{"id":1516,"date":"2014-10-03T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T17:31:28","slug":"four-interactions-that-could-have-gone-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/four-interactions-that-could-have-gone-better\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Four Interactions That Could Have Gone Better&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a fair amount of tech events lately, which is probably why <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgetkromhout.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/22\/four-interactions-that-could-have-gone-better\/\">this blog post<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgetkromhout.com\">Bridget\u00a0Kromhout<\/a> resonates so strongly. \u00a0She starts off thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u2019re wondering why women don\u2019t attend the conferences, unconferences, meetups, or hackathons you enjoy, or why you don\u2019t seem to make meaningful professional connections with the ones who are there, maybe they\u2019ve been having these conversations often enough that they\u2019re tired of it, and would rather spend their time doing anything else at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is part of my decision-making process for tech events. \u00a0How likely is it that I&#8217;m going to have to deal with this type of interaction? Given other tech events that I&#8217;ve attended lately and how often (or not) I&#8217;ve had to deal with this type of interaction, do I have sufficient energy for dealing with this type of interaction if it does occur this time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a fair amount of tech events lately, which is probably why this blog post from Bridget\u00a0Kromhout resonates so strongly. \u00a0She starts off thusly: If you\u2019re wondering why women don\u2019t attend the conferences, unconferences, meetups, or hackathons you enjoy, or why you don\u2019t seem to make meaningful professional connections with the ones who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/four-interactions-that-could-have-gone-better\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Four Interactions That Could Have Gone Better&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}