Lena Chen

So kids, I’m a nominee for the 2011 Social Media Award from the Women’s Media Center. If you’ve found my blogging and online communication strategy* to be helpful/entertaining/educational/etc., cast a vote for me here!

Y’all are always asking me for website recommendations, so here’s a tip: check out the other nominees in the category. According to the Women’s Media Center, “The nominees represent a diverse group of journalists, bloggers and tweeters who spread their ‘message’ by using their creativity and resourcefulness via the interwebs through social networking, blogging and mobile outreach.” I’m friends with several of the nominated women, so I can attest that they are as awesome personally as they are professionally. They do some fabulously creative work and represent a really diverse spectrum of interests (they’re not all writers, by the way). On the voting page, you can read bios for each person and click over to their site.

Thanks for voting! And because this IS a social media award after all, I encourage you to reblog, Tweet, and distribute this post widely ;)

* This “online communications strategy” largely consists of sneaking commentary about gender politics in between posts about domestic squabbles and inappropriate conversations I’ve had with my friends. Given my inability to sound or look like an adult in real life, I think I actually make a better impression from behind the computer screen.