Social Butterflies: Tara Hunt on women in social media
Posted: March 11th, 2010 | Author: Erica | Filed under: Social Media Personalities | Tags: cattiness, Citizen Agency, Cory Doctorow, feminism, social butterfly, Tara Hunt, The Whuffie Factor, Whuffie, women | 6 Comments »Next in a series of interviews with female Canadian social media stars! The premise, which you can read about here, investigates how women act towards each other in the quest to be head social butterfly.
Tara Hunt is a genuine Canadian social media superstar (& there is reason to believe she may have once lived, however briefly, in Winnipeg Brandon). Author of The Whuffie Factor, Tara’s actually one of the most freaking influence women in technology. Here’s a Slideshare on her contribution to social media theory, the idea of Whuffie, first postulated by another Canadian futurist superstar, Cory Doctorow.
Her site is HorsePigCow and she’s co-founder of a coworking space called Citizen Space.
Personally, I think the cattiness mythology is useful to create a suspiciousness between women, and though there ARE jealous, competitive women, the majority of the cattiness (backstabbing and petty jealous talk) I’ve experienced has come from men. Social media has only made my female relationships grow stronger. I’m kind of assembling an army of strong, smart, amazing women from around the globe that enjoy helping one another’s careers grow.
