A year ago March 28, my close friend Samantha LeVan sent me a fairly routine email asking me if she could pass my info along to a young web designer looking for a mentor. It was so nondescript that I might have put it off for a few days, busy with other things. I’m glad [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Community'
Samantha LeVan’s Lame Cancer
April 1st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Community, Pain
Tags:Community·Inspiration·Pain
Visualizing First-Time Interactions at SXSW
March 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Community, Social Networking
You might remember the near-novel I wrote a couple months ago on LinkedIn InMaps titled, “Hubs and Connectors: Understanding Networks Through Data Visualization.” Now New Work City member Alex Shapiro, founder of CEO of TouchGraph, has created a powerful network visualization based on contact exchanges made via Hashable at SXSW. The Java applet allows you [...]
Hubs and Connectors: Understanding Networks Through Data Visualization
January 29th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Community, Pleasure, Social Networking
Yesterday a bunch of friends were tweeting about the new LinkedIn InMaps web app (part of LinkedIn Labs), so I had to check it out for myself. Wow, wow, wow! InMaps are data visualizations of your professional network, based on LinkedIn connections, with you as the center node. I’ve been waiting years for LinkedIn to [...]
Tags:Community·Data Visualization·Pleasure·Social Networking
To gather together
January 21st, 2011 · 7 Comments · Community
I have the distinction of being the longest-running member of Manhattan’s first and foremost coworking center, New Work City. But lately I’ve been staying home on the Upper West Side every day, working at my dining table or on the couch, instead of taking the 20-minute subway ride down to TriBeCa. It’s cold and snowy [...]
The plain numbers about women in tech – The Startups
December 22nd, 2010 · 103 Comments · Community, Pain
I don’t often think of myself as a woman. As I approach public restrooms, I have to remind myself: “Whitney, you are a woman, use the women’s room.” Being a woman doesn’t actively, consciously factor into my every day life, especially not professionally. While my gender must have a partial effect on everything I do [...]
