Category: Virtual Communities

Virtual Communities, women

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Laura Pasquini

Kudos to all the ladies who engage & contribute to the world of technology.  You continue to influence and inspire those around you.

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Today is Ada Lovelace Day:

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.

Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognized. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech consultants. The list of tech-related careers is endless.   c/o http://findingada.com/

Be sure to celebrate by posting about women who inspire YOU.  Although the numbers are growing , there are less women in technology.  Let’s be sure to recognize those we admire.  Speaking of which, here are just a few of the many women who inspire me:

Collaboration, Social Media, Virtual Communities, web 2.0

Successful Virtual Communities

Laura Pasquini

Here’s the latest video post from Howard Rheingold who writes about cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (term he coined).

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Here is the full video: http://unescochair.blogs.uoc.edu/18022009/rheingoldlargevideo/

It’s pretty straight-forward and summarizes a great deal of what is being discussed and shared by adminstrators & educators within higher education. He presents his thoughts about social media and facilitating online collaborative communities in this clip, which I find very interesting.

Other learning pieces and items by Rheingold that you should check out include: