Betsy Aoki's WebLog

Loved this - found on Steve Clayton's Blog. Microsoft Technologies - An infographic by the team from Next at Microsoft Hi-res PDF is here (to read the tiny type :) ).

Hmm, well. I can say the Treadmill desk prompted me to lose 5 lbs in about as many weeks. That's the good news. The bad news is, that I also was wearing the wrong orthotics and the wrong shoes (orthotics meant to go in dress shoes only, and because...

A recent trip to visit my parents unearthed gems of a forgotten era. (Yes, I realize bowties are coming back and possibly never left, but ponder the Boston Computer Society Publication aka Computer Update). First we ask ourselves - will online shopping...

I started writing these at the beginning of 2012, adding to them bit by bit as I looked back and thought about how different it was to launch Bing in 2009 sitting on the PR/marketing side vs. the engineering side, where I've launched so many things before...

View from coffee line, rockstar TEDActive barista making my drink 2011 . You learn a lot by watching the process! Thanks to a link from Dare Obasanjo, I was reading Scripting News " Hackathons are Nonsense ." It's a perfect nugget of thoughtful skepticism...

If you've heard the media stories or are just on a nerd health kick for 2012 and want to know more about both standing and treadmill desks, read on for what I've learned so far. Nothing here constitutes medical advice - talk to your doctor before making...

I've spent a year being massively unfaithful to this blog. :( Last year (and to be fair the year before), it was more about twitter growing in influence and eating away my will to write long pieces. This year, it's been more about posting other...

Last Friday I had the privilege of both speaking and mentoring at the inaugural BlogHer | bet conference, both as a Bing PR/marketing person and as social media/community application/games program manager. It's an unusual conference and so I'll lay out...

I'm writing this from a skyscraper with a big window where I see exactly no snow falling, despite dire prediction. As we all know, the Seattle area can't handle snow - so much so that the *idea* of snow, keeps drivers at home. This is a somewhat decent...

Now that some of the launch madness of www.bing.com/redu (aka www.letsredu.com ) is over, I'd like to blog about what REDU campaign means to me. I'm a completely public-educated person. With the exception of nursery school (ie pre-kindergarten) I went...

A lot of people I ran into this past 12 months talked about it - the great blogging struggle. Some of them, who have a more entrepreneurial or consultant bent, have managed to keep blogging steadily even while picking up responsibilities to their audience...

When I signed up to do this Ada Lovelace thing, I knew I'd have a few options on my hands. I could research obscure women that needed to be brought out to public view. I could name women in tech or science you probably have heard of already ...

I was privileged enough to act as one of the "camp counselors" yesterday at the PR+MKTG Camp hosted by Dan Greenfield www.prmktgcamp.com . I shared my leadership spot for " Blue team" with Patricia Vaccarino of Xanthus Communications , a veteran of...

Ok, both Tara Hunt and Mona Nomura have taken up the tricky topic of “love and greatness” and now it’s my turn. I feel compelled as a feminist, a geek girl, and as the only one of the three of us to be married right now, to offer a different perspective...

TEDActive was a different kind of conference for me ( though similar to other technical conferences in its lack of sleep, regular pace, and of course, being thrown in with large quantities of people I didn’t know before I came). That lack of sleep hampers...

TEDActive is not actually the first conference of my year - CES was, and while I tweeted a lot about it during and after, I really didn't blog about it. There are some things still churning around in my brain from talking with Chris Brogan that are blog...

So, folks who have followed this blog know that I know how to make bath bombs (or fizzes), have given a presenation at Foo Camp East on how to make them, give them away to fellow social media conference panelists, and mentioned Bliss Soaps , ( http:/...

Doing the Ignite presentation and chatting a little bit with Scott Berkun (who has a book coming out on public speaking ) I figured I'd do a followup on another 5 minute talk and some things I learned from doing a non-Ignite, 5 minute talk. For 140 Characters...

Note: All photos this page Randy Stewart, blog.stewtopia.com I am grateful to Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media for nudging me into giving my first Ignite talk at Gnomedex 2009, in the same way I'm grateful for previous circumstances nudging me to bungee...

Coming back from Chicago inundated me with work, and so I'll admit to only lately becoming aware of negative Blogher09 reactions to both the size and the swag-gish aspect of the conference. You'd think I would have been in the thick of the ire, being...

As an experiment, for most of the Blogher 2009 conference (except when I worked out in the gym), I opted to wear a Bing t-shirt everywhere I went. We are a new brand, and I figured it would help not only spread brand awareness but would allow me to be...

I'm writing this in the Chicago airport in the familiar happy post-conference exhaustion. Unlike my previous Blogher attendance, I was doing more booth babe/evangelism of a product than being a social media expert, and it was cool to see how folks have...

I was a newspaper reporter before I went into Web technology as a profession, and well before becoming any kind of blogger, so when I comment on journalism I have both perspectives ensconced in my brain. I was also a reporter before the journalism field...

I haven't written much lately because I've pulled some weird stunts, like stay awake 26 hours and tweet for a good percentage of that while triaging bugs. I've put on my painted shoes and my marketing hat and gone to conferences while blitzing in and...

Recently, in the process of promoting Will Code for Green , our killer Live Search API contest that lets you use whatever technology stack you desire to write your Web app, I dug deep and went back to one of my old teachers Tim Maher from http://www.consultix...