{"id":464,"date":"2008-02-08T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T00:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=464"},"modified":"2008-02-08T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T00:16:13","slug":"i-am-woman-hear-me-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2008\/02\/08\/i-am-woman-hear-me-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"I am woman, hear me speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?\u201d &#8211; Rabbi Hillel<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Diversity at business, and especially social media, conferences. Still a concept more than a reality, and quite frankly, it feels like we&#8217;ve been pushing this rock uphill forever. This week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipsticking.com\/2008\/02\/x-chromosome-we.html\">Lena West<\/a> started the ball rolling again over at Lipsticking, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/lena-is-tired-of-my-face-do-we-need-more-female-speakers\/\">Jeremiah Owyang<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/workerbeesblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/familiar-topic-raises-its-head-women.html\"> Elisa Camahort<\/a> both joined the fray. And now me.<\/p>\n<p>As we all have <a href=\"https:\/\/getgood.typepad.com\/getgood_strategic_marketi\/2006\/08\/open_your_eyees.html\">before.<\/a> More times than any of us wishes. <\/p>\n<p>Read their posts. Read the comments. There are so many people speaking eloquently on this subject&#8230; again &#8230; that I don&#8217;t have much to add. <\/p>\n<p>Except the following: <strong>VOTE WITH YOUR FEET<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stop going to conferences that do not embrace diversity. And not just gender. A conference full of white faces, whether they are male or female, does not embrace our population. Online or off. <\/p>\n<p>Tell the organizers why you won&#8217;t attend &#8230; sponsor &#8230; exhibit. <\/p>\n<p><strong>It will not change if we do not <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">stop<\/span> talking about it and <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">start<\/span> doing something. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For all these reasons, and many more,\u00a0 I embraced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogher.com\/\">BlogHer<\/a> from the beginning and am so proud to be part of that community. Man or woman, I urge you to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogher.com\/have-you-checked-out-blogher-business-agenda-lately\">BlogHer Business<\/a> this April in NYC and BlogHer in San Francisco in July. <\/p>\n<p>One of the sessions I&#8217;m part of at BlogHer Business is a panel on &quot;Improve this Pitch.&quot; We will be focusing on pitches to bloggers\u00a0 that are ok but could stand some improvement.\u00a0 No worries though, we promise to share some really bad pitches for your enjoyment as well. Including the crappiest pitch ever. Really. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also doing a case study with Victoria Naffier from HP and Liz Gumbinner, Mom-101, about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/united-states\/consumer\/digital_photography\/blog\/index.html?jumpid=re_R602_prodexp\/dp\/split\/outlet_rm\">blogger outreach<\/a> programs for HP Photo Books last fall.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Another conference I urge you to check out is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcommforum.com\/2008\/\"> New Comm Forum <\/a>in Santa Rosa, California at the end of April. I&#8217;ll be moderating the luncheon keynote on the first day, a panel of alumni from the conference coming back to share how they used the knowledge gained at the conference in their organizations. Planning to come to New Comm? Next year, it could be you. <\/p>\n<p><small>Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/BlogHer\">BlogHer<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/BlogHer+Business\">BlogHer Business<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/New+Comm+Forum\">New Comm Forum<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/HP\">HP<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/HP+Photo+Books\">HP Photo Books<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/gender\">gender<\/a><\/small><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?\u201d &#8211; Rabbi Hillel Diversity at business, and especially social media, conferences. 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