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Follow on Google News | Celebrate First Annual Digital Sisterhood Month in December 2010Women in social media celebrate Digital Sisterhood Month from December 1 to December 31, 2010.
By: Ananda Leeke Digital Sisterhood Month is the brainchild of Ananda Leeke, a lawyer turned innerpreneur, author, artist, coach, and yoga teacher, who established the online celebration to give women an opportunity to celebrate their connections, conversations, communities, collaborative partnerships, and commerce. It begins on December 1 with three online events. See below. 1) All day on http://twitter.com Women will use the Twitter hashtag #DigitalSisterhood to celebrate the weekly Digital Sisterhood Wednesday event. They will be encouraged to tweet about their digital sisters, organizations, and causes like the Red Pump Project that promote HIV/AIDS awareness on World AIDS Day. Visit www.theredpumpproject.com. 2) 7:00-7:15 am EST on http://stickam.com/ Leeke will teach a Digital Sisterhood Online Yoga class for social media users that focuses on kind and gentle office yoga. 3) 9:00-10:00 pm EST – http://tweetchat.com/ Leeke will host a discussion on how women have used the power of their online voice to raise awareness in 2010. Women will use the Twitter hashtag #digitalsisterhood to participate and follow the discussion. Visit http://digitalsisterhood.wordpress.com and http://twitter.com/ Leeke is using Digital Sisterhood Month to collect research for her next book Digital Sisterhood, a memoir (December 2011). She penned That Which Awakens Me: A Creative Woman’s Poetic Memoir of Self-Discovery (2009 – available on Amazon.com) and her debut novel Love’s Troubadours – Karma: Book One (2007 – available on Amazon.com). Her poetry appeared in Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002) edited by E. Ethelbert Miller. Her six-word memoir Go Green Boho BAP. Urban Debutante was published in It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser of Smith Magazine in 2010. Visit www.anandaleeke.com and http://twitter.com/ End
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