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2014 Visibility Everywhere: Building Web/Social Media Presence for Women in Computing A.J. Brush, Microsoft Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines Patty Lopez, Intel Corporation Susan Rodger, Duke University Ruthe Farmer, NCWIT (Moderator) October 9, 2014 #GHC14 2014
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National Center for Women & IT @ruthef Ruthe.farmer@ncwit.org @ncwit @ncwitAiC
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2014 Tracy Camp, Professor Emma (11) Max (14) Glen (44) Colorado School of Mines CS Ph.D.,College of W&M Math BA, Kalamazoo College Wireless Sensor Networks Mobile Networks
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2014 Web Presence: Why? Job opportunities Invitations Award nominations External evaluation Media opportunities Research visibility Recruiting Visibility within institution
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2014 Quick Poll How many people have: Professional Web Page Google Scholar author page Facebook account Linked-In We’ll cover these and webpages, cv, blogs, twitter, and more
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2014 Professional Web Page
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2014 Professional web page You should have one Publications Research opportunities Media coverage Photos Teaching materials Link to CV/bio Personal information???
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2014 CV You should have one It should be reasonably up-to-date It should include your professional web page URL It should be linked from your web page TIP: have people review your CV
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2014 CV
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2014 Professional People?
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2014 Faculty Accept Student’s Request?
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2014 Faculty Accept Student’s Request? 51% 49%
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2014 Faculty Accept Student’s Request? 51% 49% Don’t confuse friendly with friends
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A.J. Brush Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research C.S. Ph.D. from University of Washington BA from Williams College Human-Computer Interaction + Sensing
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2014 Author Pages
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If You Change Names… Merge your profiles! −Google Scholar allows you to indicate publications that should be part of your profile. −The ACM DL will merge separate author profiles into one if you contact them. Slide courtesy of Meredith Morris
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2014 Internal Company Visibility Companies have internal only places to represent yourself… Confidential project pages Mailing lists (take care) Internal talks ….
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2014 Blogs, Twitter, YouTube Quick Poll: How many people have blogs? Regularly tweet? Post stuff to YouTube?
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2014 Checklist Check search results for yourself Setup a google alert on your name Check/Create your profile at: Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, ACM DL, academia.edu, researchgate Web page: CV, bio, picture Wikipedia page Put recurring appointment on your calendar to revisit every 3 months (reward yourself for doing it)
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2014 Patty Lopez - Background BS, MS, PhD CS, New Mexico State University Research Associate, Vision & Robotics, NMSU Computing Research Lab Imaging Scientist/Software Developer, Hewlett Packard (seven patents) Platform Applications Engineer, Intel Passionate Change Agent: o Grace Hopper organizing committee o Co-founder, Latinas in Computing o Mentor & Advocate – Women & Minorities o NCWIT Workforce Alliance o Extensive Board Service (National)
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2014 Building an Online Community Have a compelling purpose and message Start small and build strategically Take time to blog, post, and reach out to like-minded others Work to achieve a critical mass (~200-300 group members actively contributing content) Grow leadership within your community
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2014 Susan Rodger Intro #1: The Technical Me… NCSU BS, Purdue PhD Rensselaer 89-94 – Assist Prof Duke ‘94-now - Professor of the Practice (assist, assoc, full) Research: Visualization, algorithm animation, computer science education Intro #2: Non-Technical Me Married to Thomas (met in graduate school, CS – Networking) Kids: Erich (17), Markus (14) – Always trying to keep up with them 3 cats, over 200 fish Other fun: swimming, running, baking, write Wikipedia pages
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2014 What happens when your hobby and your career collide…
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2014 CRA-W Wikipedia Project History −At a meeting in April 2012, wrote first Wikipedia page Goals: −Get Wikipedia pages written for distinguished women in computer science −Get more women writing Wikipedia pages Getting Started −How does one write Wikipedia pages?
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2014 What happens when you don’t know what you are doing
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2014 I think I figured out how to do it.
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2014 Another One Problem: not linked from other pages
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2014 Wrote a page for her advisor Also an ACM Fellow
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2014 Figured out how to add a picture Pictures must be added to Wikimedia and be public
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2014 Feeling confident, I do another page Wrote page offline and dropped in
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2014 But still figuring things out There is a format for URL
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2014 Page edited and flagged by others quickly Edited by Smileguy91 in One Minute!
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2014 How to write a Wikipedia page First, Get an account and edit pages Copy a template to get started and fill it in. Search for the name you want the title of the page to be, click on it
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2014 How to Write a Wikipedia Page (2) To put in a picture they (or you can for them) put a picture of them in Wikimedia Write facts and try to find sources to confirm those facts −News release announcing ACM Fellows −Don’t cut and paste from webpages! Link from other pages to their page Use standard format for references
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2014 Fixed Mary Jane Irwin’s Page rewrote and cut much of what was copied from her web page and added refererences
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2014 How do others get Wikipedia pages written? – grad students
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2014 Written a Guide to get you started bit.ly/NotableW Template page and advice to get you started Database of about 300 notable CS women and the status of their web page CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute
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2014 Pledge to write a Wikipedia page bit.ly/NotableW - Use our guide to get started! -Buy a pack of cards – at the Duke University booth! -Working with Katy and Jessica Dickinson
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2014 Questions for us?
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2014 Got Feedback? Rate and Review the session using the GHC Mobile App To download visit www.gracehopper.org
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