BurningbirdThe importance of supporting diversity
One of the most wickedly ironic moments this week was reading in Robert Scoble’s weblog about how he and Shel Israel–two men–gave a talk about weblogging to PR and marketing folks at L’Oreal: a company whose clientele is almost exclusively women. Turns out that L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics maker, is one of Microsoft’s best customers. But […]
I received a coupon special from a neighborhood auto shop that’s just joined a national car care organization. As part of the special, the shop would do a complete car preventative maintenance check. I called and asked if performing an analysis of a Check Engine Light would be part of this effort, and they said “Sure!” This […]
Misbehaving pointed to a new Geek Calendar featuring 12 young, attractive female tech workers in typical calendar poses. According to the “About the Producer” page (the producer being one of the models): Lilac Mohr, who herself is a Senior Java Developer, is the producer of the Geek Gorgeous Calendar. Sick of hearing complaints from male co-workers about the lack […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After checking out the tech.memeorandum.com web site for a few weeks now I’ve made several observations: First, most of the stories covered are about business, rather than technology. The companies in focus may be technical, but the stories are about commerce. Second, if you’re a woman writing about technology, don’t expect to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A year ago I and others wrote on Pop!Tech and the lack of women and diversity in its speaker list. At the time, the conference had one woman speaking out of 30. I don’t know if what we wrote had an impact or not, but I was heartened to see […]