Goal of panel: look at problems that are arising along gender, class and race lines within the new paradigms of Web 2.0, 3.0, etc. When explicit structure is removed from the organizing and tech equation, inherent structure arises.

Deanna Zandt, Consultant, Moderator
Allison Fine, Personal Democracy Forum
Tanya Tarr, AFSCME
Shireen Mitchell, Digital Systems?

Deanna Zandt
http://www.deannazandt.com/
Book -- "Here comes everybody" by Clay Shirky. Grand vision of all the cool stuff we can do now.
But doesn't feel like a utopia.
What's the problem?
Organizing without organizations: what do we mean?
How are women adversely affected?
Tyranny of Structurelessness
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html
May replace explicit structure with inherent structure -- like high school cliques.
How can we can counter these things -- be explicit about them? Love to hear for your stories.
Activist background.
How do we define best practices? How do we build trust?
Realized more and more I need help to talk about this....

Allison Fine
Managing groups on the fly
afine2.wordpress.com
How do we plan?
Decentralized efforts often look as if no effort. But really....
Managing on the fly requires:
- A core group of key people
- Balancing powering the edges with intentionality. Make sure core doesn't become a clique.
- Transparency in decision making and planning. Has to be clear to people at the edges. Not only what's happening but why.
Otherwise have in and out groups -- and will disempower
Managing on fly efforts requires different skill set -- facilitative style -- loans itself to women.
Don't make assumption of lens participants are using. People may come from very hierarchical background.
Where are they comfortable? Where are they not?

Tanya Tarr
What can we learn from other movements?
Been in politics about 10 years.
There are non-traditional dynamics that apply within very traditional arenas.
Behavior dynamics seem more like family than professional.
Rule of 3
1. Extreme extrovert -- dealing external, media, etc.
2. Internal matters, with staff, paperwork....
3. Infrastructure person -- operations -- often introverted

Shireen Mitchell
http://socialmediawoc.com/
Social Media Women of Color
We're so used to saying we know diversity is missing, but not why and how to change.
We're doing double duty on the work. If we were doing it right, wouldn't have to fix it -- like security patch.
One size never fits all.
Model typically done by white males -- e.g. MS hand consoles worked with large hands -- not only
didn't work for women, but also not for little boys. Now have to do double duty to fix it.
Best to be inclusive in first place.
In tech we're losing ground internationally. More people involved in race and gender in other places.
We haven't tried to be inclusive.
We did turn into a clique. We're playing catch up.
We realized a community / voice was missing.
As much as trying to be open and inclusive, sometimes have to be more intentional -- even though time is an issue.
Time will always be an issue. It's worth the effort from beginning.
Be intentional about who was inviting and being invited. (Think she's talking about WWT itself. Not sure.)
Have to get past whole we know these people, we're comfortable with these people,....
That's why created Social Media Women of Color - being intentional and actually looking.
Haven't been successful at bringing up diversity without making people feel guilty.
This is not about what you didn't do, but what can do we better with next steps.
If I look around table and all black women, lost the diversity issue. And if I'm the only one in the room, the same.

Q&A
Have you thought about how taxonomies and folksonomies shape power structures?
Deanna thinking about Amazon losing 50,000 GLBT books. Who designed the Amazon database?
What did they bring to it? How does my bias affect the design of the database?
Teachable moment. It's all about asking questions. It can take bravery to ask the questions.
Technology is still flawed. We need to run it -- test it.

How do you avoid exclusivity with new media, where some people are intimidated?
There's generational divide, digital divide, tech divide.
Do really good listening and saying back -- saying it widely. Responsibility of management.
This is a place women can and will be very successful.