February 2012
4 posts
"This is particularly glaring at a time when there... →
Wow - California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the CA teachers pension fund, wrote Facebook a letter expressing their disappointment over the lack of diversity on the Facebook board. HUGE.
Why is it huge? Because suddenly this isn’t about social good, it’s about MONEY. The Money CalSTRS has put into Facebook - and the money it sees Facebook as giving up by not...
Planned Parenthood: Open Letter →
caro:
Breast cancer has ripped through my family so violently that I’m pretty much guaranteed to get it in a pretty nasty form down the road if I haven’t already managed to get mauled to death by rabid howler monkeys. But I have a good job, great health insurance, and an awesome doctor who is already helping me a lot with regard to prevention and early detection. A lot of women aren’t lucky...
Standing With Planned Parenthood.
I’m dismayed by this decision by the Komen foundation - as one who has donated, run, lost a loved one to breast cancer and cares passionately about women’s reproductive health and rights, it’s painful to see an organization I have supported so intensely break with one I consider a vital public good.
Backstory:
Why Did Susan G. Komen Pull the Plug on Planned Parenthood? [The...
January 2012
16 posts
WatchClay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea
“The 20th century was a great time to be a media company, because the thing you had on your side was scarcity. If you were making a TV show, it didn’t have to be better than all TV shows ever made - it only had to be better than the two other shows that were on at the same time. Which is a very low threshold of competitive difficulty! Which meant...
"...An incomplete high-speed broadband network... →
President Obama has a full vocabulary of pronouns.
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WatchJonathan Zittrain does a nice job of explaining SOPA, comparing its draconian provisions to China and Iran. He explains more in depth here.
(And sorry, Danny Goldberg, but “you need something to stop theft” isn’t good enough. Proportionality matters.)
Add #blackoutSOPA to your avatar here.
December 2011
31 posts
"Let's Talk About Sexism" - Jan 2009,...
I’m reviewing my past predictions and looking at what I wrote for the Daily Beast in Jan 2009. Some of it is pretty good! Including forcing this issue, which remains one of my most proud accomplishments of the 2008 election season - something I was mocked then reviled for early, and proved way right on by the end. In any case - going into an election season, what can we learn from the...
You're awesome, now say so →
Why many people find self-promotion difficult. Per Tara Hunt in Inc.:
It feels skeevy. Nobody likes a braggart. I was told as a young girl, “Let your accomplishments speak for themselves.”
You’ll lose followers. Related to the first point, many people find self-promotion to be in bad taste.
It seems unauthentic. If you’re so great, why isn’t everybody talking about you?
This is deeply...
"Women Innovate Mobile opened its application... →
BOOM! Well done, Veronika Sonsev, Deborah Jackson & Kelly Hoey!
WIM criteria:
(1) must be a technology company
(2) must have a woman co-founder (but, despite the ridic inaccurate TechCrunch headline, obviously dudes are welcome as part of applying teams. Like, sheesh).
(3) must have a mobile application (i.e. mobile payment, mobile advertising, mobile applications)
Okay! Go here to...
"They said the executives who have left the group... →
Background: “The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as “The OC,” short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: “L Team,” short for Larry’s Team… In the revamping of the group earlier this year, Page swapped out several of the executives who previously had seats at the table and brought in managers spearheading...
“Fab.com founder and CEO Jason Goldberg tells me social activity is mighty...”
– Now At 1.4M Members, Fab.com Turns Up The Social With A ‘Live Feed’
Social commerce is fact not feature at Fab.com
(Also, great team including Beth Ferreira and Lori Dorn!)
(via likesandlaunch)
"What I did right, and this is important, is I... →
Whoa Nelly, is there a lot in here: Mike Arrington is a huge fan of Heather Harde and is…less so of Arianna Huffington. Why don’t you just read it.
Why Heather Matters [UnCrunched]
(Related: Arrington’s blog is addictive reading.)
“Just assume everyone likes you! Everything is easier that way.”
– Really good advice from Tory’s mom (via purns)
Just gave this advice to someone the other day. It really does remove stress.
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WatchJennifer Siebel Newsom, writer/director/producer of MissRepresentation, at TEDxWomen last week.
"Hey, you, organizing that conference and hosting... →
BizBash invited me to contribute to their “Best of 2011” issue. Mine was called “Why You Should Recruit More Women Speakers.” I’m sure you’re shocked.
More: “It’s not your fault—you asked that one prominent woman in your industry and she said no! Just kidding, it is your fault: It’s 2011, and qualified women are everywhere—and the lack of them makes your...
WatchGayle Lemmon from TEDxWomen - “Think Bigger”
I loved this talk. Takeaways:
“We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors. And in ways both big and small, the narrative of the victim shapes the way we see women. You can’t count what you don’t see and we don’t invest in what’s invisible to us.”
“If you’re going to talk about jobs, then you have to talk about entrepreneurs....
This. →
Reposted from Sept. 2010, because my updated “Who We Are” post got eaten by Tumblr in yet another epic non-save. (Seriously, Tumblr. AUTOSAVE.) Anyhoo, for clarity, a flashback:
This tumblr clearly needs a “Who We Are” section but I can’t figure out how to keep the design clean (the theme makes you put the tagline under the title, and I can’t make it not look awful). So in the...
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