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We’ve had a lot of discussion on this blog about empowering more women to speak at conferences and to raise the visibility of women in social media in general — now is our chance.
Today, South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive opened its panel picker for the 2010 event. I’m thrilled to say that several of [...]
It’s a fact. When you look at the agendas for top tech gatherings – whether social media focused or not – there are blessed few women on the stage. Period. Though this issue has percolated to the top of the meme stream of late, thanks in part to this post by TSG (about which I’ll [...]
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I’m not going to hash and rehash the controversy around the TSG all-male list of speakers on social media, or the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Summit conflagration about the same issue not long before that, or… well, you get the picture. The absence of women on podiums in proportionate numbers has been an issue for quite [...]
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It’s been a couple of weeks since The Speakers Group (TSG) put out a Top Ten Speakers for Social Media list, now retitled “Social Media Speakers: 10 to Know.”
Publishing the list brought TSG, perhaps, some totally unexpected controversy. The list contained only men’s names. In my, albeit limited, experience on the social media conference circuit, [...]
Here it comes again: “Where are the Women Speakers?” Geoff Livingston triggers yet another uproar over the longstanding complaint that women are not fairly represented at Tech conferences. I have some experience here that I’d like to share on a few sides of this discussion.
I was a stay-at-home Mom for five years after [...]
Social software matters because it allows for quality to surface, modesty to win, and effort to be rewarded… all things that hierarchical processes in organizations often subvert. In hierarchical information flows, position in the hierarchy rather than effort/work quality determines influence and power. This is not to say that all hierarchical organizations do [...]
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Although the last half century has seen changes in perception and more egalitarian behavior, the technology gender gap still exists.
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Let me state right from the start, I do not like playing the gender card. Sweeping generalizations about how men and women “are” make me bristle. I do not consciously frame myself in this world as a woman first. I am a person. I am unique. I happen to be female in gender. And in part, because of that, I often resist believing that there are any barriers to entry in positions or fields.
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Where to begin?
I suppose a good first step would be to proffer .02 as to why I joined this posse. It’s not as though this was an arduous decision-making process (I mean, have you checked out this amazing list? I’m honored to be counted among them!), but at the same I’ve generally eschewed participating too [...]
I first got in trouble (received my first Skype-thrashing) from Dennis Howlett over a feminist issue. He nearly blew a gasket and proceeded to tell me that he had a long history in understanding the challenges of women in the workplace and in society in general. The trouble kicked up over this post. [...]
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