Posted on 13 December 2009 by keidra
If you live in Chicago and work in online … anything really, you know that there are about 5 – 10 events going on each week geared toward technology and social media. Tweet-ups, networking functions, parties, demos, you name it. I went to one of these events earlier last week, a social media focused event, [...]
Filed under: best practices, digital divide, gender and sexuality, internet, internet culture, research, social media, social networking, social networks, technology | Tagged: blogher, female tech experts, she's geeky, social media, tech conferences, webgrrrls, women in tech conferences, women in technology, women on tech panels | 3 Comments »
Posted on 25 July 2009 by keidra
So I was at a reception the other day, talking to someone about the internet and the free/gift economy and how it’s the inevitable future of a lot of industries, including journalism. The discussion invariably turned to Chris Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price and I talked up the book and Anderson’s theories. [...]
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Posted on 4 June 2009 by keidra
I don’t think you have to be a “new media expert” or a journalism scholar to realize that: 1.) The news business is in the toilet. 2.) The journalism profession as we know it is going the way of the dodo. 3.) It’s kind of the fault of the Internet. Anyone reading this blog certainly [...]
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Posted on 31 March 2009 by keidra
Last Saturday I hung out with about 30 members of the Association for Women Journalists – Chicago and talked a bit about the 25 things I learned from SXSW, and then it just morphed into an overall discussion about journalism, technology and what’s happening next. There’s a lot of curiosity and just a little trepidation [...]
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