I'm sure most of you have heard about the video “HP Computers are Racist” by now, Desi and Wanda have spoken to Mashable about how they discovered the flaw at work and put the video out in a humorous manner to get other people's reaction and insight on the flaw they discovered.

I was born and raised in the projects of New York City, playing video games before they could be played on televisions and designing BBS boards and gopher sites prior to the Web going world wide. As an early adopter and one of the few women of color web designers in the early 90's, I've been involved with tech and networks for over 20 years. 

Around town, I often hear people referring to a tech start-up as just 'two guys in a garage.' But that phrase excludes a gender that, some say, is too often overlooked in the technology industry. In Washington, a number of women are leaving their mark as entrepreneurs, social media enthusiasts an...

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Shireen Mitchell is known for her provocative and insightful style of engaging audiences. She speaks with energy and enthusiasm on the wide array of topics that she covers. She focuses on new trends in technology and social media for the private and public sectors.

Social Media and Networking are considered new technologies. Many get confused and mix them up or exchange as the same in many instances. Social Media exists as tools for social networks. The networks are the people within. The content generated by the networks is the media.

Terms are continuously redefined as new uses of the technologies emerge but think of social media as all of the content (pictures, videos, podcasts, comments, blog posts, etc.) produced by all the people in the network. In this instance the network isn't equipment but people. People in this instance are a community or those you meet if you showed up to a networking event to exchange business cards. The business cards and their stories are the social media content.

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My early years were built around all of the stereotypes one might imagine, as a child born a couple of years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., in the projects of Harlem. My mother divorced my father when I was five and became a "single mom," raising her children in what some considered the ghettos of New York City. This could be a long story, but I won't repeat it here. These early years are not about the stereotypical life I had, it IS about "the secret life" of Geekette '84, who later becomes @digitalsista.