Technically Women

Throughout my career I’ve often been reminded that I can work as hard as I want, but I am going to be my most successful with a stellar team around me. That said, whenever I’ve interviewed for a job or considered a new project, I fiercely evaluate the people with whom I’ll work or be associated to gauge how much of a win our collaborative effort might be. Despite all of my practicalities, deciding to join in the Technically Women blog group was an absolute no-brainer. I am both stunned and thrilled to be working with such a diverse group of exceptional women.

You’ll see a trend over the first few blog posts. Many of us have decided to write up what it means to us as individuals what it means to be one of the Technically Women.” We come from such different backgrounds but also share a very common goal — creating awareness of shifts in business, technology trends, and we all strive to grow as leaders and mentor more female leaders. Being one of the Technically Women does not mean standing on a soapbox and talking only about gender equality and focusing only on women’s issues. We want to focus on business and technology issues and offer our perspective as women these types of environments. I can’t say it any better than fellow collaborator Rachel Happe did in her introduction post:

So I believe there is a different perspective that women bring to how technology integrates with our lives and our businesses – but it’s often subtle. The concept of Technically Women intrigued me as an opportunity to collaborate with a bunch of whip-smart woman who have interesting perspectives on technology and to see if, over time, that collective ‘voice’ can be better articulated.

As for my part of this, I am a geek who wears a lot of different hats. I’m a marketing geek. I’m a network security geek. I’m even a bit of a business analytics geek. Technically, I’m not as code proficient as some of my other colleagues here, but I am so jazzed to learn and read and come up with themes that touch us all yet inspire such different reactions. We’re dynamic and we’re strong and we have a voice. Technically, isn’t that a big part of what being a woman is about anyway?

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