Panels/Presentations
Comics/Games:
PAX 2010: Grassroots: Why Gamers are Getting Involved and Why You Should Too
The Beat: Watch Comics by the Numbers with Brett Schenker and The Beat (9/11/14)
NBC Chicago: Future of Fan Culture (7/11/15)
San Diego Comic-Con 2015: Comics Journalism: It’s about Ethics in Comics Journalism (7/9/15)
San Diego Comic-Con 2016: The New Comics Journalism: Representation for All (7/21/16)
Email:
Email Deliverability: Time to Get Smart about Spam (4/21/11)
Spam Sucks – 2012 Salsa Community Conference (9/28/12)
Emailing in a Spammy World & The Future of Email (3/27/13)
The Secret Science of Email Deliverability (3/5/15)
The 2015 Nonprofit Deliverability Study (4/20/15)
The 2016 Nonprofit Deliverability Study (6/3/16)
Quotes/Interviews
Comics:
Sunshine State News: Move Over Iowa and New Hampshire! Here Comes the Comic Book Straw Poll (9/8/11)
The Atlantic: The Female Thor and the Female Comic-Book Reader (7/21/14)
Today: PC run amok? Female Thor’s debut leaves some thunderstruck (9/29/14)
Today: In new comic, mighty Marvel superheroes learn even they can be bullied (10/27/14)
Nothing But Comics: Graphic Policy’s Brett Schenker Discusses the Airboy Transgender Controversy (7/7/15)
Email:
Hartford Courant: Dodd Looking to Techies for Edge (5/28/07)
ePolitics: The Email Gauntlet: How Democratic Online Fundraisers are Tempting Fate (10/9/14)
Referenced (either by name or work)
Comics:
Examining Lois Lane: The Scoop on Superman’s Sweetheart
Reading Gruenwald Caps: All Rise Please… (2/22/10)
Death and Taxes: Gays Dragged Into Anti-Islam Batman Attack (12/27/10)
The Mary Sue: Who Are Comic Book Fans? (5/2/11)
The Beat: Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: other things (5/4/11)
Color Lines: Marvel Overcomes Its Feat of a Black Spider-Man. Will White Fans Follow? (8/3/11)
Public Libraries Online: It’s No Joke: Comics and Collection Development (2/25/13)
The Mary Sue: Ladies Are Leading The Conversation About SDCC’13 (7/19/13)
The Beat: Facebook stats: 40% of comics fans are women (9/18/13)
Multiversity Comics: The Rundown: Marvel Preparing “Agent Carter” TV Series, Study Shows 40% of Facebook Comic Audience Are Women, and more (9/19/13)
Bad Comics: Il 40% degli appassionati di fumetti sono donne (9/19/13)
Geek Mom: The Cliffs of Insanity: Facebook Stats Show 40 Percent of Comic Readers Are Women (9/20/13)
The Beat: Facebook Demographics: How many women read graphic novels? (10/3/13)
U.S. News & World Report: When Will the Perception of Women in Comics Catch Up to Reality? (10/16/13)
Forbes: Alyssa Milano Talks HACKTIVIST, Social Media, And Freedom (11/6/13)
Firebrand Progressives: Girl Power Week Is Upon Us! (11/9/13)
XO Jane: I Spent Two Weeks Attending Two Women-Focused Geek Cons And It Was Pretty Awesome (11/13/13)
Froodee: Why Comics Never Goes Out of Style (11/23/13)
CBR: Comics For Girls: Spandex Not Required (11/24/13)
Nerd Bastards: Editorial: The Inevitable “Hunger Games Was Successful, Make Wonder Woman NOW” Think Piece (11/25/13)
FanGirlKnitsScarf: “w00tstock” – A Gender-Unbiased, Musical Fan-Journey (1/25/14)
Bleeding Cool: Thursday Morning Runaround – Where No Woman Has Gone Before (2/6/14)
The Outhousers: Marvel To Relaunch Golden Oldie? (2/8/14)
Geek League of America: Ms. Marvel #1 Makes a Splash With Comic Critics (2/8/14)
The Discriminating Fangirl: Noelle Stevenson’s Comic about Nerd Gatekeeping & Comic Book Shops (2/11/14)
Women Write About Comics: Self-Identifed Woman Comics Fans On the Rise (2/11/14)
I Like Comics: Women Don’t Read Comics (2/13/14)
The Geek Anthropologist: As Always, it Started With Star Trek: A Study On Geek Girls (2/14/14)
Media, Through a different lens: The Struggles of a Fake Geek Girl (2/16/14)
Rhymes With Geek: She Makes Comics: Interview with Director Marisa Stotter (2/17/14)
The Beat: DC to spend $250,000 on marketing Vertigo graphic novels this year (2/18/14)
The Multiversity: The Dream of the 90s is Alive in Comics (2/18/14)
Superheroesque: Girls Don’t Read Comics (Obviously) (3/2014)
Comic Book Daily: The Gender Gap In Comics (3/6/14)
The Beat: IDWs Ted Adams Interview Part 2: What’s up for Little Nemo, WinterWorld, Ragnarok and V Wars (3/12/14)
Amber Unmasked: Cons & Gender Diversity: I checked in with Baltimore Con to see what’s up (3/12/14)
CBR: Let the Girls Take the Lead (3/13/14)
Dame B and Mac D: The Perfect Feminist Utopia and Comic-Con (3/20/14)
Women Write About Comics: Holy Inadvertently Marketing Rape Culture! (3/25/14)
7 Days in Dubai: Who says chicks don’t like comics? Super girls to be out in force at Comic Con… (3/27/14)
News and Tribune: Some comic relief (4/1/14)
CBR: Anatomy of a Bad Cover: DC’s New “Teen Titans” #1 (4/11/14)
Infinite Comix: Strange Conjectures: Superman Isn’t A Misogynist (4/22/14)
Media, Through a different lens: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes for All Ages (4/30/14)
Comics Grinder: Furor Over Basic Comics Criticism: Janelle Asselin and the Attack on Women (4/30/14)
The Missouri Review: Changing Demographics in Comics mean Women aren’t Content Being Fridged (5/19/14)
Bury Your Thoughts in Print: curb your enthusiasm (5/20/14)
Thoughts of a Fan and Writer: Friday Food For Thought (5/23/14)
Slate: David Goyer’s Comments About She-Hulk Make People Very, Very Angry (5/23/14)
Feminist Fiction: But women just don’t buy that stuff! (5/28/14)
Samantha Tynes: New Face of the Superhero (6/21/14)
The Geek Girl: New Face of the Superhero (6/23/14)
Hub Bub: Four Females in the Comic Book Industry That Everyone Should Know (6/23/14)
Infinite Comix: Postmortem: What can we learn from DC’s Minx imprint that was marketed to female readers? (6/25/14)
Verily: Holding Out for a Heroine (6/27/14)
BreakThruRadio: What Do We Want? More Superheroines! (7/1/14)
Dorkadia: Safe Spaces & The Internet Nerd (7/7/14)
Time: Marvel Comics Writers Explain Why They’re Making Thor a Woman (7/15/14)
Buzz Carl: Marvel will genderswap ‘Thor’ according to announcement on ‘The View’ (7/15/14)
The Beat: The secret of comics history that people on the internet don’t want you to know! (7/16/14)
The Hollywood Billboard: Gender Changes Coming to Marvel’s ‘Thor’ (7/16/14)
Hype: #Thor: Man Or Woman? (7/16/14)
NerdLocker: Feminist Fanboy – What Is That? (7/17/14)
Crowdly: What Airbnb & Thor Can Teach Us About Rebranding (7/18/14)
My Personal View: A big week for Marvel: Capt. America now Black; Thor will be a woman (7/18/14)
The Stake: The big political week in comic-book news (7/18/14)
Buzz Carl: What Ms. Marvel’s rare 6th printing means for diversity in comics (7/19/14)
ICv2: Looking into the Future of Fandom at SDCC (7/21/14)
WMS 50 Intro to Gender Studies: Popular culture: Discrimination in geek culture (7/21/14)
Radio Tabu: Thor cambia de sexo (7/23/14)
Macleans: At Comic-Con, mainstream comics reach out to girl fans (7/24/14)
The Geek Verse: Leaving Proof 234 | On the DRM-free comiXology, Marvel’s illusion of change and “diversity marketing,” and what publishers can learn from the UFC (7/29/14)
One Man and His Blog: The Marvel comic that sells more digitally than in print (7/29/14)
Two Geeks Talking: Cosmic Crush: Thor(s) and the Broken-Hearted (7/30/14)
Sabido Cult: A negação dos quadrinhos (8/7/14)
Comics Bullentin: Cosmic Crush: Thor(s) and the Broken-Hearted (8/11/14)
Time: Should We Forgive Marvel for That Awful Spider-Woman Cover? (8/21/14)
Social Dashboard: Spider-Woman artwork furore gives Marvel pause over portrayal of women (8/22/14)
Vox: Why Marvel gave us a sexualized Spider-Woman no one asked for (8/25/14)
Aspiring To Create: Safe Spaces and the Internet Nerd (9/5/14)
Absolute Bear Arms: …and why you should be too (9/5/14)
Buzz Ryan: Female comics writers and fans mock the idea they don’t exist (9/8/14)
The Telegraph: Marvel editor: ‘I won’t say no to sexy female superheroes. Comics still need to be naughty and fun’ (9/10/14)
The Shoops Roost: Marvel E-i-c “Male characters not as sexualized as female characters” (9/11/14)
Over the Edge: Comic-Land: Let’s talk about butts (9/15/14)
Unleash the Fanboy: DC TV Can’t Be Stopped! SUPERGIRL Earns Series Commitment From CBS (9/19/14)
Donna Marie Oldfield: Girls can be superheroes too (10/3/14)
The Shoops Post: My Thoughts on the All-New Thor (10/5/14)
Fast Company: Why Marvel Works: A Scholarly Investigation (10/7/14)
The Eastern Echo: Marvel Comics, female fans (10/8/14)
Ball State Daily: If She Be Worthy (10/9/14)
NPR: Where’s Thor When You Need Her? Women In Comics Fight An Uphill Battle (10/10/14)
CBR: ICv2 White Paper: Rise of the New Comics Customers (10/10/14)
Die Standard: Fighters in the comic universe (10/12/14)
University of Minnesota Women’s Center Blog: Supergirl: Finally Here to Save the World (10/13/14)
The Daily Beast: Marvel and DC Plan 20 Movies for the Next Six Years: Will the Comic Book Movie Bubble Burst? (10/28/14)
ICv2: Highlights from the ‘The ICv2 White Paper’ (10/30/14)
The Beat: Reminder: Women play a lot of video games (11/4/14)
iPoll: Secret Wars and Convergences: Major Upcoming Comic Book Storylines (11/7/14)
Yalsa Blog: Collecting Marvel and DC Comics for Teens (11/10/14)
Paste Magazine: 10 Great Comics for Adloescent Girls: Graphic Novels and Collections (11/10/14)
Fortune: How Marvel is opening up its universe to women and minorities (11/25/14)
The Hawk Girl Chronicles: Move Over Comic Book Men (11/28/14)
ICv2: A Trend-Setting Year for Fan Conventions (12/1/14)
Comic Artist Network: A Trend-Setting Year for Fan Conventions (12/2/14)
Seattle News: Will My Geek Son Be a Sexist Jerk? (12/2/14)
Sequart Organization: The Tribes of Fans: How Tribalism is Pulling Comics in the Wrong Direction (12/6/14)
The Beat: Updated Facebook demographics show male/female comics likers approaching parity (1/2/15)
Time: Why Marvel Decided to Create an All-Female Superhero Team (2/6/15)
Complex: Wonder Women: How Female Characters and Creators Are Battling to Make Comics Better (2/10/15)
ChipChick: Marvel Realizes Girls Rule, Announces A-Force a Super-Heroine Team (2/10/15)
Noisiv: Seafret – Oceans (Music Video) (2/11/5)
The Middle Spaces: “I’m Looking for a Weird Love, Baby. . .” – Romance Comics & the Strangeness of the Normative (2/17/15)
Acts of Geek: She Can Fly: Girls Don’t Read Comics (2/21/15)
Book Whisperer: Comic Book Girl (2/28/15)
A Floral Reflection: Race Gender & The Media Paper: Women Portrayal in Comics (3/4/15)
Women Write About Comics: HBO Wants to Increase Their Writer Diversity – The Big Two Should Do the Same (3/5/15)
Portraits of Feminism: The Cosplay Creep (3/15/15)
Paste Magazine: Batgirl, Internet Hate and the Importance of Inclusivity (3/19/15)
Reaxxion: How the New Female Thor Shows the Grip Feminists Have on Comics (3/22/15)
Pop Primer: On Moff’s Law OR, I Can’t Believe I Really Have to Say This (3/23/15)
The Guardian: Kapow! Attack of the feminist superheroes (3/25/15)
Sioux City Journal: Comic books aren’t just for guys anymore (4/4/15)
Girly Lives: GIRL SUPERHEROES ARE COMING TO YOUR HOUSE (if you have a girl in it) (4/26/15)
Vastly Improbable: I saw Age of Ultron (and I liked it) (4/29/15)
Rudatajstudent: Marvel and D.C. comics fail at affirmative action (5/1/15)
Life is a Wonderful Mixtape: #Trend Alert: “Girls read comics too” AKA the Empowerment of female super-heroes and comic book readers (5/4/15)
The New York Post: Marvel and its sexist superhero movies hit a new low (5/7/15)
Forbes: Disney Spent $15 Billion To Limit Their Audience (5/13/15)
Women Write About Comics: My Problem with the Sex in Sex Criminals (5/18/15)
Geeked Out Girl: Women Need to Read Comics (5/20/15)
Illumina Magazine: How the Success of Marvel’s Female Superheroes Heralds a More Inclusive Age of Comics (5/21/15)
Vulture: How the Success of Marvel’s Female Superheroes Heralds a More Inclusive Age of Comics (5/21/15)
Fashionable Brainiac: Interview with Comic Book Writer Devin Grayson (5/26/2015)
Doom Rocket: Adios, New 52: Recollections of a DC Comics Era That Will (Probably) Never Be Forgotten (5/27/15)
The Mary Sue: Image Comics’ Airboy #2 Has Stupid Transmisogynistic Jokes (7/3/15)
Washington Post: Comic-Con 2015 & gender parity: Here’s why the geek stereotype will soon be dead. (7/7/15)
Vocativ: Kapow! Female Superheroes Are Breaking Comics’ Glass Ceiling (7/10/15)
Huffington Post: Watch Out, Wonder Woman, Female Superheroes Are On The Rise (7/13/15)
Salon: “I did indeed f*ck up”: How an online campaign against a transphobic comic completely changed the tenor of the debate (7/17/15)
Email:
Chapman Cubine Adams + Hussey (CCAH Blog): BACON, the new SPAM? (4/27/12)
PowerThru Consulting: Are you in spam jail with Gmail & Hotmail? Improve your email deliverability to bust out! (2/4/13)
Tech Cafeteria: Everything That You Know About Spam Is Wrong (5/31/13)
Target Marketing: How to Prepare for Yahoo’s Release of Inactive Email Accounts (7/11/13)
Campaigns & Elections: When Email Pitching, Less Can Lead to More (2/2/14)
EveryAction: 5 Tips for Better Nonprofit Fundraising Emails (10/14/14)
Nonprofit Marketing Guide: Learning About Email at #15NTC (3/19/15)
EveryAction: 3 Shocking Statistics from the 2015 Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study (4/20/15)
The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Nonprofits Lose an Average of $15,000 a Year Due to Spam Filters, Study Says (4/23/15)
The NonProfit Times: 12.5% Of Email Doesn’t Get To In-Box (4/24/15)
Capital Business Solutions: New Study Says Nonprofits May Lose $15,000 Annually Due to Spam Filters (5/20/15)
The Chronicle of Philanthropy: More Emails Reach Supporters in 2015 (6/3/16)
Nonprofit Times: Study: 7 Percent of eFundraising Appeals Go to Spam (6/3/16)
Campaigns & Elections: Managing Your Email Program: Deliverability and the Health of Your List (8/19/16)
Campaigns & Elections: Engaging Your Email List: From Content to Sender Reputation (8/23/16)
Nonprofit Times: Rate of Legit Email Getting Caught in Spam Filters Jumped (5/15/17)
Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications Blog: How Much Is Spam Hurting Your Online Fundraising? [New Study] (5/15/17)
Cornershop Creative: Email Deliverability: Where to Start When It All Goes Wrong (5/15/17)
The Agitator: Are Your Fundraising Emails Getting Delivered? (5/15/17)
Nonprofit Quarterly: Study: Being Called “Spam” Threatens Nonprofit Fundraising (5/16/17)
Photos
TechRepublic: Gen Con Indy 2010: Best of show (8/13/10)
TechRepublic: Gen Con Indy 2010: Gamers in costume (8/13/10)
TechRepublic: Gen Con Indy 2010: Gamers in costume (8/13/10)
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