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Warning: This web at
toLearn.net/marketing/ is two years old, it's unattended, and the
links are rotting. However, in June 2000, the
server recorded over 10,000 page requests during more than 3,000 visitor sessions from dozens of
countries. Thus, I'm reluctant to take it down completely. Ricci Street | MBA 604 | marketing |
Communities of Women One great potential of the Web is community. Most people treat their computers like fancy adding machines and typewriters. As we begin to treat them more like telephones and pubs, we can find people who share our interests wherever in the world they are. Those interests can be very specific. For example, to go from over two and a half billion (well, seven pushpins was all I could fit) to probably a few hundred thousand (well, I had to use at least one pushpin):
A year ago, Forbes ran an article about some of these women. Subtitle: "What glass ceiling? In the land of high technology, ladies don't wear chips on their shoulders." These ladies share the motivation of many, like Aurora, who start Web sites like GameGirlz. Netguide has a new series called Women Behind the Web. The images above are linked to the Web pages where I found them.
More about Ada? Yale has more biography and portraits at a link from the Ada Project. Some of the material above came from there. The rest came from the Biographies of Women Mathematicians Web Site at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. Go for it!
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