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Quick notes from Women Who Tech Telesummit

Monday, March 31st, 2008

4/2 update: See housewifery.wordpress.com/  for live blogging on these and other sessions. [If the telesummit's no longer on the front page, start at this post and look for earlier ones.]
Earlier today, I virtually attended four sessions from the Women Who Tech Telesummit. This free series of webinars brought together some amazing folks thinking about Women [...]

Small step for AAUW tech

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

The Member Services Database allows certain branch and state officers to download a branch roster in CSV format. Sometime earlier this month, some technical issues with the format were corrected so that it can now be used unaltered as a data source for mail-merge documents.
Hooray! [Though this does add one more thing to the TODO [...]

One more twitter detail

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

I’m writing these posts as a way of learning about twitter. If you’re looking for tutorials, check out:

Twitter Primer from Beth Kanter. Lots of info and links like the ones below.
Twitter in Plain English from CommonCraft. A very short video that covers the basics in CommonCraft’s engaging style.
The Big Juicy Twitter Guide from Caroline Middlebrook. [...]

Blog to twitter is working

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Yes, yes. Focusing on using twitter for the very web 1.0-ish purpose of getting messages out from a central source seems to go against the grain. But again, remember the community I’m working with: A minuscule number of current stakeholders are on twitter. [I can only find 5 (count 'em) nationwide. Compare that with nearly [...]

Twitter tutorial for 08NTC

Friday, March 14th, 2008

I’m not headed to New Orleans for next week’s NTEN conference (more’s the pity), but I did crash the twitter tutorial that Rosie de Fremery and Kari Peterson led this afternoon to prep attendees to use twitter at the conference. [The recording of the tutorial is available here.]
I’ve made some corrections to the previous post [...]

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