Technically Women

Rethinking the female conference speaker dimension
The other day, while chatting in passing with a high-level executive at my huge enterprise software company about the conference speaker gender (non-)diversity issue, I suggested he could instantly transform speaker diversity by changing his gender.
The man, by the way, did an admirable job fielding my rather tasteless request (I [...]

Generally on Ada Lovelace Day the idea is to pick a woman who inspires you and toss up a blog post extolling her virtues. I’ve done so over on my own blog, but when the Technically Women posse started talking about how to tackle the topic, I opted to scramble up to 30,000 feet and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]