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Purpose:
June, 2010 -- we're five years old now. OMG!
This web site shall continue to service residents and newcomers to Boston. Our mission is to create a "happy moment" for you all.
You can call in anytime for info you did not SEE while clicking around the web site.
Just dial (617) 942.1301(c) to talk when you want to. If you get our voice mail, please leave your number for a reply.
SCOPE:
311 - We try to answer all questions. We'll collaborate with your missions. We will advertise interesting offers.
Twitter.com/BlackBoston is produced by us.
We develop orginal content and will advise you how to lay yours out here for others to see. You can also use our smartphone screen sized web site at http://blackboston.mobi. Its coming along, been up since Summer 2009. .MOBI works best with cell phone screens.
Recently, we added a Health Tunnel section to accommodate researchers and your healthy lifestyle choices. The BlackBoston.com domain name is new - we're twisting it around too.
Diversity Clause: We serve everyone and will encourage you to engage with Boston's African American culture and community. We say that's "Black Boston" too. An older black man told us to delete the word "African" before the name American for his satisfaction. Ok, no problem sir!
Contact Us
AboutBlackBoston.com helps people and companies involved in the arts & creative economy, for profit and non-profit businesses, community development, education, event marketing, law, political work and more.
Now serving Moms, Dads, and Families, PR firms, CEOS and CBOS of for-profit and non-profit businesses, managers of educational institution initiatives, PHD students who have research projects underway, Political organizers, Freshmen and upper-class college students, teens, and more....
Our site sections include social networking groups, lawyer referal sources, Boston black businesses, churches, Boston black politicians, Boston black television shows, event calendars, and general information about neighborhood activities. You can obtain current K-12 and college state school profiles, job openings, and taxi cab rates to and from Logan Airport.
Please click Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for online or call 617.942.1301 for William.
He is using Google Voice because it can ring 5 different phone numbers and convert your Voice Mail to TEXT in an e-mail. Very c-o-o-l!
We hope to leave no stone unturned in helping visitors and tourists discover everything Black Boston has to offer.
2006-2010 ratings
Google ranked site #1
for "black boston" keyword phrase.
Yahoo ranks site #1
for "black boston politics" searches.
Bio
William is our producer of blackBoston.sites. He is a "Best of Boston Magazine" award winner in an IT/product marketing category (1993), listed up on the Boston Business Journal's Top 25 tech computer stores two years in a row ('93/94) and contributed to the NAACP's Crisis Magazine FIRST article on "Blacks and the Super Information Highway."
The producer has years of experience managing national web portals about African American culture and community. He produced GO AFRO Online for American Visions magazine (94-98) and recently consulted ARTcapitalGhana.com (2009/2010) who launched a seminal art auction in Accra, in association with Simmons College Ethnographic artist and professor Emeritus, Dr. Reginald Jackson of Boston and (Olaleye.org)
This williammurrell.com. of Boston, owner of Roxbury.TV, is not the same "William Murrell" who shuffles golfer Tiger Woods to courses in Augusta. These W.Murrells have phone conversations and both have beards too. :-)
AboutBlackBoston.com's History
Africans came to Boston in 1638.
How I got hooked up
May 2004, Memorial Day Weekend..went downtown looking just poking around at Fanueil Hall... wanted brochures about Black Boston. Saw MASS history/entertainment destination brochures layed out. Saw O-N-E brochure about BLACK BOSTON referencing the MAAH.
Cool, but wanted to offer more choices. So this site was done as a one pager that still evolves.
It was the same year of consulting Thelma's BlackPagesOnline.com site upgrade by issuing an RFP through Craiglist and scoring the returns for her review.
New England's Black Pages has a solid 20 year history. Their online site is truly a good tool and environment for black Boston area businesses and this is it. - Support the Black Pages Of New England. We love it!!
ALSO -- My Dad had a big role in what this ABB thingy is all about...
In 1982, I sent an email letter with my dad ( a New York mail carrier). The Post Office was pushing for anyone with a modem ( mine was 300bps) to send letters by dial-up modem. He was looking over my shoulder. I showed him my new Osborne I, the world's first portable computer, which I had purchased in Watertown and MicroFinancial, a computer store. My dad said "computers can be a good thing, a good career. See what you can do with it!" I told him I would.
Profit measured
We're working to put money and opportunity, new customers and supporters into your businesses and community level missions.
1) A visitor told us -- "I will be in Boston to produce a film and will bring 27 employees and cast. We will need accommodations, food, transportation service, any anything else you recommend. We want to get to know about your Black community before we come."
2) This dude wrote us to say: "I'm getting married in Boston and need services. Help me find black businesses who can help me."
3) A student group asked - "Hello, the Black Students Association of Wellesley College is hosting a fashion show soon. We need more contacts. Who do you know that designs clothes and lingerie that would be interested in showcasing their fashion at our show?"
4) Here's one we Tweeted (June 8th, 2010) - Todd, is due in Boston from 6/26 thru 7/3 for an AFSCME Labor Convention...desires to visit Black History sites and wants to patronize black restaurants, bookstores and shopping districts. He said - "show me the way."
Another thousand+ examples we've received and serviced like the four above could be listed here...
# EXIT, back to work.
Networking Matters
In Massachusetts, 65% of all minority-owned businesses are in Boston. inquire!
Contact us for more information
Write to: AboutBlackBoston.com
P O Box 300701
Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130-0035.
Contact (617) 942-1301.
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