Comments on: on Women talking at technology conferences http://www.identitywoman.net/on-women-talking-at-technology-conferences#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Saving the World With User-Centric Identity Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:50:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: How and why to get women on stage. « A Web 2.0 Wallflower http://www.identitywoman.net/on-women-talking-at-technology-conferences/comment-page-1#comment-273063 How and why to get women on stage. « A Web 2.0 Wallflower Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:04:42 +0000 http://www.identitywoman.net/?p=934#comment-273063 [...] on ladies, as Susan says: promote yourselves!  Kaliya Hamlin, from Identity Woman, points out “Women don’t self-promote like the alpha dog’s in the industry do. Sorry it [...] [...] on ladies, as Susan says: promote yourselves!  Kaliya Hamlin, from Identity Woman, points out “Women don’t self-promote like the alpha dog’s in the industry do. Sorry it [...]

]]> By: orcmid http://www.identitywoman.net/on-women-talking-at-technology-conferences/comment-page-1#comment-216101 orcmid Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:41:53 +0000 http://www.identitywoman.net/?p=934#comment-216101 [Note: The sudden requirement for OpenID Website URI's is way too alpha geeky for me and it leads to Blogger failing and my comment being discarded.] Thank you for posting this. I only know you through group settings such as the Internet Identity Workshops and a Drupal event. I think of you as just being yourself and doing great. You remind me that what we see is no assurance of what you are experiencing. I can understand your trepidation around presentations at conferences and other events. It has me wonder what a speech coach provides beyond presentation skills and practice expressing yourself. Thanks for pointing out how little support and constructive feedback there is. (You may be over-estimating how comfortable the majority of geeks are in similar situations, and it would be useful to check with the ones whose presentation skills you admire around what it is like for them.) Thank you for reminding all of us of the degree to which institutionalized misogyny survives in technology fields, and how toxic it can be. Without the witness of yourself and others like Kathy Sierra, it is easy to be oblivious to what women have to endure. I am ashamed that this is still so deeply rooted in our society. [Note: The sudden requirement for OpenID Website URI's is way too alpha geeky for me and it leads to Blogger failing and my comment being discarded.]

Thank you for posting this. I only know you through group settings such as the Internet Identity Workshops and a Drupal event. I think of you as just being yourself and doing great. You remind me that what we see is no assurance of what you are experiencing.

I can understand your trepidation around presentations at conferences and other events. It has me wonder what a speech coach provides beyond presentation skills and practice expressing yourself. Thanks for pointing out how little support and constructive feedback there is. (You may be over-estimating how comfortable the majority of geeks are in similar situations, and it would be useful to check with the ones whose presentation skills you admire around what it is like for them.)

Thank you for reminding all of us of the degree to which institutionalized misogyny survives in technology fields, and how toxic it can be. Without the witness of yourself and others like Kathy Sierra, it is easy to be oblivious to what women have to endure. I am ashamed that this is still so deeply rooted in our society.

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