I Don’t Want to Be a Feminist
When Sally Ride became the first female astronaut and Geraldine Ferraro the first woman vice presidential candidate for one of the Big Two parties, I was pretty sure I was living in the world that the 1960s’ feminists had fought so hard to achieve: The post-feminist world. The Equal Rights Amendment had failed to pass, but it didn’t matter; we were on equal footing as men. Sure,...
Read MoreLean In, Lean Out, Do *Something*
Much has been made of Sheryl Sandberg’s book and exhortation to “Lean In”. Funny thing is, my husband and I, many times, have talked about Leaning In – a Buddhist teaching. You lean in to the sharp points – when things get rough, instead of running away or trying to cushion them, you face them head on. You face the difficult times. You don’t give up or hide,...
Read MoreWhy it’s a bad idea to use photos you don’t have the rights to [UPDATED @DKNY / @HumansofNY]
UPDATE: DKNY posted an apology on its Tumblr: While I believe the explanation, as it appears to have been only the one store that did this, it just goes to show you shouldn’t use work you don’t have the rights to, even internally. Also, I still think they should ante up more money to the YMCA. I’ve see folks snag images off a Google search to use for blog posts. Sometimes...
Read MoreI Am Not Melissa Dugan
Imagine my surprise this weekend when I received an email and Facebook message from an Internet friend, Amy Akins, telling (and showing) me how someone on Facebook was using my face. Creepy, to be sure. But things could be much worse. She (or he or it, as this could well be a bot account) could be using my name. Could be trying to pretend to be me in more than just image. At least all these...
Read MoreLinkedIn Missteps: Killing LinkedIn Answers
I don’t usually get all up in arms when a social media site I like changes its features. Stuff happens. Things change. Improvise, adapt, overcome. But when I heard the news about LinkedIn killing its Answers section today through my friend, Todd Van Hoosear, and then this article on AGBeat, I was upset. This, I feel, is a big misstep. Maybe not everyone who uses LinkedIn uses the section....
Read MoreBring “SMAC! Sock Monkeys Against Cancer” to Life!
Note: I’ve had the good fortune over the past few months to get to know Jennifer Windrum, a former newswoman like myself and a wonderful human being. She’s the force behind WTF for Lung Cancer (Where’s the Funding For Lung Cancer), the second most common cancer, and least funded. And, no, most new cases of lung cancer are not in people who smoked – her mom, for one. She...
Read MoreThe End of @Instagram As We Know It?
I’m generally not one to shout “the sky is falling!” when free social media sites make moves toward monetization. They’re free, after all, and at some point, they need to make some money. How they choose to make money is up to them. And if we don’t like it, we can go elsewhere. With Instagram, though, it always seemed a bit different. Especially when Facebook...
Read MoreThe Key to Being #SocialAtScale: You Have to Care
A couple months ago, I got an email from my friend, Chris Kieff from Sprinklr asking if I’d participate in an e-book they were doing on the topic of #SocialAtScale. I’m happy to do anything to help Chris out, and I thought it was an interesting topic, so I immediately accepted. When it came time to actually write my entry, however, I was stumped. I had, quite literally, no idea what...
Read MoreWhy Facebook Doesn’t Suck: A Story of Loss
I’ve lived in a lot of different places, and every time I moved, I vowed that I’d stay in touch with people better than I did the last time. Easier said than done. After a few letters or phone calls, friendships gradually faded away, though the advent of email meant we could share stupid jokes that made the rounds until you saw every joke in the history of mankind at least a...
Read MoreFinal Thoughts on Digg (I know, enough already)
So much has been said and written about Digg in the past couple weeks since it was announced the final assets of the once-mighty site were sold to betaworks for the seemingly paltry sum of $500,000. I really didn’t plan on writing another post about it, but my piece on Punk Views on Social Media was noticed by the good folks over at The Pulse Network and Tyler Pyburn asked me to appear on...
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