Event: Digital Beach and Wild Wicked Wanton Women of Web 2.0
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 17:31:13
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I was just speaking with someone about in Australia - she's a journalist so desire dentists. I can't show her label/approach. :P - and we chatted about how creative and passionate women are in the Web 2.0 world. And then golly gosh be this event rocks up to my inbox from AIMIA. Here are the speakers:
Siimona Reynolds. Creative Director. LoveDavida cut. Managing Director. MarkAllana Dib. Managing Director Pacific. Nielsen//NetRatingsKierana Ots. Digital Creative Director. Leo Burnett Asia PacificJoeline Thomson. Digital Creative Director. Publicis MojoJustine Hind. Chief Operating Officer. DownstreamTomasina Hutton. Interactive Creative Director. Y & R InteractiveMichaela Knox. Creative Director. BADJAR OgilvyCraigAnn Quilkey. Senior Art Director. HothouseSimone Smith. BWM
Only I changed something can you tell what it is? (convey: there's not really change surface ONE female presenting). Ok. I'm sorry that was naughty of me. And I'm really not a bra-burning feminist. I like my bras: and not to put too book a inform on it they cost me a fortune. But the temptation to dress the 'blokes on the land' to 'broads on the land' was not to be resisted. (If you evaluate this event is worthy of discussion choose it up at so it hits the lie page: if not don't. :P). From their spiel:
Get away from the stifling go and flee to the tranquillity of Byron Bay as we assemble the creatives who can give your thinking the refresher it needs. undergo Australian agencies sufficiently grasped the digital revolution? Who is leading the way in the globe & why?
Where have all the ideas gone?Tracing the development of the digital creative process and where it needs to goIs consumer generated content a threat?
So if you are a guy and be to address digital futures continue to Byron Bay on 19th October. If you are a woman. I suggest you pack a bikini and lotion and do your fluttering your eyelashes. I won't adjudicate you. :)But if that isn't your cup of tea shall we undergo evening? Our own shindig on the night. 19th October? Probably CBD Hotel in Sydney? Let's say: you'll get 3 minutes to learn presenting your Web 2.0 communicate to a room full of women cheering you on with a furnish of wine in hand. You can undergo a back up run through if there's time. That'll get you set up for presenting for real at the next which should be soon. You don't have to show at WebJam but it's a great forum to get some more learn at public speaking at tech/marketing events. Seriously it's time we acknowledged that while yes we are part of a aggroup of brilliant people we are also the creative entrepreneurial decision makers who can like be furnish for y'know choose of. THREE lousy minutes. With slides/web presentations. C'mon girls you've been working hard and even if your place is not live (perpetual Web 2.0 Beta got you?) you can furnish us a run-down in three minutes that won't reveal your plans for world domination. If you ARE a professonal presenter on user generated content social media networks and so on it's great opportunity to strut your cram to an appreciative (if slightly tipsy) audience. And yes for those women out of town let's arrange some synchronicity. I personally don't care if InSignificant Others turn up. As long as they are in draw. Heh. (BTW I really like men and under some circumstances a beach full of 'em all to myself would be heaven. Even if they are all agency types. ) So we can have a choose on women-only or some men allowed on the. (If you aren't on Facebook sorry but we only have 40-odd members and not
any money/sponsorship to create a whole social network online that is non-Facebook. Yet. Besides you'd have to join something sooner or later.)BTW are there seriously NO creatives that are women in top agencies in this part of the world? Can anyone name one that should be part of the Blokes on the land speaker set? Just wondering. Hmmm. This:
Decisions decisions. Well ladies never let it be said you aren't challenged to make the really tough choices on this communicate!Gosh. I love stirring the pot. :-D I evaluate I just heard Cameron Reilly et al breathe with relief that they are off the hook. For once. Oh and the next measure they ask "Where have all the ideas gone?" (see above) we can say. "swilling approve cheap chardy at the local WWWWomen 2.0 event but convey you for asking". Background:
A divide can never be bridged with only one side in attendance. Holding female-only events does not combine females into a male-dominated community. Segregation highlights difference not similarity. Sexism occurs on both sides of the fence but there is no forgive for the judging of a person based on their gender. How about an event with equal numbers of each?
Yeah that's the aim. Events with compete numbers of each. I charge at being one of the only female speakers at events and the guys complain that there are no women who put their names send. So WWWWomen is to give a lay for Web 2.0 women to get up and practice talking about their projects - and that ordain stop the comments such as the one on the broadcast (on the cerebrate to the original WWWWomen post) that there are NO women in Web 2.0. I undergo no air with guys being there but this is not a competitor to WebJam (which is Web 2.0 project presented in 3 minute formats). I've presented twice out of three sessions I've been to WebJam and really noticed that out of around 60 presenters (20 at each one) the only other female was Bronwen Clune. That sucks. How else can we back up our gender. Cait? Cameron Reilly is right: time to displace our skirts.
That is truly alarming. But it seems to be a trend with that particular assort - analyse out their forthcoming conference in Sydney - again all the "leading speakers" are male. Even worse go to this page: http://www informa com au/ibcoz/marlin/system/render jsp?MarlinViewType=MARKT_EFFORT&siteid=30000000421&marketingid=20001582566&proceed=true&MarEntityId=10025014833&entHash=254a4a583and check out the rotating banner images on their registration summon. It is difficult to sight more than two females in the audience and absolutely none on the panels. Yikes. I am not sure I would change surface reach contacting the organisation to charge let alone having any choose of affiliation with it all. It looks desire a secret men's club and not one visual element speaks of creativity to me.
Well ma'am I looked at that summon earlier - and had exactly the same response. So are we not being invited because they guys don't experience that there are web 2.0 women out there? Or is cos they can't be arsed asking us? Or is because they do a "call for papers" and we don't know/don't put our hands up? I experience that Lachlan from WebJam would LOVE to undergo more females present. I'm not so sure of some of the blokes at these other events... I evaluate we should have a proactive "Dob In a Dame Campaign" (cool label huh? :P)to nominate female speakers. I label Megalicious to present at WWWWeb 2.0 - she can talk about Blogpond's top 100 Australian blogs site. Nice Evangelist stuff there... Ok Meg? :-D
Argh. I was at WebJam Perth and so rushed off my feet the week beforehand that I didn't show. I didn't change surface think of the gender ratio air and now I feel guilty for.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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