That’s Ms. to You
The November 7th issue of New York featured the founding of Ms. Magazine 40 years ago. Between my career and family, I finally found the time to read it. I am fortunate to know a lot of amazing, professional women, and have always appreciated this but, it has never come full circle in my mind until now. When a dear friend was on the cover of the Westword for her business TPCG, teaching Cops how to manage stress, do you think they knew exactly what they were up to when the cover was reminiscent of the first Ms.?
How fortunate to be born the year before Ms. Steinem had the courage to give the feminist movement a mainstream voice. And how fortunate I was to be able to apprentice with Ms. Barbara Nessim after art school to learn how to be business women too. I always knew her influence was monumental in my life, but didn’t quite understand I was standing on the shoulders of such giants at the time. Barbara and Ms. Steinem we’re roommates back in the day.
Though I’m certain my male counterparts still earn more, we, as woman are looked upon as leaders and valued for our intellect. We rarely have to think how exceptional it is that we don’t have to think twice about our rights, we know them well.
So thank you to the women before us for what we enjoy today. And thank you to my thoroughly modern husband who does not think twice about splitting the care of household and kids. If it we’re still the same as before these great ladies, I would most likely be existing of a diet of barbiturates and bourbon. Instead, I can live on the pride of my accomplishments.
Posted by Amy Morawa-Murphy at 5:07 AMYou Can’t Yell Fire
Social Media is not personal.
It’s the idea of personal, embrassed by a society that knows something — though often not enough — about managing their profile. What is personal about Social Media is it’s ability to incite. From political protests to riots, from flash mobs to bullying.
In the Golden Age of the 1st Amendment how do we use our freedom of speech through Social Media to incite good?
In 1996, I clipped an article out of the New York Times that stated a case was thrown out of court because of the juries inability to understand the Internet and digital media. Today, mobile shutdowns, regulations, laws, and criminal sentences are attempting to guide this age.
As part of the Corporate America keeping pace and taking a lead is important. Promoting brand awareness using Social Media is becoming the brochureware of our time.
Corporate sponsored causes raise money and interest. Ideas crowd sourced from internal social networks can help with idea management and bring ownership to the altruistic culture of a company. Social networks can be location for a collaborative employee community and a repository of employee knowledge and ideas. Ideas that can incite doing good in and beyond the work place.
Posted by Amy Morawa-Murphy at 6:00 PM
