DryerBuzz News, Podcast and NetTV » BookBuzz http://www.dryerbuzz.com News Entertainment and Business Buzz. Transforming the way we look -- at life. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:27:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 #27Answers to FAQ’s About Social Media and Networking | #askDryerBuzz How to Create Buzz While Running Your Business http://www.dryerbuzz.com/2011/12/27answers-to-faqs-about-social-media-and-networking-askdryerbuzz-how-to-create-buzz-while-running-your-business/ http://www.dryerbuzz.com/2011/12/27answers-to-faqs-about-social-media-and-networking-askdryerbuzz-how-to-create-buzz-while-running-your-business/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:05:06 +0000 DryerBuzz http://www.dryerbuzz.com/2011/12/27answers-to-faqs-about-social-media-and-networking-askdryerbuzz-how-to-create-buzz-while-running-your-business/

Learn to Create Buzz While Running Your Business. The book may be written but the learning continues. Yes you can you download 27 Answers to FAQs About Social Media and Networking via ebook or kindle, but did you also know the learning continues each week via twitter?

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Jacqueline Harris has successfully broken free of depression through painted portraits, chance meetings, important messages and therapeutic friendships with an amazing group of singers and authors. In penning her Magical Medicinal Memoir, Healing and Freedom Through These Sacred Tonemasters (Amargi Publishing Company $22.99 ISBN: 978-0-615-39000-0), Jacqueline explains how she was walking through life suffering from low self-esteem, fear, lack of trust while trapped in a cycle of mediocrity.

“Women don’t have to be stuck or held hostage by their emotions or fears. It’s my hope that after reading this book, others can embark on their journey to healing and freedom,” says Ms Harris. “This is my story of how on March 19, 2005, the world I existed in took a dramatic turn. On that day a beautiful black woman draped in turquoise and silver with braids and no shoes appeared to me and instructed me to have a picture painted and give a copy to each of the women on the picture.

Harris used the music, tones, lyrics, written words and miraculous encounters with Dr. Maya Angelou, Dr. Frances C. Welsing, Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, Anita Baker, Nancy Wilson, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Maysa Leak, Ledisi Young, Lalah Hathaway and Lizz Wright, to assist her on this successful journey to healing, freedom and living life to the fullest. Readers will enjoy the healing works of these authors and singers that Jacqueline used to mend the destructive emotions she was burdened with. Also, enjoy the color pictures included in the book.

Read how the universe lined up for Jacqueline to meet all of these greats in such miraculous ways within 5 months of the completion of each portrait.  Also enjoy how she was able to heal from fear, self-esteem issues, a closed heart and free herself from the self-imposed prison that she was trapped in with the help of the music, tones, written words, encounters with and therapeutic friendships with these revered women.

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When author Edrea Davis debuted her fictional saga, “SnitchCraft ” in hardcover back in 2007, everyone from readers to activists to academics took note of this creative approach to advocacy. Davis cunningly fused hip-hop with a civil rights agenda to offer a glimpse into the corrupt environment created by the use of informants and underscore the unfairness of racially biased sentencing guidelines.

Last year President Obama signed legislation reducing drug sentencing disparities, but the law was not applied retroactively.  Dogon Village Books celebrated the new sentencing guidelines becoming retroactive November 1, 2011, with the release of the ebook version of “SnitchCraft,” updated with new information and facts. 

“I am happy about the progress made on sentencing reform. Reducing the disparity between powder and crack cocaine from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1 is a positive step,” said Davis, a volunteer with the November Coalition (http://www.november.org), an education foundation working to end the drug war injustice. “The release of my ebook at a time when thousands of federal inmates become eligible for release from prison is a reminder that if we continue to raise our voices for education over incarceration we will chip away at the remaining disparities and the corrupt snitch system as well.”

Praised by civil rights legend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery for, “shedding light on deep-rooted problems plaguing the Black community,” “SnitchCraft ” juxtaposes the themes of family, spirituality, and social justice against the backdrop of a popular Southern California nightclub battling escalating gang violence. It uncovers the street life escapades behind the dynamics of snitching, while questioning the morals and values that are often convoluted with the issue.

“SnitchCraft ” pushes the boundaries of typical ‘urban lit’ fare however. Davis incorporated a unique “After the Book” section with a reader’s guide of discussion questions, suggestions on how to become active in your community, and an index of leading organizations focused on criminal justice reform and other issues impacting the Black community.   

The engaging read even landed on the required reading list in a curriculum guide at the Yale National Initiative of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.  According to the guide, the introduction to Criminal Justice course incorporated the book because it looks at the present day social phenomenon of snitching, police corruption and the use of paid confidential informants in solving crime.

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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. It was designed for those interested in developing an important avenue for capturing and enlisting the resources of African American seniors for ongoing community strengthening and development. Envisioned as a rites of passage process for elder members the African American community and a structure for keeping them engaged, the Guide provides both rationale and process for implementing Councils of Elders in communities throughout the country and beyond. Based on a successful model currently operating in her own community, it includes an overview of the historical importance of Councils of Elders, as well as the building blocks of this functional model for institution building. Most importantly, it provides practical steps and processes for ways to engage the entire community in reconnecting the links that have historically strengthened African American communities.

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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EOTM Public Relations (EPR) is pleased to bring you urban author, sire of illustrious words, Derrick Taylor (www.DTaylorbooks.com), the self-proclaimed playa of women turned his brother’s keeper. An author predestined to share his story and the stories of others like him as only black men with the literary zeal, living the hard knock life in cities like Atlanta, Los Angeles, Detroit, New York and Chicago not limited to the USA.

Taylor has enough ammo to rival even the most popular urban authors and will transform the average reader into an inner city cultural connoisseur.

“In Man Up, I am writing about my experiences and behavior towards women, with the hopes of helping men who have traveled the same path, gone a relatable distance, and journeyed along a similar road. I have become a better person and realized that this very book can help men and women alike. Call it my way of giving back, leading the new generation of men down the correct path,” Derrick Taylor shared.

With the August 15th world wide release of his memoir, Man Up: One Man’s Sincere Regret for Sabotaging His Relationships; Author Derrick Taylor wish is that men find some semblance to take their own stand and Man Up too.

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The wait is almost over.  Two decades engaging niche audiences and helping entrepreneurs create buzz for their business, Yalanda P Lattimore answers 27 FAQ’s in the perfect accessory for entrepreneurs.  Create Buzz When Starting A Business: 27 Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Social Media and Networking will be available starting Tuesday, August 2, 2011 via DryerBuzz.com & Amazon Kindle.  Print editions to follow.

Pre-order the ebook to be the first to read it Tuesday morning. If you have a question about growing your business, get the book and get the answers to create buzz.

Meet Yalanda P. Lattimore:

  • Sunday July 29th: TechUptownATL, National Book Club Conference , Hyatt Regency Atlanta
  • Stay tuned for additional dates in August as we spread the buzz.

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A download link will provided via email for all pre-orders Tuesday, August 2, 2011. Kindle version available after release date.

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Why Grace and Charm?

BookBuzz — Getting along with family, friends, enjoying dates, doing well in school, preparing for the future – these are the things that matter most to young girls. Social skills are the foundation of today’s girls personal and career development. It is therefore important for girls to acquire and learn how to apply social living skills on their road to success.

Sugar and spice and everything nice, is that what little girls are made of? What an awesome time to be a girl! The possibilities are endless. A girl today can become the President of the United States, an astronaut or anything in between.

Today’s girls have so many pressures…they want to fit in, achieve, compete with boys and live up to societies expectations of what and who she should be.

Pressures from the media can also hinder a girls self-perception, especially when she doesn’t feel she is pretty, popular, talented or socially accepted.

Walethia Aquil contributed to the topic “Grace & Charm for The African American Girl.” Aquil is Founder of Grace and Charm and the creator of The Grace and Charm Success System™. She is one of the country’s most knowledgeable and recognized experts in the fields of etiquette and image consulting.

“Sister to Sister: A Guide for African American Girls is the eighth book  in the PWN African- American Library to date, and the 38th in The Professional Woman empowerment series for women and youth.  The Professional Woman Network is one of the world’s fastest growing international training & publishing organizations on Women’s Issues & Empowerment Resources.

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Watch: Sugar Ray Leonard ( @SUGARRAYLEONARD ) discuss his book The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring.

Voice of the voiceless is a non profit, grassroots, community based organization designed to create a viable community network to voice concerns, discuss issues, and empower people with a sense of pride and self determination to make a change for future generations.

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Saw this floating through my Facebook stream. I could curse a mofo out for this book but that would be hypocrisy on my part. So what can I say? What do you say? Actually watched/listened to the entire video.

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“I Am A Father, Celebrating African-American Fathers”  When you take a moment to reflect on that statement, what are the stories and images that come to mind?  What are the personal stories of your relationship with your father?  These are the questions that are answered in the book project, “I Am A Father, Celebrating African-American Fathers”.  It captures the relationship of fathers and their children.  “I Am A Father, Celebrating African-American Fathers” tells the stories of what makes the father/child relationship so very special.

The Journey toward a purposeful life for African Americans may appear to be stacked with many obstacles to overcome.  We know that it requires hard work, dedication, discipline and determination just to stay on a level playing field. A caring and devoted father can be the difference in a child choosing the straight or curved, positive or negative road of life.  In today’s society you hear these types of statements on a regular basis: “Another African-American male arrested for – drug possession, sexual assault, refusal to pay child support, or abandonment…the negative list goes on and on.

“I Am A Father, Celebrating African-American Fathers” from David T. Manuel includes testimonies that are presented through interviews on topics that have made a lasting effect on their lives.  Page after page introduces the reader to the essence of the power and influence of our fathers.  Read from the children of Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Ossie Davis, Yung Joc and many others.

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