I gave myself the name Identity Woman for a very particular reason. At the time I began blogging I had spent an entire year working full time in identity and had basically been the only woman at every one of the many meetings I had attended on the subject. At the time there was one other woman I knew of working in the field and she was on the other coast and was not blogging.
I have worked very very hard for the last three years pretty much full time to grow the community around user-centric identity along with my personal brand “Identity Woman.” I have never claimed to ‘own this space.’ I have a reputation within it because I work well with many many people from a diverse points of view and bring them together. I am the identity woman archetypically in many ways because I have catalyzed and brought the community together (along with the help of many others). This bringing together is a very feminine role that has created “fertile ground” for lots of great developments in the field.
It is much more then an ‘awareness building pseudonym’. Identity Woman â„ is my professional Identity. My blog is my professional presence. I am not ‘a title’ at ‘a company’ like almost everyone else in this field. When I was quoted two weeks ago in the in Wired Online and the NYTimes they referred to me as the Identity Woman. When I speak at conferences like O’Reilly’s and Supernova I am listed in the program as Identity Woman.
Identity Woman â„ is my brand and my Identity and I own it.
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