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MITP: Many Internet Technology Posers
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From its beginnings at B. Smiths as the personal meat-market of four single buppies working at new media companies, to its current state as the meat-market for buppies hoping to work at new media companies, MITP continues to be a failed experiment in minority networking. With corporate patronage from DoubleClick and a tendency to hold all of its minority networking events at non-minority owned establishments, MITP is nothing more then a platform from which its founders, Tanya Omeze, Monroe Bodden, Donna Sanabria and Larry Tuckett, prospect for dates.
Nothing has been done to move MITP away from its roots as a meat-market for its over-privileged and under-sexed founders, who rarely make an appearance at the events and do nothing to help its development. The staff at Urban Expose has taken the time to compress every MITP event into the following summary, so that you can avoid wasting the time it takes to attend and go to a true silicon alley event, with an open bar and lots of free food:
6:30pm: About 5 people new to MITP show-up at Punch and ask the bartender, "Ur, is this the MITP event?" They then order a drink and go sit in a corner, where they remain alone until the evening is over.
7pm: The MITP regulars start to show-up. They quickly separate into their little clicks and talk loudly for the rest of the evening while buying drinks on their companies tab.
7:30pm: Toni Dubois, MITP NY event coordinator, shows up and half-heartedly attempts organize some relevant discussion or debate but really only ends up bumming free drinks and food from every guy in the house.
8:00: Tanya Omeze wanders in with several non-minorities VC's in tow, looking ragged, stressed, and mean. She ignores everyone she doesn't know and gives royal nods to those she does, she then proceeds to explain to her VC friends how and why she started MITP and that she is the woman to guide the black new media community for them.
About an hour later, you are hoarse from yelling over the loud music, broke from the over-priced drinks and annoyed that every other person you met was an Internet consultant with no website, no Palm, and no pen to write down their Hotmail address. If your lucky, you'll meet a middle manager that rambles on about some ultra secret project she can't talk about because she signed her first NDA.
You can find this same group at a lot of other silicon alley events that are supposedly for the techno-savvy, the only difference is that at MITP; you have to pay for your drinks.
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My take:
Monroe - totally stressed out guy who won't hire people that speak English or know technology
Tanja - oooo you spelled her name wrong - she'll send you a letter bomb for that. She needs some dick actually.
Larry - needs to sit his old ass down. He and Bob need breath mints.
Donna - nervous breakdown waiting to happen
Toni - slut that has already happened hmm.. Toni maybe you and Darien should get back together again....did I say together, I mean *fuck*
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Oh my GOD!!! MITP is the only organization for us by us in the new media industry. I know George Jackson is turning over in his grave right now with his business running a website attacking other minority businesses. This is not funny UBO, people know its you.
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Just to clarify a few points: MITP’s mission is to bring together people of color in the Internet & Technology industry in order to facilitate Professional and Educational Development, Entrepeneurial Endeavors and Community Service. All of the founders and leaders put significant amounts of time and money into developing the organization. MITP has 1500 professionals who average over three years of experience in the Internet industry. Many members have benefited professionally from their involvement in MITP (myself included). I find it sad that someone would choose to disparage the only organization that exists for minorities in this space. Finally, what is wrong with combining business with pleasure? The fact that people may also get dates is not, in my mind, a bad thing.
Tanja Omeze, Co-Founder, MITP |
"The fact that people may also get dates is not, in my mind, a bad thing." The fact that nothing really gets accomplished is the bad thing. A computer networking event with no computer to show any displays on. MITP is a bunch of overpaid underqualified people in multimedia who used to work at print publications and need more exciting jobs.
How many more people can you meet at MITP that do HTML or Photoshop? Anyone got any Java? Cold Fusion? ASP? Perl? C++? Basic?
However, MITP has good services. They teach classes:
SIT POINT CLICK 101 - Tired of surfing the net and making no money. If you can hold a mouse, point and click you way to big bucks. Work you way up from Q&A to CTO in no time.
Instructor: Larry Tuckett
IF YOU CAN DO WORD YOU CAN DO HTML - If you can do CTRL B you can do HTML. It's that simple. Take this 2 hour course and bullshit your way to Senior Producer in no time.
Instructor: Micheal Tuckett (who still don't know HTML but can wade his way through the jargon)
PHOTOSHOP 5 - Are you pretty good with Paint? Photoshop is paint with layers. Don't be intimated! Jump on in and be a Senior Creative Director in no time.
Instructor: TBA
ADVERTISING 101 - Can't figure out where to place those 468x60 banners? You need this course.
Instructor: Some Minority from Doubleclick.
Basically, MITP brings nothing new to the table. No agenda. No prime objectives. Not even a collection plate.
PS - "Many members have benefited professionally from their involvement in MITP" - of course. You met someone there who thought you knew something. Just because you can point and click doesn't mean you should be making 6 figures.
Let's not look at the excellent sites (read: ESSENCE, Blaze) that Tuckett Parshell has brought to the table. |
This shit is hillarious...thanks !!! |
All those"great gatsby" niggerati digerati will get thier jiggy card pulled not to mention their lexus carnotes and hampton timeshares soon.
Just watch....
cybernigga has spoken. |
All those"great gatsby" niggerati digerati will get thier jiggy card pulled not to mention their lexus carnotes and hampton timeshares soon.
Just watch....
cybernigga has spoken. |
Okay Tanja..that sounds nice, but do you really think your presense as an organization geared toward people of color is signifigantly felt?
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1500 members strong.
Hmm...you guys must a pretty powerful and visible organization, if numbers equate to power and visibility.
I think imma get jiggy and attend the next gathering. |
Actually i have been to one of these events at punch and i must say he's got a point.....this article may be rude insensitive but some aspects of it i can relate to....as a matter of fact the part:
6:30pm: About 5 people new to MITP show-up at Punch and ask the bartender, "Ur, is this the MITP event?" They then order a drink and go sit in a corner, where they remain alone until the evening is over.
7pm: The MITP regulars start to show-up. They quickly separate into their little clicks and talk loudly for the rest of the evening while buying drinks on their companies tab.
This was very consistant with what me and a few friends observed however the people we met had palm pilots and trying to get into the dot com space. If this purely negative site did nothing more than make you take a deeper look at your events then maybe we should praise these guys :0)..with exception for their bluntness and insensitivity....These should not be traditional boooooring, clickish, some what segragated events. Learn from me as the dot com world moves into the CRM space and embraces the one to one customer approach maybe you guys should implement the same ideoligy with your events. Not to take any credit away i think you guys are trying hard but from a marketing perspective...just a little misguided*****fire your social events person**** and strategize your next event on how the user experience can transform into a one to one approach (every guest should feel like a V.I.P. and thats just smart business Yours truly *****Marketing Guru******
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Congratulations UBO on a great site.
This is so like cool; put up a site and insultevery other website buy your own then have youremployees (Dream Hampton and Karen Good) get on and insult everyone while propping up UBO. Then have James Andrews (aka Andy Platnum accusepeople like Kevin Powell, Knox Robinson and Ronin Ro)of being behind the site. Keep upthe great work UBO. |
(UBO exposed themselves by putting George Jackson at number one on your 'Power Index.') |
I think Urban Box Office is behind this site. They're the only ones who aren't mentioned in the news stories. They sent out their Soulpurpose newsletter accusing people, but it's them or Keith Clinkscales (whose picture appears on the home page). It's wrong to level accusations against innocent people. It'sabout as wrong as accusing James Andrews of being AndyPlatnum and ruining the careers of the very same executives he pretends to be friends with. If Urban Box Office is behind this site, then they have truly fallen off. |
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Larry Tuckett is an old, fat, self-promoting crackhead (yo, my boy's his connect) who made a *name* for himself by ripping off any idea that came down the pike and claiming it. Plus he don't know shit about programming, design, etc., etc., etc. And that's a damn shame cause TPI was in it LONG ago and shoulda learned something. Somehow. Somewhere. Every failure they had, just seemed to promote them upwards--cause in this internet game, just EXISTING is enough of a credential. Anybody remember essence.com when they had it? Case closed.
Plus, his greazy ass will try for any pussy. And I mean ANY. It's just sad.
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