If you live in the Metro DC area and you want to talk to some of the Internets’ Celebrities you should make your way to Busboys & Poets for the inaugural event – If I Ruled the Blogosphere: Hip-Hop Blogs & Social Change Panel.
I’ve been invited to be a panelist along with my great friend Meka from 2DopeBoyz.com and the homey Frank from rappersiknow.com plus some other heads making waves on Wi-Fi and broadband channels. Shout out to the folks from Words, Beats & Life for organizing this event.
Peep the details…
Co-sponsored by Words Beats & Life (WBL) and the Future of Music Coalition (FoMC) and hosted by Busboys & Poets, this event will feature a national panel of hip-hop bloggers who will give information to those trying to be featured on hip-hop blogs about how to get the attention of these bloggers, optimize web presence, learn what bloggers seek when generating content, and how use technology in acceptable formats. We will also discuss pay-to-purchase sites (Band Camp, Itunes, Amazon, etc.): use ‘em or lose ‘em? Participants will walk away with a comprehensive list of potential hip-hop music blogs where they can find and post music by independent artists.
In the second half of this presentation, FoMC will educate the bloggers and audience about legislation and policies currently affecting them and we will address the question: How can we leverage the success of these blogs for social change?
I salute WBL for being proactive and organizing this event so that a next generation of web users can learn to take their futures into their own hands. We’ll be a few blocks away from the Howard University campus so I hope the 2010 Puff Daddy’s take a minute to come thru and talk with Mek, Frank and me about finding that next next.
