Digital Sisterhood: A self-care, self-discovery & social justice movement for women in social media

Digital Sisterhood A self-care, self-discovery & social justice movement for women in social mediadigitalsisterhood.wordpress.com @digitalsisterhd by Ananda Leeke

Digital Sisterhood
Ananda Leeke’sPowerPoint Presentation supported her
speech at the Social Justice Camp II: The Empowered Are
Back’s Ignite Speaker Night on January 21, 2011 at St. Paul's
Lutheran Church, 4900 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC. The PowerPoint is based on an
excerpt from Leeke’s book manuscript Digital Sisterhood, a
memoir (will be published in December 2011).
(updated on 2.1.11)

Women Online
Did you know women represent 87.1
million of the total U.S. adult online
population (163.8 million) in 2010?
According to the BlogHer-iVillage
2010 Social Media Matters Study, co-
sponsored by Ketchum and the
Nielsen Company, there are
67.5million women (18 to 76 years
old) out of 126.9 million social media
users in the U.S. Now that’s digital
sisterhood!

So what is digital sisterhood?

Digital Sisterhood is…
The feminine currency women use to create relationship wealth through the connections they make, conversations they have, communities they build, causes they support, collaborative partnerships they establish, and commerce they engage in with women they meet online and offline.

Relationship Wealth
The relationship wealth of
digital sisterhood is based
on what women care
about and their shared
interests and experiences.

Women + Relationship Wealth = Powerful Women
This wealth supports women as
they stand in their own power
and reclaim themselves online
and offline. When they do so,
they move with a power not seen
before. It is rooted in women
being fully,
P – Present when they
O – Own their lives as
W – Women who believe they have
E – Everything they need to live out their
R – Revolution of authenticity.

#DigitalSisterhood Wednesdays on Twitter
#DigitalSisterhood Wednesdays
give women in social media a
weekly opportunity to build and
strengthen their communities.
Each week women are
encouraged to celebrate and
promote their digital sisters by
using the #FF (Friday Follow)
format. They are also encouraged
to tweet about their digital
sisters’ businesses, wisdom,
creativity, blogs, Facebook pages,
causes, videos, and web sites.

Digital Sisterhood Month 2010
Digital Sisterhood Month was
established in December 2010 to
give women an opportunity to
celebrate their connections,
conversations, communities,
collaborative partnerships, and
commerce. Online events
Including Tweetchats on different
topics, radio shows, Twitter
contests, and weekly online yoga
classes were held.

offline events were held in
Washington, DC. They included
a focus group on how women
in social media discuss fashion,
hair, beauty, and lifestyles; and
field trips to Tranquil Space for
a yoga class, the National
Museum of Women in the Arts
for the Lois Mailou Jones
exhibit, and Teaism, a woman-
owned café, for dinner.

Digital Sisterhood Network 2011
#DigitalSisterhood Wednesdays on Twitter
Monthly #DigitalSisterhood Tweetchats from 9:00pm-10:00pm
Digital Sisterhood Radio on Talkshoe.com
Digital Sisterhood Network’s Blogger-in-Residence Program, March 2011-12
Kickstarter Fundraiser #2 for Digital Sisterhood Book Project, March-June 2011
Digital Sisterhood Social Justice Causes:
-Crowdrise fundraising efforts for women & girls living with HIV/AIDS and
Haitian Women, 2011-12
-Feminism Online Project, March 2011
Digital Sisterhood Month, December 2011
Digital Sisterhood, a memoir book by Ananda Leeke, December 2011

Digital Sisterhood Blogger-in-Residence 2011-12
The Digital Sisterhood Network’s Blogger-in
Residence Program was established to serve a
woman living with health opportunities
(transformed the word challenges into
opportunities) in the DC metropolitan area. The
2011-12 Blogger-in-Residence is Kamaria T. Richmond,
a native Washingtonian and writer. Richmond is
passionate about spirituality, fabulous and healthy
living, family and friends, lifelong learning, fashion,
beauty, hair, the arts, music, gourmet food and wine,
home décor, traveling, and independent films. She
worked as the East Coast Assistant Buyer for St. John
at Nordstrom for ten years prior to being diagnosed
with sarcoidosis and experiencing a stroke that
injured her brain in 2004. After her stroke, she
decided to use her health challenges as life
reinvention opportunities to live a healthier lifestyle
by practicing forgiveness, gratitude, joy, loving
kindness, mindfulness, positive thinking, and self-care.
Follow her on Twitter and Cinchcast.

Digital Sisterhood MovementSelf-Care, Self-Discovery & Social Justice
When women in social media
invest in themselves and each
other, they yield a high return.
So how can they remind
themselves to invest?
They can join the Digital
Sisterhood Movement of Self-
Care, Self-Discovery & Social
Justice.

Digital Sisterhood Self-Care
Women in social media can use online meditation podcasts, videos, and smart phone apps to practice self-care.

Meditation & Chill Out Phone Apps

Women in social media can use yoga podcasts, videos, and smart phone apps to practice self-care.

Online and Offline Yoga
Women in social media can watch online kind and gentle yoga classes on Stickam.com: http://stickam.com/anandaleeke. They can also join Meet Up groups like the DC- based Kind and Gentle C-OM-MUNITY Meet Up to practice yoga locally: http://yoga.meetup.com/584.

Women in social media can
use fitness, health, nutrition,
and magazine smart phone
and iPad apps, Facebook
groups, and Twitter pages to
practice self-care.

Nutrition Phone Apps

Health Magazine Facebook & Twitter

Fitness Magazine Phone & iPad Apps

Digital Sisterhood Self-Discovery
Women in social media
can watch creative coaching
workshops on Ustream.tv,
listen to creative living
podcasts, and participate in
blogging book groups, monthly
art challenges, teleseminars,
and webinars to discover their
voice, passions, and interests.

Women in social media can
read magazine iPad and smart
phone apps, Facebook groups,
and Twitter pages to gain
inspiration and information on
how to discover their voice,
passions, and interests; accept,
forgive, and reinvent
themselves; and live creative
and fully engaged lives.

Magazine Facebook & Twitter

Social media conferences,
networking sites meet-ups, and
Facebook, Yahoo, Google and
LinkedIn groups are places that
offer women space to explore
themselves, make connections,
have conversations with like-
minded women, build
community, and establish
collaborative partnerships.

Social Networking Sites

Digital Sisterhood Social Justice
Women can use their social media presence to support causes they care about such as breast cancer, feminism, Haiti’s rebuilding efforts, heart health, HIV/AIDS, violence against women, and women’s health week.

can participate in blog
campaigns and carnivals,
Twitter chats, Twestivals,
Tweetups, and unconferences
like Social Justice Camp,
and Nonprofit 2.0 to gain
awareness, fresh ideas,
collaborative partners,
training, support, and build
community.

can use Eventbrite,
Kickstarter.com,
Crowdrise, and other
online event and
fundraising sites to raise
money for social justice
events, causes, and projects
they develop and/or
support.

Bio of Ananda Leeke
Yoga + Creativity + Internet Geek = Ananda Leeke. Leeke
is a lawyer turned “Jill of many trades”: innerpreneur,
author, artist, coach, and yoga teacher. Her mission is
“Empowering U2BU through creativity coaching, Reiki,
self-care, social media, volunteerism, and yoga.”
She pennedThat Which Awakens Me: A Creative
Woman’s Poetic Memoir of Self-Discovery (2009 –
available on Amazon.com) and her debut novel Love’s
Troubadours – Karma: Book One(2007 – available on
Amazon.com). Her poetry appeared in Beyond the
Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century
(2002) edited by E. Ethelbert Miller. Her six-word memoir
– Go Green Boho BAP. Urban Debutante. - was published
in It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs
by Writers Famous & Obscure by Larry Smith and Rachel
Fershleiser of Smith Magazine in 2010. She is currently
writing Digital Sisterhood, a memoir (2011) and Love’s
Troubadours – Symon: Book Two (2012).

Contact Information
Cell: 202.607.3509
Email: kiamshaleeke@yahoo.com
Web: www.anandaleeke.com
Blog: http://authoranandaleeke.wordpress.com
Network: http://digitalsisterhood.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/anandaleeke
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Ananda-Leeke/68996700906
Ustream.tv: www.ustream.tv/channel/ananda-leeke-live
Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/user2529025
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/anandaleeke

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