It's been 12 years. Thanks for celebrating with us!

View the Quicktime Movie.

Read the press release.

Since 1995, DC Web Women has provided professional, social, reliable support & insight to its members (and to the Web & technical community).  

So it's 12 years later where we're still going strong --  engaging in the Web 2.0 era.   Our evening included a Panelist Discussion: "Web 2.0 & video --- you as citizen journalist and movie star." There were gifts, prizes, happy reunions and the Web 2.0 Video panel that according to attendees simply "rocked the house".

EVENT RESOURCES

Videobloggers, online video shows, & online video production resources per our panelists [pdf]

Maryam Scoble talks shop via email on video content & interviewing women in IT [pdf]

4 minutes, member Barbara Halpern with panelist Andy Carvin on citizen
journalism, Virginia Tech, &  UN in Tunisia:
http://livingwithgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/video-4-min-andy-carvin-talks-citizen-journalism-tunisia-at-dc-web-womens-web-20-video-panel/

1.5 minutes, panelist Phil Shapiro on the pros and cons of YouTube:
http://livingwithgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/video-15-min-phil-shapiro-talks-pros-cons-of-youtube/

1.5 minutes, panelist Jonny Goldstein on a NYC library, self-produced video,
&  mass media:
http://livingwithgeeks.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/video-15-min-jonny-goldstein-talks-up-diy-video-over-mass-media-at-dc-web-womens-web-20-panel/

View Beth Kanter's anniversary greeting.

View Maryam Scoble's anniversary greeting.

THE PANELISTS 

BETH KANTER: http://www.bethkanter.org/about.htm
...will join April's anniversary panel re:  online video production (from Boston via video-conferencing).  As you may know, Beth is a contributing editor to Blogher.   She's a social media/tech expert specializing in the non-profit sector.  Beth actively consults for NTEN, the Non-profit Technology Enterprise Network Conference which many of us will attend next month.  Her expertise includes web tools like favorites:   video blogging, screencasting, social networking sites, virtual worlds --- all to support nonprofit goals (some of her screencasts have been voted "Best this Week" by Ourmedia.org).   She aims for using tech for social change.   And her track record is excellent -- receiving accolades by many including Yahoo for her grassroots fundraising success: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/01/sharing_foundat.html.  

ANDY CARVIN:   http://www.andycarvin.com
...is Web 2.0 strategist & senior product manager for online communities at National Public Radio http://www.npr.org.  He's produced more than 120 video/podcasts from 24 countries on his video blog noted above.  He serves as a field correspondent to the hit video blog, Rocketboom http://www.rocketboom.com -- which receives app. 300,000 daily views.  Andy is the founding editor of Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net, an online community of more than 10,000 educators, community activists, policymakers and business leaders in over 140 countries working to find solutions to the digital divide.  Serving as the primary author of the PBS blog learning.now http://www.pbs.org/learningnow -- which focuses on the impact Internet culture has on education -- Andy & his family live in Silver Spring, MD.

MARYAM SCOBLE – videoconferenced from San Francisco, is Podtech's online video content manager.  Maryam works at Podtech - a video/podcast start-up who launched the first Oscar-esque awards ceremony last year for online video producers aka The Vloggies.  She formerly worked as a Webcast producer for MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network).

JONNY GOLDSTEIN:    jonnygoldstein.info 
Jonny Goldstein is a video producer, talk show host, videoblogger, public speaker, comedian, and consultant based in Washington DC. Last year he ran a groundbreaking afterschool program in the Bronx, New York, where over 100 teens learned to videoblog. He recently finished a stint producing and hosting a live interactive web video talk show called Reinventing Television. When Jonny is not professionally producing videos for clients like i Village.com , he loves publishing videos on his personal videoblog, jonnygoldstein.com.  He is an active, co-founding member of DC Media Makers and encourages aspiring and veteran video producers to stop by a meeting to make connections, share ideas, and stay on top of the latest developments in media making.

PHIL SHAPIRO:   http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro
...works as the 'public geek' at Takoma Park Maryland Library, answering the public's Internet questions on the 28 Linux stations in the library & adjoining community center. He also teaches videoblogging and digital storytelling classes for the Takoma Park Recreation Department. In his spare time he delivers donated computers to youth and adults who don't have them, composes folk songs, and writes children's stories. He does most of his creative work on Macs, and likes Linux and Windows, too.  (shhh! Please don't tell anyone I like Windows.).  His personal web site is at http://www.his.com/pshapiro (and blogs at http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com).

JILL FOSTER (moderator):  http://livingwithgeeks.wordpress.com
...has been called 'geek enthnographer' by those she interviews for her online video series/documentary Living with Geeks.   Videographer & fan of Web 2.0 -- her documentary -- a passion project for years that's finally taking shape --  has been reviewed by Film.com & has attracted interviews from popular online tech bloggers like Robert 'Scobleizer' Scoble plus many network engineers, software developers, & wonderful DCWW members (with their spouses).  Whether it's published clips from the video series or revised plot lines for the documentary or stuff citizen journalistic as co-founding member of DC Media Makers --- Jill tracks and voices all at her blog/video blog http://livingwithgeeks.wordpress.com . 

Special thanks to the many DCWW volunteers who made this event a success. Of note:

PR Chair Mayra McPherson embroidered - that's right - embroidered special mini-cloth cd/dvd totes for each attendee; on it was embroidered the anniversary event's logo (see the top of this page).   Then each attendee also received a 20 minute burned dvd of Beth Kanter's interview on online video ----- an exclusive for this event.

Door Prize Chair Kelly Hucul continued to charm & delight with diverse, creative door prizes (many!).

Thank you to the following DC WebWomen who donated fabulous door prizes for our Anniversary Party:

Myra Anson Nicholas
Not Just Partz
www.notjustpartz.com

Merry Bruns
ScienceSites Communications
www.sciencesitescom.com

Sharon Greenspan
Wild Success
www.wildsuccess.us

Mary Guarino, PhD.
StellarSelf
www.stellarself.com

Nichole Jefferson
UniverSoul T.O.U.C.H. Massage Therapy
www.universoultouch.com

Kathy Jentz
Washington Gardener
www.washingtongardener.com

Abi Jones
Heat Eat Review
www.heateatreview.com

Traci Leaphart
Aquent
www.aquent.com

Diana Medina
Digital Imaging Studios
www.digitalimagingstudios.net

Krista Molino
FireLamb Designs
www.team-molino.com/jewelry

Wendy Moore
Westlake Internet Training
www.westlaketraining.com

Camille Mosley-Pasley
Pasley Place Photography
www.pasleyplace.com

Chrissy Rey-Drapeau
Usborne Books
www.ubahmd.com

Susan Rook
Susan Rook Photography
www.susanrook.com

Maria Fatima Villafana
Vintage New Era
www.vintagenewera.com

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