Tag: feminism

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Today’s the anniversary or Roe v. Wade, and this year’s Blog for Choice Day topic is “What will you do to help elect pro-choice candidates in 2012?”Â Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but reproductive rights remain under assault.Â The Obama Administration’s hand-wringing before finally denying an religiously-affiliated hospitals an exemption from the requirement…

Booberday: Google+ and Diversity, part 8

Sep 12, 2011

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in social sciences, Tales from the Net

Summary: itâ€™s a â€œshare pictures of your cleavage because ofâ€¦ breast cancer! yeah!â€ meme. That meta-meme is potent, folks. Got something you want people to do? Claim itâ€™s about preventing or ameliorating or alerting or grieving breast cancer. You are now the untouchable saviour. The end. — Mary, on Geek Feminism A surprising number of…

#mooreandme and #p2: learnings for progressives on Twitter (REVISED DRAFT)

Jan 20, 2011

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in political, social sciences

Draft, work in progress. Feedback welcome! Last updated February 5. Twitter is an opportunity to engage with communities currently marginalized by the â€œprogressive blogosphereâ€. Demographically and stylisticly, Twitter is far less male-dominated than the big blogs of the progressive blogosphere … — Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus, The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on…

“Tissue turgor” and pink elephants: about Y Combinator (DRAFT)

Oct 30, 2010

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DRAFT! Work in progress! Feedback welcome One advantage startups have over established companies is that there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, I would be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had small children, or was likely to have them soon. But you’re not allowed to ask prospective employees…

Collective intelligence, diversity, and social networks

Oct 10, 2010

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Researchers led by Anita Woolley of Carnegie Mellon University found that a group’s success in solving problems wasn’t correlated to the average intelligence of the group, or the IQ of the smartest person. Instead, it was related to “social sensitivity”, whether everybody got to participate in the discussions, and the number of women in the…

A #diversitywin as an opportunity: Women talking with women (and a few guys too) at the #wwt TeleSummit (UPDATED)

Sep 15, 2010

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Slides from the TeleSummit are available on Slideshare The speaker list for today’s sold-out Women Who Tech TeleSummit is amazing, amazing, amazing …Â @jillfoster, @digitalsista, @blogdiva, @missrogue, @randomdeanna, @conniereece along with TeleSummit organizer Allyson Kapin of Rad Campaigns (aka @WomenWhoTech), and that’s just the first hour! There are some guys speaking as well at this…

Women in tech startups: how each of us can help change the ratio, parts 2 and 3 (DRAFT)

Sep 8, 2010

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DRAFT!Â Feedback welcome! Part of a series for NWEN’s blog

Links from the Arrington/TechCrunch women in tech kerfuffle (UPDATED)

Sep 6, 2010

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Even over the three-day weekend here in the US we continue to see some excellent discussions, for example Qworky advisor Gayle Laakmann’s Blame Men — And Women and Audrey Watters’ “Ambient Un-belonging” Arrington’s got another post up too. Looking ahead, the Women In Tech teleconference on September 15 includes TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde is on…

#p2 and prioritizing diversity: background reading for Thursday’s tweeting

Apr 29, 2009

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

#p2 tweeting* Thursday April 30 7-8PM Pacific/10-11PM Eastern Draft agenda and discussion here Please join us! Twitter is an opportunity to engage with communities currently marginalized by the “progressive blogosphere” — Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus, The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on Twitter on The Exception #p2 is a resource for progressives who…

Equal Pay Day: #fairpay and Women don’t ask

Apr 28, 2009

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in political, social computing, social sciences

According to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2007 the ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings reached almost 78 cents on the dollar for full-time year-round workers, up from just under 77 cents in 2006. This is the narrowest the wage gap has ever been, but it’s only an additional…

#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)

Apr 18, 2009

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in Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

Update, April 21: added some additional links here Amazon’s stock has recovered, bouyed by Friday’s report that Kindle sales have exceeded expectations. Traffic on the #amazonfail hashtag is much lighter.Â The auction for AmazonFail.com is over, at least for the time being. But I don’t think this issue’s going away quite that quickly. Right now…

My reply to Clay Shirky on #amazonfail

Apr 15, 2009

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Clay’s post The failure of #amazonfail admits that over the weekend, he jumped to conclusions,Â “believed things that weren’t true” about Amazon and was “intoxicated” by the hashtag.Â He now thinks he was wrong.Â Most of the post is written in the first person plural, assuming everybody else reacted as he did.Â He concludes that…

#women2follow: collaborative empowerment on Twitter

Mar 11, 2009

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in Professional, social computing, Tales from the Net

The idea behind #Women2Follow Wednesdays is straightforward: to recognize and promote women in the technology and social media field â€” and help people find each other. If youâ€™re on Twitter, itâ€™s easy to participate.

#digg it, continued: more Twitter/digg experimental results

Mar 9, 2009

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The great thing about the #digg it experiment (trying to use Twitter to increase visibility for progressives, feminists, and women of color on Digg), is that it’s so easy to explain to people*: if you’ve got a story you’re trying to promote on Digg, include the #digg hashtag when you tweet it, and at least…

#p2: statistics, with a gender perspective

Feb 22, 2009

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I wanted to expand on my remark in yesterday’s post about the gender ratio on #p2 staying “relatively well-balanced” with some statistics from the 24 hours ending at noon (Pacific time) today.Â While this is only one data point — and over a weekend, too — it’s roughly in line with the other measurements I’ve…

#p2 on Twitter: some thoughts after the first week

Feb 20, 2009

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#p2 Twitterchat Monday (2/23), 6:30 PM Pacific/9:30 PM Eastern.Â Tentative agenda here.Â Feedback, please … and hope to see you then! It’s been an encouraging first week for the new #p2 Twitter hashtag that Tracy Viselli and I proposed in The Exception last Friday.Â Usage has steadily increased (more people, more tweets), especially after Sarah…

#digg it!: initial experimental results — and let’s try it again!

Feb 9, 2009

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

please digg, retweet, and follow on twitter Update, 2:30 PM: please also digg and retweet the Nordstrom action alert Update 4:30 PM: Jen Nedeau’s Can social media save the day? has more Last Friday’s #Digg it! A proposal for women of color, feminists, and progressives on Twitter experiment went remarkably well for a first attempt.Â …

#Digg it! A proposal for women of color, feminists, and progressives on Twitter (DRAFT)

Feb 5, 2009

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

DRAFT!Â Revised version published on Reno and its Discontents. Thanks all for the feedback. And please, digg it!

#topprog: #tcot, trolling and topics for #fem2.0

Feb 1, 2009

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