Exchange

Share, Discuss, Grow.
The first social media platform for Black Culture by Black Culture,
and dedicated to promoting positivity, balance and unity.
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Share your experience

Share your knowledge and wisdom. Globally our people have unique experiences illustrating our diversity.

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Discuss the world

Discuss your views and opinions on a variety of topics as it relates to Black Culture, the world, politics, economics and lifestyles.

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Grow your perspective

Our perspectives broaden the more information we have experienced. Connect with new people and share, compare and learn.

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Dedicated to Unity in Diversity

Many social media platforms are focused on promoting the negative side of Black Culture. Driven by bots and algorithms. Our platform is human centered. We realize it is critical if Black Culture is to pivot to the positive, we must collaborate to promote a better future. Fight for the future today by using our platform, participate in events and promote positive reality.

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Start Building Your Groups & Communities

Login and create your group or community or join an existing community. Communities and groups have cool feature such as
group chat, and group document storage. Group chat enables you to send communications and keep members up to date directly.
Group document storage enables you to host and share documents you think add value to your group.

Explore the Exchange

We often call platforms that do not respect our culture and not owned by our culture “our platform”.
Now there is a choice . Join the Exchange!

Singles MeetUps

A group recently launched focused on promoting positive relationships and connections.

Black Adventure Exchange

Explore groups and learn about hiking, kayaking, sailing and more. Some groups offer classes, meetups and events.

Gardening,
Urban Farming & Farming

Explore groups dedicated to existing growers, sharing ideas, and learning to grow.

Exchange – a platform for you.

Platform + Ecosystem

The Exchange is the foundation for the start of a massive ecosystem dedicated to our culture and the future. All members will have the right to vote on major features, decisions and roadmap items.

Data Privacy and You

We maintain your data privacy. We do not own your content when it is posted to our platform. Content creators have rights. We do not and will not resell a community member data.

No bots or algorithms

No bots or algorithms are used as part of content delivery or content filtering.
Viewers and content creators connect with people directly without algo bias.

Timeline & Roadmap

Project
JUL 2024 | Present

Platform Development

Platform Development and prepping for main launch is the focus. Specifically feature testing and bug testing, feature enhancement, and content development. Develop progress available via site Development Blog.

Project
JAN 2025

Alpha Launch – Open Testing

Specific users will have access to the platform to begin standard capacity and feature testing as part of this alpha release. Marketing and social network campaigns launch

Project
FEB 2025

Beta Launch & Mobile –
Platform v0.2

Our focus is aggregation of resources, content and information architecture. We will focus on providing forums, channels and information on key areas of the adventure lifestyle including free resources and directories of similar content and partners. Base features in this release include standard social media integration, user profiles, and messaging. Additionally this phase and project will include the initial development of training classes, and staffing. This initial phase and project represents the initial build and Beta version 0.1

Project
APR 2025 – Near Future

Social Media, Video Streaming, Volunteers, & Gamification

This phase and project represents another big lift. We will launch our social media campaign on a variety of channels. We will launch our Volunteers Campaign to promote community based engagement and moderators. We will start building our alliance program to promote collaborations and partnerships within our space. We will launch our gamification algorithm which will reward members for activities on the Exchange, social media and real world activities like exploring, hiking, camping and kayaking. We view this phase as critical to wrapping up the initial build and an official launch with Beta Version 1.0

Project
JUL 2025 – Future

Events, Badges, Crypto, Web 3 & More

This project focuses on feature stabilization, bug fixes, customer focused enhancements. Additionally we include more badges, and launch our Events section featuring our events, community events, and local events. In this phase we start integrating some of the original features into a single cohesive offering, enabling users to share maps, and exchange adventure experiences. Additionally we will roll out our infrastructure to convert points to crypto and offer our community members loans and other fintech services.
This phase focuses on ensuring our platform is extensible, agile and can evolve with our users and stakeholders vision. This phase and build is considered Beta Version 1.1

Want to work with Us? Apply to be a Volunteer

Our goal is to build a platform of collaboration for content creators dedicated to Black Culture. Imagine a platform that promotes unity, positivity and excellence. You can contribute.
Join Us today.

Send us a message!

Stay tuned as we continue to update the Corp site and the platform. Reach out to us anytime. You can reach us directly through the Exchange Feedback Group, or the Exchange Messenger. DM @admin.

Chicago, Illinois