a tech swirl

14:00 for those that don't know Erika: http://bit.ly/9NFC02 she is so assume & is moving into ai: virtual models in tech #woc #tech #awesomeness #
13:54 main reason I was happy going to alwayson conference not b/c I was honored but meeting Erica Alexander #woc #tech http://flic.kr/p/8o2eJe #
00:32 @IdeaGov ok I've seen your avatar but never paid attention to the name until I tried to r.t and then I was just confused. great idea! #

 A few weeks ago AlwaysOn posted "The Lack of Women in Tech," it's an interesting read and includes a few articles that discuss some of the issues in the tech field about these challenges. Challenges that I have been fully aware of as a techie who speaks across the country about this issue. The article is a good read and has some resources you should check out.
 

The challenges with the social web and the aggregation of content is that there isn't a simple way to do it at this point. There are a lot of social media tools and various apps but they may not all be connected to you. Here is an example:

Some of these seem like no brainers to me but I'm never sure how others feel about it. I find the parents "should friend their children" an interesting one because there is current ongoing debates about whether "children will actually friend" their parents and how much they will use the privacy settings to filter out what their parents actually see. These are especially interesting to me because I see so many links to "parents" and "children" in the relationship boxes.

Don't overlook the privacy controls is "true" but are we all clear as parents how these can be used to filter out parenting? Just curious.

I will still say there is "No Tech fix for human behavior" and no matter what we think technology can do It will never change the good or potentially bad uses of it for those that want to use it for such purposes. Your job is to remember that every time you post information about yourself.

This debate will never end. And there is more challenging things to discuss.

See original: 7 things to stop doing on facebook now: privacy parenting and more

During SXSW there were so many discussions that I had with so many great people. One discussion included @SheilaS @womenwhotech @jillfoster @lizstrauss and a few others. We brieifly discussed some of the challenges for some women which included "the fear of failing". Through some of my own lessons and working wth clients in social media I can share why we should all take another look at failure as a road to success. 

This question is common in social media in my opinion. So many "experts" are working to target broad communities. However, when you have an expertise in (as some of us have) niche, diverse and smaller community engagement platforms, the social media campaign design landscape becomes very narrow and different. The basic concept of Twitter and Facebook no longer work to the chagrin of some that see that strategy as the "end all, be all".

What I will admit is that becoming diverse in your content and strategy lends yourself to becoming more valuable. However, ultimately, I believe you need to be both! Flexible and ambidextrous is my recommendation.

From my Amplify post.

See original: Specialize or Generalize, which do you choose? via @andrew_hahn POV of @digitalsista