Tech Entrepreneur Eric Hamilton on 'Challenges Facing Blacks in Technology'

Eric Hamilton is a technology entrepreneur and a member of our BDPA New York chapter.  Eric helped unleash Around The Way which is a mobile app company.   Around The Way's mobile app finds the closest Black-owned business to your location. He founded the Web Academy, a FREE online school that teaches web design. He wrote the book, 'Social Media Branding in the Age of Obama'.

Currently, Eric is crowdfunding for his newest innovation, 'TinyStic', a portable HDMI device that uses wireless Miracast technology to turn your phone into a PC.

Anyhow, Eric was interviewed by Declassified Agenda and he shared his thoughts on the challenges that face Blacks in Technology and how he sees African Americans succeeding in the information technology industry.



Eric laid out some fairly provocative opinions on the challenges that face Blacks in technology. Do you agree or disagree with his thoughts on the matter?

The Web Academy Offers Free Online Web Design Courses

BDPA New York chapter member Eric Hamilton is becoming one of our favorite IT professionals. He was the key player in the successful grant proposal with Yahoo! Employee Foundation. He is also one of the world-class workshop presenters at the 2010 BDPA Technology Conference in Philadelphia on July 28-31.

As such, we encourage BETF-Blog readers to enroll in his Web Academy. The Web Academy was founded in 2009. The Web Academy provides FREE web design courses and FREE web development services to the community. 100% of the course work is distance learning taught by live instructors in real time.

In exchange for offering FREE web classes to otheir students, they require students to take on at least 3 web development projects of their choosing. Working on these real life web projects with real web clients gives the students actual work experience in the web industry.

The next class begins on Tuesday September 21, 2010.   The class will cover WordPress, HTML and FBML. HTML is the fundamental language for building web pages. FBML is Facebook's language for building fan pages.  

Please register now before the September 21st reaches capacity!