August 07, 2005
Speakers Wanted
by Liza Sabater
Napsterization | I want to broaden the circles, get more voices out there and make more opportunities for all of us. The wiki is also an effort to make information explicit and easily edit-able by anyone, that in the past has often been locked up in Speaker Service Bureaus. Those are often about money, but there is a kind of power in speaking. People chosen to speak do interesting things or are in high level positins, which they are asked to discuss. This is followed by those at the talk who blog it or come up to ask about future projects and ideas, further causing those speakers to become known as thought leaders in their fields. And then, they get asked again to speak, lead projects, join advisory boards, etc. Also, often men ask to speak but women don't know to ask, or don't feel invited, or don't know about the events to begin with, so organizers need to reach out a bit if they want to cover more than the white male perspective. It's a fine perspective, but we also have the whole rest of the world out there with interesting things to say.
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