Comments on: What are you doing about diversity?

By: Everything Is Design » Blog Archive » Gender and ethnic diversity in UX, Death of Information Architecture, and . . .Toronto:Chicago, user experience, interaction design, information architecture, usability, Asian American stuff. Mostly.

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:59:56 +0000

[...] Pretty good discussion being brought up on Victor Lombardi’s Noise Between Stations, Zeldman, Anil Dash, Josh Porter’s Bokardo, Kottke, Disambiguity, about the relative dearth of diversity in our workplace but given the country’s climate towards race, ethnicity, immigration, gender, sexuality, class, faith — all the social stratification mechanisms — and most people’s tendency to dismiss out of hand, and a general failure to either explain or dig into the issues, much less do anything about them, I fear it will be shortlived. [...]

By: Rachel Dixon

Rachel Dixon — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:22:56 +0000

i’m with Alex. Too much for me. If I was a stalker it might be interesting, but I was never much of a one for IRC – it simply requires too much time at the keyboard (thus, it’s most useful for programmers and students). I’m afraid the phone is a much more useful substitute in terms of really knowing what people want to tell you.

By: Leith @ Birth of a Startup

Leith @ Birth of a Startup — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:32:28 +0000

Hear! Hear! I agree with your approach totally. Lets not winge, lets just get out there. Getting more women into this space isn’t about forcing the issue, but about being an example that other woman want to follow, intriguing them with the fact its possible to be a woman in technology and that not be a negative thing.

By: leisa.reichelt

leisa.reichelt — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:00:08 +0000

yay Meri! I was wondering who was behind that. Great idea

By: Meri

Meri — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:12:26 +0000

I started Make Me A Speaker!

By: Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » Working with the Architecture of the Space

Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » Working with the Architecture of the Space — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:31:32 +0000

[...] There’s much more to say on this topic and it hooks into a bunch of conversations that have been happening on mailing lists and in blogs. For my own part, I want to work with the social architecture that exists in technology blogging because I don’t see much chance of changing anything if I fight it. Plus, the idea of fighting it makes it seem like an us versus them situation–and that’s definitely not what it is, because everyone benefits if more talented, smart people are able to voice their opinions on technology. I’m also going to take Leisa’s advice and think local. [...]

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:56:40 +0000

I’ve always had a weird relationship with this issue. I work in a male dominated industry (IT) but my profession is probably tipped in favour of females. It’s certainly at least 50/50 if not more.

So, I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing. Hiring people because they are the best person for the job.

By: tech decentral » links for 2007-02-26

tech decentral » links for 2007-02-26 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:29:19 +0000

[...] disambiguity – » What are you doing about diversity? I’m thinking local too… thinking what I can do and what I can get others around me to do. (tags: gender conferences diversity) [...]