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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:
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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.
Twitterings...
- You know it's been a while when you can't remember where HEB is.
- In Austin.
- @slash_Me either, and it seems most of my nights lately have been late ones!
- Loren's mac-n-cheese is bowl-licking goodness!
- Is on her way out!



