Link: Lip-Sticking: X Chromosome Web 2.0 Rock Stars.
Another piece of the conversation.
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Link: Lip-Sticking: X Chromosome Web 2.0 Rock Stars.
Another piece of the conversation.
Link: » Five White Men Talk About Social Media.
This feels all too familiar to me and it saddens me that it is still an issue over 13 years after I started my first Internet company, Cybergrrl, Inc. and the first women’s Internet organization, Webgrrls International.
I remember either being the only female at the new media table or one of the tiniest handful. But it wasn’t for lack of women being on the scene and running innovative businesses in the space. It was simply the planners were in a hurry and reached out to the only people they rubbed elbows with - other men.
When I was one of 5 women in a list of 50 people recognized by Newsweek magazine in 1995 for our Internet work, I was pissed off. I asked the editors why they didn’t list more women. They said “we couldn’t find any.” All they had to do was ask. We women keep very close tabs on one another and most of us would do anything to promote another woman, often even before we promote ourselves, because we know that if one of us is out there and visible, it is a huge win for the rest of us.
I’ve been rejected by several major blogging, social media and Web conferences as a speaker in recent years (yes, I’m now in the position of having to ask/beg to speak at them). Maybe it is because this industry is often “but what have you done LATELY” and lately I moved to Alaska and had a baby.
The first Internet industry conference to finally give me a chance to re-enter the speaking circuit was BlogHer last year, and I’ll be forever grateful.
There are all sorts of “underground” initiatives to help event planners book more women speakers. Let’s help pull those efforts out of the dark corners and into the spotlight so the rest of the techie/new media/social media/blogging/virtual worlds, etc. events take notice and can’t make excuses any more.
Podcast of an interview with Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse.
via Brighter Planet
PARTICIPANTS (EITHER LIVE OR BY MESSAGE)
ALPHAMOM-Isabel Kallman
BABYFRUIT - Aliza Sherman Risdahl
IN WOMEN WE TRUST - Mary Clare Hunt
MOCHA MOMMA - Kelly Wickham
*MOM-101 - Liz Gumbinner
PARENTOPIA - Devra Renner
*POLITICAL VOICES OF WOMEN - Catherine Morgan
SOUL GARDENING - Tammie Booth
STATE OF GRACE - Grace Davis
Link: Monkeys In My Pants: Watch The Video Of My Interview With Fox News About Social Networks.
See Mitch Wagner on Fox News. He doesn't even break a sweat. Chatting it up about social networks! Shout out to Mitch!
Link: all the way from oy to vey.
I'm getting in touch with my inner, hidden, totally suppressed Jew-ishness with the help of my new Jewgirl bloggy friend. And signing my baby up for daycare at the only local synogogue might be triggering a sudden Jewfest.
From her non-bio:
Katie is a Jewgirl from New York. She lives in Shlock Angeles for now. Not forever. She's not a fan. The driving. The silicon. The mismanagement of fat. Oy, very disturbing. Katie is a comedy writer, a feminist and a food obsessed neurotic.
Katie writes other things, too. She's also bored you enough, so click away. Now. Go. Bye. See you. WAIT. Come back! When you're ready of course. No guilt. No pressure. oh, and don't forget to hit the bloggy blog for the latest dish.
And did I ever tell you the story about the time I was in grade school and was called on to read a book about Chanukah in front of the class. There was a line about going to synogaogue. And in my perfect, goodie-two-shoes, over-achiever little way, I read the line like this:
"And then we went to syn-a-gog-GOO." I distinctly remember saying that word in just that way a number of times, and the teacher never corrected me until I had finished.
"Isn't it pronounced syn-a-GOG?" she asked.
I was mortified, turned a million shades of red, mentally kicked myself with my Keds, and wanted to crawl into a hole.
Syn-a-go-GOO.
I was scarred for life.