Lisa Williams

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

    7/18/08 11:38pm by Lisa Williams
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    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?"    Read more >

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

    7/14/08 2:42pm by Lisa Williams
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    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.  Read more >

  3. Why BlogHer is the Best Conference Ever

    7/3/08 1:29pm by Lisa Williams
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    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.  Read more >

  4. Give a Better Presentation!

    9/1/07 11:33am by Lisa Williams
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    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?  Read more >

  5. Got Trolls? Managing Comments on Your Blog

    7/28/07 1:55pm by Lisa Williams
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    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:  Read more >

Lisa Williams

Full Name
Lisa Williams
Member Since
March 2006
About Me: 
I run a site called Placeblogger, which lets you find blogs near you. I also run H2otown, a community site for Watertown, MA, where I live with my husband and two children. I've worked for national and regional media companies on blogging and online community. I've been blogging on my personal weblog since 2000.
 

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