True story: I only started using my married name of Zelenka when I discovered that annetruitt.com was not available. The late Anne Truitt was a semi-famous sculptor and it seems her family scored the domain name — about a month before I thought to do it. Curses!
Now I wish I had gone with AnneDTruitt.com (my […]
Stowe Boyd on Kottke on gender diversity at conferences:
Gack. I am working with the CMP folks on Enterprise 2.0, and so far I have asked one person, a woman, if she could participate, and I was turned down.
Others have made the case that many of the most interesting woman for tech conference speaking roles have […]
February 28, 2007 – 4:30 pm
James Governor on Adobe Engage, held yesterday and today in San Francisco:
I liked the short introduction from David Mendels, senior VP enterprise and developer solutions, when he talked about how the layout of the room is a little formal, based on a presenter and an audience, rather than being a roundtable of more participatory environment. […]
January 27, 2007 – 4:45 pm
“Make it easy enough for my mom to use.”
I doubt any of my three kids will ever say that. They might say “make it easy enough for my dad to use” because in our house it’s dad who’s the more technologically clueless. Though granted, he did start using IM before I did and he has […]
December 17, 2006 – 5:46 pm
January approaches; time to figure out what we want to make happen in 2007. Here are my goals for the coming year:
Get a book contract. That list of top technology books of 2006 really bummed me out. Where are the women? So maybe I can’t get a book published in 2007, but I bet I […]
November 11, 2006 – 9:03 pm
Not a regular series because most Saturday nights I’m either out on a hot date or fighting off the horde of children I’ve produced, due to previous hot dates. Next Saturday night we’re going to The Magic Flute with some of our favorite neighborhood friends, week after that, back to the horde.
So here it is, […]
November 1, 2006 – 7:16 pm
I was involved in an email discussion recently with a few web 2.0 savvy women recently when the conversation turned to princesses. You do know, don’t you, that every time we women talk amongst ourselves, we always get around to shoes and princesses? I proposed that we hold a Princess 2.0 conference. What better way […]
September 7, 2006 – 10:33 am
In my first job as a software engineer, I was the only woman in a group of about fifteen. I told my husband Rick that I figured all the important business was getting done in the men’s room. At the company Christmas party, Rick snuck me in. I was relieved to see there weren’t any […]
September 6, 2006 – 4:34 pm
In the next week or so, I’ll unveil a website that will host podcasts on the topic of Office 2.0 in association with the Office 2.0 conference to be held October 11th and 12th in San Francisco. The purpose of this experiment is to extend the reach of the conversation around Office 2.0 and to […]
September 2, 2006 – 9:41 am
It’s painful to read the conversation about the lack of women speakers at the Office 2.0 conference. Painful because the visibility of women doesn’t seem to be increasing. Painful because there aren’t any easy solutions. Painful because some people believe that women are just inferior. Painful because the thought of public speaking makes me want […]
