15th
Annual Edition 'Buying Power of
Black America' report breaks down billions in expenditures Black
consumers are responding to tighter economic condition by focusing more of
their spending on items and services that improve their homes and
lifestyle. That's one of the trends revealed in the 15th annual report,
"The Buying Power of Black America," published by Target Market News. The
report analyzes spending for black households in 2008 and finds that
African-Americans...
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Interactive One, Council of Urban Professionals host Digital Summit in
New York July 21
(July 16, 2010) Interactive One, LLC has announced that it has partnered
with the Council of Urban Professionals ("CUP"), a nonprofit that
advances the social, political and economic interests of minorities and
women, to host the inaugural Digital Summit in New York City on
Wednesday, July 21st. Additionally, the National Association For
Multi-Ethnicity In Communications (NAMIC) and the ADCOLOR Industry
Coalition have joined as marketing partners to support the Digital
Summit.
The first comprehensive conference to convene a mix of digital thought
leaders, venture capitalists and marketers, this not-to-be-missed
inaugural event will engage key industry innovators in a provocative
dialogue and debate regarding the evolving economic opportunities on the
web and the importance of the multicultural online consumer.
The Digital Summit will also feature a one-on-one interview with Beth
Noveck, United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Director,
White House Open Government Initiative. Dr. Noveck will share her unique
perspectives on the evolution of the digital media space.
"We are excited to partner with CUP, as well as with NAMIC and the
ADCOLOR Industry Coalition, and to create a forum for engaging dialogue
with industry leaders and marketers to better understand the economic
opportunities and benefits of reaching these highly underserved
audiences," said Maria Weaver Watson, VP Brand Marketing and Strategic
Communications for Interactive One.
The Digital Summit will convene at the SVA Theatre at 2:30pm with the
following featured speakers confirmed to participate:
- Sarah Baehr, Associate Partner, Rosetta
- Torrance Boone, Managing Director of Agency Development, Google
- Smokey D. Fontaine, Chief Content Officer, Interactive One
- Matt Jacobson, Head of Market Development, Facebook
- Heather James, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Advertising Research
Foundation
- Mark Lopez, COO, TERRA Networks USA
- Don Moore, President, Burrell Digital
- Steven Wolfe Pereira, SVP Managing Director MV Forty-Two Degrees |
MediaVest Multicultural
- Ritu Trivedi, Managing Partner, Mindshare Interaction
- Omar Wasow, Co-Founder, BlackPlanet.com
"Given our increasingly connected and digitized world, both the Council
of Urban Professionals and Interactive One saw a need for increased
dialogue among key leaders in the digital community on the future of the
online marketplace and how businesses can effectively engage
multicultural audiences," said Chloe Drew, Executive Director of the
Council of Urban Professionals. "The Digital Summit serves as a forum to
bring together diverse voices in the community for the initial
conversation, which we hope will spark many more to come."
Beth Noveck is an expert on technology and institutional innovation. On
leave as a professor of law and director of the Institute for
Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and McClatchy visiting
professor of communication at Stanford University, Dr. Noveck currently
leads the Obama administration's Open Government Initiative, where she
continues her longtime advocacy for the utilization of internet
technologies to increase government transparency and efficacy. She
previously served as a volunteer advisor on innovation in government for
Obama for America and as a member of the Technology, Innovation and
Government Reform Policy group for the Obama-Biden Transition.
Dr. Noveck is the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make
Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (2009)
and editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (2006).
She graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor and Master of Arts
and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. After studying as a Rotary
Foundation graduate fellow at Oxford University, she earned a doctorate
at the University of Innsbruck with the support of a Fulbright grant.
For more information and to register for the Digital Summit
click here.
