Ashanti Middleton wants to help make you a star

Filed Under (New Talent, The Talent Portal) by admin on 15-10-2008

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You Want Instant Exposure

Once you create your own personal talent portfolio, you are instantly included in our database.  This brings you face to face with the talent industry, as well as, the general public.  You could become an overnight sensation, without even waiting overnight!  Start gaining the type of exposure you’ve always dreamed about.  Click here to register with us today and join one of the fastest growing talent communities on the web.

Our Online Community

At The Talent Portal, we encourage the building of both business and personal relationships amongst our members.  You will have the ability to create your own network of talented individuals and industry professionals alike.  Our members enjoy unlimited onsite messaging, posting and responding to a wide variety of topics on our profiles and blogs.  As a member of  The Talent Portal, your finger is on the pulse of the talent industry.  Click here to register with us today and join our online community.

Your Personal Profile

The Talent Portal is proud to offer more than just an online profile. We provide our members with their own personal blogs to showcase their talent.  You’ll make a lasting impression by directing agencies and talent seekers to your own site for personal exposure. You can market yourself to the talent industry and the world from your very own unique profile url, created from the info and media that you provide.  Your web address will be www.thetalentportal.com/profile/username.  Click here to register with us today and create your very own personal profile.

The sky is the limit once you’ve joined The Talent Portal community.  You will now have access to all of the necessary resources to succeed in the talent industry,  but the rest will be up to you!  We can’t guarantee your success, but we can put you in the best possible position to achieve it.  Click here to register with us today and begin realizing your potential.

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Social Networking Great Way To Show Off Your Business

Filed Under (The Talent Portal) by admin on 12-10-2008

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Social networks have come a long way since the implementation of the idea several years ago.

Now you can do so much more with a social network than just meet people and send messages. You can create photo albums, add videos, listen to your favorite music, find old friends and so much more. Even the profile pages have evolved. Many social networks let you change the colors of your profile and even add backgrounds and change the layout.

1. Meet New People

This is the main reason social networks were created, so people can meet and find new friends. On just about every social networking site you can browse the network and meet new people. You can find people of every kind from all over the world. Or you can just focus on meeting certain types of new friends.

Find friends in a certain niche or make as many friends as you can. How you do it is up to you. Everyone had their own way of making online friends.

2. Find Old Friends

You’ve probably lost contact with someone in your life. Now’s your chance to find them again. Could be a friend from high school, someone you used to work with, or just about anyone. Using social networking sites you can type in the name of your friends and find them, if they’re on that site.

More of your friends are on social networks than you realize. Join up, create a profile and start your search. When you create your profile, don’t forget to mention all the schools you went to so your friends can find you too.

3. Chat the Day Away

Most social networks have forums. This is where you can post your thoughts, questions and opinions. It’s also where you can communicate with a group of friends that all have the same interest or problem. There’s usually a variety of forums to choose from. Which forum you post in all depends on what you’re looking for.

If you’re looking to discuss a certain topic, then you would post in the forum that’s set up for that particular topic. If you’re looking for help with something then you’d post in the support forum. Maybe you’re just looking for a discussion to get into, browse around and find something you like, then join in.

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Beyonce Talks About Her Marriage To Jay-Z

Filed Under (Entertainment News) by admin on 08-10-2008

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Beyoncé usually spends a lot of time not talking about Jay-Z. Even magazines that tout some exclusive interview in which she’s finally opened up only have a snippet or two, and usually they are about her decision to not talk.

So you would have every reason to be wary when yet another magazine — this time Essence — comes along and claims that the singer has broken her infamous silence. Except in this case, she has.

After several pages about Beyoncé’s decision not to speak publicly about her private life — peppered with lots of so-called expert opinion from an associate professor of communications and anthropology, a blogger, an unnamed media insider, the singer’s acting coach and even her mother — the magazine finally gets down to business.

(Read what Beyoncé told Essence about her upcoming album and movie roles here.)

Up to this point, Beyoncé led the magazine to believe she wouldn’t be really opening up to them either: “Interviewing Beyoncé, who has admitted she dislikes the process, is a little like talking to your mother about sex. There may be a pretense of open communication, but the subtext is clear: Are you seriously going to ask me that? … For now, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s relationship exists in that no-man’s land where they won’t give us anything and we can’t get enough.”

So at first, Essence settles for the usual discussion about her effort to maintain her privacy, which Beyoncé claims is so she can keep some mystery, stay sane and control her brand — though not necessarily in that order.

“I feel that, especially now, with the Internet and paparazzi and camera phones, it’s so difficult to maintain mystery,” she told the magazine. “And that’s so important. Even in a relationship, I feel like not being that accessible is really important. If you think about Prince or Michael Jackson, or any superstars, you couldn’t see them when they got off their planes or when they got out of the pool and didn’t comb their hair. It’s great that people see we’re not perfect. But it’s almost impossible to have superstars now, because people will never get enough. And it’s not even about my music. It’s about all the things that people imagine about me in their minds. But I can’t satisfy everyone. I know that Jay and I probably do inspire people. And I appreciate people feeling proud. But this is the only way I’ve been able to stay sane, so why would I start talking now?

“[Not speaking] controls your brand,” she continued. “It controls what you want to put out there and kind of forces people to talk about what you want them to talk about.”

But then Beyoncé lets it slip that it was a joint decision with her husband to keep quiet. “We decide everything,” she told the magazine. “My word is my word. What Jay and I have is real. It’s not about interviews or getting the right photo op. It’s real.”

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