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Smart Women Thirst for Knowledge and to See What Other Smart Women are Doing
It is a little known fact, that for my undergraduate degree, i earned a major in Women studies and minor in Labor studies- not women in labor but two unique majors- one in Women's Studies and one in Labor Studies. It is not known because it hardly has anything to do with what i "do" which is what people are mostly interested in versus the "how" and "why" i do and approach things in a specific way. I think a lot of who i am is because i grew up with very strong women around me- my mother and grandmothers specifically- but the choices i have made for myself have also helped shape who i am today and how i continue to develop as a woman in the business world. I have been meaning to post a reference on my blog to a recent article in Business Week Online titled Don't Cry For Us Silicon Valley by Sarah Lacy about women advancing in technology because it is articles like this that remind me that there is progress being made (although many of us think that it is not going fast enough!) . The articles provides some good highlights on some of the established corporate women as well as the positive news from women in the start-up sector.One of my favorite resources online to stay aware of what other women are doing in the business world is the blog 'News on Women' which provides almost daily updates on women who have been promoted and/or move to new companies. You can also browse by industry, C-level positions like CEO and CFO and Board Appointments and sometimes aggregated reports are published which are interesting.Every once in a while i get a comment about the image of the glass on the right menu of my blog- you can also get your own "Smart Women Thirst for Knowledge' glassware if you are so inclined. cheers!Labels: danielabarbosa, women
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Semantic Technologies in the Enterprise Roundtable September 22th Palo Alto
 Like i have said before, if i am not planning and organizing some sort of event (personal or work related) i am not happy- perhaps i missed my calling as an 'events coordinator' or something.On September 22nd from 2-6pm in Palo Alto, CA - Christine Connors the Director of Semantic Technology Solutions for Dow Jones and the Business Champion for Synaptica, will be leading a roundtable discussion on the subject of Semantic Technologies in the Enterprise.Many of our Enterprise Customers have been asking us about semantic technologies and since Christine will be in town to present at Taxonomy Bootcamp in San Jose, we thought it would be a great time to schedule a roundtable discussion on the subject since our May scheduled one had to be canceled due to last minute scheduling conflicts.Some of our previous roundtable events that i have coordinated have been very successful and have covered subjects such as Social Media Measurement and Folksonomies and Taxonomies in the Enterprise. This event will be at our Palo Alto office that also houses the local printing plant for The Wall Street Journal. This means that afterwards we get to do a special guided tour of the printing plant which is always a highlight for the attendees (and no matter how many times i do it - for me as well!).The roundtable portion of the event will cover topics such as:• What can Semantic technologies do for your organization?• How can the Semantic Web help you in your job role?• Where do you start and what are best practices?• How do you “sell” Semantic web investment concepts internally?I still have a couple of seats left at the table- so if you an individual at a company that is looking at using or are already using semantic technologies in your enterprise and are interested in coming to meet some of your fellow Bay area colleagues that are working on similar projects- please e-mail at daniela.barbosa@dowjones.com or visit our registration page. {please no vendors or consultants at this time, the aim is to make this a BoF (Birds of a Feather) type of roundtable}If you know of someone that might be interested in the topic please feel free forward this post to them.Also- if you are interested in just the tour part of the printing plant i might be able to squeeze in a couple of additional people- please drop me a line.Labels: dow jones, enterprise, roundtable, Semantic, Semantic Web
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Why my dog is like a search engine without a taxonomy
This morning i asked my Townes if he wanted a biscuit- i forgot that he isn't the smartest dog in the world and that he can not make the automatic association that a biscuit is a cookie. (read: it really isn't that he is dumb just that he wasn't trained).So i told him he was like a search engine without a taxonomy and then he looked even more confused. Then we made this video. he is a bit bored because it is the second take so the intial reaction is not 100% but hopefully you get the idea!As humans we easily make associations between words- machine and dogs can't unless they are "trained".He is a 4 year old Great Dane in case you are wonderingLabels: greatdane, taxonomy, townes
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Digitialization Efforts Through Challenge-Response Tests
 Another technology does good story, this time from Chris Albrecht a GIGAOM in a post titled CAPTCHA’s Can Be Useful, Don’tcha Know that describes the use of the CAPTCHA technology. A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in many sites when users are doing things like making a reservation or a purchase or leaving comments to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer.The Effort is to help digitalize print and is quite interesting use of the technology that many people just find annoying (i tend to enjoy the challenge!):Efforts to digitize (really) old books and newspapers were being hampered by faded ink that confounded OCR software. The solution Luis von Ahn came up with was to use the words that the software couldn’t recognize and insert them into these so-called reCAPTCHAs and use the power of human brains to decipher them. CAPTCHAs serve up two words, one is the security word, the other goes toward the book digitization effort.The New York Times is using this service to digitalize their archive that goes back to the 1800s (and paying for it). This ReCAPTCHA service as been a project at Carnegie Mellon where the CAPTCHA technology was born (but is being spun out as its own company) . The project is also doing work for free for the Internet Archive’s project to digitize every book published before 1980 which is pretty cool. If you are using sites like Craigslist and TicketMaster among some other 45,000 sites that use the technology you are also helping the effort.Labels: digitialization, media 2.0
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Newspapers and Their Use of Twitter
Last night i was reading through Erica Smith's excellent monthly wrap-up post with July's data on Newspapers outlets that Twitter (for Twitter newbies that means newspapers that have a Twitter account and broadcast news via the microblogging platform that sends updates to those that follow (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length). In these monthly posts she provides an overview of the biggest gainers and losers including data on all the newspapers that she is aware of that have Twitter accounts. She also highlights new services that might be interesting to newspapers that are built on Twitter including things like TwitterLocal which filters messages based on location which could be useful for various reasons like picking up local 'scoops' (useful in other ways as well!).This morning over on Techmeme, i followed this link over to the PBS MediaShift Idea Lab to Five Ways to Gather and Report News with Twitter that outlines some ways that media outlets could benefit from being on Twitter that i found interesting especially in the use of 'investigative' reporting. Even though i am not reporter or responsible for any media twitter account i certainly find this conversation compelling and as a user have been finding myself using Twitter more and more to be 'updated' on news following news sites like @marketwatch or new media sites like @techcrunch but i still find the most compelling news alerts on Twitter come from messages that my 'trusted' twitter friends push out my way before i have a chance to read it in my in-box or on a news website that i have to visit. Maybe i am just not following the right Twitter accounts but thanks to Erica's list i can be fully aware of what is available and i can keep an eye on the newspaper industry's adoption of Twitter as another publication push channel.Labels: media 2.0, media consumption
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Good Thing i LOVE to Talk Because I Have a lot of Talking Coming Up
I guess i am a lucky girl, because the upcoming months are just going to be great (well that is if all goes well and i don't blow it of course!). I have a bunch of speaking engagements coming up that are all going to be at conferences that i am very excited about attending as well. So here is the run down in order of appearance:Enterprise Search Summit West- September 23th-24th in San Jose, CA. I will be co-presenting with a client about centralized taxonomy management best practices into enterprise information systems (search, CMS/DMS, portals etc.) This is a two day conference that covers how to develop, implement and enhance search capabilities in the Enterprise.Taxonomy Bootcamp- September 25th-26th in San Jose, CA. I will be introducing a client case study highlighting their use of the Synaptica tool that i am Business Development Manager of at Dow Jones. Finding a Common Language: Bringing Complex and Disparate Vocabularies Together 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Paula R McCoy, Manager, Taxonomy Development, ProQuestDaniela Barbosa, Dow Jones & Company This case study addresses the challenges ProQuest faced in managing multilingual controlled vocabularies using multiple Word documents and authority files maintained in an Oracle database. Speakers describe how implementing a thesaurus management tool helped ProQuest simplify and standardize its business semantic management to create a common language and connect disparate information assets as well as handling large and varied vocabularies and authority files, linking new and existing editorial systems and enabling hierarchical views, and automating thesaurus management tasks.Web2.0 Expo New York- September 16-19th. I will be presenting as part of the Landscape & Strategy track with Chris Saad on Understanding the Basics of Personal Data: Vendors, Users, and You. This track covers the fundamentals of Web 2.0 and explores how they drive strategy, business models, and revenue. The panels will look at how Web 2.0 is affecting finance, advertising, media, fashion, and real estate, and explain how the building blocks of Web 2.0—user-generated content, rich internet applications, collective intelligence, the wisdom of crowds, software as a service, lightweight development models, and mashups—are changing the landscape of media, software, and the economy. I still crack up when i see my picture on the speaker list among some of the big Web2.0 heavy hitters. My mom would be so proud if she knew what Web 2.0 was! {Use Code webny08mc23 to register for Web 2.0 Expo New York and Save $100 or Get a Free Expo Pass}and last but not least....Defrag- November 3rd -4th in Denver. This one i am even more excited about because i heard just great feedback about this conference last year. My presentation is titled 'Pulling the threads on user data'. Just like all the other conferences i am super delighted to be on the speakers list with some amazing folks like Stowe Boyd, Esther Dyson, fellow ReadWriteWeb named 'Seven Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists' Aaron Fulkerson and Sam Lawrence, Paul Kedrosky, Richard Hoeg, Charlene Li, Paul Miller, Clay Shirky and my old friend Lou Paglia among many others. Just the list of speakers would have been enough for me to go, so i am super privileged to also have the opportunity to speak!NOTE: You should seriously think about going to Defrag and then you should use code 'db1'- that will get you an additional $100 off of current early bird prices. I am also excited to say that Dow Jones Client Solutions is going to be exhibiting at Defrag-more to follow on why we are there and why Defrag attendees should care in another post!Good stuff- now i have some thinking and presentations to finish!Labels: danielabarbosa, dow jones, media 2.0
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I Got Mistaken for an Italian but the Issues that the DataPortability Group is Trying to Address Came Through Loud and Clear
 This week i had the pleasure of participating on a panel discussion titled"The Future of the Web is the Future of our Data: Introducing Data Portability" that was hosted by the BAIA Business Association Italy America.The Panel included:*Moderator (AND Organizer): Mary Trigiani, Spada Inc. - www.spadainc.com*Steve Greenberg, founder Ciabe - www.ciabe.com and a Steering Committee Member of the DataPortability Project*Lorenzo Thione, founder Powerset - www.powerset.com*and myself.The evening kicked off with some initial networking where i had a chance to have some interesting conversations with other attendees on topics like government legislation around user data as well as have some deliciously catered snacks, drinks and excellent coffee courtesy of Caffè del Doge.We kicked off the panel discussion by showing what I think is the best introduction to what Data Portability is when we talk about it from a social media perspective via this video introduction that Michael Pick created: DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix Mary Trigiani, always super prepared and organized had the three panelists submit our thoughts prior to the panel and has shared the panel discussion talking points on SlideShare so you can also read through some of our thoughts .The BEST part of the evening aside from the fact that two people actually started conversations with me in Italian- assuming i was also Italian (and i was so proud i passed for one-although i responded in Portuguese) was that the majority of the attendees where not technical and those that were technical where not part of the valley 'tech' scene , and definitely not the 'regular' crowd that i have been having conversations with. So the interest and the questions were very much from an user perspective. Questions of; usability- in which i used OpenID as an example of a good solution with what currently amounts to a not great user experience for non-technical users; Synchronization of data- why users have to update the same information various times; contact lists, how portable can they be and which pieces of data should a user be able to move; User privacy issues and how terms of use EULAs are rarely and mostly impossible to read and understand; as well as other items.We also had an engaging and at time entertaining conversation thanks to Steve Greenberg who was playing a bit of devil's advocate about why vendors (for this discussion defined as those that provide social network services) would want to allow their users to take data away. The discussion ranged from the business models of the pros and cons of doing this, to whether it would actually push the vendors to be even more creative and push them to provide more value to the user so they would remain active users.I tried to make it clear to the room that the reason i am an active member and leader of the DataPortability project is that all the concerns and issues that we discussed are part of the DataPortability Project agenda. While many have been working on the standards and technologies that make data portable (and new organizations and technology standards continue to pop up to do the good work), there has, until the DataPortability Project, not really been a complete, cohesive and simple story for vendors, consumers and developers to follow.The attendees where very engaged, and i always enjoy participating in discussions with people outside the active community because it really gives you a different perspective on the issues that the DataPortability Project can works towards addressing. As usual, i got a bunch of business cards and follow-up emails (that i need to follow-up with this weekend!) from people who wanted to get involved in the project, but i figured i would first practice what i wrote on my personal letter to my email inboxes, and give everyone the general summary of 'How to Get Involved in the DataPortability Project' and then touch base individually on their specific topics if interest ranging from 'how can i help you evangelize' to 'how can we bring this discussion around policy into the legal circles'- all items that the project group needs volunteers for!The DataPortability Project is a very young organization and critics have at times given us slack for not doing enough, but you can read about our accomplishments in the first six months to judge for yourselves and with the finalization of the steering committee and the governance model which one of our most active members Elias Bizannes has outlined in this excellent post, we are positioned to make even bigger strides on behalf of users, developers and vendors.So how can you get involved in the DataPortability Project?: First take a look at our 'What is The DataPortability Project? pageThen chose to Stay Up-to-date with any of the following methods that you feel comfortable with:Announce Only Mailing List (Infrequent and milestone updates from the project)Monthly Reports (Monthly summaries about our progress- June/July coming soon)DataPortability Calendar (Keep track of upcoming events, calls, and meetings)Start Participating by joining some of the DataPortability Discussion lists, especially the General Discussion list which serves for general announcement for and by the community. Introduce yourself and tells us why data portability is important to you and what you would like to see the project contribute!Discover others ways to participate by joining action groups, skype chats, reading and participating in wiki documentation etc.And if any of this feels overwhelming, please go ahead and drop me a line- it might take me a couple days to get back to you but i will!ONCE AGAIN- a big thank you to my friend Mary Trigiani for organizing this wonderful event flawlessly...you are not only a great advocate for users and vendors in the marketplace but also a great friend. Thank you.Additional photos from the panel available here.Please note: this is my personal blog, the opinions expressed on this site are my own and do not necessarily represent those of my past, future or present employer or any organizations i might belong to unless explicitly stated that is the case.Labels: danielabarbosa, DataPortability, dataportability.org, media 2.0
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