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Tara Hunt

San Francisco
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www.horsepigcow.com

About: I'm one of the BarCampBlock organizers and the co-founder of Citizen Agency.

What are your favorite websites? Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Eventbrite, Etsy, gDocs, Ma.gnolia, BlogHer, Pandora, SlideShare, PostSecret, Techmeme
What do you do when you AREN'T online? Offline? Read, travel, pilates, be a mom of a teenager
Are you working on a startup? Which one? What's it about? Yes. Citizen Agency. Writing a book, which is like a startup.
List your 'tags' here community, marketing, happiness, gift economy, open source
What are you planning on presenting on (or leading a discussion on)? The Gift Economy
How did you find out about BarCampBlock? I organized it.

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Blog Posts

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This Week’s Links on Ma.gnolia

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Some stuff I’m reading this week… Digital Domain - The Forces Driving Women Out of Computer Science - NYTimes.com When one looks at co...

What I ‘Do’ For a Living

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The most common conversation I have when I go to an event goes somewhere along these lines: New acquaintance: “Tara, I see your name everywhe...

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Some stuff I’m reading this week… Renamed WiFi Networks Guilt Freeloaders Into Buying Coffee » Adrants This is truly brilliant. Daily...

The True Value of Social Media Consultants

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The other day, I was in a meeting with a group of very smart people and we were talking about how to discern a ‘great’ social media con...

This Week’s Links on Ma.gnolia

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Some stuff I’m reading this week… Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret Sometimes I send messages I sho...

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Some stuff I’m reading this week… twittergram Send your Flickr pix to Twitter and show people what you’re up to. To disable post...

Bookmarks:

"Prop 8 - The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more... from FOD Team, Jack Black, Craig Robinson, John C Reilly, and Rashida Jones

"Prop 8 - The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more... from FOD Team, Jack Black, Craig Robinson, John C Reilly, and Rashida Jones

A star-studded cast turns out for "Prop 8 - The Musical."

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Anger in the office: Its effect could depend on your gender | View from the Cubicle | TechRepublic.com

Anger in the office: Its effect could depend on your gender | View from the Cubicle  			| TechRepublic.com

Guess who was rated significantly less competent than all the others? Yup, the angry female CEO. Brescoll noted that the group said they viewed angry females as significantly more “out of control.”

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En-gendering the next great Web Retail revolution? - broadstuff

En-gendering the next great Web Retail revolution?  - broadstuff

Women represent a good half of the number of users of the web and even more on social networks. They make over 80% of all real world consumer purchases and according to a recent survey conducted by Mastercard run across 7 countries recently, women now shop more online than men – though they spend less. Some of the reasons for this being security issues and bad website design.

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DDN Headline: European women more internet savvy than men, EU report shows

DDN Headline:  European women more internet savvy than men, EU report shows

European women have overtaken men in their Internet take-up, a report published on 14 February suggested

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Bias Study Sees Few Gains for Female Leaders | workforce.com

Bias Study Sees Few Gains for Female Leaders | workforce.com

Multiple research studies show that men and women exhibit similar leadership styles, according to Catalyst. Another "double-bind" dilemma, the group says, is that female leaders face higher standards than male leaders and are rewarded with less. Then there's the "competent but disliked" quandary, Catalyst says. "When women exhibit traditionally valued leadership behaviors such as assertiveness, they tend to be seen as competent but not personable or well-liked," Catalyst said in a summary of its report.

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Is There Anything Good About Men?

Is There Anything Good About Men?

First, culture relies on men to create the large social structures that comprise it. Our society is made up of institutions such as universities, governments, corporations. Most of these were founded and built up by men. Again, this probably had less to do with women being oppressed or whatever and more to do with men being motivated to form large networks of shallow relationships. Men are much more interested than women in forming large groups and working in them and rising to the top in them.

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Comments

mike gionfriddo:

Tara - Thanks. What a great event. Learned a great deal on a wide range of topics. Very cool.

Helen Kang:

thanks for organizing the event. Lots of fun and hope to get a chance to meet you.

Anshu Sharma:

I heard a Widget say at the BarCamp: Don't call me a widget, I am a little application! ;)

Damian:

Thanks a lot for organizing the event and hope to meet you in person.

Scott Thorpe:

What does "intense event" really mean. i'm a noobie. Ü

Thor Muller:

Kickass start to what is going to be an unforgettable event!

jessykate:

actually, yes! SpaceCamp is something we're considering for Yuri's Night at NASA Ames this year... (hmm, 'camps' with thousands of people? can it scale? how?) Would love your ideas!

jessykate:

hi tara! we met NASA CoLab's participatory exploration summit (i'm work on technology for CoLab). i'm sure you'll be busy this weekend, but hope to run into you! if you need any help on saturday, i'm up for it.

Mirko Buholzer:

Thanks for organizing this event!
Saw you last time at the Riya SDForum startup SIG presentation at SAP's office.

Leslie Wu:

Boy, that pineapple must be super tasty!

salim madjd:

Thanks for doing all the leg work. Looking forward to meeting you in person.
Warm regards.

Tony Wasserman:

Thanks for organizing BarCampBlock. It's almost midnight and we're exchanging email, which seems to be pretty standard these days. I'm looking forward to meeting you and everyone else.

Adam Gottesfeld:

thanks for organizing this. I'm new to all this but I'm excited to learn and help out in any way I can

Anshu Sharma:

Yes, sweet story. Plus, Seth Godin of Purple Cow fame can go eat his heart out... HorsePigCow beats Purple Cow any day.

Tara Hunt:

horsepigcow...;) You'll have to look up the story. It's sweet but uneventful

Anshu Sharma:

What kind of a person has a website called pig horse cow? :) Thanks for putting this all together!

Tara Hunt:

Newbies are awesome! The basic thing to do is to just notice around you what looks like it may need doing: is someone taking notes during a session and posting it to the wiki? Do you see a group that needs help setting up an area? Just remember it's for, by and about us! :)

Arvind Ashok:

thanks for organizing all of this. i am not sure how i can help. just looking around at the wiki and this place to see what I can do. A bit disorienting, since am a newbie.

Nat Welch:

Sounds like a cool little setup. Thanks!

michelle0211:

Thanks for organizing the event Tara! I'm here to help :D

Jordy Mont-Reynaud:

thanks for the invite. i feel your angst about trying to organize something between the ivory towers of social networks... not sure how Crowdvine fits into the picture but i'll trust you on this one... at least it's simple to use. :)