Free Black Site Submission

Get your website listed in the Urban Dynamics Directory. Urban Dynamics is a new, black business website brought to you by Multiple Shades of You online www.msoyonline.com. Add your site and SITE THUMBNAIL to UD and it will be accessible on every site that utilizes Urban Dynamic webtools.

Here are a few featured sites where the UD Directory is accessible:
-Search Black on msoy
-Search Urban
-Black Online Entrepreneurs Blog
-The Black Business Spot
-Black People News

To submit your site to Urban Dynamics visit: check out my list of ways to advertise on black sites.

Things Every Black Online Entrepreneur Should Know

Being a 'real' business owner takes more than raw talent and drive. You need to be well informed about the Best Business Practices. Research, Self-Education, and seeking help from trained Business Professsionals, are also crucial components of success.

Here is a list of Business and Web Development Concepts that every Black Online Entrepreneur should be aware of:

• Black Professional Networks
• Collegiate Black Business Associations
• Resources for Black Career Women
• Organizations that focus on Black Business Development
• Black Business Blogs
• Black Business Online Directories
• Black Business News Offline and Online Magazines and other Publications
• Writing Business Plans and Grant Proposals
• Strategies to Making Money Online
• Web Marketing
• Search Engine Optimization [SEO]
• RSS Feed Syndication and Sticky Content
• Google and SEO

If you would like to learn more about these topics, fillout a free registration form for Urban Dynamics: Black Business Web Solutions and gain access to an extensive list of Black Business news, articles, links, web tools, and resources. Become a UD member and move a few steps closer to actualizing your dreams of business ownership.

Black RSS Feeds Revisited

With the ever present buzz of rss feeds / article syndication, I'm always trying to create web applications that help promote Black News feeds. I've found several really interesting Black News Sites and Black Entertainment Blogs that aren't incredibly well known, but would serve as great additional content on other pages relevant to African Amerian online viewers. So in yet another attempt to expose more people to some really interested black news sites, and also help promote these sites, I have created Black People News, my new and improved African American RSS Feeds Aggregator. Its a great place to read black interest news, and its also I great place to subscribe to feeds as well as add feed content to your site without prior knowlege of php or javascript. Its a win win site for everybody.

My Work in Progress
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Black People News: African American Interest News Feed / Syndicated Articles

Resources for Black Women - Reposted

Calling all Sistapreneurs! Calling all African American Business Women! Call all my Black sistas making Money for themselves! Here are a few links that support black women in business. Take advantage of these resources and add a link to this page on your site! Share the sisterly wealth.

Organizations
-Black Career Women
-Get Ready for Give 'N Take… a barter-exchange network for women entrepreneurs and executives. This unique organization brings women together to create opportunities, by providing a support system for start-up companies and entrepreneurs. Its goal is to educate, collaborate and stimulate advancement in business.
-Digital Sistas is a 501(C)3 non-profit organization created to promote and provide technology education and enrichment for young girls and women of color.

Resource Hightlights
-Multiple Shades of You Online: Listing of Resources for Black Career Women
-Black Business Books
-Izania.com
-African American Women In Technology

Online Advice
-Nia Online Career Columns
-Bahiyah Woman Magazine Entrepreneurs Guide for Women
-Women in Business Today Online Resource
-Sistah Connect: sistapreneurs
-Sista-Web: one African American sistah’s web development / html blog

Web Directories
-Black Career Women Links
-Multiple Shades of You Online: Listing of Resources for Black Career Women

Forums
-Black Living.com Business and Finance Forum for Women

Sistas to Know and Respect
-Jamila White, the E-Commerce Diva
-Niambi Jarvis, CEO of Hiyaah Power
-Simone Kelly, President and CEO of Gots to Have It, Marketing
-LaShanda Henry, found of Multiple Shades of You Online

-Find these and other great African American Websites on Multiple Shades of You Online.

-Urban Dynamics Black Business Web Tools: http://ud.msoyonline.com

African American Article Submissions Wanted

Urban Dynamics has recently launched 'A Little Black Know How', a free article submission site for African American writers. This site is currently looking for Black News, Reviews, Commentary, Short Stories, Events, Poems, Self Help articles and Spiritual Testimonies. If you have something you would like to share visit A Little Black Know How and sign up for a free Urban Dynamics account. This site does not include Black Press Releases. If you have a Black Press Release, please submit it to Black PR Posts, which is acessible through Urban Dynamics Web Tools.

Official Site url: http://www.msoyonline.com/ud/alittleblackknowhow.php

-lhenry
ud.msoyonline.com

Create your own Amazon Store

If you have Amazon product links on your site, or are interested in using Amazon Associates links to generate revenue online then you might be interested in my latest web application: an Amazon Store Builder Application featured on Urban Dynamics (ud.msoyonline.com).

I think the Amazon Associates program is one of the most popular Affiliate Programs Online, which is why I signed up a few years ago. The only problem I had with it was that when you used Amazon's Link Generator every link had big Amazon logos all over it, which didn't allow for subtle integration into my site. I wanted to embed Amazon links without looking like every other website with a bunch of banners that no one clicks on. Plus I wanted to create my own e-store with Amazon products, but I knew it would take forever to individually create product links on the Amazon Associates Site. Given the limitations of their program, I figured there had to be something out there that would give me the look and feel I was going for.

The solution I found was Amazon Web Services, for anyone with strong programming skills Amazon allows you to connecte to their database and design your own links / stores from scratch. You get quality content that looks like its perfectly embedded into your site. You get cash for all products purchased. And Amazon gets free publicity on your site in addition to being able to tap into a larger customer base. It's genious I tell you. Sheer Genious.

So anyway I came up with several web applications which allow you to extract product images and details in different formats using ISBN/ASIN numbers in conjunction with your Amazon Associates ID. Its quick and easy to use and only offered in the Urban Dynamics Premium Package, which is $10 a month and includes other types of Urban Web Tools. It's a pretty cheap package with a lot of quality web solutions, you would definitely be saving web design time and increasing your potential earning power if you gave UD Web Tools a try.

Urban Dynamics Web Tools are designed with the Black Business / Black Web Designer / Black Web Audience in mind, but they can be used for any type of web development. The Amazon Site Builder is a great tool for adding something like a books section to your site, amazon product links on a side bar, or creating an entire e-store. I used it to create Shop Amazon on MSOY and also to add amazon links to blog entries. You can do just about anything with it, and I'm developing new formats, so the possibilities are endless.

If you are interested in learning more about the Amazon Store Builder and other Urban Dynamics Web Tools visit Urban Dynamics: ud.msoyonline.com. The site is a work in progress, but it's getting there.

lhenry
ud.msoyonline.com

What is Urban Dynamics?

Urban Dynamics, a new Black Business website aims to be one of these much needed positve spaces for people of color; its founder Lashanda Henry is in the business of helping Black businesses grow. "I created Urban Dynamics because I have a particular interest in Black Community Outreach Initives and Online Entreprenuership. Though the Dot Com days are a thing of the past, the web world still offers the type of creative freedom and mass marketing potential that can help Black Businesses grow. The key is having quality resources and genuine support, which is what Urban Dynamics is all about.

You won't find any crabs in this barrell; what you will find is an intricately designed network of tools, tips, and proffessionals who focus on the Black Business Market.

Urban Dynammics consists of an ever growing collection of free and afforble services for individual entreprenuers and small businesses.

The UD site includes:

-web tools and urban sticky content.
-black rss feeds
-amazon store builder application
-black business directory
-black business networking
-black business news
-web marketing and cheap advertising
-black press releases
-urban web development tips
-making money online
-and more ...

Check out Urban Dynamics: ud.msoyonline.com

Today's Top Izania Posts

1. Building Wealth on the Internet
2. Has Black America Reached a "Tipping Point"
3. Unique Internet Advertising Opportunity to Black Business Owners
4. E-Commerce and African Americans
5. Thanks for the Support

Thanks for the Support

Today I was feeling a bit more generous than usual. This random guy comes on the train promoting his hip-hop CD, I usually don't pay much attention to train soliciters but I figured 30 seconds wouldn't kill me. And it didn't. Just the opposite, he sales pitch caught my attention. "This CD has no sex, guns, or violence, we do not discrespect women." - plus 1 - "Get 6 tracks for only $1" - plus 2 - "Be sure to check out our website www.mostpop.org" - plus 3 - By the third plus, I was ready to buy before he was even finished speaking. I think my quickness in getting a product, that I didn't even really no, caught everyone elses attention. This random old white lady followed my lead, and before I turned around he had like 4 other buyers! He collected the cash, promoted track 6, and then turned to me and said, "Thanks for the support." After that, it was my stop. On my way out it occurred to me the amazing things that took place in a matter of minutes:

1. I supported a Black Entrepreneur
2. My interest in his product helped to spark the interest of others
3. Selling a sample of your product at a discounted rate is a great way to earn money and publicity
4. Catching people's attention is crucial! Had he not reached me with his conscious hip-hop speech, I would not have unknowingly set into motion the events that followed
5. He has a website! I am always impressed with a business person who is up on todays technology.

Finally, I have not listened to his tracks OR visited his website, so the quality is still a mystery to me. But I did listen to him, support him, recieve appreciation of my support from him, and help inspire others to follow in my lead. This is what more Black Entrepreneurs need. Some one to step up and support them verbally, and financially! I shelled out one buck and that brutha left with at least five! If that ain't the makings of good business, then I'm in the wrong business.

-lhenry
www.msoyonline.com

The Covenant With Black America

According to The Tom Joyner Morning Show , The Covenant With Black America is # 1 in the country right now, but in order for it to get the level of attention that it deserves, it needs to make it to the top of the New York Times Best Sellers List...So buy a copy today. You can get it on amazon for like $7 bucks.

The Covenant With Black America Set For Release Feb. 22, 2006
Tavis Smiley &Third World Press, Inc. Present Historic Book

LOS ANGELES (Dec. 21, 2005) – Author and broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Third World Press, Inc. will release The Covenant with Black America, a book aimed at inspiring African Americans to take action to address 10 of the most daunting issues impacting Black communities, households, and individuals.

The 254-page book will be available Feb. 22, 2006. The Covenant includes an Introduction by Smiley; a Statement of Purpose by Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund; Afterword by Haki Madhubuti, publisher of Third World Press; and A Call to Action by Princeton University professor Cornel West.

Each covenant (chapter) in the book is preceded by an introductory essay written by nationally recognized experts on The Covenant issues, such as closing the digital divide, inequalities in the justice system, disparity in healthcare and improving public education.

Essayists include Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. surgeon general; Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League and Angela Glover Blackwell, founder of PolicyLink, a non-profit research think tank.

Each chapter outlines the key issues of The Covenant topic, provides a list of resources and then gives suggestions and checklists for what individuals, public policymakers and corporate citizens can do to move the African American community forward, socially, politically and economically. In addition, The Covenant contains information on how individuals and households can make changes that will immediately improve their circumstances in specific areas, such as health, education, crime reduction and security

http://www.theblackcovenant.com/Page...ress_area.html

http://www.covenantwithblackamerica.com/index.html

Advertise on Black Sites - repost

If you missed this post before, read it now:

Looking for places to promote your African American website? If you are interested in increasing your customer base online, review the following links which include a number of Black Directories and Webrings that cater to African American Businesses and Black Entrepreneurs.

• Urban Dynamics, the new black web portal, Site Submission
• Black Business Group
• Urban Mecca Site Submission
• AdGroups Urban Advertising Network
• Izania Black Business Directory
• E-Commerce Diva
• Bahiyah Women Magazine PR and Advertising Promotion
• The Griot National Black Business and Organization Directory
• African American Business Directory
• Yahoo Group: Black Business UK
• Yahoo Group: African American Business Directory
• Tag Team Marketing: Black Network Marketing Company