All posts tagged Viralogy

National Visionary Leadership Project: An Evening with Chuck Brown

by jaywalk1 on October 11, 2009 in Events, Just Fun, Music, Thoughts with 1 Comment

It feels like it’s been a long time since my last post. While I was working, running around town, and basically doing everything but blogging, I thought back to the interview I did with Jun Loayza for Awesome Bloggers.

In that interview, I said that I would work on a few things in terms of this blog. One involved making a schedule…still need to get to that point, but I am making some progress on another front – integrating music (something I couldn’t live without!) into my posts.

Given the time that’s gone by, I felt like Bob Marley’s “Nice Time” would work.

“Long time we no have no nice time:
You-you doo-doo-doo, yeah: think about that!”

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As much I love listening to some old time reggae from him and the Wailers, Chuck_Browntoday’s post is about another great musician, the Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown. Before I came to DC, I had no clue what Go-Go was, but I think I was here for a sum total of 18hrs before I figured it out.

Over the last six years, I have come to love Go-Go not just because of its addictive rhythm but also because of the joy I see spread the minute anyone from the District hears it.

When I found out that Chuck was being honored by the National Visionary Leadership Project, I knew I had to attend.

Co-founded in 2001 by Camille O. Cosby, Ed.D. and Renee Poussaint, the National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) “unites generations to create tomorrow’s leaders by recording, preserving, and distributing through various media, the wisdom of extraordinary African American elders – Visionaries – who have shaped American history.”

All of the photos, videos and podcasts featuring legends of our time are available on the NVLP website, and permanently archived at the Library of Congress with the goal of allowing students, scholars and the public to gain a new understanding of America’s past, the roles so many have played in shaping what it is today and the lessons to be learned from it.

I was lucky to attend the great event with PR mover and shaker Amanda Miller Littlejohn and we teamed up to live tweet the event. For a play by play and some interesting perspective, check out the #NVLP tweets.

I strongly encourage you to check out NVLP’s website, but in the meantime, I leave you with one of my favorites from Chucky B.

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Top 10 Gen Y Blogs for June ‘09 – Ryan Stephens Marketing

by jaywalk1 on May 27, 2009 in Gen Y with 2 Comments

GenY blocksAlright folks, I’m late with this post, but there’s still time for you to take action. Here’s the “sitch.” Ryan Stephen’s, awesome blogger and all around cool guy, rallies the online masses every month to vote for the Top 10 Gen Y blogs.

Not that I’m trying to influence the votes or anything…but you just might see a familiar blog listed in the 4th position of the 7th grouping of blogs listed…

Seriously though, take a look at the list. I follow many of the blogs which made the cut, and I’m sure there’s a couple worthy enough to be added to your reader as well!

Heard about Viralogy?

by jaywalk1 on March 18, 2009 in Social Networking with 5 Comments

Have you heard about Viralogy?

No worries, I’m not trying to introduce a new term into the social media lexicon. Viralogy is a new project being spearheaded by Jun Loayza of Future Delivery.

Every now and then, you meet someone that is truly remarkable in terms of interest, passion and energy that you know that they’re just gonna kill it (in a very @garyvee kind of way). Jun is definitely one of those people. I recently had the opportunity to connect with him, and he was interested in talking to me about PR, Social Media and what I do here at PR Prescriptions.

To find out more about Viralogy, my thoughts on those topics and a new feature soon to come to PR Prescriptions, check out the interview I did with Jun.

James S. Walker Interview with Jun Loayza of Future Delivery

James S. Walker Interview with Jun Loayza of Future Delivery