Eight is Enough for DryerBuzz.com?

Have you ever had a moment where you thought “this is it!”  Thinking to yourself are even shouting out loud, “this is where I’m suppose to be” or “this is what I’m suppose to be doing.”  When you get to that point, live feels good, the horizon is pretty clear.  You’re so good at it, and then you get comfortable.  You master being in that place at that moment, because that’s what you do.

For some comfortable doesn’t cut it.  Some people have the energy to put out fires everyday.  Not like firemen, but people who live on the edge of creativity and innovation.  But more like the creative geniuses who don’t sleep and are always jumping out of bed with ideas.  Nothing is ever finished.  The more they look at it, the more they change it, add to it, subtract from it or start all over.

I remember the first time I printed a color copy of the first “DryerBuzz” salon newsletter.  A friend and I stood at the edge of the printer waiting to see it in living color. Not everyone had a color printer in those days.  I think at the time, I just bought a laser printer, but my friend had color.  Plus this was the first print under the new “brand.”  I still have that copy today.  The top story was about Columbine.  A couple years later the new “brand” was creating a buzz online.

Planning the 2009-2010 seasons, started asking myself if eight was enough. Was having the “been there done that feeling” when reading press releases and researching stories.  What more could be said, read, podcast, even live?  Started searching high and low for the stories we had not run, the adventures we had not done (in a while at least).  What was new on the horizon?

Well we found it.  However, at post time, our 3PM deadline is approaching.  Looks like I get to keep the secret just a little longer, perhaps another 24 hours.  There are a couple hints and a special invitation if you follow us on twitter.   Lastly, the beginnings of the exciting buzz are already linked in our navigation if you can find it.

Either way, we’ll update soon.  Don’t miss a minute of the buzz. To be contiued…

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I Get From My Mama

When people say I’m blessed, its because my best example of life is truly an angel. More than a role model, she’s my example of endless possibilities.  She’s my cup of courage and my backbone of strength.  When I  pray, my angels throw their hands up “what should we do, your mother has done it all.”

Since the moment of my first breath she’s removed all obstacles. Forty two years in, I’m not the only recipient of her miracles.  I’ve seen countless faces come in the night, call in the morning, come day after day, hoping Ms. Jean, Jip, or Jicky would have an answer.  She does.  She’s the “get er done” of my world.  Be it with a phone call or a drive she’s going to pull it off.  She’s got a solution.  If she gives you that look, then its probably not a problem at all. She was just waiting for you to ask.

How do you thank a woman that would give you her life?  Does Hallmark have the card? When they say its the thought that counts, she’s the person they’re talking about. She makes a simple outing to the movies feel like winning a gold medal. The reward is the same – her smile and laughter. If I’m blessed at all, its because God gave me to her.

Friends joke about how much I love grits.  But with the right flavor and consistency, a bowl of grits takes me right back to my childhood of sitting in my mother’s lap and her blowing on my grits.  When my grits were ready, my mother stopped moving. She sat still for that moment.  Everybody had to do for themselves.  This was my time of the day. I could go for a bowl right now.

She has one child – me.  Sometimes I sit and imagine what went on in the decision when God said you’re the one for her.  Sometimes I wish God had sent me with a scroll so i could make every moments of her happiness just right.  So I can see her smile and let her know that “I got this.”  She has given me everything and taught me every lesson. The only thing I fear in life is her worry.  My greatest fear is her disappointment.  Even at times when I come short, she has shown me my greatest distance. She has cheered when there is no audience. I love my audience.

She is God’s greatest gift. My mother!

Happy Mother’s Day Mama

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Daily Assault: Morning After Pill Just More Protection for Male Psyche?

It boggles the mind that we need such a level of science to make up for a simple act of male responsibility.  The dominate male psyche wants to be roam free and clear not deal with the consequences of their actions not even a day later.  Where is the science to allow for the same amount of blood flow to the brain and the groins?  That is the science we need to day. If we could work that magic, half the problems in the world might disappear.  It would certainly have a major impact on poverty. Surely its not a funding issue?  Borrow from the funding for hair lost research and  tax Viagra sales.

Since we have to prepare our young women for the worst.  Here comes the Morning After Pill now available to 17 year old girls.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The “morning-after pill” will be available without a prescription to women 17 and older, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. The minimum age has been 18.

On March 23, a federal court ordered that Plan B, an emergency contraception pill, be made available over the counter to those 17 and up, the agency said in a statement on its Web site. The agency will not appeal that order, the statement said.

The morning-after pill — made by Duramed, a subsidiary of Barr Pharmaceuticals — is intended to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. It works by stopping ovulation and decreasing the chances that a fertilized egg will attach to the uterus. When used within 72 hours of unprotected sex, it can lower the risk of pregnancy by almost 90 percent, the maker says.

The morning after, left alone to her thoughts and her fears just 17 years old.  She just had unprotected sex. What are the chances she knows how close she is to ovulation.  How does she gauge whether or not the pill worked? Where is he now that science has taken care of his burden of responsibility.  OK so she doesn’t get pregnant, but she still just had unprotected sex with a person with whom she couldn’t negotiate condom use.

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The Daily Assault – Out-of-wedlock births hit record high! Let’s flip the script on the stat.

DryerBuzz — What if the story read as “…nearly 60 percent of babies born in the United States in 2007 were delivered by couples-in-wedlock,” instead of focusing or assaulting women, especially black women which the article quickly turns.

The article speaks nothing about another erosion in America – the values or priorities of men. These values or disappearing priorities of men theoretically and culturally, throughout time, have forced women into many places to fend for themselves and their offspring including the delivery room.

The assault aside, 60% are going home with mom and dad until they become a statistic of the growing divorce rate.

CNN.com — “I wish people spent as much time planning when to get pregnant, with whom, under what circumstances as they do planning their next vacation,” said Brown, the CEO and founding director of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. “The stigma [of out-of-wedlock births] has eroded, and these numbers made me feel perhaps it’s disappeared altogether.”

That stigma Brown speaks of, however, isn’t one that LaShanda Henry, 28, or the women in her family before her, would have known. Her parents never married. And her grandmother only had a wedding when she was in her 60s.

So when Henry, of Greenville, North Carolina, and her boyfriend of now five years, Jean Paul, had Christopher two years ago, there was no pressure to race down the aisle.

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DryerBuzz.com Enters New Season with more of What Women Want

Keeping women talking since 1993 and online under the same brand since 2002, DryerBuzz.com entered its 8^th season on March 13, 2009.  What Women Want is our driving theme for the season.

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DryerBuzz.com – Each anniversary begs the question, “Where do we buzz from here?”  From under the dryer to online and from Atlanta and beyond, the answer buzzes through in our daily content circulated to meet our readers where they are – with the buzz behind the buzz.  So if the buzz ain’t broke, don’t fix it, just do more of What Women Want.

In the vein of hair styles, there are fads, phases, trims and cuts.  DryerBuzz.com is no different.  We decided to step back and observe what’s in and out of style in addition to how to boldly bring in the new in preparation of our new season.  A growing audience to mobile and on-demand represents the new. Of course we were ahead of the game – in real time, LIVE and on-demand.

To satisfy What Women Want, we increased delivery of BookBuzz to twice a day.  Each post features a newly released or current title relevant to the day’s buzz.  As a source celebrities trust, we’re also increasing stories and interviews for The Cut to takes our readers inside film, television and music.

She wants to know What’s Up with that Brother and for her Seeing is Believing. More organization and non-profit news will feature prominently in the daily buzz.  What Women Want means more coverage of fitness, education, family, entertainment and resources to help build the life she wants.

Watching our audience in real time helped to tailor delivery, so no matter how or where you follow; you’re always up to speed and in style.

• DryerBuzz.com:   perfect for web and mobile browsing
• Audio:  Just listen as each post immediately and conveniently converts to audio by oodio
• Email subscribers:  your daily digest arrives to inboxes at 3PM
• FaceBook & Twitter: real time updates moments after story is posted; plus tweets from the editor
• Other Networks:  real time updates moments after posting

She wants the buzz on-demand in between family, work, school, and commuting; great interviews and video as we buzz around the city and the nation covering the buzz.  While DryerBuzz is no stranger to streaming and LIVE content, our new season will offer more on-demand giving her the buzz when and where she wants it.

As veterans in the online news and blogosphere, we also expanded our brand. With real time distributions by Sistributions we launched thePtichBlast.com.  Now your news can become today’s buzz with placement and distribution with today’s headlines from DryerBuzz.com and affiliates.  To learn more, visit www.thePitchBlast.com.

Lastly, we’re sharing out secrets for survival and brand building with monthly Web Camps and weekly Tip of the Week calls.  Spring into Business is now in full swing.  Click here to learn more.

Our business is spreading the buzz.  Our reputation is getting the story out NOW.

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Women’s History Month – Spring Into Business – DIVA Web Camp March 28th

We’re Celebrating Women’s History Month by Making History

DryerBuzz.com — Internet veteran and team of online experts to offer online conference “How to Recession Proof Your Hustle,” an live interactive conference final weekend in March.  Who will follow in the footsteps of women in history to succeed in business.  We’re taking our social networks to the next level to create businesses which sustain our family and create legacies.

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Tyler Perry Audience Not Letting Go of Madea

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DryerBuzz – She made $40 Million dollars in the middle of recessions, with the highest numbers in unemployment looming over most states and at the brink of America’s economic collapse.  But if Tyler Perry could have put away Madea and made the movie we think he really wants to make, he could have tripled the box office.

A writer, director, and actor with free reign over his script, with his own studio, and big box office history, he has to have bigger dreams and more imagination than dawning a dress and hanging out in a cell as he did in Madea Goes To Jail.  Are we holding him back? Does his audience want more than a laugh, a wedding, and an happy ending?

It’s painfully obvious that Madea will not land Perry on the Oscar’s red carpet.  But now that he’s given Lionsgate too good fiscal quarters to look forward too with the Madea movie and subsequent DVD release, can he concentrate on taking his brand to the next level?

He has built it, let’s let him soar.

During the recent BET Honors and NAACP Awards, Tyler Perry showed overwhelming enthusiam for the election of President Barack Obama.  You could see the wheels turning in his head.  Tyler Perry seems ready and needs his audience to catch up.  While Madea may be his trademark and launching pad, its time for her or him to let go. Whomever has a hold on which we have no idea.  There is a next level far greater than where he’s come.  While Madea’s antics are funny and reminiscent, its time to regulate her to a few guess spots on TV. We need to let Perry take his talents and those of the great actors working him to the next level.

In Madea Goes To Jail, it was not easy watching Derek Luke, Keyshia Knight Pulliam and Oscar nominated Viola Davis play second string in what could have been our season’s best and a timeless movie in between Madea’s world. Why he sacrificed such a great script is incomprehensible. Next time, when we see TPS on the screen, we should be WOWed because we let her go and Perry grow.

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Black History – State of Mind 2009

At post time, we’re in the midst of what we at DryerBuzz.com call the Tyler-Tavis period where Tyler Perry releases a blockbuster thus showing our “buying power,” and where Tavis Smiley convenes the State of the Black Union (SOBU) otherwise known as modern day Black History. We’re also 30 days into the leadership of Barack Obama’s presidency.  And you thought it was just another month on the calendar?

This is it.  This is the time period to set the tone for Black America’s 2009.  Not 2019, 2029 like the rest of the global world, just this moment in time until we learn to plan for the future.  The year 2009 marks the ten year anniversary for State of the Black Union known as the convening of “black leadership” taking place February 28, 2009.   Tavis Smiley, a traditional media icon, will fill a stage with “key influencer” often referred to as “Black leaders,” but who are the leading?  Who’s following? Too often these individuals remind us of what Booker T. Washington might have been referring to as “race-problem solvers…”

“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs….There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” …Booker T. Washington

In all of the SOBU’s to date, once such “leader” stands out… The Honorable Louis Farrakhan graced the stage in 2005 at the State of the Black union and dropped so much science that had we listened, and better yet adopted the teachings in a real action plan, the state of Black America might be in a very different state today.  If after convening for ten years, the State of the Black Union couldn’t predict the coming of a black president – then WT?

When “black leaders” and citizens say “I never thought this day will come,” then WT? What were the movements for? The deaths, protests, flight, education, historic this and advancement that?  This years SOBU’s theme is “Accountable – Making America as Good as Its Promise.” What has America promised other than slavery will exist again if you step your ass on the plantation, i.e. courtroom or minimum wage job? I digress.

Are the “race problem solvers” going to tell us the state of the black union can’t advance with a Black president?  Mark my word, that’s exactly what we’ll hear come February 28, 2009 when SOBU convenes.

If you haven’t followed the glorified chicken dinner circuit, where panelist go from hotel to hotel in the “settled habit of advertising [black America's] wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays” as Washington said, then you might think the message is new and the sense of urgency is real.  But wait till the day after SOBU.  No headlines with the exception of a few bloggers and a few “sound bite” videos forwarded through email, as well as a few press releases from major sponsors highlighting their re-investment into Black America. But real change will be slow to come, and certainly no real agenda and definitely no real investment into Black America.

Speaking of investment, the obvious hurdle in a movement is how Black America will unconscionably drop $60M on a movie, but will ask and wait for corporate America and the government to sponsor change. Remember waiting on the calvary to come during Katrina?  It’s Black History 2009.  We’ve got churches with million dollar loans and citizens without homes.

Oh but we have blockbusters with celebrities we expect to rescue Black America.  Then we get upset when same said movies are ignored by the Oscars where each year there may be a sprinkling of African Americans.  These same African Americans receive great reward for their craft from within their community but we consider them to have “made it” if they receive an Oscar nod.  We’re delivering mixed message as usual.

Black history teaches us that we’re brilliant but does it also denote some of the greatest failures:

• Failure to unite with cohesive agenda
• Failure to master economics
• Failure to maximize opportunity
• Failure to learn from history

Does overcoming mean coming apart or separating from the pack?  Madame CJ Walker was the first of how many?   Johnson Publishing was the first of how many?  Venus and Serena were the first of how many?  Oprah, how many? Condi, Colin, Clarence, how many and why one? Barack Obama is the first, but how many will come after him? Must they separate from the pack to do so?

If asked, would we dropped $60M in an HBCU or better yet a law school to create great minds to follow in the footsteps of Justice Thurgood Marshall, become judges and bring change to our one eye opened justice system. On the other hand, how is it we have hundred year historic associates, organizations, and institutions and yet we still have people volunteering for slavery i.e. prison because they can’t envision of future coming from such a wonderful history?

Is the current state of Black America lasting because we have not yet focused on economics or had a movement to create substantial economic freedom?  Does the current state lack a cohesive movement that creates anything beyond a “feeling?” We’ve got hundred year institutions but no infrastructures to create jobs, put food on tables, or foster true buying power where we can really recycle the dollar.  The black dollar is recycling just the way it is supposed.  It comes in from somewhere else and it goes right back out – today at the speed of broadband.

Are we on schedule?  Is there a schedule?  Is there a tool to measure where Black America should be in this point and time?  Are we to react each moment to what comes at us?

So we want to be “accountable?” Let’s pump $100M into an agenda that creates a real safety net, change and education instead of a weeklong glorified chicken dinner as did many black organizations in 2008. In 2009, let’s swap the scholarship line items with the chicken dinners. Let’s leverage technology to control our image, create and synchronize buying power, and monitor the justice system the way we sync gossip and videos.

Rather than analyze a years past, let’s plan for the years to come. Let’s get it right or forget it, which may actually be our reality in 2009. If not, are we saying its time to separate the pack?

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Great Debates LIVE: Behind Every Good Woman…?

“Behind Every Good Woman is….”

Can you finish the statement?  We often hear that a woman is behind every good man.  But who and what drives a good woman? Great example…Michelle Obama, now First Lady to a country rebuilding itself, its values and its morals. We now know what steps Michelle Obama took to find her place in the universe and educate herself accordingly.  Her life now part of our history tells us how she set her priorities. We also know how she supported a dream and impacted her family’s reality.  For women wanting to build and reach
similar heights, we put the question to an awesome panel for a great debate on DryerBuzz & Company… “Behind Every Good Woman….” Listen to the podcast below, taped live Tuesday January 27, 2009, for the answer and more.

Yalanda Lattimore, editor of DryerBuzz.com welcomes…

Kimberly Seals Allers
Kimberly Seals Allers is founder and editor in chief of www.MochaManual.com and is the leading voice and “mommy expert” for today’s African American mom. She is an award-winning business journalist, a former writer at Fortune and senior editor of Essence magazine and author of The Mocha Manual® series of books for black women. “The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy” is a NAACP Image Award nominee. The Mocha Manual to Turning Your Passion into Profit–How to Find & Grow Your Side Hustle in Any Economy (Amistad/HarperCollins) will be released this month. The third Mocha Manual, a guidebook for military wives will be released in June 2009. Seals Allers appears frequently on television and radio.

Dr. Gloria Morrow
is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Upland, Ca. She is a speaker and contributor to CNN and other media outlets. She is the author of The Things that Make Men Cry, Suffer in Silence No More, Create Your Blueprint for Good Success, and Keeping it Real! 7 Steps Toward a Healthier You. Please visit www.gloriamorrow.com and Dr. Gloria will be happy to respond to your questions and comments.

Shay Williams
Shay Your Date Diva,
www.lovein30days.com, is the author of two relationship books: Mama D.I.V.A. Don’t Get Played! and D.I.V.A Don’t Get Played! Both books are dating guides, presented in a laugh out loud, no nonsense approach to
unlocking the mystery to understanding dating, love, and relationships, that help single mothers dating or single women dating catch the man of her dreams in less than 30 days.

Shay Williams is a dating and relationships expert in her own right who did not gain her “expertise” from a traditional education, although she has a B.S. in biology and at one point desired to become a surgeon. She attained this knowledge from her dating experiment of dating over 100 men in 9 months, reading
over 60 relationship books, interviewing over 1000 men, women and couples and finding love herself as a single mom of two, in less than 30 days by applying the knowledge she brings to other women.

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That Michelle & Barack Kinda Love

President Barack Obama maybe poised to save the world, the American economy, and fix all that ails us, but some can’t help but talk and blush over that Michelle & Barack kind of love. Together they have appeared on countless magazine covers with story after story.  Yet their gaze says it all.

More than talk of the dress, the tux and the speech come Wednesday morning after President Obama came into power, was the talk of the gaze he gave his wife time and time again the night before.  That’s love!

That’s Love! as we would say to Whitney Houston having once proclaimed the same of she and Bobby Brown. That’s love! we could say to Kim Porter who once proclaimed the same of she and Diddy. That’s love we would say to LisaRaye, Madonna, the McCartneys, the Hogans, and even when most of us look in the mirror. 

That’s love! we could say to all the tatooed folks with each others name on their arm that they later try to turn into flowers.  It’s love because Michelle and Barack don’t have to say it or proclaim it.  It’s love when you see Barack reach his hand out without looking and like a magnet Michelle floats over to him.  It’s love when you see her antennas go up with his words paying attention without paying attention. 

She’s got Barack’s back.  Barack’s got Michelle’s back.  That’s love when you decide you’re going to take on the world together because you’re so sure that whatever comes your way you are ready for it.  That’s love when you can convince others to love and support a man because you know his heart and mind so well and trust he’ll live up to your word.

That’s love not because they say it, but because we see it.  Michelle and Barack Obama got that special kind of love.

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