Webgrrls.de

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webgrrls.de is a network founded in 1997 in Munich for women who work in, for and with digital media . The network serves as a platform for knowledge transfer, exchange of experience and cooperation for professional development of women. Webgrrls.de has been organized as a registered association with its seat in Munich since January 2001 .

aims

The target group of the women's network are female specialists and managers who work with new media. The professional spectrum of the self-employed and employed members extends from web design , programming , photography and online editing to law and coaching to media art .

The basic idea of ​​the network is mutual professional advancement through knowledge transfer, awarding of contracts and establishing contacts. The exchange takes place via mailing lists , network platforms and social networks such as Facebook , Twitter and Zoom. There are also monthly meetings in various regional groups in Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart and in the virtual region.

history

The organization was made known in New York in April 1995 under the name webgrrls by Aliza Sherman, the founder of the media company Cybergrrl Inc. invited by email to so-called Webgrrls meetings in a New York café. Seven months later, the webgrrls New York meetings were already attracting 200 women from the Internet industry. This is how Sherman caught the attention of the media and was named one of the 50 most influential people on the Internet by Newsweek in 1996.

In 1997, German online marketing specialist Karin Maria Schertler joined this group during a professional stay in New York. When she returned to Munich in August 1997, she brought the idea of ​​Webgrrls networking to Munich. She used the International Webgrrls Day on October 22nd to found "Webgrrls Germany" with other women at the Systems trade fair in Munich. In 1998 the network already had 1,300 women. Newsletters and mailing lists enable supraregional communication.

In the wake of the new economy boom, the network claims to have more than 10,000 members across Germany. This increased the desire of the voluntary organization team to adapt the administration to the increased organizational requirements in the form of an association.

As a result, webgrrls.de eV was entered in the Munich register of associations on January 29, 2001 after several attempts. The district court had initially criticized the statutes, according to which general meetings and board elections take place virtually. Only after several changes and the development of a voting tool were the statutes approved by the court. This makes webgrrls.de the first association in Germany whose virtual elections are legally recognized by the registry court.

After the introduction of paid usage in 2002, the number of members fell to 300 registered members by the end of the first quarter of 2002 and at the end of 2006 was 791 women. The age of the network players in 2005 was mainly in their mid-30s to around 40 years.

In 2004 the principle of networking via mailing lists was presented by two webgrrls on the television education channel BR-alpha under the title Success .

organization

Webgrrls.de is run by elected women on the board in cooperation with the regional managers, the press and editorial team and the coordinators of the web and database team. All women are employed or self-employed and do the development and expansion work on the network on a voluntary basis. They receive support nationwide from many specialists who provide their know-how and their work for sub-projects and special tasks.

Decision-making processes take place via a "bottom-up" structure. They are initiated at member level and forwarded from there to the highest authority, the representative assembly. This guarantees a wide range of participation for the individual network actors, but leads to a certain rigidity of the structure with regard to quick and uncomplicated decision-making. The network is organized into forums and mailing lists for specific topics. Rules for virtual togetherness are mostly created through discussions on the relevant pages.

The principle of "give and take" - a constitutive condition of communities - is anchored in the community rules at Webgrrls. Members are obliged to provide feedback on their specific concerns in the form of a written summary in the overall network. This should ensure that all network actors participate in new information. When communicating via mailing lists, a system is used that indicates in the subject line which concern exists. The fact that questions, answers and summaries are clearly marked as such enables more efficient processing. Self-presentation takes place via the uniform presentation of the individual member profiles.

The name webgrrls with two rr describes the Spanish rolling r. It refers to the riot grrrls that arose out of the punk movement. He also makes reference to the Guerrilla Girls , an American artist movement. Sandra Becker , Renate Hermanns and Monika Todoroska currently belong to the executive board .

International distribution

In 2000 there were more than 30,000 members worldwide. The group from the USA holds the rights to webgrrls.com . The Dutch group is now called women on the web , the domain webgrrls.nl is forwarded to womenontheweb.nl .

activities

webgrrls.de is organized in the regional groups Berlin , Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg and the Virtual Regio.

As part of its socio-political educational work, the network takes a public position on issues specific to the internet and issues relevant to women's politics. Among other things, they take part in the campaigns for Equal Pay Day and Girls' Day . In 2009 the association organized a nationwide conference at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz under the motto ".biz + byte" in everyday work. The thematic focus was the examination of the opportunities and risks of a digitized world of work, which were discussed in the context of a panel discussion. The patron of the conference was Vera Reiss, State Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture in Rhineland-Palatinate.

On the occasion of the 15th anniversary, a new event concept for the webgrrls convention net + work 2012 was designed with a mixture of traditional conference (lectures and panel discussions) and the openness of a barcamp .

Memberships in associations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ website of webgrrls.de. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Website of Verena Kuni Professor of Visual Culture at the Institute for Art Education at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, accessed on April 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ Sandra Becker. Visiting professor for artistic transformation processes, University of the Arts Berlin, board member webgrrls.de, accessed on April 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Grimme Institute: Media Competence NRW - In Focus: Women in Media Professions. (PDF; 3.4 MB) August 2010, accessed April 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Use of zoom. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The Founding of Cybergrrl and the Webgrrl Network. FolksOnline, 1997, accessed March 30, 2012 .
  7. ↑ The Net 50: CYBERHEROINE. Newsweek, 1995, archived from the original on November 3, 2012 ; accessed on April 5, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Successful networks: webgrrls.de. mediella, the online magazine for specialist women in Munich's new media, August 2002, accessed on March 30, 2012 .
  9. ↑ a b History of the Webgrrls. In: webgrrls.de. Retrieved March 30, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Astrid Pfeiffer: Good girls don't get on the Internet. In: Welt online. June 21, 2001, accessed March 30, 2012 .
  11. ^ Association history
  12. ↑ a b c d e f Christina Schachtner, Gabriele Winker : Virtual spaces - new publics: women's networks on the Internet (politics of gender relations ). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. / New York 2005, ISBN 3-593-37726-8 , p. 148 ff. Googlebooksearch (online)
  13. ^ BR-alpha: TV business magazine "Success". on: mediakuss.de , 25./26. November 2004.
  14. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Documentation: Future Conference: “In the Flow: Gender-sensitive Information and Communication Society” October 21 and 22, 2003, Vienna. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wu.ac.at
  15. ↑ Imprint | Webgrrls. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Webgrrls women power has long been online. In: SPIEGEL. June 20, 2000, accessed March 30, 2012 .
  17. ↑ Participation in the Equal Pay Day 2012 through the Stadtbund Münchner Frauenverband
  18. ↑ Participation of the Regio-Gruppe Berlin in Girls' Day 2011
  19. ↑ Digital helpers for the world of work, .biz and byte in everyday work. on the website of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. accessed on April 3, 2012
  20. ↑ 15 years webgrrls.de: Network for women in the new media celebrates its anniversary. on: crosswater-job-guide.com , April 3, 2012.
  21. ↑ http://community.oreilly.de/blog/2012/05/11/15-jahre-webgrrls/ Oreilly Blog, accessed on February 17, 2016
  22. ↑ Stadtbund Münchner Frauenverband: List of members , accessed on April 7, 2012
  23. ↑ http://www.kompetenzz.de/Ueber-uns/Verein Competence Center Technology Diversity Equal Opportunities eV

literature

  • Maren Hartmann: Technologies and utopias: the cyberflaneur and the experience of 'being online'. Fischer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88927-361-0 .
  • Hilary W. Poole (Ed.): The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara 2005, ISBN 1-85109-659-0 , p. 209 ff.

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