Topic: Allyson Kapin

Too Few Women in Tech? Stop Playing the Blame Game

You ask the question, "Why aren't there enough women in tech or launching startups?" From some you get answers like, "Because it's an exclusive white boys club." But others say, "Not true! It's because women don't promote their expertise enough and they are more risk averse." How can we truly address the lack of women in tech and startups if we continue to play this silly blame game? READ»

Startups: An "Alpha Male Pissing-Contest?"

Why aren't enough women seeking angel and VC money? And why aren't more women-led startups getting funded? Consider these little known facts:Women-run tech startups generate more revenue per invested capital and fail less then those ...READ»

Allyson Kapin, founder of Women Who Tech

Kapin founded Women Who Tech, which encourages collaboration and community among women in tech by hosting annual telesummits and webinars throughout the year.READ»

Lap Dances at Yahoo's Hack Days? A Lesson in Monitoring a Global Brand

"Scantily clad gyrating women" who give lap dances to men on your company's dime can damage your brand within seconds. Who's in the hot seat today? Yahoo! It appears that Hack Days are quite a different experience in Taiwan ...READ»

Where are the Women in Tech and Social Media?

When you look around the room at a tech or social media conference what do you see? Are the panels filled with a diverse group of tech and social media experts? Chances are they are probably filled with white men. So why is that a ...READ»

Women Who Tech Telesummit Today

Defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games; hundreds of women are gearing up for the second annual "Women Who Tech" international telesummit on May 12 at ...READ»

The Joys of Facebook’s Redesign

Facebook has redesigned their site again hoping to squash some complaints that the site is cluttered and not user-friendly. Did Facebook succeed with the new redesign and create a clean site with an intuitive interface and good ...READ»

The Death of Web 2.0?

The term Web 2.0 is getting a bad wrap these days. Some influential bloggers are tired of hearing the term being thrown around left and right and of people marketing themselves as Web 2.0 experts. On Valentine’s Day TechCrunch ...READ»

Congress Jumps on the Web 2.0 Bandwagon

There’s a cultural shift happening on Capitol Hill. Thanks to President Obama and newer Members of Congress who have demonstrated how to successfully connect with supporters using Web 2.0 tools, more and more Congressional Members ...READ»

Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock

In December, Fast Company published an article called "The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0" featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 world. The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des ...READ»

Can Ford's New Social Media Strategy Help It Become the Leading Social Automotive Brand?

On a December Wednesday morning Scott Monty, Ford Motor Company’s social media strategist (aka Global Digital and Multi-Media Communications Manager) woke up to a potential PR nightmare and it had nothing to do with the bailout. ...READ»

Will Twitter Become The Next Friendster In 2009?

Remember when Friendster was the bee’s knees? Then it was beaten out of the market by MySpace. Facebook and YouTube fever came next. Now it’s Twitter - the micro-blogging platform has revolutionized the way over 3 million monthly ...READ»

Technology and Social Media Help Fight Tough Times

Times are tough and no matter how bad things get, I believe technology and social media will transform the world. When disaster strikes, people who work in technology and social media jump in and pool their network’s skill sets to ...READ»

8 Experts Predict How Web 2.0 Will Evolve In 2009

With the economy in a slump and budgets being cut in traditional print and TV advertising campaigns many will be looking to the Web 2.0 world to reach their constituents. So what should be on your Web 2.0 radar for 2009? Web 2.0 gurus give you the low down.READ»

Motrin's Pain: Viral Video Disaster

Hell hath no fury... Motrin's new viral video campaign - implying that moms who carry their babies around in slings do so to be fashionable - has provoked a veritable storm of criticism.READ»

Sexist, Sexist and More Sexist: Digg Responds to Fast Company's Women in Web 2.0

"Insert female porn star name here," "You can probably fit a bus in her vag," "There are no women on the Internet." The responses elicited by Fast Company's Women in Web 2.0 article on Digg prove that sexism in Silicon Valley is alive and kicking.READ»

• The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

Obama's First Web 2.0 Moves

soon after Barack Obama and Joe Biden were elected they launched Change.gov, a website to support their transition and highlight their agenda on issues ranging from helping the economy to fixing our health care system.READ»

How Social Media Got Out the Vote

There was a lot of coverage about how the candidates used — or didn't use — social media to garner supporters. But what about how social media sites galvanized their members to go out and vote? From imeem to Facebook, here are a few examples.READ»

• How to Build A Brand Like Obama
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Twitter Vote Report Offers Real-Time Democracy on Election Day

Voters across the U.S. will have a nifty tool at their disposal on Election Day to report their voting experiences through TwitterVoteReport.com, a new monitoring platform co-developed by the blog techPresident and an all volunteer ...READ»

Is the Original Blogging Dead?

In the tech world, where tools and gadgets are way cool one day and so 2004 the next, is blogging really dead? According to Paul Boutin, who ironically writes for the Sillicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, blogging is out and being ...READ»

Embracing Your Power

Fed up with tech conferences that rarely represent women on panels and constantly reading news articles about technology that seldom quote women tech experts (as if we don’t exist), I started Women Who Tech. The group brings ...READ»

Can the Wisdom of the Crowds Help Us Through the Downturn?

As mainstream media becomes more open to tapping into the blogosphere and even the Twittersphere during this collapse; news and analysis are becoming two-way conversations.READ»

Cool Projects That Can Change the World

Knight Foundation News Challenge "You invent it. We fund it." This is the Knight Foundations News Challenge slogan which will award $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news and ...READ»