Category Archives: Web 2.0

I’ll admit to a bias towards technology drivers for fundamental change.

Supreme Court case on pay equity decision announced

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From FeminstLawProf.org:

Today’s 5-4 decision ruling against a woman bringing a pay equity case is available here. [Read more]

While the article itself is of interest, you might want to know how I found it. I’ve got my RSS reader watching Technorati for “high authority” blogs mentioning pay equity. The Feminist Law Professors Blog, administered by Ann Bartow of the Univ. of South Carolina School of Law, is one that we may want to watch for other ties to AAUW issues — the previous post, for instance, is on sexual harassment.

Google groups?

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Yahoo! groups have, of course, been around for years, and many AAUW communities use them for mailing lists and some use their file storage and general web site features. Indeed, nearly 50 AAUW-related communities are listed in the directory.
Somewhat newer is Google groups. On a quick look today, I found two AAUW related groups — one for International Fellows and another labeled “AAUWbookgroup” that seems to have been an experiment that isn’t going very far. Note that Google also indexes Usenet newsgroups like alt.feminism (full list matching aauw).

Web 2.0 and NCCWCSL

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From Nancy to contacts involved in state student advisory councils and NCCWCSL, 5/16:

Audrey, Lynn – have the topics of SecondLife, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. come up with any of the student advisory council folks?

Terri – is this something that’s going to be touched upon at NCCWSL (I know in 2005 there was a blogroll developed but things have moved pretty far beyond that).

From Andrea Minkow, 5/17:

For this years conference we have utilized facebook as a tool for organizing and outreach.  It has been successful for the SAC students and their cohort to communicate about the conference.  It is going to be my recommendation that we expand this type of communication/outreach effort for next years conference.

We are also planning on having a cyber cafe on site at the conference.  We want students to be able to blog, etc.  I like the idea of posting tweets, but I am not sure how to work this from the back end – maybe you can help me set this up?  Any additional recommendations on how to enhance this part of the programming are more than welcome!

Other ideas:

  • Encourage attendees to tag conference related web info with “nccwcsl” (or whatever the current style guide says) in del.icio.us. They could tag their blogs with this if they’re comfortable with making those addresses public to those who know about the nccwcsl tag.
  • Setup accounts (and perhaps a special board) at http://discuss.aauw.org for the attendees — so that those who don’t have their own blog would have somewhere to put comments/questions and connect with each other after the conference.
  • Podcasting short interviews (or longer sessions) with the attendees. Would require someone with facility as an “interviewer”.

All of these  are hypothetical at this point — and the attendees themselves may have better ways to use the ‘net to share what’s happening at the conference, to both build community among the attendees, share the excitement with those who may wish to attend next year, and make the whole thing “real” to the AAUW members who may be convinced to increase their support.

If any of these ideas “work” for NCCWCSL, perhaps there’s still time to apply the best of them to the AAUW Convention in Phoenix. See, in particular, the podcasts from the STC (Society for Technical Communications) conference: techwritervoices.com