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January 21, 2010

CEO of Yahoo lambasted for being a woman

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: carol bartz, cea, cell phone, ceo, ces, consumer electronics association, consumer electronics symposium, crystal city, smc, social media club, vegas, yahoo — Lisa Schaefer @ 10:42 am

I went to a Social Media Club networking event at the Consumer Electronics Association headquarters in Crystal City. A few people gave an overview of their international symposium in Vegas last month. The turnout wasn’t as large as some of the previous Social Media Club events, but it was still a nice venue and I chatted with some interesting people.

One woman I met ran her own local news site for three years in Silver Spring. She shut the operation down last week and is looking into new ventures. The guy sitting in front of us works in hyperlocal advertising – small local shops target the people who live in their neighborhood.

Two of the presentations discussed new electronics coming out in 2010. It’s nice to hear about them, but I never buy the newest stuff. I always wait for the price of the whole technology to go down. My cell phone doesn’t even have any web capability. I wouldn’t use it enough to be worth paying the money.

The other presentation was about how social media was used to get symposium attendees to interact with the vendors and with each other. Sadly, the interaction that stood out was the derogatory tweets about Carol Bartz, female CEO of Yahoo.

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December 18, 2009

I feel so popular

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: browncoats, bus boys and poets, business cards, citygirlblogs, cookoff, dc, doorman, facebook, glamor, janitor, media makers, pizza, popular, sex in the city, social media club, spanish, urban — Lisa Schaefer @ 11:43 am

I feel all popular and urban because last night I had two parties/meetups to go to. First I went to the DC MediaMakers talk about the Browncoats movie. Then I could’ve either gone to Bus Boys and Poets – a really cool hangout/restaurant or to the Social Media Club’s holiday cookoff. I chose the cookoff.

When I arrived, the doorman was gone and the elevators require an access card to get to the floor where the cookoff was going on. A glamorous woman arrived at the same time I did. Some people were getting off the elevators, but didn’t have access cards for the right floor. Then the janitor got off another elevator. I asked him if he could get us to the fourth floor. He didn’t seem to understand me. So the glamorous woman spoke to him in beautiful Spanish. He took us to the fourth floor as Ms. Glamorous continued to speak to him in very pleasant Spanish.

I got her business card – I was feeling liberal with the business cards yesterday, since I was going to a Social Media event. I gave a card to someone on the metro who was having a conversation about sending a message around Facebook about a small concert she wanted to put on with her friends.

Ms. Glamorous writes citygirlblogs, which is a Sex In The City-esque story. The business card says it’s all true, but the story says she’s moving in with a guy she’s known for eight days. She seemed a little too smart to do that, so I’m not buying it.

Several other people from MediaMakers also horned in on the end of the cookoff. I missed pretty much the entire cookoff, but there was plenty of very good pizza left. And I made a few new Facebook friends; people I’ve seen several times at these events.

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