I am in San Diego at a National Women’s History Alliance meeting. Do you know about the Justice Bell. Did not this morning. Now I do. A copy of the Liberty Bell made by suffragists to tour around on a flat bed truck as a draw for suffragists speeches, over a 100 years ago. We […]
Women's Councils and Committees of the Late 19th Century
Women’s History Month tributes and mentions often gloss over the time period between the Seneca Falls gathering of 1848 and what we might be tempted to think was the resumption of the suffragist movement of the early 20th Century. Of course individual women, often the same ones, are mentioned over and over every year. But […]
BlogHer: Community v. Corporate Identity
FACTS When I want to know how a company is structured, who owns it, and other basic facts about it, I go to government filings that all corporations have to file. Bloomberg captures the essence of these filings in their research snapshots. This snapshot of SheKnows, LLC is available here. BlogHer is not listed, as it […]
Women Who Curate and Publish – Part 2
In the first part of this multi-part article, I discussed how blogging may no longer be the best word to describe online writing. I “grokked” this emergent property of the communication system, a complex system, when I attended BAMC16 – The 2016 Bloggers at Midlife Conference, in Las Vegas Nevada – last month. Well, I […]
Quintessential Self-Publishing With WordPress
WordPress Background I was in Phoenix this past weekend for a beta version of a WordPress conference for bloggers called Press Publish. This is major news. At least 1 in 5 websites in the world, and it is approaching 1 in 4, run on WordPress. Wordpress has had gatherings called WordCamps beginning in 2006. I did […]
I've Missed You
I miss this blog! I miss my readers. I miss my topics. In case you don’t know, I am working on a new site called the Women’s Legacy Project. It is more focused on a certain topic and a certain demographic than this free-for-all that is my life and my quest for a fair trade […]