Join us for the San Francisco Net Tuesday on September 9:
Involver: How Nonprofits Can Create Video Campaigns for Social Networks.
NetSquared is an initiative of TechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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Global Women's Leadership Network
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
The Quality of Women's Leadership equals the Quality of Life on this planet
Technology Vision:
GWLN will use web technologies, distance learning, conferencing systems, cell phones, and other electronic means of delivering training and creating social networks. Specifically, GWLN’s collaborative social network will provide a vital information lifeline. As GWLN establishes regional academies, the social network will grow exponentially.
Listen to an Excerpt from Gender and the Social Web
This week's episode of This Week in NetSquared News is up on the Net2 podcast. For the past month, we've been uploading audio recordings from the NetSquared Conference sessions onto the NetSquared podcast channel. To help you decide if you want to download an hour-long conference session, I'll be including clips from some of the sessions each week in This Week in NetSquared News. This week, I've included a 5-minute clip from the Gender and the Social Web panel. Listen to the NetSquared Conference Recording, Gender & the Social Web
Thanks to rockstar volunteer podcast editor, Ryan MacArthur, the NetSquared Conference session, Gender and the Social Web, New Tools, Same . . . Stuff? is up on the NetSquared Podcast.
The panel was moderated by Susan Mernit and included Catherine Geanuracos,Christine Herron,Fran Maier and Lisa Stone.
ICT for global justice: an interview with Anna Feldman of the APC
Anna Feldman is the Strategic Use Programme Project Developer, at the Association of Progressive Communications (APC). The APC is an international association with a virtual office. Anna is currently working on web conceptualization and planning for GreenNet in the UK, a progressive ISP and founding organization of the APC.
Anna and I talked about the work of the APC at the NetSquared conference.
Women Get Tech'ed
Describe your challenge:
At the Gender session there was call to get women together to support one another learning more technology skills. A Drupal women's group? Pingvision and floatleft.com
I'd like to be part of that group. Would you? Leave your link, email, as a comment to this post and we'll figure out how to make it happen.
Erica Rios
ericar@anitaborg.org
genderIT.org
Check out this cool site, genderIT.org. They monitor ICT policies that affect women around the world. You can browse the site by issues that interest you (i.e. education, health, cultural diversity), or by the part of the world that interests you (Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific). They also have site guides tailored to Beginners and Policy Makers.
