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Title:

Social Media Women of Color

Your vote:
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Organizer:
Shireen Mitchell, Digital Sisters/ Women Wired In/ Social Medi Women of Color
Description:
The social media space has been bursting at the seems with women bloggers, twitters, vloggers, and podcasters. However, until recently the question about where are the women of color social media experts went unnoticed until recent online polls sparked a few social media debates. The audience will explore if social networks/social media are really extensions of existing real world networks or does it break the diversity barriers.
Questions
Answered:
  1. Are Social Networks Expanding or becoming self segregation?
  2. Are Your Social Networks offline exactly the same as your networks online?
  3. Who should do the reaching out? the women in the space or the people organizing and seen as leaders in the social web?
  4. Who are the women of color in the social web?
  5. How do we measure social media roi when it doesn't include women & communities of color?
  6. What are social media strategies for diverse population?
  7. What does crowd sourcing look like when it's mostly women of color?
  8. Does mobile really include these communities in the social web?
  9. What are the real numbers of women of color online versus those engaged in social networks?
  10. Where do you find those Social Media Women of Color "experts"
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Community / Online Community, History of Technology, New Technology / Next Generation, Social Issues, Social Networking
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Emily Cavalier
on 17/8/09
So excited to see this in the choices! voting for you - let me know how else I can support you! @emilyspearl
Leslie Poston
on 17/8/09
Similar panels up for vote this year - wonder how we can cross promote each other. You rock, as always :) I am so going to this.
Keidra Chaney
on 17/8/09
Fantastic panel idea and so needed. As a woman of color social media professional I always feel marginalized. I SO hope this gets picked.
@kdc
Adele McAlear
on 17/8/09
Go Shireen! Voted!
Megan Smith
on 19/8/09
Very excited about this panel!
Joanne Bamberger
on 20/8/09
This should be a great panel. One thing I'd love to see addressed is how we can look past our respective skin colors and see people for the life and family diversity experiences, as well.
Andrea Baker
on 20/8/09
I really feel that if we don't bring up a whole theme of diversity in 2010, we are failing ourselves.
Jiz Lee
on 20/8/09
Sounds great! I was at SXSWi last year and noticed a real lack of racial/ethnic/cultural diversity for many panels. I hope that this panel gets picked and that the conversations it creates (#10 especially) will help SXSWi take that direction.
Latoya Peterson
on 23/8/09
Great questions posed here. Hope to see you there!
April Davis
on 1/9/09
Great idea. I voted yes.

Please check out my presentation and the links below.

Thanks ... April

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http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3326

http://blog-aroundharlem.com/2009/09/01/help-put-harlem-on-the-world-stage-digitally-vote-for-us-to-attend-sxsw/
Faith Dow
on 1/9/09
Well I had to invite Shireen to participate in my panel because she's so awesome!

Black Female Bloggers and the Future of Media

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3198
Tara Conley
on 2/9/09
Voted yes!
Ivan Boothe
on 4/9/09
*So* thrilled about this panel.

Some folks might feel motivated to vote for this panel out of a sense of guilt, but I think that's a poor motivation. Addressing issues of gender and race in how we -- and too often "we" are white men -- use and organize in the social web isn't just about charity. Figuring out how to make web 2.0 collaborative for everyone, and when we might need to step back or structure things differently to make it happen, will not only make us better people, but better techies as well.

This is critical for anyone who considers him- or herself a social media expert. You're no expert until you've engaged on these issues.

A big, big, big vote yes!
Shireen Mitchell
on 4/9/09
a huge thank you to everyone that voted! this is such a neccessary topic and Ivan summed it up, this is about expanding what collaborative truly means in social media and web 2.0.
Jon Pincus
on 4/9/09
great panel ... and totally agree with Andrea's point above about the importance of bringing up diversity.
Los Arqueros
on 26/11/09
this is an interesting panel - the conclusions drawn from the second point on the list will provide some great pointers.
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