Tag archives for women in tech

Tech women attending VMworld: we need YOU for our v0dgeball team!

Are you a techie woman headed to VMworld in August? We still have a couple of spaces left on the all-lady v0dgeball team! What? You don’t know what v0dgeball is? Well here are the details: WHAT:   A rules-based dodgeball tournament with an M.C. and referee. WHEN:   Sunday August 28th 7pm-till its over WHERE:   Sports [...]

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The Dixie Chicks are Reuniting at the Dell Storage Forum

One of my big passions is building community. If you know me, or have read this blog for any length of time, you know I tend to wax poetic at times about the size and the importance of the storage community. When I came to Dell, I didn’t leave that storage community. It did make [...]

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Trading women-in-tech war stories on TechnoGirlTalk

This week I was invited to participate in the TechnoGirlTalk podcast. Its a new podcast hosted by Sunshine Mugrabi specifically to give women in high tech a place to discuss working in high tech. Its only the second podcast, the first one featured women from Cisco, Adobe, and Bhava communications. The one I joined had [...]

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Will the promise of being in a “sexy, hot” field attract more kids to tech?

Here is the tweet that started it: That twitter conversation was sparked by this Details article about the so-called Playboys of Tech (my daughter calls these sorts of guys hipsters…). Chrissie was annoyed that there are never any articles about hipster tech women. But that sentiment of that tweet – that somehow typical tech women [...]

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