Sav Charman-Anderson (born April 15, 1971, UK ) is a former executive director of the Open Rights Group [1] , a group of campaigns based in London. She is also a journalist, social software consultant, blogger, and community speaker. [2] On February 15, 2008, she married Kevin Anderson. Entered the list of “50 most influential British technology” according to the newspaper The Daily Telegraph ; she worked hard to gain recognition for other women in technology. [3]
| Sav Charman-Anderson | |
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| Date of Birth | April 15, 1971 (48 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset), United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | Great Britain |
| Occupation | journalist, writer, consultant, campaigner for free data |
| Site | suw.charman-anderson.com |
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Career
Early Career, Blogging, and Social Software
Charman is a graduate of Cardiff University with a bachelor's degree in geology. Early projects included music, journalism, web publishing and providing web support to other Welsh students. While working as an assistant editor for science at a publishing company, she chose the name “SUW” after creating it as a typographical error for her short name, Sue. [4] Her personal blog, Chocolate and Vodka, appeared in June 2002, and was dedicated to commentary features in the blogosphere, social issues, and the politics of her growing audience. [2]
Her work in social software includes the BlogOn conference in New York in 2005 [5] . She has worked for companies such as MSN, BUPA, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Socialtext, Jackie Cooper PR, De Montfort University and BBC News Online, performing tasks ranging from training to consulting. She often talks about blogging for business [6] . In January 2012, [7] she began blogging on Forbes.com on publications and crowdfunding.
Activism
Her work on the Internet led her to study issues related to rights and obligations on the Internet, for example, her article for The Guardian in 2004 explores the truth about file sharing and the music industry. [eight]
In 2005, she co-founded the Open Rights Group , [9] . As the founder of ORG, she commented on a wide range of issues regarding ownership and new media [10] [11] .
Ada Lovelace Day
In 2009, Charman recruited a group of bloggers to select influential women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It became an annual event called “Ada Lovelace Day”. In 2010, more than 2,000 people made blog entries, podcasts, and videos supporting the project [12] .
Bibliography
- Suw Charman: Argleton, London 2010. ASIN B005JSI21W
- Suw Charman: Molly's Secret Diary or the Confessions of a Social Software Convert; in: Willms Buhse / Soeren Stamer: The Art of Letting Go, Bloomington 2008. ISBN 978-1-4401-0809-9
- Suw Charman; in: Jeremy Wright: Blog Marketing: The Revolutionary New Way to Increase Sales, Build Your Brand, and Get Exceptional Results, New York 2006. ISBN 0-07-226251-6
- Suw Charman: Blogs in Business: Using Blogs behind the Firewall, in: Axel Bruns; Joanne Jacobs: Uses of Blogs, New York 2006. ISBN 978-0-8204-8124-1
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Notes
- ↑ ORG staff Archived on August 15, 2009. , Open Rights Group
- ↑ 1 2 “Jack of all trades, master of the ORG” by Jane Dudman, Information World Review, Nov. 13, 2006.
- ↑ The 50 most influential Britons in technology , The Daily Telegraph (September 23, 2009).
- ↑ Charman-Anderson, Suw (March 8, 2004), "How I Got My w" , Chocolate and Vodka , < http://chocolateandvodka.com/2004/03/08/how-i-got-my-w/ > .
- ↑ PRNewswire, September 12, 2005 - Press release about BlogOn mentions “Event Producer Suw Charman”
- ↑ MSN Blogging Report Archived May 27, 2006 at Wayback Machine , suw.org.uk, November 2005
- ↑ Suw Charman-Anderson's blog on Forbes.com - First blog post on January 1st 2012 - Preparing For High-Impact, Low-Probability Events: Lessons From Eyjafjallajökull
- ↑ Listen to the flip side , The Guardian , 2004-07-22
- ↑ UK Digital Rights Group sets up , BBC News Online , 2005-09-09
- ↑ MPs in digital downloads warning , BBC News Online , June, 2006
- ↑ Phone Co's and rights activists round on Clark , The Register , 9 September 2005
- ↑ Ada Lovelace voted most popular technology heroine BBC , March 25, 2010