In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 2.06 "TRANSCRIPT": ... CMcI - GET BACK IN HERE! 36m41 CMcI will take us through the "tougher" parts of the journey ... when did UBP tensions arise? We fell apart at the organizational meeting ... 39m20sec the thumb had no respect for the other fingers on the hand ... I retell the ATDC / Dwight Holter to CMcI in more detail ... 4 legs on the stool ... after our collapse, I became ATDC's Lotus Notes database developer ... I now know who the VCs are, and can "hollar" at them ... mmm-hmmm CMcI 42m11sec ...

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 2.05 "TRANSCRIPT": ... 26m22sec ... What was your vision for making The UBP make dollars AND sense? I liked responding to site submitters like Ann Nesby of The Sounds of Blackness ... this built organic community ... people saw us as connectors of the disconnected (The Diaspora) 28m37sec ... 29m30sec I describe The UBP's site submission and review processes ... 30m35sec I loved Infoseek and learned to do advanced searches there ... 31m30sec we had 300 sites in late 1994 ... by 1998, we had 4000 reviewed sites and 3000 unreviewed submissions ... 32m36sec The Diaspora is well-represented on The Internet ... Cafe Los Negroes 33m20sec ... 33m43sec CMcI returns (whew!) ... we had around 30,000 unique visitors per month ... 34m47sec Frats page were the most popular ... hmmm (CMcI) ... 36m06sec Bowie State's Deltas want to connect with Tennessee State's Deltas 36m37sec ...

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 2.04 "TRANSCRIPT": ... 22m10sec ... GT had a 4-quarter master's degree ... BGSA provided emotional and strategic support to its members ... we could see what we wanted to be ... 23m53sec ... people took a while, but they finished! 24m22sec ... I was an official attendee at every BGSA member's graduation ... 25m00sec GT OMED functions like Clemson's PEER 25m30sec OMED provided us with student data 26m00sec GT has SHPE, GTSBE, BGSA, SWE 26m22sec ...

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 2.03 "TRANSCRIPT": ... 20m40sec ... long pause from MW … 20m48sec ... Software engineers were great study partners (especially in Probability / Random & Stochastic Processes) ... 22m10sec ...

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 2.02 "TRANSCRIPT": ... 15m18sec Why was I not interested in going full-bore with The UBP as a startup? ... well, the startup world is not for me ... I am an organizer (an equalizer) and a lover of people ... I am the leader of my people ... 17m14sec LEarning is learning the promotes earning money and other resources (knowledge, strategy, relationships) ... 18m18sec my momentum carried me away from startups and towards people who helped people ... 18m52sec ... Project CHIP placed 1500 computers with homes and organizations ... 19m27 built CTC in Rome, GA 20m02sec KB provided "fulfillment" ... it was where I wanted to be, and where I needed to be ... 20m40sec ...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. Speaking of "all money ain't good money"... I have known for several years that school finance facilitates most of the inconvenient truth I am learning and sharing. This year I finally had the time and bandwidth to analyze and synthesize the connection. Let me tell you a quick story ... then show a picture that confirms the words. This joint is called "How Schools Make Money" ...

Dear Hannah - GRASPP is an acronym that reminds me to check the "battle plan" of my team by examining *G*roup Morale, *R*elationships, *A*dministration, *S*piritual Tone, *P*lanning, and *P*roblem Solving. Having a battle plan does not ensure victory, but it does give you a solid approach ... which always gives you a chance to win. I spit "GRASPP (Battle Plan)" to my teammates at our 9-20-2024 department meeting to outline my "journey" that brought me to this team. My performance was polarizing ... I received effusive praise (even a public declaration of such from a district official in attendance), apathy, and the "cold shoulder". A friend shared that "GRASPP" (and especially the resulting praise from from the district official) probably made its audience look and feel "bad" ... for which I might pay a price. So let me count the costs ... I shared "GRASPP" as a (recordable) #StandupStorytelling opportunity to speak truth (in love) to power ... to connect to and lift up the marginalized (say "hello") ... and to let "hit dogs holler" (say "heck no" to our declining "status quo" ... and "tell 'em that I smell em") ... I counted these costs and decided to pay them ... FWIW, I have discerned (in the 8 months since this performance) that people were impressed by, offended by, and oblivious to "GRASPP" ... the "bounding theory" says that it both predicted and contributed to the oppressive level of classroom scrutiny I experienced this year. None of this "backtracking" impacts today's reality ... I must still survive my environment by engaging in #StandupStorytelling's hope, healing, change, and "counterstory" telling ... while avoiding unnecessary adult interactions ... and must recognize that some of this approach is not sustainable (because both invite more "slings and arrows") ...

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 2.01 "TRANSCRIPT": ... Alou Macalou was the primary developer of The UBP ... in December 1994 I wrote KB's first business plan ... Alou contacted me that month about commercializing The UBP ... our strategic alliance was formed ... we put business plan together ... Dr. Vince Carter and Dr. Gary May became advisors (Gary May is Chancellor of UC-Davis ... not Cal State ...03m48sec ATDC story ... Dwight Holter ... 4-legged stool (Management, Market, Technology, finance) ... 06m40sec I am "key man" ... 07m58sec we raised $20K ($6K) ... 08m50sec no cash flow => cracks start to show ... 09m30sec this is like a marriage, and we got twisted when things got topsy-turvy 09m51sec Microsoft chooses us for diversity recruiting ... Internet advertising is a "thing" ... 11m50sec we had advertising revenue by mid-1996(?) ... we had momentum, and could have done more ... 12m54sec ... we did not pay ourselves salaries ... I was VPSS, Alou was CEO, Larry was CTO 13m30sec I entered with my exit plan - to launch KnowledgeBase 13m58sec I raised all the investment $$ 14m34sec ... I recouped all the investment $$ ... Netgate was our site host 15m11sec ...