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Kendesi Mohammed is a DC area owner of an urban marketing firm. He makes it his mission to help local talent build their reputation and commercial presence online. Besides helping up and coming artists, Kendesi helps promoters from DC’s biggest clubs by creating videos from their events. You can check out his work at KendesiTV.com [...]

FamilyOven.com is an example of a social network that makes commercial sense. It targets people who like to find and trade recipes. At 500,000 registered users, FamilyOven is an attractive place for food oriented companies to reach the public. We will talk with the founders of FamilyOven.com and we will also have a special “Battle [...]

It’s easy: 1. Buy whipping cream. Chill in fridge. 2. Pour into a bowl and start stirring vigorously with a whisk. 3. Keep going until it turns to whipped cream. 4. Continue stirring until the whipped cream starts turning to butter. It will separate out into butter and white liquid. 5. Pour off the liquid [...]

Larissa Fair just blogged the first half of an interview she did with me. It’s over at The Buzz Bin. It was great to be on the the receiving end of the questions for a change!

Watch the Show live. CLICK HERE (Collage uses elements of pics from: Steve Garfield, Bre Pettis, and Jim Long under a CC BY-NC-SA license) Come par-tay with two guys who bridge broadcast and social media, New Media Jim Long and Andy Carvin. More info here.

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It’s the first Jonny’s Par-tay contest. Remember when I was trying to win the best interview contest and part of my platform was that I would make a better world for puppies and children? Well this contest is my effort to begin to follow through on the first goal. Click here for details. Meanwhile, for [...]

These are the notes I took from Nick O’Neill’s presentation at the Social Media Rockstar event today. Create Goals Come up with attainable goals for your brand 1. Sample goals —Have presence in x locations by date —Reach x number of people by date —Write x bog posts weekly —Respond to all inquiries through social [...]

To watch the show CLICK HERE Come Par-tay with Shireen Mitchell (digitalsista on twitter), the founder and director of Digital Sisters, a DC based nonprofit which promotes and provides tech education and enrichment for women and their children who are traditionally underserved. We are going to look at how gender, class, and color factor into [...]

The wedding of Fruma Cashdan and Meyer Myers, Liverpool, 1925 Originally uploaded by saul benqish These are my relatives on my mothers’ fathers’ side, the Cashdans. Eli “Yiddle” Cashdan was the cousin of my grandpa. Excited to happen upon this when I googled my mothers’ maiden name.