Where are the women interested in the "Power of We"
Googlefight may not be the best resource for research but it does make research fun. I was toying with some word combinations to prepare for this months topic on the blog Synergy. Last month, you may recall that we dwelt on what makes great leadership. Over 20 posts and dozens of comments resulted as summarized here and here.
In a Googlefight between going “solo” or as a member of a “team”, the team won easily (2.6 billion to 418 million). *Note, the results described do vary slightly. This is a dynamic inquiry and the net is alive.
When you looked at “alone” versus “collaborate”, alone won (684 million to 118 million).
When you look at “synergy” versus “antagonism” (according to wikipedia the opposite of synergy), synergy wins easily (52 million to 5 million). So synergy does better than its opposite but rates lower than going alone (and this is proved out with a result of 527 million to 54 million).
Clearly, the “power of We” has not yet taken hold in the marketplace. These factors help to reinforce our own mission as meeting a need. There does not seem to be too much attention to it (other than what we are doing).
When you look at the classic googlefight of “men” versus “women”, the ladies take it to us (1.6 billion to 1.2 billion). When you look at the more recent “male blogger” versus “female blogger”, the male take back the lead (14.4 million to 14.2 million). Yet when you look at female leadership versus male leadership, the ladies come back (35.7 million to 29 million).
So where was the female participation during the past month? Good question.
It was not here at blog Synergy. Yes, we did have Rosa lead us admirably but where were her compatriots?
The BlogHer blog was busy: 386,000 references in google. But there was very little posted by way of collaboration, team work, or actually discussing working together
Turning to Yvonne writing at Lipsticking who recently posted 5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself.
Summarizing my answers to her questions: While we are a blog (not a retail site), we don't post many pictures (period). Hopefully we do come across as a person and not impersonal. If folks have questions, they can contact anyone of us. The comments do reflect testimonials of our readers. We don't advertise our privacy position but neither do we ask for much by way of personal information so we can put this question aside.
This does not provide much to go on.
Where do we go from here?
I think we should continue to explore this opportunity this month. Let's expand our horizons. Let's reach out to the female bloggers amongst us. They apparently like the topic of leadership.
I am open to your ideas of course. You have shown yourselves to be creative. What should we do to increase the participation of females in a discussion on leadership or collaboration, the power of We?
And especially to you, our reading community, please feel free to join the discussion.
Updated 4/8/06
Phil has
Rocky has
Trevor has
Troy has
Rosa has
Technorati Tags : men, women, leadership, collaboration, synergy, googlefight
In a Googlefight between going “solo” or as a member of a “team”, the team won easily (2.6 billion to 418 million). *Note, the results described do vary slightly. This is a dynamic inquiry and the net is alive.
When you looked at “alone” versus “collaborate”, alone won (684 million to 118 million).
When you look at “synergy” versus “antagonism” (according to wikipedia the opposite of synergy), synergy wins easily (52 million to 5 million). So synergy does better than its opposite but rates lower than going alone (and this is proved out with a result of 527 million to 54 million).
Clearly, the “power of We” has not yet taken hold in the marketplace. These factors help to reinforce our own mission as meeting a need. There does not seem to be too much attention to it (other than what we are doing).
When you look at the classic googlefight of “men” versus “women”, the ladies take it to us (1.6 billion to 1.2 billion). When you look at the more recent “male blogger” versus “female blogger”, the male take back the lead (14.4 million to 14.2 million). Yet when you look at female leadership versus male leadership, the ladies come back (35.7 million to 29 million).
So where was the female participation during the past month? Good question.
It was not here at blog Synergy. Yes, we did have Rosa lead us admirably but where were her compatriots?
The BlogHer blog was busy: 386,000 references in google. But there was very little posted by way of collaboration, team work, or actually discussing working together
Turning to Yvonne writing at Lipsticking who recently posted 5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself.
Summarizing my answers to her questions: While we are a blog (not a retail site), we don't post many pictures (period). Hopefully we do come across as a person and not impersonal. If folks have questions, they can contact anyone of us. The comments do reflect testimonials of our readers. We don't advertise our privacy position but neither do we ask for much by way of personal information so we can put this question aside.
This does not provide much to go on.
Where do we go from here?
I think we should continue to explore this opportunity this month. Let's expand our horizons. Let's reach out to the female bloggers amongst us. They apparently like the topic of leadership.
I am open to your ideas of course. You have shown yourselves to be creative. What should we do to increase the participation of females in a discussion on leadership or collaboration, the power of We?
And especially to you, our reading community, please feel free to join the discussion.
Updated 4/8/06
Phil has
Rocky has
Trevor has
Troy has
Rosa has
Technorati Tags : men, women, leadership, collaboration, synergy, googlefight
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