Posts Tagged ‘geoff livingston’

Gratitude and a Look at the Hard Knocks Myself and Some of My Peers Face in Technology

This is going to be way different from any other blog post I’ve written here. You all know that sometimes I get personal, or raise issues that concern me – that’s not news.

But today, I was getting organized to add some content to Traffic Reality and came across a post by Geoff Livingston (author of Now is Gone and kind of a big deal in the social media and PR world. I interviewed him about his company being acquired right before the last time I got sick and I’m definitely uploading that this week.)

His thoughts completely derailed any attempts I was going to make to get my work done in a timely fashion. Instead, I’m going to take a moment to speak out on women, people of color & those with physical challenges being snubbed, dissed, overlooked or ignored in social media specifically and technology in general.

If that isn’t your cup of tea, it’s probably a good idea to stop reading here. But if you’ve got any feelings on those issues, consider this my attempt at continuing the dialogue Geoff started.
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