Putting Smart Women in New Media

June 26, 2010

Meetup in person to talk about virtual social media applications

I went to a CareerSocial meetup run by Paul Worsham. We discussed the usual Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. I told them I was building a theater in Second Life to show clips from my movie, Budget Justified. Second Life is rarely discussed in social media forums. But when I bring it up, it seems that many people play in Second Life socially.

Another new social technology tool that was mentioned was Four square. I had never heard of it before. Probably because it’s for fancy phones, which I don’t have. One guy even mentioned Meetup as a social media application.

One of the guys there had an iPad, so I got to see how that worked. When my laptop gets old, I might want something like an iPad, but I’d probably rather have a small laptop. That’s at least a year away, so I may want something that’s not even available yet.

June 25, 2010

35th Anniversary of AAUW Lobby Corps – reception on Capitol Hill

I went to a nice event on Capitol Hill this evening to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the American Association of University Women lobby corps. I volunteered on the lobby corps for almost three years. It was one of those things that I didn’t have a lot of fun doing, but I was really glad I did it for the learning experience of how things work on Capitol Hill and how service organizations interact with Congress.

I hadn’t seen several of the AAUW members in awhile. But it was good to discuss Budget Justified with them and offer to give a talk about it at their meetings in the fall.

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