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Sairy · 11M ago

Recent thoughts on open government and cybersecurity

The two biggest issue areas in IT policy that I’ve been working on the past few years include open government and cybersecurity. While they may sound like they’re in opposition, that’s not really the case. It is possible to have smart security and open government. Not everything can be open, not eve
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Sairy · 1Y ago

Russia’s New Generation of Businesswomen as Viewed through an American Lens

The following is the English version (what I wrote) of my article published at Forbes Russia today. (The other option for reading it in English, not in my words, but translated back: go to Google Translate and paste in this link: http://bit.ly/g900OL but please at least click on the article link at
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Sairy · 1Y ago

Rehashing the same old women in tech conversation

I’m sitting here at the Exceptional Women in Publishing annual Women’s Leadership Conference and the keynote panel this morning was all about “women, technology & the female brain.” While I enjoyed the session, I learned nothing new. I’ve been to so many women’s conferences, worked with so many wome
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Sairy · 1Y ago

Facebook Birthdays

Today’s my birthday, and everyone knows it thanks to Facebook. But I’m OK with that because I have come to look forward to the birthday greetings once a year, particularly after my dad’s death. It’s been nice to know friends are nearby, sending kind notes and messages. The Causes app is also great –
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Sairy · 1Y ago

Professional Update

Since I haven’t been blogging much lately, I thought it might be worthwhile to put up a professional update. In early February, I spoke at the Democratic Science and Technology Summit organized by the California Democratic Party Internet Caucus at Stanford University. As of January, I’m now chairing
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Sairy · 1Y ago

Welcome to the new Sairy.com

Welcome to the new sairy.com. This blog has taken most of the old posts from sairy.com and a few others from related blogs to keep continuity and move on to perpetuity since the original Blogger stopped working on my server. Let’s hope WordPress has a much longer lifetime. A few notes about the post
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Sairy · 1Y ago

Using social media while grieving

Today I put up a post at SFGate about what I went through online while grieving the first month following my dad’s death. It’s called “Stages of Grieving Online.” I took the commonly used stages of dealing with grief and transported it to the online experience I had. I hope it is helpful to people.
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Sairy · 1Y ago

Social media in political campaigns

I could write volumes about social media use in campaigns, but I put up a post at SFGate that explains where we are now, esp. in respect to local and statewide races for the 2010 election.
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Sairy · 2Y ago

Fearlessness

I had the opportunity to see Arianna Huffington give a keynote speech at a great event and wrote it up at The Huffington Post. While there’s some controversy about HuffPost’s use of bloggers, etc., there’s no doubt that Arianna is an inspiring, smart woman. And I happen to like her a lot. Her book,
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Sairy · 2Y ago

Social media for breaking gender barriers in government

One of the things I’ve tried to do with this blog – since it’s a casual one – is make a lot of useful lists for people. I’ve written some of those at other places as well, and put tips in other locations, but most of my notes, lists, tips tend to end up here. [...]
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