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Professionally Naked: What Women Gain From Exposing Ourselves Online

Event Interactive 2010
Format Panel
Organizer Melissa Gira Grant melissagira.com
Description Can you be sexual and professional online, even if sex isn't your job? However women get naked online - in revealing photos, or in revealing our lives - we draw scrutiny and judgment. From blogging to porn, these panelists push the lines of "respectable" behavior with honesty and success.
Questions
Answered
  1. What's the difference between being naked and being professional?
  2. When is being naked online an asset to your professional life?
  3. Who are the forebearers of getting naked, vulnerable, and personal online & where are they now?
  4. How can you ever be totally professional if blogging & having a life online is part of your job?
  5. Why is it a mistake to call any revelation of your personal life online "oversharing"?
  6. Why is negotiating the boundary between "public" & "private" easier when you've really pushed it?
  7. How can you make a career based on your honesty/openness without totally exploiting yourself?
  8. What do we say to the people who think women have to expose themselves online to get "ahead"?
  9. What do we miss out on when we get too caught up in "being professional"?
  10. And why is having a naked photo of you online not the worst thing in the world for your reputation?
Level Intermediate
Category Blogging, Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Career / Work Concerns, Case Study, Social Issues