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Issue 02 www.blacksintechnology.net
September 1, 2010
Spotlight on You 186 members and climbing!!
Inside this issue: Blacks In Technology would like to recog- The Blacks In Technology community has
nize a couple of our members for their grown to over 186 members in just a few
Spotlight on you 1 recent achievements. Congratulations to months of the site being live. We want to
Member count 1 Ronnie Hash for obtaining his CEH say thanks to all of our members that
Linux Cons 1 (Certified Ethical Hacker) certification. have continued to support our efforts.
BITCAST 1 Ronnie continues to pursue a career in We really appreciate the dialog that has
application and network security. Blacks been going on within the discussions and
BITCAST cont’d 2
In Technology would also like to recog- encourage everyone to lend their voices
BIT meets BMI 2
nize and congratulate Kevin Minus. Kevin as well. Let’s continue to grow the com-
Reminder 2 not only landed a job as a Network Secu- munity through the utilization of net-
App of the Month 2 rity Administrator but recently obtained working and great communication.
his CCNA +Sec certification. Spread the word and lets get more mem-
Congratulations to both members we bers signed up. The more members we
wish you well in your careers. A re- have, the more knowledge there is to
minder to other members, if you have share, the more networking there is to
achieved something that you would like do. Let’s start to make a change. FYI, you
to be recognized for please don’t hesitate can send invites in BITNET simply by
to email us at clicking on “Friends” and selecting “Invite
contactus@blacksintechnology.net . a Friend”. Separate emails with a comma.
Mission statement:
Linux Conferences BITCAST
 Deliver the most relevant As you may or may not know, Ronnie Blacks In Technology considers video
and beneficial information and Greg are Linux enthusiasts and advo- podcasts as a great way to communicate
and network for African cates of FOSS (Free and Open Source information as well as an exceptional edu-
American’s in the technol-
Software). We regularly attend Linux cational tool. Because of that we have
ogy field or pursuing a ca-
reer in technology. conferences around the nation if our created BITCAST. For those of you who
schedules permit us that luxury. Recently have not perused the BITCAST section of
we attended the SouthEast Linux Fest in the site, here is a little information about
 Focus on creating a commu- Spartanburg, SC. It was a great event it. BITCAST will consist of video podcast
nity in which African Ameri- packed with great talks. While attending, and screencast tutorials. The videos will
can’s are comfortable, moti- we met and signed up several new mem- allow us to keep members up to date
vated and inspired to pur- bers. We always enjoy attending these with whats going on with the Blacks In
sue careers in technology. conferences. They always allow us to net- Technology community as well as provide
work with other Linux enthusiasts , meet useful educational materials about various
new people, and walk away with some open source tools and administration tips
 Establish effective communi-
very good information. and tricks. We also plan on carrying with
caton between African
American’s in order to help
Greg and Ronnie will also be attending us a video camera to any upcoming con-
drive individual growth, the Ohio Linux Fest (Sept 10-12, 2010). ferences that we plan on attending in
development, and long- Let us know if you plan on attending by hopes of getting some interviews with
term success in the field of emailing us and maybe we can meet up. CONT’D on PAGE 2
Technology.
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BITCAST cont’d App of the Month
“An opportunity is
other African Americans in IT. We hope EVERNOTE
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only as good as that you all enjoy BITCAST and check back Evernote is a great web based application
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often for new video content. that is used to organize and store notes,
the person who
photos and web pages all in one general lo-
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can take advantage Look out for BITTV, our new online cation. It allows you to access the informa-
technology show coming very soon!!! tion from either your desktop, the web or
of it” your mobile phone (iPhone users, there is an
app for that). The desktop and smartphone
*******REMINDER******* application syncs the information to the web
so that all your information is always accessi-
Please do not forget to activate your mem- ble. Your information is indexed so that you
bership. Whenever you sign up the site you can search through your notes by using key-
are sent a confirmation email. This is done words, titles or tags. You can use it for
to ensure that you are not a spammer and keeping a broad range of useful information
increases the security and integrity of the such as links to web pages that you want to
site. If you do not activate your account you read later, how-to’s on solving a certain
will be unable to experience the features and problem, task list, etc. Check out
benefits that Blacks In Technology has to www.evernote.com to learn more.
offer. Please check your emails for the con-
firmation. Thanks!!!
BIT meets BMI Questions or suggestions ?
Back in May, Blacks In Technology and learning that he has two sons that Contact us!
teamed up with the Black Male Initia- are engineers at Intel. Way to go
tive group of Cincinnati State Technical Frank!!! We hope to continue with contactus@blacksintechnologynet
and Community to put on a technol- these type of talks in other venues so
ogy workshop for the students. Blacks that we can help the next budding
In Technology members Ronnie Hash technologist find their way in IT. If you Check us out on LinkedIn
and Greg Greenlee were guest speak- would like for us to speak at an event
ers at the event as well as Frank Hill, please contact us at : blacksintechnology
former president of the BDPA Cincin- contactus@blacksintechnology.net or
nati Chapter. The talks ranged from contactus@socialbit.net
“Getting Started In IT” to “How Open Follow us on Twitter:
Source Technology Can Help You In
Your Career”. The students were able http://twitter.com/blkintechnology
to gain very valuable information on
how to enter into the field of Informa-
tion Technology and how to use Open
Source technology to advance your
skill set and in doing so advance your
career. Students asked questions about
entering IT and about open source
technology. Pizza and beverages were
served courtesy of BMI. The highlight
of the event was meeting Frank Hill (Greg and Ronnie talking about BIT)
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