I don't know if any of you know this already, but I am just posting for the sake of those who are not aware of this. I really feel that 2008 is the year of Women Empowerment, its nice to see a lot of women being active and showing support to each other.
* Any woman with a telephone who works in technology at a non-profit, a political campaign or is interested in technology is invited to participate in this free, live event on March 31, 2008 from 11AM to 6:15 PM EST. Below is a list of some of the panel discussions that will be held at Women Who Tech: A TeleSummit For Women in Technology. * - *Open Source For Women: This panel will explore how to get women more involved in developing technology and contributing to Open Source and Open Standards. What are the current barriers? What can we do to break these barriers?* - *Everything You Wanted To Know About Tech But Were Afraid To Ask (a man): There are gazillion tools on the market these days that claim to help ramp up your technology programs. What do they all do and are some of them overkill? * - *Build An Online Campaign And Save The World: The latest tricks and tools in online campaign organizing and making them go viral. * - *Women And Social Capital: Networking, schmetworking...why is it that women are statistically more 'social' than men, but have statistically less powerful business networks than men? This panel will explore how the women who have entered boys clubs and built powerful Social Capital have done it and give ideas to women on how to build their networks through better Bridging Capital.* - *Mobile Activism: How can we use mobile technology to fight for social justice issues and raise money for organizations? * - *The Digital Ceiling: Experts will identify strategies for getting heard and how to effectively advocate for your technology program as well as how to break through the barriers relating to budgets, resources and lack of vision by upper management.* - * Hot Or Not?: Twitter! Facebook! Ning! Panelists share their opinions on the latest trends in Web 2.0 and how organizations can effectively use them to build community as well as as how to measure the real ROI's.* taken from *http://www.womenwhotech.com/* * * -- ======================================= Yolynne Medina http://www.iosn.net | http://yolynne.wordpress.com ym: yolynne.rm googletalk: yolynne skype: ynmedina IRC nick: ulinskie server: irc.freenode.net channels: #iosn #ubuntu-ph #ubuntu-women "Laughter nourishes our Soul" =======================================
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