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@Pioneer1 you asked The answer is China + North Korea are technically governments, more specific than nations <the word nations is poor in this case>, and the commonly used internet aside the global legal system , both created by the usa, provided two pathways. 1) Intergovernmental law allows a government the ability to blockade what media comes in or out, the usa does it all the time, all governments do. The internet is media. 2) the protocols or rules that make up the internet allow for regional or specifically geographic control through the geocodes in the protocol addressess. Yes, people can tunnel or worm through, this happens in the usa or china or north korea or many other governments every day . You use the words people + nations, which suggest the black community in the usa or the ugyars in china are equivalent to governments, like the usa or china. They are not. The ugyars mostly live in china in the same way most Black DOSers live in the USA. So to be functional, DOSers need their own government. Now, if Black DOSers had their own state in the union, which is legally plausible in the USA, then it is possible, that a state in the usa, under state law, which can override federal law in situations, can make a blockade of internet access. Yes, people can argue freedom of speech but only if an internet service provider is of the government not a private institution or publicly traded firm does freedom of speech have no bounds. but again this wouldn't stop every scenario but will reflect the scenario you speak of with China + North Korea+ as well as the USA+Russia + et cetera. Correct, never say never. I don't know the future, the probability is low but probability has to be zero to equal impossibility. I respect populace when i define populace under any government. The Republic of South Africa isn't governed by Black people , it is governed at the moment by a mix of its white populace and a minority of blacks. The USA , in the future if the same population percentages exist then as today, if ruled by its black minority populace is not a black country, in my view. Why? at the end of the day and this is human history, no matter the time or place. Sooner or later the majority rules. The majority doesn't have to rule all the time, and the majority can be disempowered for a very long time by a minority, but eventually the majority does rule. Easy historical examples, the graeco bactrian kingdom/korea under the chrysanthemum throne/Kemet commonly called Egypt under a long line of non-nilotics from ayysria and the macedonians to now in parts. That is the genius of Temujin. He comprehended that even though the mongols military might allowed them to dominate many others, sooner or later, those others in parts will takeover, they will be changed because of mongol influence, but they will take over. Eastern Europe to Korea were influenced by the mongols but eventually... If you want a european example, the napoleonic empire. All of europe except Britain and Russia were part of napoleons empire and were changed because of it, but eventually... So, Germany was german not french under the napoleon empire, china was chinese not mongolian under the mongol empire, south africa under the dutch+british was black <mix of zulus/xhosa+others> not white. If native Americans were to rule the USA, at the moment, it is still a white country. Not white ancestrally, or indigenously, but in terms of the people who live at the moment. possible, but not inevitable. The question is, to pick the black country whose government will favor or support. And this is where life comes in. One can not know the future. So you gamble. You take precautions, you plan. Need of certainty is the enemy to the disempowered. If you want certainty be empowered, but of course, the disempowered isn't thus risk or gambles. If it doesn't work out, unlike all plans from High John, then try again.
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Schomburg Black Comic Book Festival
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@Troy and your comment explains my point to @Pioneer1 the internal multiracial aspect of the black community in the usa, elsewhere or throughout all humanity isn't a problem if it is accepted for what it is. Some black people will oppose what Troy suggested, some will support. So in a Black comic book festival all views, including comic books where black characters have an unapologetically negative relationship to whites. Thank you Troy for submitting your thoughts which give my point great support. Yes, that is a great writing question, what is she saying to hulk. -
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@Chevdove glad to help and yes, remember, most black people in the usa in the 1800s had a more pure view of whites than black people in the usa after the year 2000. White women or white jews or white latinos or white asians weren't embraced in the black community like today, as non white male christian european descended folk. it is a book, read the book, nella larsen Passing eBook by Nella Larsen - EPUB Book | Rakuten Kobo United States
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KWL Live Q&A – The Book Marketing Mindset with Sue Campbell
My Thoughts In Review
4:34 Book marketing mindset
5:37 content based marketing allows people to select to use, permission based marketing
7:15 two ends of a spectrum, one end a nonfiction with an advance willing to spend money and hire services. The other end is for majority of authors, who can learn through a class
10:03 how to find story to find ideal reader? ideal reader is slender piece of pie. No marketeer can access all. 24% of the adults in the usa didn't read a book in the entire year 2018.
11:08 Once you know what the story is. Then who is the ideal person to pick up the book. Who will lock themselves in the bathroom and be ravenous for it. That person will start the word of mouth club. Marketing is to ignite word of mouth.
12:15 sometimes your ideal reader is you 5 years ago or now, if you will put an ideal reader into novels be specific.
13:51 number one goal is to build your email list. How to get ideal reader into email list. What will you tell your ideal reader, speak to them in the newsletter. Be fanatic for influencers who have that kind of reader.
17:02 prerequisite for newsletter, must have a website. Sign up for email servicc provider. Mailerlite + convertkit are the ones she like. She doesn't recommend Substack. Doesn't have features for prelaunch.
Website+ email service provider+forms on website+ reader magnate<sign up bonus or bribe to subscribe>18:59 real magic is when you go out into the world and get in front of audiences, outreach. Go to party and invite people to your party. Go on podcast, write guest articles, do promos with other authors, or live.
20:37 frequency of outreach? Don't just send when you have a book out. At least once per month. 20,000 or around , three times a month. On book coming out, frequency should increase to publication date.
22:54 you want people to unsubscribe, that is ok in permission based marketing. The best response is to get more people on the list.
23:29 If monthly what time? arbitrary. But think on timing of ideal reader. Most important is to pick a date and commit.
25:50 Telling yourself your terrible is a made up story.
26:20 what are the first things you think of when you think of book marketing?
28:27 what would I do if I couldn't think that thought ?
29:55 work on thoughts and change them to figure out how to solve the problem
32:14 many writers are in a state of overwhelm
34:31 1)figure out ideal reader 2) don't have unrealistic expectation , if pub date when you market it will take time to build up and 3) building mail list, think long game
36:15 when you give up your creativity it blows up your life, you have to commit to the long term
37:05 You have to go in front of an audience and get them to join your email list, and do it again, and again, and again
38:47 Cam spam act in usa, gdpr in europe, so someone must give you permission to put them on email list.
41:39 how to get influencers to get your book? An influencer is anyone who is a gatekeeper for an audience, can be someone who built their own audience or librarians or another author. When you pitch influencers, you are looking for the win win. An influencers job is to serve an audience. If you can help them give content for that week. New writers write a press release and then blast it all over the place. Write a customized pitch, where you are letting the influencer know who they are.
45:00 Build a relationship with influencer before pitch. Is it better to build a relationship before a pitch? yes.
46:40 where should authors be? Is it instagram? First, your email list far and above more effective tool for selling books. focus on that rather than social media. Second, most authors have a social media. So who is your ideal reader. If you are writing nonfiction business book they are probably on linkedin. Look at statistics to see. Is ideal reader on that platform. Third, is that a platform that you are willing to use. Can you have sustainable presence on that platform. Social media is better to connect to influencers than sell books.
The exception to selling books is tiktok or booktok, but that may not last.51:29 you may have 10,000 followers on instagram, but when you put out only 4% may see and a smaller percent is interacting. Why don't we have a class action lawsuit on followers? good point. Social put your eggs in a basket and with email list you can actually reach the people. Deliverability is better.
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Remember to publish through newsletter, leverage all tools. But you can add more to a blog post. If you rely on social media you must be ready to pivot.54:59 common mistake in marketing strategies? 1) Not being able to show up for the long term. Keep showing up, by working on mindset. The mistakes don't matter cause you will keep going. 2) authors try to do too much with the same audience. Talking about fiction book but you have a side project and work for a non profit, focus, not 100% , you are human but give a majority to the book. I am a musician and a novelist and a poet. You ar eamazingly creative but you need to hone. 3) too many focused on book sales but not the email list.
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@Troy Yeah,but I must add, so many people online , especially the younger e-citizens were indoctrinated into a 24 hour follow the leader by their own parents who dropped them into the internet without care.
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@Pioneer1 Well, this is where the details is key. You speak of control or ownership, but the question is, what is a website. At its core, it is a set of data on a machine that has access to other machines which allow people using other machines to interface it. What is the primary issue to the control you seek? Even if a black person owns land and places their servers on said land and has satellites around earth to provide connection to their servers. Black people themselves live all over the planet and unless black people will own the land everywhere, no one black person or group of black people can control access to the black owned website first mentioned. This is why the CHina/USA internet battle has happened. The chinese constitution says in china the chinese governments rule is law, not international organizations or other governments. So in china, the chinese government demands control so that the chinese government can rule things. In the internet's case this is why china has a grand internal internet in its country that they connect to the outside internets. BEcause of the structure, the rules which some call protocols of the internet, this is not dysfunctional. BUT, to ownership, this is why the usa has such problems with china. Most governments ceded their relationship to the internet to the usa, some like the european union are trying to reclaim it, ala the facebook ruling recently. But the point is, you can only control in your own bounds. If you want to reach the world, deals have to be made. ala Tiktok a privately owned firm in china not straight from the chinese government, using servers in the usa. Now to be helpful... ala my point elsewhere. Let's take AALBC. It is black owned but it is in the USA. To do what you want, the first question has to be answered is, do you want AALBC in the USA? Why move AALBC outside the USA? The USA is either a white country or a multiracial country but the USA isn't and will never be a black country, sequentially, USA law, is not naturally geared to black people and that includes how websites are treated. So, if AALBC stays in the USA, AALBC will eventually be influenced by factors beyond black people's control. But if AALBC leaves the USA , into a black country , meaning government, then at the least black people can control the life of the website completely, which is what you stated you wanted for any black websites. Now financially, it is cheaper for AALBC to remain in the USA and not move. Comprehend, many countries don't have a strong satellite network and have many blockades on their networks by more powerful countries. And many black people live in countries that at the least are not black or specifically, not controlled by the black people in them, and control matters in these intergovernmental affairs. So I know you don't own AALBC, @Troy does, but Pioneer , do you want AALBC to remain in the USA or be under a black government? Either answer will still demand some things the same.. AALBC will need to own the land its servers are on. AALBC will need to own the energy systems for the servers. AALBC will need to have its own satellite network. Said three things to get what you stated will be needed no matter where AALBC goes in the future. all three are expensive. But there is a beginning. And comprehend, even achieving this doesn't mean all black people in humanity have to become members and use as a primary online existence the "new aalbc". A Black website being more black owned doesn't mean any body black online must utilize it more. Getting more engagement is the responsibility of AALBC or the members in AALBC, not the black people who are members of white owned websites.
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Uh Oooh....The Queen Has Passed!
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Schomburg Black Comic Book Festival
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@Pioneer1 great point and I literally meant black. Meaning what? Black culture for me is global. It has what I call tribes based on language or geography or culture or any racial category or sub category: DOS/Rastafarian/Nigerian/Baptist/Siddi . In NYC you learn to see Black as a phenotypical group, based on how one perceives the range of appearance, but all else is open game. In NYC you have Black lgbtq+/Nation of Islam/Black Democrats/Black Republics/Rastafarians/Black Trinidadians/Black South Africans/DOSers/ et cetera. Their culture /history/heritage/geography/language isn't the same, but in my mind all of said groups plus more are under the roof Black, so to speak. I don't have a problem with the multiraciality in the black community. but I have two main problems between the tribes in the black community, which like the white, is a global community. 1) the tribes preaching or proselytizing to each other or the larger group. In this very forum, how many comments are I am right while you are wrong instead of, how can I suggest an idea to improve what your doing, even if I don't concur to it. 2) the lack of focus on efficiency in black tribes when it comes to growth. Instead of complaining about what black people not in your tribe or doing, what are you doing to make your tribe better? I am not nor do I concur to the complete view of rastafarians or black baptists or black republicans or black democrats BUT those groups always complain about what other black people are not doing, ad rarely judge their tribe functionally. How many rastafarians know where Rastafarians live in ethiopia today, I do? How many rastafarians who have millions spend most of their money in the usa with real estate deals or living in the usa giving the usa their tex money and have no financial investment in africa, but then talk about rastafarianism? How many Black baptist complain about so few interested in their place of worship but don't say how their place of worship is closed most of the week. How it is open for the black rich to come and hob nob on sunday for? I am not christian but didn't jesus speak about the universality in humanity, then why can't Black churches make their churches active to the multiracial needs of the black community ? why don't black churches open up their churches to black muslims, nation of islam or other? why don't they all regale black elected officials to set them up for non profit situations, like food pantry and delivery for homeless? Black republicans continuosuly complain that the majority of black voters or the majority of black people are mentally wrong in some way but I can't recall a black republican as an elected officials with a set of policies that aided black people in their municipality, gave favor. Black democrats continuously complain that black people don't vote enough or black voters need to be respected by the larger democratic party but I can't recall a black democrat as an elected official returning black votes with policy to help black people, to give favors to black people. Black elephants or Black donkeys when elected provide no pro- black laws or policy but then complain that black people aren't engaged or overjoyed as if black people in the usa don't have the right to want government to work for them, damn anybody else, and the funny thing is white people are used to that and their elected officials, donkey or elephant are trying to sell them the idea that it is good to not be favored, which is silly. So... all black tribes can improve, I just wish their narratives or prose focused on how they can improve , and stop all of this, I am right, everybody agree with me ... negativity. To comics, a Black comic book festival in my eyes needs to reflect the inner multiraciality of the black community. I am not a financially wealthy person. if I was a billionaire I would use my money to do something . But I don't have money to do so. But all black people can demand all tribes in the village do better while embracing the Black inner multiraciality. -
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@Troyand i want to add, being the primary search engine in the usa and for most of the online community is important. I comprehend data acquisition is valuable in various ways but in defense of tiktok, I think they want to be the big website and that means quality. remember, tiktok is the first non usa based website to have such a strong presence in the usa, I think that is underrated, the internet in the future will be global, and that is something no one has experienced before, the internet before tiktok was dominated by usa firms across the board, that age is ended , the future will have unexpected scenarios
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@Troy right, but between the people who thought the internet would become the great individual liberty place side the firms who through the structure of the usa based internet easily took over operations, it was bound to happen. I hope so to , for me this website is a rare black owned example online. And I know I have made this speech before but so many black people online talk about black empowerment everywhere else in humanity except online. Why is most black people online who daily rant to what they feel black people need to do to positively support black like: all black people voting, all black people buy from a black shop, all black people marry black, don't seem willing to join a black owned website online and make that the primary location of their activities? That is my only true online peeve. Black people online complain about some negativity among black people and yet, said black people are unwilling to join a black owned website and make it a major online destination.
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@Troy exactly, but i do blame the larger design. The internet's design is open for manipulations, this has made it where firms can make a lot of money, but also where the independence some thought the internet would be today <everyone own a website> is... not
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Schomburg Black Comic Book Festival
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thank you for your reply @Tesa Are you a writer Tesa or another type of artist ? I will like to see your work if available. -
For book review: Blues Highway, a work of historical fiction
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cool reviews @Kathleen @Tesa -
Norvan reports is a ghana based financial news service, focused on financial fact, not policy issues.
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Attacks happen all the time to all websites. AALBC doesn't have an in house team protecting it like the larger websites.
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MY THOUGHTS 0:20 Zenobia your shirt 4:44 People forget that in the 1970s in the north east, some schools had the last of governmentally funded activities. 7:27 And the USA has continually asked Cuba to let them take Assata Shakur from in Cuba. And Assata Shakur still has a warrant for her. 8:29 yes, Billy Holiday 10:18 Tupac is a real life example of a child growing up in an environment like :Night Catches Us Black kids growing up in Black Panther homes in Black communities in the 1970s is a huge dichotomy. The Black Panthers had great successes but were hammered all the time by white organizations , governmentally or private. In the 1970s at their first phases end, the black community in the majority is being abused and attacked , from drugs being put in black communities bu law enforcement agencies which are proxies for white communal wealth. All this creates a complex environment. 16:12 nice musical point on the changes of Tupac's music 18:37 frustration not anger 20:45 stress created the bald headedness, yes , artist knows 23:36 Tupac/Biggie many black entertainers have complex lives. 25:15 Did they ever find out who killed Tupac? 27:13 Selena was pregnant, I didn't know that. 28:25 Interesting that Tupac's family did trust someone who had a relatively negative relationship or distant relationship with Tupac. 30:39 Nike, I thought about what you said about the Aretha Franklin biopic.
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Thistle and Verse hosting a panel featuring
@Lisa_teabag , @atullerwrites , and @jellybeanrae to discuss subgenres in sff and sff-ish genres that predate the label. Read through the thread for more info on the panelists!
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller). She is the co-founder of the
@voodoonauts
Summer Workshop for Black SFF writers. Her debut short story collection Drinking from Graveyard Wells is currently available for purchase.
https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813196978/drinking-from-graveyard-wells/A Jersey native, Celestine Martin writes whimsical and flirty paranormal romance that celebrates the beauty of everyday magic. She’s inspired to write happily ever afters and happy for now endings starring the people and places close to her heart.
https://linktr.ee/celestinemartinAbriana Tuller (she/her) is a Vegas native who has just acquired her dream job of becoming a Micro Fiction editor and Fiction co-editor for Solarpunk magazine. Along with having an education background, Abriana is a former journalist.
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