idea that academic excellence is "acting white", our ridicule of

our brothers and sisters who strive for educational and

professional excellence. As they go forward in their academic

accomplishments, we have Black idiots taunting them with the label

"acting white." Do not confuse professionalism or academic

excellence with "acting white." One has nothing in the world to

do with the other. In fact, those Black folks who do not

encourage nor support their fellow Black students or Black

businesses are actually the ones "acting white." They also act

white when they do not sound their objections or defend against

other races that denigrate their Black brothers and sisters, or

when they mistreat their own Black people with the same lies,

injustice and incorrectness as white supremacist do. Those who

are accusing other of "Acting white," are simply being niggerish,

or, put a better way "stupid", themselves!

I issue a challenge to everyone! Check you state's,

your individual district's, your child's school's status on

proficiency tests. You will see an great gap in the performance

of black and white students. Check the ACT, SAT, AP, and other

tests. With affirmative action about to go off into history and

the standards rising, we must reaffirm our intellectual

tradition. Start reading (newspaper, books, magazines, etc., use

the public library, etc.). As a special treat, give your kids

gifts certificates for bookstores. Take your children to museums,

galleries, parks, etc. We must challenge the idea promulgated

through BET and throughout history that all we do is play sports

and rap!!

View my sites at:

http://www.geocities.com/jvbzook,

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Afro-American_Intellectual_Association/,

http://groups.msn.com/BlackIntelligence.

http://jvbzook.tripod.com/

Or, you can email me at  Jeffrey_V_Brown@hotmail.com.

Driving Traffic to your website

Joseph — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:51:07 GMT

I'm looking for some ideas in the area of driving traffic to my website. I've tried the google adwords and was disappointed by the results. Any ideas? Thanks...

Seeking Advice on Wordpress Powered Web Sites

Lisa — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:31:38 GMT

Greetings friends:

I am writing in search of a web developer/graphic designer to ask a few questions about what it would take to transform my current web site/online magazine to a Wordpress Powered site. I currently use Adobe Contribute to edit the site (see www.sisterspeakonline.com). I'd like to update the site as well as make is more user friendly for myself, co-writers, and for users.

Would love to hear anyone's feedback on this.

How to get the most from this Groupsite

CollectiveX — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:05:30 GMT

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Welcome to Black Web 2.0!

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