silicon valley – #ThatTechGirl is Liberty Madison

September 2, 2015September 2, 2015

I am on a Panel called “The Future of Journalism in a Wikipedia World”

I had the opportunity to sit in on a panel entitled
“The Future of Journalism in a Wikipedia World”
hosted by Pete Forsyth in conjunction with Hacks and Hackers Hacks and Hackers in San Francisco. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to sit on a panel with such dynamic leaders in reporting and journalism in Silicon Valley.

• Andrew Lih, Associate Professor of Journalism, American University; author, The Wikipedia Revolution

• Dan Cook, news reporter and editor (BusinessWeek, Knight-Ridder, American Lawyer Media, Newhouse); Associate, Wiki Strategies

• Liberty Madison, founder at Digital PlayGround, StartupHouseOakland, Python Ear Code; an idea hacker & adviser, various tech startups.

• Pete Forsyth, Wikipedia editor since 2006; founder, Wiki Strategies

We focused on a number of issues surrounding Wikipedia and how much we should rely on it to spread content as well as how much we reply on it to provide us with valid verified information. I was not brought in for my expertise on wiki edits, I personally do not edit wiki, I was the millennial voice on Wikipedia. As you can see in the video below millennials believe Wikipedia like Southerners believe the bible. There is no other truth. Many of us in look at Wiki as the Encyclopedia online instead of a crowd sourced content. Our entire lives we have had information at our fingertips. We you are 8, 12,or 15 and you have access to the internet you use Wiki on a daily basis. You have grown up on it. It is not perceived as a transition, it is a staple.

Wiki has improved its standards on who can edit and when an edit is allows which helps the platform remain unbiased.
The goal is to keep the neutral neutral and just report without insult to a living person. Lets not kill off a guy, change history, or become a cyber bully. What is written on Wikipedia is perceived as factual and perception is everything. Be careful out there!

Do you edit Wikipedia? Do you post your own content to expand your audience?
I would love to know!
Tweet me!
@libertymadison

See the outline below:

Wikipedia has many impacts on journalism, and offers lessons and opportunities to those in the profession. In this session — hosted at Nomiku (who will serve mouth-watering appetizers and cocktails, see below) and co-sponsored by Wiki Strategies — we will explore questions like:

• Are journalism values present in Wikipedia’s policies and practices?

• Do amateurs and dabblers act like journalists in their Wikipedia work? Should they?

• Does Wikipedia threaten business models in journalism, or offer new business opportunities?

This participatory panel discussion will explore these questions and more.
Thank you Pete for moderating and producing this event!

To watch the full chat:

Thank you to the Y Combinator-backed Nomiku for hosting the event. Nomiku is the first home sous vide immersion circulator and has brought high-tech manufacturing back to the bay area. Their team is made of fine dining experts, engineers, and a plasma physicist.

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015

A #LibertyLesson: Just DO IT

A ‪#‎LibertyLesson‬
When I see people pass on opportunities, it makes me think of the amazing opportunities I have missed.
Then I realize we are all at different stages of “Being Ready” for the next level.
It all comes down to one thing and one thing only, you would think it would be skill, money, or time? It is none of those things it is about belief and confidence. If you do not think you can do it or are worth it, smart enough, fit enough, then you won’t. do it.
Everything starts as a thought, the physical action is a be product of your beliefs. You earn 5k a year because that’s what you think you can earn. You earn 50k because you think you can earn 50k and that’s what you are accustomed to doing.
You earn 500k because you know you can earn 500k a year, you earn 5,000,000 a year because zeros don’t effing scare you!
STOP BEING EFFING SCARED and just DO IT!
JUST DO IT!
A #LibertyLesson

July 15, 2015July 15, 2015

#ThatTechGirl partners with Vitamin Water to celebrate #Startup Entrepreneurs

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WHAT IS YOUR HUSTLE. I’M A #HUSTLERBABY

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The #Oprah of #SiliconValley
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April 9, 2015April 9, 2015

Top Tech Companies for #WomeninTech

Many women are often unsure where to start when it comes to tech. They are unsure what to expect. Some never venture down a STEM path because they feel they will not be accepted. That is now a thing of the past! Take a look at these trailblazing tech companies who swing open their doors to welcome their female friends!

According to Anita Borg’s data, women account for about 23 percent of the workforce in tech. Only 18 percent of computer science degrees are earned by women, leaving them not only “underrepresented” but also causing them to leave “the industry at twice the rate as men due to the inhospitable tech environment.”

Read more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-are-best-companies-to-work-for-if-youre-a-woman-in-tech-2015-4

Did your favorite #tech co make the list?
Two of mine did!!!!

If you feel your tech co should have made the list Tweet lets talk about it!
@libertymadison
The #Oprah of #SiliconValley

#StartupLife for the #Millennial and #Transitional

April 1, 2015April 1, 2015

Twitter DM TEAM+ #ThatTechGirl at Twitter HQ

Everyone knows I am a Twitter Stand! No for real. Many people pledge to their nations flag, I actually just salute the bird!

My love for Twitter started back in 2007. Yes I was a super early adopter! I still remember that one friend who gave me my first Twitter fix! I was hooked! I signed up in 2008 and my life changed FOREVER.

Everytime I give a tech talk be it at an event, college or at the BART. I represent Twitter…. HARD!
To give you an idea of my undying love for the brand, I actually held a pop up party for the Twitter IPO! Yes I am that girl.

My love runs deep!

So you can imagine my excitement to hang out with the Twitter DM team.
Yes the actual team who developed the DM feature on Twitter and launched GROUP DM worldwide with a flip of a switch!They actually were freaking awesome!

Oh now grab a seat it gets tech, very techie, in a moment.

The analytics and strategy of the DM:

The team had to collectively decide if person “A” could create a group chat with person “C” if if person “B” wants to join but blocked “C”! This is not an easy roll out this is weeks and weeks of white whiteboarding, strategy, and execution. Beyond execution they had to educate almost a Billion people on how to use the feature all while receiving instant feedback. I don’t know about you but I certainly dont want millions of instant tweets, beeps, and chirps flooding me at my job about my job!

Here is a short list of challenges they faced:

Who change name a Group chat?
Who can update the name?
How do we keep people safe?
How can we actively listen for blocks?
Who gets to delete the Tweet?
Is it deleted from everyones thread?
At what point of engagement can you view past thread messages?
It is not as simple as it appears folks!

Wow my mind was blown, this team needs a Crunchie! Maybe I will give them one!!

The highlight! I was able to test my new card with the team and they actually got it! Of course they got it! Many people don’t get it but I love it!

Do you get it?

So being invited the mothership and being called home was a very emotional and enlightening experience! Thank you
to the wonderful ladies who sponsored the Twitter Engineering team called @Womeng!

Meet a few folks from the team and feel free to follow them and let them know I sent you!

#ThatTechGirl Approved

Special chirps to the DM Dev members for being kind to the paparazzi!

Follow these folks!
Nhu Vuong @nhu
Sharon Ly @onesnowclimber
Madhu Palani @madhup
Mridu Atray @MriduAtray
Chinmay Barve @cbarve
Pulkit Gupta @pulkit

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December 18, 2014

Biggest Sales Week for Silicon Valley is AFTER Christmas meet ‘New Device Week’

Many are familiar with Black Friday and now Cyber Monday, but few are taking advantage of NEW DEVICE WEEK. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are a cloudy foggy mess of advertising screaming at you to buy their newest shiniest erasable musical toothbrush for your dog. It has become a joke.

Yes we get it, there’s a massive spike from consumers demanding goods for whatever holiday they celebrate. The result, is that the advertising and marketing space is more crowded than ever. Holiday marketing is competitive, expensive, and very crowded. We have all but tuned it out on many levels.
But here comes Silicon Valley to rescue!
Tapping an relatively untapped in the industry, and it is mobile – the advertising medium many major advertisers are still struggling to figure out.

If you are a developer or founder of an app you need to keep reading.
#ThatTechGirl gives you the quick run down and shows you why you need to commit to New Device Week

What?
New Device Week

Why?
Millions of smartphones and tablets will be purchased for holiday gifts,but the majority of these will not actually be used until after Dec. 25.
Beginning on Christmas morning and extending through the following week, consumers will be figuring out how to use their new devices and discovering many mobile experiences for the first time.
Your app needs to be the present not the device!

Where?
Mobile
If you have an app this is your Olympics! Time to dig deep and give it all you’ve got! Your advertising push should not drop off like most hardware or consumer goods. They go “end of the earth silent” after DEc 25, this is a perfect time for you to kick it up notch! Every living room across the country will be filled with a techie or sudo techie giving app or download advice to a mom, dad, sister, brother, girlfriend, or boyfriend. 70% of all sales come from a friend or family recommendation. That is extremely powerful.

When?
December 25- Jan 2

How?
Make an effort to allocate funds, talent, ideas during the week where you have a captive audience. New Device Week. Focus your efforts on New Device Week if you are a software consumer startup, entertainment startup, new media, transmedia, or digital media.
What an ideal week to go viral!

According to Howcrio Bruley, founder at Criotivity a company lauching an entertainment app called Figure of Speech added “Apple isn’t accepting any updates between Dec 18- Dec 28, they know it’s a heavy download push so you need to be ready”. He goes on to note “Your app has to be approved by Apple for sale by December 18 in order for developers to release updates within that window. This also affects updates to Apple TestFlight environment”.

MobileMarketer.com goes on to say

If you are a brand looking to drive application downloads, imagine being able to reach consumers at the exact moment that they are looking for apps to populate their new device? If you are a retailer looking to drive customers back to your store for post-holiday and New Year’s sales, what better way to reach them than to deliver an offer on a device they will be glued to for days?
The possibilities are endless.

Entertainment advertisers can capitalize on New Device Week to drive consumers to their latest studio releases, consumer packaged goods advertisers can target consumers planning their New Year’s parties, and auto advertisers might run tablet campaigns offering interactive “Build-Your-Own” experiences, and present consumers with a mobile ad unlike anything they have seen before.

While new Device Week presents an exciting opportunity for advertisers, what is even more enticing is that most marketers are not budgeting or planning to capitalize on it. So, compared to Black Friday, Cyber Monday or other sought-after holiday days, the week is much less crowded so there are more and better opportunities to reach a target audience.

During the course of Advertising Week New York this year, we spoke with almost 1,000 industry insiders, and only 7 percent had even heard of New Device Week. Of those 7 percent, only 48 percent believed that it was a critical part of their upcoming holiday campaigns. This means that during the most crowded time of the year for advertising, New Device Week presents a real opportunity for advertisers to stand out.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday will be massive shopping days for the foreseeable future and will always be deserving of advertising dollars, but as marketers think strategically about the holidays, it is critical to understand that the holiday season does not stop at Christmas.

New Device Week is
#ThatTechGirl APPROVED

The takeway is “New Device Week” is here to stay and the Gold Ticket for Mobile goods!

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Share your tips! Tweet me at @libertymadison I would love to hear how you landed a new client.

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#StartupLife for the #Millennial and #Transitional

#ThatTechGirl is the Oprah of #SiliconValley

December 16, 2014December 17, 2014

Job Titles you will only find in Silicon Valley

As #ThatTechGirl, I lead a very techfilled life, yes I said techfilled.
I come across innovation at an alarming rate and the most disruptive sector is not solar power, transportation, energy, pollution, or medicine, it is the job title.
“Job Title Disruption” is as annoying as the word ‘disruption’. Both leave you asking the same question

“So what do you do?”

Here are a few of my favorites.

Job titles you will only find in Silicon Valley

1. Chief Happiness Officer
2. Chief Evangelist
3. Troublemaker
4. Growth Advocate
5. Chief Happiness Dog
6. Internet Scientist
7. Product Prophet
8. Customer Happiness Scientist
9. No title because we are team
10. Director of First Impressions

and the bravest of them all
10. Founder

What are you favorite Job Titles? Follow me on Twitter and Instagram
Share your tips! Tweet me at @libertymadison

#ThatTechGirl is #LibertyMadison
#StartupLife for the #Millennial and #Transitional

#ThatTechGirl is the Oprah of #SiliconValley

August 2, 2014

Startup Saturday – The A/B Test

#Startup Saturday!
For the #entrepreneur & #millennials #ThatTechGirl challenge!
A/B test your concept, vision, or idea.
If you get one person to buy, join, or believe in your product you can scale it!
You have done it once you can do it again!

Saturday is an excellent opportunity to concentrate on you. Most people are relaxing or preparing for their job on Monday. But true freedom comes from providing your own opportunity! Get a PARTNER not a BOSS!

Take the challenge and tweet me your progress!! @libertymadison

#entrepreneurs #businesslife #startuplife #techlife #appdev #cash #ipo #solopreneur
#womenentrepreneurs #Success #owner #Businessman #business #atherton #paloalto #sfbayarea #500startups #tesla #gamechanger #womenintech #MeetUp #SiliconValley

July 25, 2014

BlogHer Turns 10 in Silicon Valley

#SiliconValley is all set for the 10th annual #blogher14
Ladies coming together to share their stories about how #technology has changed their lives!

This group is not centered on #tech #programming #cryptocurrency #hacking #startups or any of the normal ways you think of the subject, it’s centered around connection and how they used those tools of technology and made it applicable to spread their message of cooking, fashion, products, makeup, hope, weight loss, family, parenting, travel, career, and life!

Amazing!

If you miss it this year please mark your calendar for 2015!

#ThatTechGirl is the #Oprah of Silicon Valley!

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July 22, 2014

#TechTuesday Tech Tip – Kindness is the Original form of Technology

For #TechTuesday take a tip from a #startup! #zendesk has the right idea!
It doesn’t cost anything to be nice. #tech @zendesk
How would you want to be treated as a customer? How do you want your clients treated? Check out their cloud based customer service platform. They put the ease and Zen into client care!

If you are in #SiliconValley also ck out their parties + events at the Corp office. They are pretty freakin Rad! Calm friendly folks with tons of insight,tips,talks, and awesome food! #sf #onlyintech #zenhabits #lifehack #tip #startuplife #bekind #motivation
#womenintech #brand #corporateculture #culture #peaceandprofit

Have you had great customer care from a company? We always talk about bad experiences but can you list the Zen?!
Tag a company you like and have had a positive experience!