(ThyBlackMan.com) Traveling to WordCamp Miami, WordCamp Jacksonville and WordCamp Atlanta this year where great experiences. Participating in wonderful opportunities for bloggers, writers and speakers of color to be organizers, speakers, volunteers and bloggers.
Social Media is vital in promoting a Brand, business services and products that business owners are working hard to share to the
community.
Content creators like William Jackson and Aida Correa 
(African American and Latina) are advocating people of diverse backgrounds to attend, speak and volunteer at WordCamp. The journey to any WordCamp is a rewarding experience, the opportunity to network in a conference that welcomes and encourages diversity, creativity, innovation and thought leadership is an awesome experience.
Parents are learning that attending for their children is a wonderful opportunity to guide children’s growth in a dynamic industry of technology innovation and technological discovery. Young people are creating businesses that are based online and they are growing as digital influencers. They can be business leaders even at young ages.
Parents need to prepare their children for the careers that are exploding today and changing the future of business, education, e-commerce, marketing, branding and collaboration. Technology is integrated in all aspects of life especially web development.
William Jackson a past professor at Edward Waters College passionately shares that HBCU students should attend WordCamp to take advantage of the diversity of business leaders, entrepreneurs, technology innovators and digital creators. During his instructional years from 2004 to 2017 he has taken students to WordCamp Philadelphia, WordCamp Orlando, and even EdCamps. The exposure beats any type of lecture, video or presentation confined in the classroom. Higher education students need to participate in field trips to learn how to “act” at professional
venues and properly network.
“The learning curve is easier when your exposed to industry professionals, graphic designers, coders and developers,” Josh a sophomore at EWC majoring in Criminal Justice. “The people at WordCamp are helpful, professional and knowledgeable. They do not look at my color as an African American student attending an HBCU. I have been offered internships and part-time jobs. Professor Jackson and Ms. Correa have been to 3 WordCamp conferences that are internationally recognized and they are well respected not because they are African American and Latina, but because they are smart about what they do.”
The building of intellectual leaders take having youth, teens and young adults attend, learn and in the future speak about their experiences as content creators and aspiring business owners. If children of color do not take advantage of these opportunities they will be left out of digital innovation. There are less than 3% of minorities that own technology businesses, people of color need to be producers where the money can be made instead of just consumers spending their money and sending it out of the community to others. It is important the teachers, parents and those in the tech industry sponsor, promote and advocate for more people of color to be engaged, active and creative.
WordCamp Miami and WordCamp Atlanta Unofficial Videos
WordCamp Miami
WordCamp Atlanta
Staff Writer; William D. Jackson & Aida Correa
Find out more about this talented writer over at; OCS For Education.
