Being a Black Blogger
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Why I Love Being a Black Blogger
I am the publisher of the More Black Success ebooks.
I have just published Secrets of the Black Bloggers, an ebook a which features some of the most interesting, challenging, thought-provoking and opinionated bloggers in the Afrosphere today. For more information, see below.
This lens gives some suggestions for blogging, and lists some blogs I like.
How can you get started blogging? What should you blog about? And what are the most interesting Black blogs on the internet?
I will also publish excerpts from interviews with Black bloggers on this page.
Looking for more ideas for your blogs, articles or ebooks? Go here: The Best Content for Your Ebook.
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I have just published Secrets of the Black Bloggers, an ebook a which features some of the most interesting, challenging, thought-provoking and opinionated bloggers in the Afrosphere today. For more information, see below.
This lens gives some suggestions for blogging, and lists some blogs I like.
How can you get started blogging? What should you blog about? And what are the most interesting Black blogs on the internet?
I will also publish excerpts from interviews with Black bloggers on this page.
Looking for more ideas for your blogs, articles or ebooks? Go here: The Best Content for Your Ebook.
Click here to join Squidoo and create lenses like this one. .
Table of Contents
- Why Black Bloggers?
- Are You a Black Blogger?
- If so, how long have you been blogging?
- Why I Love Being a Black Blogger
- Secrets of the Black Bloggers
- Books by Black Bloggers
- More Books for Black Bloggers
- Topics for Blogging
- The Power of the Blog
- The AfroSpear
- My Blogs
- Some Black Blogs I Like
- Lenses about Black Bloggers
- How Can I Get Started Blogging?
- Blogs about Black Blogs and Bloggers
- Interview with Black Women in Europe
- Featured Lenses
- Blogging While Brown Video
- Resources
- Journey of A Professional Blogger
- How to Promote Your Blog on Black Bloggers Connect
- Please Add Your Comments and Your Blog
Why Black Bloggers?
What Effect Are Black Bloggers Having on the Blogosphere?
Until a few years ago, the blogosphere was overwhelmingly dominated by white bloggers.
The emergence of the AfroSpear and the Blogging While Brown conference helped Black bloggers to come to prominence, and to form networks where we can interact and communicate with each other.
With President Obama's first presidential campaign, Black bloggers began to be acknowledged as a voice of authority within the online Black community and the wider blogosphere.
Black bloggers are modern-day griost. We are uniquely placed to report, record, and comment and reflect on issues which affect people of African heritage worldwide. By doing so, we also influence events which affect our communities.
The emergence of the AfroSpear and the Blogging While Brown conference helped Black bloggers to come to prominence, and to form networks where we can interact and communicate with each other.
With President Obama's first presidential campaign, Black bloggers began to be acknowledged as a voice of authority within the online Black community and the wider blogosphere.
Black bloggers are modern-day griost. We are uniquely placed to report, record, and comment and reflect on issues which affect people of African heritage worldwide. By doing so, we also influence events which affect our communities.
Are You a Black Blogger?
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Why I Love Being a Black Blogger
I have been blogging for several years. I first started blogging in order to promote my books Success Strategies for Black People and Black Success Stories.
However, I have since learned that blogging brings pleasures all its own.
Being a blogger allows me to connect with other bloggers all over the world. I can comment on current events and other things of interest, and add my voice, my perspective. Plus I can read and share others' views.
I am proud to belong to a blogging group known as The AfroSpear. More about this below.
I find that blogging takes me in many different directions, and into many different territories.
However, I have since learned that blogging brings pleasures all its own.
Being a blogger allows me to connect with other bloggers all over the world. I can comment on current events and other things of interest, and add my voice, my perspective. Plus I can read and share others' views.
I am proud to belong to a blogging group known as The AfroSpear. More about this below.
I find that blogging takes me in many different directions, and into many different territories.
Secrets of the Black Bloggers
Interviews with Black Bloggers
Secrets of the Black Bloggers contains interviews with 16 of the most original, exciting and thought-provoking bloggers of African heritage online today.
- Secrets of the Black Bloggers on Lulu
- Download it from lulu.com. See below to order it on Amazon.
- The Black Blogger as Modern Griot
- The griot was part of an ancient oral tradition in areas of West Africa from which many of our ancestors originated. Black bloggers are carrying on this tradition.
- The Future of the Publishing Industry
- Several people have asked me recently what the future will hold for writers and publishers. Go here to read more.
- Interview with Zhana
- Interview with me by Veronica Young of Veronica Inspires.
Veronica is one of the bloggers interviewed in Secrets of the Black Bloggers. Her website is a message of empowerment, inspiration, encouragement and pursuit one's goals. - Black Author and Business Blogger: Denise Turney
- Denise Turney of Write Money Inc. is one of the business bloggers I interviewed in Secrets of the Black Bloggers.
The purpose of Write Money Inc. is to help you grow your creative business and generate wealth. She states that her purpose is "to provide informational, educational and networking support to business owners, particularly business owners operating in creative spaces". - Secrets of the Black Bloggers
- Secrets of the Black Bloggers contains interviews with 16 of the most original, exciting and thought-provoking bloggers of African heritage online today.
Secrets of the Black Bloggers contains tons of information and tips including:
- what to blog about
- how often to blog
- how to get traffic to your blog
- how to use blogging to promote you book
- mistakes Black bloggers make
- how to earn money from your blog.
Secrets of the Black Bloggers includes interviews with
- business bloggers
- author bloggers
- international bloggers
and bloggers on a huge range of other subjects.
Books by Black Bloggers
Books by authors interviewed in <i>Secrets of the Black Bloggers</i>
Several of the bloggers interviewed in Secrets of the Black Bloggers are author-bloggers. I shall be listing their books here, so please come back soon.
More Books for Black Bloggers
For more resources, check out the Resources section, below.
Topics for Blogging
Choosing What to Blog About
Looking for ideas for what to blog about? The bloggers I have interviewed in Secrets of the Black Bloggers blog on a huge range of topics.For more ideas for your articles, blogs and ebooks, see: http://www.squidoo.com/Best_Content_for_Your_Ebook
Not all of my blogs are specifically for people of African heritage. Some are for everybody.
For Ancestral Energies and Ancestral Healing, I focus specifically on topics related to our experience as Black people.
Some of my blog topics include:
- Black history
- African American books
- the Black family
- parenting
- education
- Black health
- Black/African film/cinema
- Black business.
There are many more topics you can write about - choose things that you really care about, and can write about passionately.
The Power of the Blog
Bloggers have power.
Being a blogger means that you can write about whatever you want to focus on, and bring your information and opinions to the world. This can be a very powerful activity.
When you blog in conjunction with others, your power increases manyfold.
The power of Black bloggers is reflected in the fact that the White House recently held an African American Online Summit for the first time.
When you blog in conjunction with others, your power increases manyfold.
The power of Black bloggers is reflected in the fact that the White House recently held an African American Online Summit for the first time.
The AfroSpear
The AfroSpear is an international group of Black bloggers. I have been a member for just over three years.
The AfroSpear is a great way to connect with other bloggers who share common interests.
We also occasionally hold Blogging Days of Action around specific issues. If a group of bloggers all blog on the same day about the same issue, it can generate media interest and raise interest in areas we want to target.
For example, we have had Days of Action about the use of tasers against African American people.
We blogged in support of President Obama when Sarah Palin made derogatory remarks about "community organizers".
Other bloggers, who are not members of the AfroSphere, and some of whom are not even Black, also supported these Blogging Days of Action.
Several of our members have blogged about the case of the Scott Sisters.
Several of our members attended the 2008 Democratic National Convention as official or unofficial bloggers, before the election of President Obama.
Although we are all independent bloggers, we have certain responsibilities to the group. For example, we have each agreed to blog at least 13 times during every quarter as a condition of membership.
The AfroSpear is a great way to connect with other bloggers who share common interests.
We also occasionally hold Blogging Days of Action around specific issues. If a group of bloggers all blog on the same day about the same issue, it can generate media interest and raise interest in areas we want to target.
For example, we have had Days of Action about the use of tasers against African American people.
We blogged in support of President Obama when Sarah Palin made derogatory remarks about "community organizers".
Other bloggers, who are not members of the AfroSphere, and some of whom are not even Black, also supported these Blogging Days of Action.
Several of our members have blogged about the case of the Scott Sisters.
Several of our members attended the 2008 Democratic National Convention as official or unofficial bloggers, before the election of President Obama.
Although we are all independent bloggers, we have certain responsibilities to the group. For example, we have each agreed to blog at least 13 times during every quarter as a condition of membership.
My Blogs
- Ancestral Energies
- This is my main blog. For people of African heritage, African American success, health and healing, wellness, history, business.
- Ancestral Healing
- African health, healing,wellness and transformation, mind/body/spirit.
- Transform Your Life
- This blog is for everyone. Health, wellness, healing, transformation, mind/body/spirit. T
- Writers' Secrets
- Information and tips for writers and authors to help you to write and publish your work.
Some Black Blogs I Like
These are some Black blogs I like. This is NOT a comprehensive list. I'll be adding more as time goes on.
If you are a Black blogger, please add your blog to the guestbook below.
If you are a Black blogger, please add your blog to the guestbook below.
- African American Political Pundit (AAPP)
- Political commentary.
- Black Women in Europe
- Consistently one of the best blogs around.
- Raw Dog Buffalo
- Warning: Not all of the content on this blog is G-rated!
- AfroSpear in the News
- The official blog of The AfroSpear
- Women of the African Diaspora
- A place for Black women around the world to find information, inspiration and more.
- The Overground Railroad
- Blog by Joan Gosier of HBCU Kidz. This blog states: "Overground Railroad frees modern day slaves from those selling out their souls and simply [being] stuck getting a cotton pickin' paycheck.". This is ONE place where we strive to highlight folks with vision who are working "OVERGROUND" for our community yet are needlessly behind the scenes. These inspiring individuals are diligently trying to CONNECT THE DOTS with other like minded souls. This blog's goal is to inspire and recharge one another's batteries to see a growing list of ACTION-ORIENTED PEOPLE vs. LARGE WELL-FUNDED ORGANIZATIONS. "
Lenses about Black Bloggers
Lenses by and about Black bloggers
I have listed a few lenses by some of the top bloggers of African heritage below.
How Can I Get Started Blogging?
Video with Melinda Emerson
Video with Melinda Emerson, Twitter's Smallbizlady. Click here to read an interview with Melinda.
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Blogs about Black Blogs and Bloggers
- Limbaugh On "Persecution Of Blacks In America": "What Persecution Would That Be?"
- A Washington Post blog entry reported that during the event, Romney "received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white ...
- Black pastors take up Holder talking points on both election and 'Gunwalker'
- ?Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU will brief several hundred pastors in the African American community on how to participate in the presidential election -- which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help President ...
- Encouraging Data on Lilly Drug - Analyst Blog
- The companies presented phase III data which showed that a significant reduction in hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels were achieved in black or African American patients receiving Tradjenta (5mg, once-daily) compared to patients on placebo.
- Opinion: Elizabeth Warren and the Problem with Racial Self-Identification
- By Steffen Schmidt : IAFC Blogger Elizabeth Warren, Democratic candidate for US Senate from Massachusetts -and recent head of the federal consumer protection agency - is in the middle of a nasty controversy that underscores the nefarious nature of ...
Featured Black Bloggers
Some of the Black bloggers interviewed in the new book
I have placed links to excerpts of some of the Black blogs featured in the new book - see below. These are links to the blogs.
- Eddie Griffin BASG
- This blog covers crucial issues such as the incarceration of children and young people.
- Black Women in Europe
- Adrianne George, author of the Black Women in Europe blog, covers all subjects of interest to Black women in Europe. She also features profiles of Black women.
- The Overground Raiload
- "Overground Railroad frees modern day slaves from those selling out their souls and simply stuck getting a cotton pickin' paycheck." This is ONE place where we strive to highlight folks with vision who are working "OVERGROUND" for our community yet are needlessly behind the scenes.
Eddie Griffin
Interview with Eddie Griffin of the BASG blog
Eddie Griffin (BASG) was started in April 2007 during the initial organizing of the AfroSpear for the purpose of providing an online forum to air issues of African-Americans who do not receive attention and equal treatment in the criminal justice system. BASG stands for Black Accused Support Groups, and the supporting blogs became known, at first, as the Afrosphere, then later AfroSpear.
Francis Holland created the site for Eddie Griffin who, at the time, was working on the Shaquanda Cotton case, a 14-year old Paris, Texas girl sent to juvenile prison for up to 7 years for simply barging her way into a school building past a teacher's aide. The minor brush with the aide was construed as an "assault against a public official".
The AfroSpear campaign won the release of Cotton, who spent a little over a year in prison, along with the release of about 550 other juveniles who had been railroaded through the criminal justice system.
Griffin spent 12 years in prison, during which time he wrote "Breaking Men's Minds" and was named a prisoner of conscious by the World Peace Council in Helsinki, Finland, 1977. The disproportionality of blacks in prison is a well known fact, which dates back to post Civil War times.
The interview will be published in my new book, which features some of the most interesting, challenging and opinionated bloggers in the Afrosphere today.
Francis Holland created the site for Eddie Griffin who, at the time, was working on the Shaquanda Cotton case, a 14-year old Paris, Texas girl sent to juvenile prison for up to 7 years for simply barging her way into a school building past a teacher's aide. The minor brush with the aide was construed as an "assault against a public official".
The AfroSpear campaign won the release of Cotton, who spent a little over a year in prison, along with the release of about 550 other juveniles who had been railroaded through the criminal justice system.
Griffin spent 12 years in prison, during which time he wrote "Breaking Men's Minds" and was named a prisoner of conscious by the World Peace Council in Helsinki, Finland, 1977. The disproportionality of blacks in prison is a well known fact, which dates back to post Civil War times.
The interview will be published in my new book, which features some of the most interesting, challenging and opinionated bloggers in the Afrosphere today.
Black Women in Europe
Sample Posts from Black Women in Europe
These are some sample posts from the Black Women in Europe Blog.
- The most powerful black women in Europe--Black Women in Europe Power List 2010 - A List of Our Own
- This post is significant to me because I was inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama ranking #1 on Forbes Most Powerful Women List and realised it was high time to make a list of our own most power black women in Europe. While preparing the list I discovered amazing women and now look forward to the annual list.
- Ann Martin-Papazoglou, an Black Expat in Greece created the Baracko Coin
- This post is signigicant to me because not only are there sisters in Europe designing and making jewelry, there is a sister in Greece that is making coins. And not just any coins, but the Baracko, which celebrates United States President Obama's historic presidential victory in 2008.
Interview with Black Women in Europe
Audio interview with Adrianne George,one of the bloggers featured in Secrets of the Black Bloggers
- Interview with Adrianne George of Black Women in Europe
- I find this interview very inspiring, I think you will too.
- Part 2 of the interview with Adrianne George
- Part 2 of the interview with Adrianne George
Overground Railroad
The Overground Railroad blog by Joan E. Gosier
These are some sample posts from the Overland Railroad blog.
- Are There Lessons We Can Learn
- As we face the potential of our nation's first Black President, are there lessons we can learn from South Africa?
- Let's Talk about Brains
- Let's Talk about Brains - how children can maintain self-control in the classroom.
Featured Lenses
Blogging While Brown Video
Video about Blogging While Brown Conference 2010
Highlights of the Blogging While Brown 2010 Conference
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A New Blogger's Big Mistake
Video on one of the biggest mistakes new bloggers make.
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Resources
Resources by, for and about Black bloggers, and more bloggers' resources.
- Blogging While Brown
- The Blogging While Brown Conference provides continuing technology education and networking opportunities to an audience primarily comprised of African American digital media content creators.
- Black Bloggers Connect
- Online community for Black bloggers to connect.
- Blogging for Smarties
- Six top blogging plugins for authors and speakers
- How To Realistically Get 500+ Blog Subscribers
- Blogging is not a sprint, but a marathon. If you always keep that in mind, you'll do much better than the people who expect overnight success and get discouraged when they're faced with reality. For every Tina Su, there must be thousands of bloggers who never make it to 10 subscribers.
Journey of A Professional Blogger
Kimberly Gauthier Black Blogger Connect Feature Interview
Great video. Kimberly talks about how she grew her blog and gives information on resources for bloggers. She talks about promoting her blog on Fiverr and Pinterest, plus much more.
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How to Promote Your Blog on Black Bloggers Connect
Video
This video has lots of practical tips on how to promote your blog on Black Bloggers Connect
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