William R. Moss III: Expert in Internet Marketing and Online Diversity Recruitment
Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley in Computer Science, Computer Science, News, Scholarly Celebrations
In 1999, Will Moss founded HBCUconnect.com – one of the first social network for African Americans. To date, it’s the largest online destination for Black college students and alumni with a reach of approximately 1.2 million visitors each month.
Most recently, he has built (designed, programmed, launched) a white label social networking platform called Connect Platform (www.connectplatform.com). The service targets Black entrepreneurs, organizations, and businesses to help them create their very own revenue-generating social networks.
In partnership with Diversity City Media, his company has already launched over 15 different sites. The big ones are BlackHistory.com – an online encyclopedia and social network for Black history and culture, BlackWomenConnect.com – the first ever social network for professional Black women, BlackInAmerica.com – the first ever social network for socially-conscious African Americans, and BlackCEOs.com – a social network for Black Business owners. All of the sites are growing exponentially with thousands of active members signing up daily.
Early Life
William R. Moss III was born in Columbus, Ohio. From an early age he loved computers, going online, and learning new things. At the age of 10, Moss wrote his very first computer program in Basic for the Commodore 64 computer. The program Moss wrote allowed him to use his computer and a modem to go “online” and connect to other computer “BBS” or Bulletin Board Systems over the family phone lines. Moss was fascinated with the computer to computer communications and how easy it was to write and download software for fun.
Education
William went on to obtain a B.S. degree in Computer Science degree from Hampton University in 1995 and graduate as the top Computer Scholar in his class. He also studied towards an MBA in Marketing from Keller School of Business Management.
Career
After college Mr. Moss was recruited by AT&T/ Bell Labs to work as a lead software developer for complex network management systems. He developed software for proprietary network communications for customers such as Nippon Telephone in Japan. Wrote software in Java, C, C++, Perl and several unix scripting languages.
In 1999 he left AT&T to become a software development consultant for a small company in central Ohio. At that time, he created a website for the students and graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities called HBCUConnect.com.
HBCUConnect.com grew quickly by allowing students and graduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to connect online. HBCUConnect.com also boasted the first complete directory of HBCUs online, inventing the HBCU sub category on Yahoo.com. The website started serving the needs of advertisers and employers looking to reach the HBCU audience in 2002, at which time the website became his major focus. Don’t forget to check out the site’s Facebook Fan Page with over 25,000 fans.
Now serving many organizations in their needs to advertise, and recruit from this growing audience of over 900,000 HBCU students, graduates and recruits Mr. Moss has taken more of a consulting role for the corporations and organizations he serves. He is considered a ‘subject matter expert’ on black colleges, their students, and graduates and how to reach them.
Moss gives presentations to college students on entrepreneurship, career preparation, and the relevancy of technology to African Americans. Moss’ experience in corporate America as an intern, employee, and consultant lead to the development of HBCU Connect as an answer to the lack of an existing platform for HBCU students and graduates to communicate, network and take advantage of related opportunities.
More information about his services can be found on the following websites:
www.HBCUconnect.com
www.LeeMossMedia.com
www.WillMoss.com
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Miisrael Shields
25. Feb, 2010
What a great and creative personality. Much continued success to Mr. Moss
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10. Jan, 2011
good luck ..and all the success to MR william..