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Darla Mack on: Calling All Women Mobilists!!!

Posted on by charlie

Debi and I have occasionally exchanged comments on how few women there are in the mobile industry (I counted barely a handful at the last Bay Area MoMo). There are a few Women Mobilists I know and admire, such as Darla and Anina. I don’t know Emily, but her site is an amazing resource for those trying to keep up with nifty mobile services.

Spurred on from Rudy’s (m-mobile) series on Women in Mobile, Darla is setting out to gather and highlight all Women Mobilists from around the world.

Go, Darla!

Link: Darla Mack: Calling All Women Mobilists!!!.

For the past week or so I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Debi from MobileJones.  Other than Emily and Anina she has been the only female person that I can hold a discussion with regarding mobiles and stuff like that… until we both get silly and start talking about flying and stuff.  But she really knows her stuff.

In the next few weeks (hopefully) we are gonna try and get something together in regards to a list of "Women in Mobile".  Inspired by Rudy De Waele’s series of "Women in Mobile" interviews, getting the recognition of the females out there is important to our women readers.  Yeah we can be badass women to the guys, but what about the other percentage of our readers?

So, if there are blogs that you know of, please contact either Debi or myself so that we can get this list together.

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Thanksgiving Carnival of the Mobilists

Posted on by charlie

Link: Smart Mobs: Thanksgiving Carnival of the Mobilists.

Welcome to this week’s Thanksgiving edition of Carnival of the Mobilists.

If you’re new to the Carnival, the idea is to collect the best writing about mobile in one place at a different website every week. This week, it’s Smart Mobs’ turn and I’m doing the editing – so I’m the guy to complain about if you don’t like what I’ve written!

You can find out more information about the Carnival here. If you’re a blogger, you might want to enter in the future – or even offer to host it one week soon.

So let’s get on with it.

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Work as grade school?

Posted on by charlie

I’ve probably mentioned ad nauseum that Google is run like a big research lab? I myself am a product of academic research labs (MIT, UMass Amherst, Harvard Medical School) and I have brought that way of working and thinking with me everywhere. Sippey’s latest (see link below) is a great take on how we can transform the workplace.

Link: this is sippey.typepad.com: schoolwork.

I’ll share with you the results of a little between-classroom brainstorming about how office life could learn a little bit from grade school life.

Geez, I wonder what this says about Sippey’s group at Six Apart… 🙂