Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
Creative Camp: Kilkenny 8 March
I’ve signed up for Creative Camp 08 in Kilkenny this year, just to top off Blog Week (because, you know, I won’t be busy enough for those nine days.)
I’m presenting with a brilliant group of women on a panel called Grabbing the Blogsphere by the Balls. Normally I am resistant to all-girl panels, but since this one is addressing issues like, well, all girl panels, I thought it would be worth a whirl.
We’re still hashing that one out, but I think it’s going to be a roundtable looking at things like poor female turnout at tech events, representation of female speakers, credibility and blogging, and women bloggers in general.
Which, obviously, got me thinking about gender and blogging, and since I’m going to be there anyway, I decided to offer up a talk called How To Blog Like a Boy. As it says in the description:
Women come to blogging from a different socialisation, communication and linguistic background than male bloggers, and enter a slightly different ecosystem with distinct advantages and disadvantages. “How to Blog Like a Boy” looks at how women can free their voices, raise their blog profiles, and position themselves as a bloggers of authority in Ireland.
There is actually a lot of interesting research around socialisation (women are raised with a disproportionately high emphasis on niceness) and lingusitics (we’re masters of the hedge statement) that I think are reflected in interesting ways in how we blog, and have consequences for how we’re perceived.
So no, it isn’t really how to blog like a boy. It’s a look at (among other things) the predominantly female characteristics of language and interaction that are not doing us any favours in the blogsphere (or the rest of our lives) and how to shake them out of our writing and communication.
And yes, kittens will be killed.
On the plus side, no tea will be served, so people of all genders are welcome to attend.
28 Jan 2008
| In: Events + Ireland + Social Networks |
i won’t make it to the camp, Sabrina, but would love to read what you have to say, it sounds great. any chance you’d consider posting it here afterwards?
28.01.2008, 10:41 pmoh, sounds very interesting, who else will you be panelling with?
31.01.2008, 9:21 pm