BarCampDC: We Are Unintentionally Divided

BarCampDC2 was held on Oct. 18, I realize that is was also the day LifeTime aired their movie Living Proof. (I went to the screening but I will post that later). On a day that LifeTime airs a movie about a scientist testing for a breast cancer gene to attack a disease that [...]

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Digital Divide is Not Over But Overlooked

The Digital Divide discussion arose in a digital transition session at the Congressional Black Caucus week. The session was called It Takes a Village to Stay Connected in the New Digital Era.
The focus of the discussion was about the DTV coupons. These are coupons for converter boxes to assist people to transition from analog [...]

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C-Span is Following “Us” to the Conventions

A huge Media House has decided to follow (us) bloggers, twitters, podcasters and others to the conventions. C-Span has finally joined the social media community in a big way. They will be creating hubs for the Democratic and Republican conventions. Bloggers (Citizen Journalists) will have access to videos for embedding and a place to link [...]

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Teens, Cell Phones and the Wireless Goldrush

I was attending the BlogHer ‘08 conference in San Francisco and came across a display for T-Mobile. They were asking people to fill out a “teens and cell phones survey”. I told the representative that I was very interested in the results of the survey. The results were sent to me via email along with [...]

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AAUW: feedback from Where the Girls Are

This Utterz had to be taken down. This was an issue about controlling the message. One of the people participating in this conversation didn’t want this to go live because they needed to cross check the message with their organization. I will do a follow up post on this but this is why it is [...]

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Conferences and the shallow end of the gene pool

Conferences and the shallow end of the gene pool
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As Nerdettes, Geekettes, techies and other women in field this is an ongoing challenge faced. As a fellow Tech, Deanna does a good job of summing up the problem. Many of us have talked about it. It need to move to action, not commentary.

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Shireen in limo leaving resort after Google Apps for Nonprofit presentation

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I used Utterz to post this to the Blog and Twitter. A great social media tool. Follow me on Utterz

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