Blogging for Business – an ATW panel

Last week I went to an Alliance of Technology and Women (that's ATW for short) panel on Blogging for Business.  I really enjoyed it, and learned quite a bit about blogging (I thought *I* was a blogger!) and how some are using blogging to benefit their business. 

 Admittedly, I wasn't sure what to expect from the event, but it was being hosted at my company, and the invitation to attend had come from our super nice admin - but I lost it in my mail box during my recent head cold-ness & ear infection sickness.  A nice coworker reminded me of it, and said there was free food & drinks.  I'm there!

I'm glad I went,  the event was great.  The food was good, the people were very nice, and the panelists were entertaining and enlightening!  On the panel were:

• Robin Stavinsky – New Venture Marketing
• Paul Rosenfeld – Quickbooks Online
• John Earnhardt – Cisco
• Tara Hunt – Riya.com
• Britt Bravo – Nonprofit consultant & motivator of social good

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An OpenSource Solution to Yahoo Groups?

As you may know, I’ve been working for quite some time on putting together some sites using open source technologies. I started this site on Mambo, moved it Joomla, and am now using Gallery, extCal, and some others to make everything work. I’ve also got a couple of other sites going, including www.friendsofaclc.com and a site for Loren’s Ultimate Frisbee team, which is a major work in progress and isn’t quite presentable yet. (if you really want to see it – it’s currently at www.jenndiesi.com/darkmeatultimate.)

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Mapping the Music Genome?

Check out Pandora, a small start-up who’s been working to find a way to bring you music that you’ll like.  Pandora analyzes everything that makes up a song and uses that information to create "stations" based on what it thinks you’ll like.  After setting up some stations, and telling it which songs I liked and didn’t like, it did a pretty good job of finding music that I’d like.  It reminded me of Tivo’s thumbs up/thumbs down functionality. 

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