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May 10, Duke Ellington School of the Arts LMC Faculty Reading featuring Kelli M. Anders

On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 I will be joined by my colleagues and friends within in the Literary Media & Communications Department of Duke Ellington School of the Art to present a night of poetry, theatre, fiction, and film at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. As a faculty member I teach video and new media and I’ll be presenting [...]

Duke Ellington’s Digital Dreamgirl

Strategy Duke Ellington School of the Arts had a goal to promote public awareness for their all school collaboration of the broadway musical Dreamgirls, and sell out the Elington Theatre box office to save teacher salaries. One of the producers for Ellington’s production of Dreamgirls, the Dean of Arts Tia Powell Harris asked me to [...]

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Duke Ellington’s R Street Collective

The R Street Collective is a student run performance troupe from Duke Ellington School of Arts, a performance ensemble comprised of students from the Literary Media & Communications (LMC) Department. Students perform original works before live audiences within the Washington, DC metro area. Mark Williams the LMC Chair, skillfully directs this talented group of students [...]

Angela Benton’s NewME Conference

This past week I attended the NewME(New Media Entrepreneurship) Conference presented by Black Web Media and Innovation Generation. The two day conference was held in Washington, DC at Hotel Monaco and focused on increasing online minority entrepreneurship through policy, capital investment, and strategies to decrease the barriers to market. The conference brought together entrepreneurs, policy [...]

Join Sojournals Urban Media Network!

The tagline for Sojournals Urban Media Network is “Social news, events, media, and solutions”, a social networking platform that provides informative news and events for urban media professionals seeking online solutions to their business needs. The main goal for the Network is to introduce and utilize web savvy solutions to increase the visibility of member [...]

Ben’s Next Door Hosts TechTasters Monthly Lunch Event

It’s been a while since our last TechTasters event, but we are back in action with a new lunch event every 1st Monday of the month at Ben’s Next Door on DC’s historic U Street. Our premier event will kick off the “Apps For Ben’s” iPhone app contest on April 5, 2010 from 12pm-3pm. At [...]

HubSpot Make’s Press Releases SEO Friendly

Image via CrunchBase I learned about this great tool for press releases provided by HubSpot that really adds SEO punch called the Press Release Grader! It evaluates your press release for marketing effectiveness, and gives you tips to optimize it for search engines. All you do is copy and paste your press release into the [...]

How Does Your Smart Phone Compare To Google’s Nexus One?

BillShrink.com, a great blog geared towards saving consumers money has put together a nice comparison of Google’s Nexus One to other leading smart phone(iPhone, Droid, and Palm Pre). See how your favorite smart phone stacks up to Nexus One. Check out the articles below for more opinions about Google’s new kid on the block. Find [...]

SOFAlab | Scientists Visualize / Artists Experiment

SOFAlab Scientists Visualize / Artists Experiment Thursday, November 5th, 2009 – 6pm reception, 7pm keynote address & panel Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1530 P Street, NW, Washington, DC FREE and Open to the Public How and where do art and science – two seemingly disparate disciplines of intellectual inquiry – overlap? And, at that confluence, [...]

Thinng [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:35:55 PDT

Thinng is an entity, a place, somewhere that enables you to share, create collections and explore. How you use it is completely up to you - Create product wishlists, inspiration for events, show off your latest style, T-Shirts you can't wait to buy. The possibilities are endless.

MindShift | How we will learn [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:24:45 PDT

Technology is revolutionizing the world of education – replacing familiar classroom tools and changing the way we learn. MindShift explores the future of learning in all its dimensions – covering cultural and technology trends, groundbreaking research, education policy and more. The site is curated by Tina Barseghian, a journalist and mother of a grade-schooler.

Audiosocket - Music Licensing Solutions for All Media [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:15:00 PDT

Audiosocket is a music licensing and technology company that gets music to whoever needs it. Stock music is crap and we don't represent it. Our pre-cleared music comes from bands and composers that create culturally relevant content. With more than 30,000 songs that span 204 genres of music, you're sure to find whatever you need for your production. more »

BreakoutBand :: Make music. Be heard. [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:53:44 PDT

BreakoutBand is the first online experience where anyone can make their own music, regardless of experience. On BreakoutBand, you can create original songs, share with friends, get fans and compete. So, do you have secret aspirations of being the next Pop Star? Watch our video, see what our artists say about BreakoutBand, meet our team and make that breakout song!

Apple - iCloud stores your content and pushes it to your devices. [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:31:48 PDT

When you update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 5, your favorite Apple apps become seamlessly integrated with iCloud. Just like that. So all your content and information is available and up to date, no matter which device you’re using.

Scholastic To Launch “this is teen” Initiative | Scholastic Media Room [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:36:23 PDT

Scholastic will be the first publishing partner of SCVNGR, the location-based mobile gaming application platform that enables consumers to participate in challenges at specified locations using their smart phones. Starting on April 26th, SCVNGR will engage teens across the country through exclusive “this is teen” book-related challenges at participating bookstores, where they can accumulate points, and be instantly enrolled in a sweepstakes for prizes. Some of the challenges include tasks such as coming up with the best opening line for a story, snapping photos of specific titles at participating bookstores, and getting books signed at author events.

Visible Tweets – Twitter Visualisations. [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:26:00 PDT

Visible Tweets is a visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public spaces.

remind101.com [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:32:42 PDT

Text and email reminders for school assignments. A great tool for educators looking for ways to use mobile phones as tools in the classroom.

The Awesome Foundation [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:07:48 PDT

The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is an ever-growing, worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators. The money is given upfront in cash, check, or gold doubloons by groups of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees,” who form autonomous chapters around geographic areas or topics of interest. The Foundation provides these grants with no strings attached and claims no ownership over the projects it supports. It is, in the words of one of our trustees, a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance. Since its humble beginnings, many Awesome Foundation chapters have sprung up globally to conserve, sustain, and support the worldwide ecosystem of awesomeness. Projects have included efforts in a wide range of areas including technology, arts, social good, and beyond.

Qwiki [del.icio.us]

sojournals — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:45:01 PDT

Whether you’re planning a vacation on the web, evaluating restaurants on your phone, or helping with homework in front of the family Google TV, Qwiki is working to deliver information in a format that's quintessentially human – via storytelling instead of search.