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{ Monthly Archives } June 2007

Single-Gender Groups

Dar­ren had a post prais­ing the idea of Single-Gender Groups. I find that very prob­lem­atic, and here’s why. Darren’s main point is that women and men com­mu­nic­ate dif­fer­ently. Per­son­ally I’ve found more dif­fer­ences in com­mu­nic­a­tion style in dif­fer­ent coun­tries; I’ve lived in (in chro­no­lo­gical order, and only count­ing places I’ve lived in for more than […]

Tech Women

Tim poin­ted me at the art­icle on devchix about bar­ri­ers women face in tech com­munit­ies; it’s cer­tainly sparked a lot of interest and reac­tions out there. My reac­tion was two-fold: one was to think “is that how most women are?” To under­stand that, you have to remem­ber that I’ve spent my entire life past the age […]

Facebook

I got talked into join­ing Face­book last week; ok, I’m late to the party but not quite as late as Derek Miller. It’s an inter­est­ing place in many ways, feels like it has more or less achieved what Orkut (remem­ber Orkut?) was try­ing to do. The big dif­fer­ence to Orkut is the people who are there, […]

Website Connections

One of the themes of the Gil­bane Report art­icle I wrote some time ago on Blogs and Wikis: Tech­no­lo­gies for Enter­prise Applic­a­tions? was that people can use blog soft­ware as an easy way to cre­ate a web site that doesn’t look like a blog. It’s easy to update the con­tent, easy to add more content, […]

SLA

Last night I was part of a panel speak­ing to the SLA WCC. This is an inter­est­ing bunch of people, the lib­rar­i­ans for vari­ous com­pan­ies, gov­ern­ment depart­ments, and of course uni­ver­sit­ies. The panel (every­one else was a lib­rar­ian) was speak­ing about blogs and wikis and how they are being used within their organ­iz­a­tions. To be […]