Atlanta Tweets With #myATLchat Fridays and Saturdays 2 to 3PM: Follow the Buzz Around Atlanta | Things to Do | Festivals | Events | Salon Socials
August 26, 2011
Slow your scroll and follow the buzz around Atlanta to great events, good eats, and meet in the tweets. Plus catch great twinterviews hosted by @DryerBuzz. Schedule tweets or tweet live Friday and Saturday 2 to 3PM ET. Be sure to tag tweets with #myATLchat. Follow the buzz on twitter with the hashtag. If you just want too look in on tweets, then visit chat page on DryerBuzz.com or use the widget below.
Salon Social: Saturdays we turn up the heat while you’re under the dryer. Follow the buzz in the salons as they tweet photos, discounts and more.
How to Chat?
Simply use your twitter adding the hashtag #myATLchat to each tweet during scheduled times. Tweets will automatically appear in chat and will be followed by those looking in.
How to schedule a tweet?
Use applications such TweetDeck or Hootsuite or see if your favorite app has an option to schedule tweets. Schedule tweets between 2 and 3PM.
What should I tweet?
Put your best 140 forward. Invite followers to check you out. Make an introduction. Tweet about your business. Tweet about events with invites. Followers love discounts, shopping, food and events. Be sure to include links, photos, flyers for added buzz. Most importantly: LEAVE ROOM FOR RETWEETS
See you in the tweets. Spread the Buzz.
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The Clippings: Experience Ghana’s culture, networking, business, opportunities | Africa for the Africans Tours | Atlanta
August 25, 2011
Africa for the Africans Tours & Investments is a black-owned Atlanta based international business enterprise specializing in Africa tours and investments services.
The company provides the Diaspora with a cultural and historical reconnection to the African continent. With a determined mission to foster lasting relationships with our African family, a vision inspired by the Honorable Marcus Garvey, who used the term “Africa for the Africans” to encourage a black nation and ownership of land outside of America. Africa for the African’s vision has guided hundreds of people yearning to be exposed to opportunities in West Africa. Their tours are intended to enlighten, stimulate and create nothing less than a life changing experiences through investment forums, social network gatherings and repatriation services for our travelers. From humbling historical landmarks to the bustling marketplaces, they nurture and guide their groups through a colorful and emotional journey. Tour patrons are exposed to the many investments, land/home ownership opportunities that exist in Ghana as well as opportunities to experience the gift of giving by delivering valuable school supplies, toys and clothing to children’s orphanages and schools during the tour. Their familial vibe and energy transforms the tours into something much more than a vacation package. Africa for the Africans is a fully fledged cultural movement. All are invited to come experience Ghana’s culture, night life, shopping, networking, business, investment opportunities and more on the upcoming tours on the following dates: February 22 – March 6, 2012, May 16 – 29, 2012, October 24 – November 6, 2012. Follow the Buzz via www.africafortheafricans.orgThe Clippings — You just got the buzz from www.DryerBuzz.com — Combing the headlines. Transforming the way we look — at life.
Submit a story, news, or opinion to DryerBuzz.com http://Pitch.DryerBuzz.comHair She Goes! Black Women For Wellness Conference in LA | September 28-30
August 25, 2011
National Buzz — This September, Black Women for Wellness will host its 12th Annual Conference entitled POWER SHIFT: Gathering our Forces, Kicking up Sand, Lifting our Fists, Protecting our Wombs. Conference activities will begin on Wednesday, September 28 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Culver City, California.
The event is designed to provide an open forum and space to dialogue about what reproductive health means for Black women and girls and the lives we choose to live. The POWER SHIFT! conference will provide the learning spaces, tools, strategies and opportunity to discuss and implement the changes that need to be made in order to better the health of Black women and girls. The goal of this conference is for attendees – especially women – to feel empowered to mobilize and directly affect change in order to educate other communities of color on the eve of the upcoming 2012 national and local elections.
“For over a decade, Black Women for Wellness has convened conferences, symposiums and town halls focused on educating our communities on reproductive issues that affect Black women and girls,” said Janette Robinson-Flint, executive director of Black Women for Wellness. “This year, we are stressing the importance of mobilization. Our emphasis on increased advocacy and civic engagement not only builds the capacity of our community to participate in the upcoming 2012 elections; it also addresses several of the budgetary, legislative and media attacks that have been hurled at Black women’s reproductive justice this year.”
Follow the Buzz via www.bwwla.org | http://powershift2011.eventbrite.com
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August 25, 2011
Jersey Girl Sports (JGS) an online multimedia lifestyle brand for female sports fans, the hottest online sports and web TV destination created for women by women has partnered with Black Enterprise Magazine to host 1st & Flirty , a football 101 event for women in Miami Labor Day Weekend during their signature Golf & Tennis Challenge event.
This year’s Black Enterprise Pepsi Golf & Tennis Challenge continues to be the largest and most successful African American sporting and lifestyle event with over 1,200 participants each year.
Understanding that not all power plays occur in the boardroom, the Golf & Tennis Challenge provides not only a venue but also a platform for networking, entertainment and relaxation.
This year, Black Enterprise added this football 101 event hosted by Jersey Girl Sports through Jersey Girl Sports University (JGSU) known as 1st & Flirty.
JGSU is the place to learn all-things sports offering the game basics and much more. Not only are women able to be the sexy ‘Jersey Girl’ at the sports bar or the game-she will also be one who can learn the game, speak the game and be the game!
The event takes place Thursday, September 2-6 at the newly renovated Doral Golf Resort & Spa. Celebrities such as Ledisi, Ne-Yo and Wyclef Jean are confirmed attendants . Follow the Buzz via Jersey Girl Sports kick-off Football Clinic for Women at Black Enterprise’s Golf and Tennis Signature Event in Miami | www.JerseyGirlSports.comHair She Goes! — You just got the buzz from www.DryerBuzz.com — Combing the headlines. Transforming the way we look — at life.
Submit a story, news, or opinion to DryerBuzz.com http://Pitch.DryerBuzz.comWATCH: Eddie Long accusers break their silence – News Story – WSB Atlanta | The Cut with that Brother!
August 24, 2011
For the first time since they settled their case against Bishop Eddie Long, two of the young men who accused him of sexual abuse are speaking out.
Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande agreed to their first sit-down interview with Channel 2 investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer inside a Miami hotel late last week.
Parris and LeGrande and three other young men entered into a confidential settlement with Long and New Birth Missionary Baptist church three months ago.
WATCH and Follow the Buzz via Eddie Long accusers break their silence | wsbtv.com
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BookBuzz: Engaging Black Seniors For Community Strengthening | Calling the Elders
August 24, 2011
BookBuzz! – As individuals pass through youth and into adulthood, there is also a stage past adulthood where the cumulative learning of a lifetime is embodied. This is called Elderhood, and although current systems in the United States have increasingly marginalized those in this group, traditional African societies throughout the continent and early African American communities understood the invaluable resources embodied within this life stage. In many traditional African societies, transitions from one life stage to the next – from birth through death – were marked with specific and predetermined rites of passage.
It was with this in mind that Dr. Maaskelah K. Thomas created and published an easy to read guide and toolkit: Calling the Elders: Reclaiming and Transforming Our Communities Through Elder Wisdom: A Guide and Toolkit for Developing Local Councils of Elders
With much in the media these days about the rapidly aging “Baby Boomer” generation, much less is mentioned that particularly focuses on African American Baby Boomers. Talk of the “good old days” when many in this group were coming of age fails to clearly reflect the lived experiences of those of African descent – experiences quite often different from those in mainstream America. Those experiences represent a dynamic resource for African American youth and adults, and also represent largely untapped opportunities for older African Americans to pass down a legacy of knowledge, experience and wisdom which could easily be lost forever.
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The Cut with the Brothers! Alpha Phi Alpha Charitable Foundation (APACF) providing iPads® to two DC Public Schools | MLK Memorial
August 24, 2011
During the week of the MLK Memorial dedication, the Alpha Phi Alpha Charitable Foundation (APACF) is providing iPads® to two DC Public Schools. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School in Southeast DC and The Paul Public Charter School in Northwest DC will receive ten iPads® each to be used for math and science classes. The new APACF Technology Grant Program will partner these schools with Howard University, which will provide them with ongoing technical support.
Additionally, the Foundation is providing the schools with an e-curriculum consultant to help them develop a new integrated curriculum that will enhance the students’ learning experience using technological approaches and teaching methods. This program is a unique collaboration that will promote the academic preparation and success for students in a world that is rapidly evolving due to technology.
APACF, a public charity established by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. the nation’s first and largest African-American intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity, will host an event Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM at The Paul Public Charter School 5800 8th Street, NW Washington, DC 20011
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Hair She Goes! Harvard Law Attorney Turns Social Entrepreneur to Help Teen Girls | G.U.R.L.S. Rock(TM) 2011 Leadership Summit
August 24, 2011
San Francisco Bay Area - Dr. Raye Mitchell has given serious consideration to the challenges and opportunities that young and teen-aged girls face in our time: the desire to be a leader, but a scarcity of resources, global engagement, new technology, new media, becoming global leaders, and more. She found the matter of such importance that she left her private law firm to dedicate herself to inspire and empower young girls (8-18) to live lives of purpose, passion and power as future global leaders. Thus, in 2007, Dr. Mitchell formed The Making a New Reality Foundation, a non-profit social entrepreneur organization.
“We need to change the conversation about how we define and engage girls as leaders. Their story is not all negative statistics,” said Mitchell when she launched The G.U.R.L.S. Rock Leadership Program in 2010. The program’s goal is to break down barriers to success by raising the bar of excellence for girls and girls of color – the new generation of game changers.
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 G.U.R.L.S. Rock will host its second annual San Francisco Bay Area Summit for girls 12 to 18+. Program topics will include Financial Literacy, Nutrition & Healthy Living, along with a Career and Education Forum. To commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, the summit will host a special workshop on volunteerism and service. Among the expert workshop leaders are Tovi Scruggs, M.Ed., founder of ASA Educational Services, Inc.; Issa Rae, creator of The (Mis)Adventure of Awkward Black Girl TV Series; Dr. Bonnie Wheatley, Alameda County Commission on the Status of Women; Bernida Reagan, Director of Community & Client Relations at Merriwether & Williams Insurance Services; Lacy Asbill, CoFounder, Girls Moving Forward, Crystal Riggins, Attorney, Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel, Tiffany Bell, Resultz Health and Fitness Consultants, Julie Tarasi, Girls Incorporated of Alameda County, and numerous other professional and community leaders.
Special guests will include Aimee Allison, TV personality and publisher of OaklandSeen.com; Nikki Thomas, KBLX 102.9FM Radio personality and the Nikki Thomas Network; and Sheryl Grant, entrepreneur and the founder & CEO of Sheryl Grant Enterprises, LLC.
WHO: G.U.R.L.S. ROCK Founder & CEO Dr. Raye Mitchell hosts
WHAT: G.U.R.L.S. ROCK 2011 Summit (girls 12-18+)
WHEN: Saturday, September 10, 2011 | 8:30 a.m to 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: Linen Life Gallery, 771 East 14th St., San Leandro, CA
COST: $50 pp, Register online: www.register2011gurlsrock.eventbrite.com
G.U.R.L.S. ROCK is grateful to its sponsors and supporters: State Senator Ellen Corbett, San Leandro Councilmember Ursula Reed, Kaiser Permanente, Region IX Office on Women’s Health, Genentech, myshadesmagazine.net, Girls Moving Forward, OaklandSeen.com, and corporate contributors of services and merchandise Colgate Palmolive, Walmart, Nestle and General Mills.
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Sunset: Jimmy Kimmel’s Uncle Frank Obituary: The Obituary and Death Notice of Frank Potenza | Legacy.com
August 24, 2011
Frank Potenza (AP Photo)
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Jimmy Kimmel’s Uncle Frank, who handled both security and comedy on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” has died. Frank Potenza was 77.
A statement from the show says Potenza died early Tuesday. Further details weren’t immediately available.
The silver-haired Potenza had served as a New York City police officer for two decades and as a private security guard before Kimmel asked him to join his show in 2003. On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Potenza was paired in comedy bits with Guillermo Rodriguez, a real-life parking lot security guard for the show.
Sunset and Memorial Guestbook via Frank Potenza Obituary: The Obituary and Death Notice of Frank Potenza | Legacy.com.
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QuickBuzz: 5.9 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Eastern U.S. | FoxBusiness.com | #Earthquake
August 23, 2011
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the U.S. East Coast from Virginia to at least Boston on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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