Blogging

This week, the newspaper industry tries to solve its crisis with micropayments and syndicated feeds, while iVillage.com continues to evolve to keep up with what women want.

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Web Publishing Roll-Up: Micropayments, RSS and Women’s Whims

Women in eDiscovery is a nifty non-profit that brings together women in technology and law and offers them opportunities for leadership, education, and networking. Since 2007, with more than 25 chapters worldwide, they have organized conferences, training seminars and the means for women everywhere to come together around significant technology issues facing the legal industry.

eDiscovery has been among such issues gaining widespread attention and support. On Wednesday, July 15, from 2PM – 4PM, the Seattle chapter of Women in eDiscovery presents an event dedicated to eDiscovery. Open to all legal professionals, registrants will hear from top electronic discovery experts:

• Former United States Magistrate Judge Ronald J. Hedges;
• Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration;
• Rosemary Lumpkins, Senior Attorney with the Microsoft Corporation;
  

  

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

Highlights of the Week

• Google Wave: Taking the Enterprise from Microsoft? Two weeks ago, everybody was talking about it. It manhandled the blogosphere, was a trending topic on Twitter, and whispers of it could still be heard coming from the mouths of various Gilbane SF attendees last week.
• Hippo Embraces Apache Jetspeed’s Revival. The open source ECM vendor Hippo, in an effort to develop a closer relationship with the Jetspeed community, has been busy contributing to this Apache project and even released its own product and support package
  

  

When Angela @webchick Byron started writing a talk about women in open source for Open Web

Blogs have come along way. We know this because women say so.

According to the 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners, women are nearly twice as likely to use blogs than social networking sites as a source of information (64%), advice and recommendations (43%) and opinion-sharing (55%). It’s not that they don’t use social networking sites, it’s just that they use for conventional means, like keeping in touch with friends and family.

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Women Blog, Increase Activity Online