Technically Women

As easy as it is to find fault with typical “best-of” lists, picking apart who’s present and who’s absent, I find little to complain about today with Fast Company’s 2010 piece on The Most Influential Women in Technology.
Fast Company has assembled a great list of diverse women with varying backgrounds and partitioned the list into [...]

Generally on Ada Lovelace Day the idea is to pick a woman who inspires you and toss up a blog post extolling her virtues. I’ve done so over on my own blog, but when the Technically Women posse started talking about how to tackle the topic, I opted to scramble up to 30,000 feet and [...]

I chose to write about Marissa Mayer for Ada Lovelace day 2010.

I have always defined myself as a girl geek, but also a person who enjoys fashion, make up, shoes, bags and everything else which somehow by definition don’t really fit into the tech world which is dominated by suits and ties.
Then Marissa Mayer crossed [...]

I was introduced to Anne Petterøe in 2009 by a fellow Enterprise Irregular (EI) who asked me if I might be able to help her find a place to stay for SXSW here in Austin.  I had already been following Anne on Twitter, but definitely didn’t know her at all.  But, because she hailed from one of [...]

We’ve had a lot of discussion on this blog about empowering more women to speak at conferences and to raise the visibility of women in social media in general — now is our chance.
Today, South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive opened its panel picker for the 2010 event. I’m thrilled to say that several of [...]

It’s a fact. When you look at the agendas for top tech gatherings – whether social media focused or not – there are blessed few women on the stage. Period. Though this issue has percolated to the top of the meme stream of late, thanks in part to this post by TSG (about which I’ll [...]

I’m not going to hash and rehash the controversy around the TSG all-male list of speakers on social media, or the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Summit conflagration about the same issue not long before that, or… well, you get the picture. The absence of women on podiums in proportionate numbers has been an issue for quite [...]

It’s been a couple of weeks since The Speakers Group (TSG) put out a Top Ten Speakers for Social Media list, now retitled “Social Media Speakers: 10 to Know.”
Publishing the list brought TSG, perhaps, some totally unexpected controversy. The list contained only men’s names. In my, albeit limited, experience on the social media conference circuit, [...]

Here it comes again: “Where are the Women Speakers?” Geoff Livingston triggers yet another uproar over the longstanding complaint that women are not fairly represented at Tech conferences. I have some experience here that I’d like to share on a few sides of this discussion.
I was a stay-at-home Mom for five years after [...]

Although the last half century has seen changes in perception and more egalitarian behavior, the technology gender gap still exists.