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Anne Dougherty — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:14:04 -0400

A good, balanced look at the problems facing the tech community, and women in it. There are plenty of women out there who are on the leading, bleeding edge of all aspects of technology and social media. It's past time to shed some light on them too.

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Anne Dougherty — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:24:19 -0400

Women in technical roles definitely need to strive to be more visible. I think we have reached that stage where a lot of us are now battling the sub-rosa self-discrimination that says: I broke through. I'm doing work that I love. What does it matter if I'm not considered "elite" enough to get recognized. The people who "matter" know I do good work. Toot your own horn!

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Anne Dougherty — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:23:57 -0400

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Anne Dougherty — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:05:18 -0500

You make some very good points about the futility of providing the infrastructure (ie: the potential to have broadband access) without having the means to participate in the infrastructure. The other piece that really needs to be considered, though, is the restrictions that the companies who will be getting the subsidies are legally able to put on how a customer uses that access.

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Anne Dougherty — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:49:57 -0500

I think you've hit the change points right on the head, Allyson. Twitter has the potential to challenge Facebook: It has all the best of FB (updates from your posse) without any of the disadvantages (no ads telling you to lose weight or try our dating service; no one asking you to plant a rose bush). What Twitter doesn't seem to have is a coherent business plan. I don't see installed software going anywhere (maintaining your own servers is so 2002!) but there's definitely a null space for another tool to develop. Definitely interesting times.

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Anne Dougherty — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:36:06 -0500

We're definitely at a tipping point with Web 2.0 companies (whatever you take web 2.0 to mean). We've seen a glut of social networking tools and sites yet there are huge communities that are still under served - social networking for seniors? for single women over 50 not looking for a mate? for childless couples in their 30s and 40s? - and I think in order for web 2.0 to remain viable those communities will need to be tapped.

As well, aggregation is going to have to get more specific and controllable for content producers at all levels.

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Anne Dougherty — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:27:04 -0500

Interesting post, Allyson. Part of the issue with declaring change.gov "web 2.0" is the lack of consensus on what exactly constitutes web 2.0 From a content strategy perspective you're totally right, it's about engagement (then again, I've been hanging around the 'net long enough to know that good content strategy has always been about engagement even when we were doing it via 1200 baud modem and it was green text on black) but from a development perspective it's about how you do that engagement. I'm just glad I got to see the site before they pulled all the substance.

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Anne Dougherty — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:37:54 -0400

It's nice to see concrete examples of how these tools can be used to do more than serve customized ad content. It's also comforting in the face of predictions that "the web" has become one big shopping mall that disparately developed tools can be used together so effectively.