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Monday, January 07, 2008 11:42 AM

Girl Geeks meet in Nottingham

Emmeline has sent me details of the next Girly geek dinner in Nottingham. I had a really nice evening there when I stopped by in October, and was looking forward to their next evening (shame I'll be in Seattle though). They're going to have one of Rare's
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:16 PM

Female gamers and developers

I've been sent this interesting article about women gamers and women developers. They're a rare breed (we have no female developers in Microsoft UK and that's a huge shame). I do like the reasoning about why there aren't more female develoipers: " One
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:50 AM

Have you got a male or female brain for DesignIT?

Phew. This is me... You're a genius! Results indicate that you have a predominantly female brain; and could be the next Nobel Prize winner, like Marie Curie. Using the right hand side of your brain, you're often innovative, rational and demonstrate amazing
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:46 AM

NZ Girly geek dinner

Amanda asked me to spread the word about their girly geek dinner in New Zealand. On Thursday 22 nd November in Parnell, Girl Geek Dinners are holding their inaugural event and it would be great to make this first event a huge success. There’s only a week
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:11 PM

Bags and T-shirts

Phew! IT Forum this year is huge! There are over 5000 delegates here in Barcelona, some of the breakout sessions are in Tents outside. Yes tents. Well. they're more like the marquees that you'd get at a wedding party actually, but these are kitted out
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Friday, November 09, 2007 3:03 PM

IT forum - here I come

I'm really looking forward to IT forum next week. I'll be fresh back from my scuba diving holiday in the Turks and Caicos Islands, I'll be bronzed and relaxed and raring to go. (Don't worry, I've post dated this blog entry to publish when I'm out there
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:03 PM

More and more girly geeks

It was great to see Emmeline, Sarah, David, Richard, and more (sorry - I forgot all of your names) in Nottingham last night . A nice convenient stop off for me on the way up to Chesterfield for the Exchange Unplugged roadshow. It's nice to see that women
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, September 10, 2007 6:11 PM

Women in Technology: Thought provoking articles...

Dugie sent me a mailshot from O'Reilly which led me to their Women in Technology page (I totally love the logo, love the strapline Tatiana ). "O'Reilly Media aims to celebrate and give voice to the real-world experiences and concerns of these female trailblazers
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:57 PM

Resources and blogs for Women

I'll add to this as I find out more information so this will be sort of a living document. THis will be a collection of blog posts, blogs and websites that are about Women in Technology and Girly Geeks. If you know of any more, please forward me the link
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Friday, August 24, 2007 6:53 PM

Top scores

Well my Women in Technology dinner session seems to have really struck a chord with the audience at TechEd Auckland. I've had loads and loads of feedback about how valuable the evening was, and the scores for the session have totally blown me away. Thank
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:01 PM

TechEd NZ Women in Technology Dinner

I presented my session at the Women in Technology dinner with a glass of red wine in my hand - a new thing for me at TechEd. Normally there's water on stage. But there I was in front of 180 women, and about 10 blokes, on stage with Helen , the Managing
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:49 PM

TechEd NZ

I'm running around like a mad thing. I'm flying to NZ tomorrow and I've realise I'm not as prepared as I'd like to be. Darryl has invited me over to Auckland to present the session at the Women in Technology dinner and also wants me to work for a living
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:55 PM

The old girls network

Darryl from eWeek had an interesting and sympathetic take on my session at TechEd last month. I was interested in some of the comments though that followed the article and the variety of opinions. No, most of the panel were not from Microsoft. I chose
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Friday, June 29, 2007 5:33 PM

The virtual me

Aargh! I thought it was bad enough hearing my recorded voice last week on Woman's hour , but seeing yourself in a video is much much worse! My Women in IT session has made it onto Virtual TechEd . I want to hide under the desk and cringe. It's a very
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:00 AM

Enterprise ambassadors networking lunch

I went to lunch yesterday in a really amazing place - Lancaster house - part of St James's palace complex (where Prince Charles lives). The lunch was held for the women's enterprise ambassadors network sponsored by girls make your mark . I went there
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
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