Gloria Steinem Speaks at SF Fundraiser

GLORIA STEINEM AND FOUR YOUNG FEMINIST LEADERS come together for an evening at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on Thursday, March 31. The event is a fundraiser for the Women’s Media Center with tickets for the evening panel discussion starting at $29, still available. VIP and sponsor level tickets include an invitation to a private reception and more.

Gloria Steinem

Thursday night’s event is moderated by Rose Aguilar and features Gloria Steinem, no doubt the most well-known feminist, there to support a new generation of women including Lena Chen (the ch!cktionary), Shelby Knox (change.org), Miriam Pérez, (Radical Doula), and LaToya Peterson (Radicalicious).

The Women’s Media Center, an EWIP partner, is a non-profit organization with a mission to ensure women’s stories are told and women’s voices are heard. They initiate media advocacy campaigns, create their our own content, and train women to participate directly in media.

10 Lessons Learned by a Party Girl on her way to Tech CEO

Laurel Touby

Laurel Touby was honored with the 2011 Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award in San Francisco at EWIP’s third annual Women’s Leadership Conference. The sparkling and energetic honoree inspired the audience with the story of her unsuspecting rise from party host for freelance writers and editors to the CEO of mediabistro.com, a website for professionals working in media-related fields. In 2007, she sold the company for $23 million to Jupitermedia (now Web Media Brands). She is proud of her achievements (obviously, so are we) and remains involved with the business. Today, mediabistro.com has a million registered users with more than 12 million page views a month.

Touby charmed the conference attendees with her insightful “10 LESSONS“. The full speech is available on her personal blog, Culture Tripping.

1. NO AMOUNT OF TECH MAKES UP FOR CUSTOMERS
PUT YOUR AUDIENCE FIRST AND THE BUSINESS WILL FOLLOW

2. BE AUDACIOUS IN YOUR VISION

3. WRITE A PLAN

4. GET FUNDING

5. BLUFF WHEN NECESSARY

6. THINK OF TECH AS A MERE TOOL

7. KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS

8. HIRE HELP, NOT A PARTNER

9. DELEGATE WELL

10. KEEP YOUR HANDS DIRTY

Photo credit: Kathryn MacDonald

Lucky Winners of Training Announced

EWIP’s partners, Knight Digital Media Center and Webucator donated some fabulous door prizes for the attendees of the Women’s Leadership Conference held in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2011. Two lucky winners were announced just before the closing Presidents’ Panel are:

Ramona Minero, from Maker Media
Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop Knight Digital Media Center
KDMC

Whitney Pennington, from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism
InDesign CS5 with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for iPad from Webucator
webucator



Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop
The Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop from Knight Digital Media Center offers intensive week-long training that covers all aspects of multimedia news production; from basic storyboarding to hands-on instruction with hardware and software for production of multimedia stories. Participants will be organized into teams to report on a pre-arranged story in the Bay Area, and then construct a multimedia presentation based on that coverage. – Learn More About Workshops at KDMC

InDesign CS5 with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for iPad
Webucator, a provider of Adobe training and iPad training and other live eLearning classes. You will learn to use Adobe InDesign, in conjunction with the tools in Digital Publishing Suite, to create interactive documents, complete with media and links, for publication to iPad. Learn More about Classes Webucator

Women brave storm and speak of hope, technology, and female brain

presidentspanelThe prediction was for snow in San Francisco, and on February 25th, the day did begin with howling winds and rain. But the sky cleared early enough to shine cool and crisp for the 175 women in publishing who attended the Exceptional Women in Publishing’s third annual Women’s Leadership Conference.  The women came from print, online, and a variety of publishing, media, and communication technology companies, to hear dozens of speakers, including the president’s panel who shared their thoughts on surviving these turbulent times. Madeleine Buckingham of Mother Jones suggests you “do a few things well, and focus on community;” Michela O’Connor Abrams of Dwell Media, believes “it’s a great time for personal creativity and entrepreneurship;” and Barb Newton of Sunset Publishing Corporation says “people want and can consume more information than ever before.”



EWIP will post more comments from attendees on the conference and share published stories from bloggers, reporters, and others heard around the social media networks. Send us your photos and links to share.

Conference panel moderator and deputy editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, Lois Kazakoff posted these comments..

Read the report from Nancy Davis Kho on EContentBlog who discussed several of the panels including the conference theme panel, “Woman and the Machine: Publishing, Technology, and the Female Brain.”

Watch the only VIDEO of the conference shot during the panel: “Reading the Future: Digital Magazines” with Cheryl Goodman from Qualcomm; Jeanniey Mullen of Zinio, and Kate Byrne of Future US. The panel was moderated by Marjorie W. Martay, of Nomad Editions.

Read Linda Ruth’s blog, Breaking Up the Boy’s Club on AudienceDevelopment.com.