SheGeeks: This Isn’t Feminism, It’s Technology
Erin Kotecki Vest, Queen of Sp
· 1 year ago
I'm still wary about being called 'tech' but I need to just EMBRACE it. ;)
Seriously though, the circles are now bigger, the communities are cross pollinating. Its a whole new ballgame and I don't see gender as an issue OTHER than wanting to see more women step up to the plate.
Ontario Emperor
· 1 year ago
I'll confess that I haven't read Louis Gray's original list, and therefore can't comment on the virtues (or lack thereof) of his list.
However, it is in some respects hard to construct a list of "elites," male or female, at least in my case. For example, my Google Reader feed includes feeds from Mrs. Loquacious and Connie Reece. How does one objectively know that Mrs. Loquacious should be added to a list of relevant bloggers and Connie Reece shouldn't - or vice versa? Now I'll grant that Mrs. Loquacious doesn't blog a lot about tech topics, but when she does blog, I find her posts are relevant to me.
I suspect that if I were to construct a list of my favorite bloggers, it would include a lot of people who are well below Duncan Riley's category of A list bloggers. But my list meets my personal needs, as does your list and Louis' list.
P.S. For what it's worth, I had never heard of you before Saturday morning, and now I'm subscribing to your feed, and I just joined your group of Twitter followers as I was typing this reply. So the word is getting out... :)
P.P.S. @queenofspain is neat also.
Victoria Marinelli
· 1 year ago
I've only been using FriendFeed for a brief period (and even then, infrequently), so I'm hardly qualified to speak to the merits of this post per se, but I did want to note that I found your site via a tweet from @QueenofSpain, and: you're damned right, she's relevant! As a mostly non-tech-focused woman blogger I really appreciate the extent to which she's a tech trailblazer, making the possibilities of social media much clearer (and more interesting) to the rest of us.
Stephanie Booth
· 1 year ago
Do you consider my post "whining"? I tried precisely not to make it that. It doesn't make me upset or go off my rocker to see a male-dominated list of bloggers -- it invites me to think, and that is what I tried to do. The list of women I provided was there to make a balance and maybe to make other people think, or discover female writers they did not know.
Whining? I don't feel included in that description.
Corvida
· 1 year ago
@Victoria Marinelli - The woman is brilliant! I conversed with her over the phone last night and she's wonderful. What's so ironic is that sometimes she's at a complete lost about certain aspects of tech, but she's willing to admit that and learn and ask questions. Erin is awesomesauce!
@Stephanie Booth - "I definitely didn't think you were whining! Your post was very clear and educational. On top of that, you made a great list of other women, some of whom I've now added to both FriendFeed an Twitter! I didn't think you were whining though. I was just pointing out your post as a reference point for the rest of the article, for others to consider.
Thanks for responding!"
Geoff Livingston
· 1 year ago
I think its a little of both. There are certainly as many women out here as there are men. Maybe some of us grasp the newest shiny tool first, but the disproportionate numbers don't account for just that.
Coach Deb
· 1 year ago
Aloha & THANKS for this post.
It allowed me to meet SEVERAL more cool Relevant women in "tech" and add them as friends and twits :)) (Hopefully all readers are familiar with Twitter to appreciate that bout of humor :)
All I want to see - is women getting involved in the conversation, playing an active role, supporting one another like men do (only BETTER :P) annnnnnd Just DOING IT!
I mean - why whine when you can Just Do It! right?!
btw: Kudos to BOTH women who brought this topic to the forefront of our minds.
whine, or don't whine DO or don't whine just PARTICIPATE and Get 'er Done!
:)
Sarah
· 1 year ago
Thanks for including me on your list :)
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
· 1 year ago
I had to sit on this post for a bit before I could reply. You know I love you, but at the same time, you haven't been out in the tech workforce. Blogging is just a subset of the tech world.
I'd had to work for men who knew less than I did, but got promoted over me for no good reason. I've been FIRED for pointing out that these same men were wasting company resources by outsourcing work to agencies (not offshore, mind you) and consultants that we were already able to do in-house, simply because they didn't understand the technology that their "less qualified" employees did.
I'm far from world's biggest feminist, but I've worked in either tech or engineering industries in one form or another for over 15 years. When I first started out in the workforce after college, I assumed women already WERE equal, but it's not the case. We still have to shout to be heard.
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Seriously though, the circles are now bigger, the communities are cross pollinating. Its a whole new ballgame and I don't see gender as an issue OTHER than wanting to see more women step up to the plate.
However, it is in some respects hard to construct a list of "elites," male or female, at least in my case. For example, my Google Reader feed includes feeds from Mrs. Loquacious and Connie Reece. How does one objectively know that Mrs. Loquacious should be added to a list of relevant bloggers and Connie Reece shouldn't - or vice versa? Now I'll grant that Mrs. Loquacious doesn't blog a lot about tech topics, but when she does blog, I find her posts are relevant to me.
I suspect that if I were to construct a list of my favorite bloggers, it would include a lot of people who are well below Duncan Riley's category of A list bloggers. But my list meets my personal needs, as does your list and Louis' list.
P.S. For what it's worth, I had never heard of you before Saturday morning, and now I'm subscribing to your feed, and I just joined your group of Twitter followers as I was typing this reply. So the word is getting out... :)
P.P.S. @queenofspain is neat also.
Whining? I don't feel included in that description.
@Stephanie Booth - "I definitely didn't think you were whining! Your post was very clear and educational. On top of that, you made a great list of other women, some of whom I've now added to both FriendFeed an Twitter! I didn't think you were whining though. I was just pointing out your post as a reference point for the rest of the article, for others to consider.
Thanks for responding!"
It allowed me to meet SEVERAL more cool Relevant women in "tech" and add them as friends and twits :)) (Hopefully all readers are familiar with Twitter to appreciate that bout of humor :)
All I want to see - is women getting involved in the conversation, playing an active role, supporting one another like men do (only BETTER :P) annnnnnd Just DOING IT!
I mean - why whine when you can Just Do It!
right?!
btw: Kudos to BOTH women who brought this topic to the forefront of our minds.
whine, or don't whine
DO or don't whine
just PARTICIPATE and
Get 'er Done!
:)
I'd had to work for men who knew less than I did, but got promoted over me for no good reason. I've been FIRED for pointing out that these same men were wasting company resources by outsourcing work to agencies (not offshore, mind you) and consultants that we were already able to do in-house, simply because they didn't understand the technology that their "less qualified" employees did.
I'm far from world's biggest feminist, but I've worked in either tech or engineering industries in one form or another for over 15 years. When I first started out in the workforce after college, I assumed women already WERE equal, but it's not the case. We still have to shout to be heard.