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...Ryan started an e-mail discussion group--ChicWIT, short for Chicago Women in Technology. She sent e-mails to five people and asked them to spread the word. Within five months ChicWIT mushroomed to 500 members. Still reluctant to call her creation a networking group--with that term's evocation of self-centered corporate climbers--she thought of ChicWIT as more of a "community" in which "through relationships, good things would happen...
That was three years ago. Today ChicWIT, which costs nothing to join, has more than 4,000 members. About 10% are men. Its popularity led to the creation, under Ryan's guidance, of WIT lists in 52 other communities in 19 countries, including India, Ireland, Poland and Taiwan. With 20,000 participants worldwide, Ryan says, what is now called WorldWIT worldwit.org ranks as the world's largest moderated--and spam-free, thanks to human filtering--e-mail discussion group...
...chat is faceless: at Ryan's urging, members sometimes meet locally for wine-and-cheesers. "You get curious about who these folks are," says ChicWIT mingler Amy Braun, a manager for a Barrington, Ill., computer-consulting firm. At a recent get-together at the Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg, 100 women (and a few men) greeted Ryan with thunderous applause...
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