montague kobbe, writer and blogger. akoto ofori-atta, assistant editor at "the root". laura pegram, founding editor of "kweli journal" and joel dreyfuss, senior editor at large of "the root". this panel is an hour-and-a-half. >> thank you. at the sunday, everybody. wow. we are going to change that. i want to say special thank you to dr. brenda greene who has the remarkable job organizing this production. they have done the job of heroes. wherever you are in the audience thank you for putting this together. we are going to spend the next hour or so looking at how a committee of writers and publishers and journalists are using social media to amplify the voices and the work of black writers. what is really great about this group assembled here on stage is the each handle social media from different platforms of information we have. we have academics, newsroom editors, magazine founders and book marketers. i have been having some e-mail conversations prior to today. what they have been saying is quite interesting. i will put floyd on the spot. for johnson e-mail me and sa

montagu -- montague kobbe who works out of the caribbean looks at the global impact of social me and sees the way the technology is phasing struggling publication. he calls these strategies cheap, pragmatic and global. i am going to read some very small bios. please forgive me. i have reduced their very accomplished biography to two lines. angela dodson -- angela dodson is the manager of "kweli journal". she has warned the editor capture notable publications like black issues book review and the new york times. welcome. trey johnson is an industry leader in marketing books on the web. he is the founder of el al b.c..com, the african-american literature book club which is the largest and most frequently visited web site dedicated to books and films by and about people of african descent. troy having known a little bit about starting websites, i know that accomplishment -- thank you for that. laura pegram is the founding editor of "kweli journal" by and for writers of color. she has serve as an instructor at the frederick douglass creative arts center where she started two workshops in