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Social Butterflies: Sacha Chua on women in social media

Posted: April 13th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Social Media Personalities | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments »

lifeismorefunwhenyoushareLast 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.

Sacha Chua is a Torontonian technology-loving girl geek, by which I mean she’s an application developer at IBM, for Pete’s sake. She’s also an Enterprise 2.0 consultant, helping people understand and use online collaboration tools.

hr_shortquotationmarksI tend to not think about gender much.

I almost reflexively check the gender balance at conferences (still pretty bad, but better than it was before, although there’s still a lack of women speakers), but I don’t consider gender when I’m helping people or linking to them, and I’ve never intentionally “held people down”. :)

No point in making things an ego contest. Life is more fun when you share!