Finally, someone is helping orgs in Philly become more tech savvy.

Promoting an organization's agenda in the 21st century takes an internet presence. But, how does an organization on a shoestring budget get its information on the internet? With the ongoing Internet evolution, organizations have more tools at their fingertips than ever before to accomplish this required self-promotion.

For more information, visit the Technically Speaking B-spot

Top Community Leaders Share the Secret of their Success.....this week during the Technically Speaking Radio on 1540 AM WNWRCall in to talk to our guests this week:

Caryn Rivers
Director of Admissions & GrantwriterSteppingstone Scholars, Inc.

Ann Strickland
 Author
"Principles of Prosperity/Breaking the Stronghold of Poverty"

Sharon Wilson, Esquire
Clinical Assistant Professor and
Director, Center for Community Nonprofit Organizations (CCNO)
Temple University Beasley School of Law

Give em a ring, Saturdays 2pm ET (610) 667-9697 (WNWR); toll free (877) 667-9697 (WNWR).
If you are in PA, NJ, or DE you can listen in at 1540 AM WNWR

This is deep. And, on point.

This article, explores some of the things candidates are doing wrong and what they should do better.

Why candidates target certain groups and not others, etc. Also, it indicates that if candidates were more open minded then they would probably win more elections.

I could not have put it better myself:

"3 Key Reasons Why Candidates Lose Elections"

Philadelphia Congress
National Congress of Black Women

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2007
6:00 p.m. Candidates Forum
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
5600 W. Girard Avenue
Philadelphia, PA
The May Primary picked the candidates, but the GENERAL ELECTION on TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 2007. WILL PICK THE WINNERS. Michael Nutter will probably be the next mayor of Philadelphia, BUT do you know who you will VOTE for as your representative in these offices?

City Council
City Commissioners
Clerk of Quarter Sessions
Registrar of Wills
Sheriff
Trial Judges – Courts of Common Pleas
Trial Judges- Traffic Court
Trial Judges- Municipal Court
Appellate Justices and Judges

YOUR WORK AS A CITIZEN IS INCOMPLETE UNTIL YOU VOTE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION!
THIS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC EVENT IS SPONSORED BY:
• Vine Memorial Baptist Church Community Outreach Ministry
Jettie Newkirk, Chair Reverend James S. Allen , D.D., Pastor
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Omega Omega Chapter

I don't know if you know this but there has NEVER been a Black woman honored with a bust in the capitol.

In October of 2008, the National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW) will take Truth to the U.S. Capitol. United States Congress finally passed the bill to place the bust of Sojourner Truth in the Capitol. Under the original leadership of Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, NCBW began a campaign to add the bust of Sojourner Truth to the Portrait Monument along side Susan B. Anthony and others who'd also worked for women to get the right to vote -- as she worked to abolish slavery -- but that bill never passed.

Here is a link to the full article and a way to donate online

It's the 10 year anniversary of the Million Women March and nobody in the City seems to care.

The Million Woman March is working to stop the violence that is happening in Philadelphia and no one seems to care.

This article tells all about the apathy among city officials

What do we have to do to help politicians understand that we mean business and they need to stand-up and take note of this??

Find out every Saturday between now and May during the "Technically Speaking Radio" program.

Our candidates SAY they want the city to grow...
Our candidates SAY they want to ensure that education includes technology...
but what do they really know about technology?

JC Lamkin will ask the tough tech questions of our candidates....she makes certain that our candidates are y2k compliant...

The candidates on Technology