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Just in case you were thinking maybe the sexism in tech was drawing to a close...

by Lisa Williams at 1:38am Sat, 19 Jul 2008 under
Check out this comment made by a visitor to Jessica Livingston's blog, responding to the question, "Why are there so few women founders of tech companies?"  

"Mother" is not code for "knows nothing about computers"

I'm spending the summer in Boulder away from my husband and children in Boston, where I'm working on a web startup with Blogheristas Susan Mernit and Catherine Taylor. Boulder is a great town for tech meetups. Pretty much every week you can go somewhere to see people demo alpha or unreleased software or web services.

Why BlogHer is the Best Conference Ever

BlogHer is great for lots of reasons -- it's a conference where the speakers are just as amazing as the crowd, which is, in a word, stellar. However, I have very personal reasons for thinking BlogHer is the best conference ever. Today, I am one of the three cofounders of a web startup that has a woman CEO, a woman CTO, and a woman COO.

Give a Better Presentation!

Want to give a better presentation? I give a lot of them. Here are my best tips. See below for a printable one-page checklist that will put everything you need to get ready for a talk from your drycleaning to your Powerpoint on a single sheet of paper. Lisa’s Presentation Tips How many slides should I have?

Got Trolls? Managing Comments on Your Blog

I'm at a panel discussion on community at Blogher and the issue of having a comment policy has come up. I did a bunch of research on this topic, so here's a summary: After reviewing a ton of blog policies, I discovered three basic types of comment policy: