Comments on: Where are Public Media’s Female Bloggers? http://toddmundt.com/blog/2008/05/29/where-are-public-medias-female-bloggers/ convergence, public media, networks, productivity, public engagement Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:45:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Amanda http://toddmundt.com/blog/2008/05/29/where-are-public-medias-female-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-48360 Amanda Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:48:29 +0000 http://toddmundt.com/blog/?p=235#comment-48360 Another thought: it may just be that a few men happened to start their blogs about public media, and filled that niche, and then women who may have otherwise thought about doing it saw that the need was being filled. Another thought: it may just be that a few men happened to start their blogs about public media, and filled that niche, and then women who may have otherwise thought about doing it saw that the need was being filled.

]]> By: Amanda http://toddmundt.com/blog/2008/05/29/where-are-public-medias-female-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-48359 Amanda Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:26:01 +0000 http://toddmundt.com/blog/?p=235#comment-48359 I'm the former director of PBS Interactive and am now an independent consultant who counts PBS and NPR among my clients; one of my current projects is project-managing the CPB-funded election collaboration. While my focus as a consultant isn't exclusively on pubilc media, most of my clients are either non-profits or media companies (or both!). And I'm a blogger - a DOUBLE blogger, in fact :) My professional blog is <a href="http://www.amandahirsch.com/blog">http://www.amandahirsch.com/blog</a> and my other, "just because I love it" blog is Creative DC: <a href="http://www.creativedc.org">http://www.creativedc.org</a>. Thanks for asking! (I'm also on Twitter as @creativedc) I’m the former director of PBS Interactive and am now an independent consultant who counts PBS and NPR among my clients; one of my current projects is project-managing the CPB-funded election collaboration. While my focus as a consultant isn’t exclusively on pubilc media, most of my clients are either non-profits or media companies (or both!). And I’m a blogger – a DOUBLE blogger, in fact :) My professional blog is http://www.amandahirsch.com/blog and my other, “just because I love it” blog is Creative DC: http://www.creativedc.org. Thanks for asking! (I’m also on Twitter as @creativedc)

]]> By: Josh Andrews http://toddmundt.com/blog/2008/05/29/where-are-public-medias-female-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-48358 Josh Andrews Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:44:40 +0000 http://toddmundt.com/blog/?p=235#comment-48358 Back in my radio producer days, it always felt harder to get women to agree to come on Odyssey as guests. The leading consensus on our team was that dudes were much more willing to spout off opinions about topics they didn't really know about. You would rarely hear "That's not my area of expertise, perhaps you should ask someone else". Anecdotal, to say the least, but I often think about that in the blogosphere. Authority on the web often comes from the volume and frequency at which you state your views - and not always tied to the value of your ideas. So, here's my gross gender generalization: maybe women see through all the ego-posturing so common in blogs... and simply don't want to play that game. But maybe I'm spouting off on something I don't know that much about. Sigh... Back in my radio producer days, it always felt harder to get women to agree to come on Odyssey as guests. The leading consensus on our team was that dudes were much more willing to spout off opinions about topics they didn’t really know about. You would rarely hear “That’s not my area of expertise, perhaps you should ask someone else”. Anecdotal, to say the least, but I often think about that in the blogosphere. Authority on the web often comes from the volume and frequency at which you state your views – and not always tied to the value of your ideas. So, here’s my gross gender generalization: maybe women see through all the ego-posturing so common in blogs… and simply don’t want to play that game. But maybe I’m spouting off on something I don’t know that much about. Sigh…

]]> By: Anna S http://toddmundt.com/blog/2008/05/29/where-are-public-medias-female-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-48357 Anna S Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:36:20 +0000 http://toddmundt.com/blog/?p=235#comment-48357 As a female reader of the public media blogs and tweets out there, I have also wondered this. I don't have an answer, and don't have a blog to contribute. I've thought about it, but honestly I don't think my editors would appreciate that. It would be nice to rant about public media online, but I do that enough in our own newsroom and in the spirit of collaboration, most of it is not for public consumption. <br><br>Another question that I've also pondered: Why are so many of the public media blogs centered around radio? Where is tv? PBS are you there? As a female reader of the public media blogs and tweets out there, I have also wondered this. I don’t have an answer, and don’t have a blog to contribute. I’ve thought about it, but honestly I don’t think my editors would appreciate that. It would be nice to rant about public media online, but I do that enough in our own newsroom and in the spirit of collaboration, most of it is not for public consumption.

Another question that I’ve also pondered: Why are so many of the public media blogs centered around radio? Where is tv? PBS are you there?

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