We’ve been talking about gender and how it intersects with Social Media for awhile now. We’ve talked about whether women keep each other down. We’ve talked about whether women use Social Media to socialize more, and whether women are more supportive while men are more promotional. What if what we have really been talking about is labels, though? In today’s contribution to this series, Dawn Westerberg argues that the only label you have is the one you choose.
For the rest of the series so far:
Here is an overview of the series, and please give a visit to the following posts:
A Glass Ceiling in Social Media? By Daria Giron, aka @mominmanagement
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Oh My! Baby Boomer Women Transition Careers Through Social Media, by Chanelle Schneider aka @writerchanelle
On Facebook, Women Just Want to Have Fun. by Heidi Cohen, aka @heidicohen
Women and Social Media: Supporting Others by Amber Cleveland, aka @ambercleveland
How the Other Half Tweets by Jill Manty, aka @MantyWebDesigns
Three weeks ago, a conversation happened during #Tweetdiner, the weekly chat that I started with Stan Smith. The conversation focused on what we could do to help Japan. Three weeks later, we have a website, a Facebook page, and a registered Twitter hashtag at #care4Japan, and tomorrow begins a week-long Twitter chat that will hopefully raise awareness and drive donations to the American Red Cross.
A few days ago, my friend