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No Men Allowed: Girls In Tech Expands To New York, LA, And Beyond
Posted December 4, 2008 By Tom Foremski
"Women in the work place are very competitive with each other and that makes the glass ceiling twice as thick," says Adriana Gascoigne. She is the founder of Girls in Tech, a 1300 strong organization that seeks to empower women in the technology industry.
Tech companies continue to be heavily male dominated and that’s something that Girls in Tech hopes to change through networking, roundtables, and entrepreneurial workshops. And only women are invited…
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10 Questions with Jessica Valenzuela, Girls in Tech Co-founder
Posted November 2008
If there were a President of the Web 2.0, Jessica Valenzuela would be the perfect candidate. With years of online experience ranging from project management to networking specialist, this gifted networker is now a CEO of Mavin Digital, Inc. and a co-founder of Girls in Tech.
Jessica was able to carve some time out of her hectic schedule to answer a few of my questions.
How did you all come up w/ "Girls in Tech" concept?
Girls in Tech was inspired by each of the co-founders’ personal and professional desire to level the playing field for women in technology across all sectors by offering engaging and learning social events. We’d like Girls in Tech to be a source of inspiration, networking and collaboration for every woman in technology.
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The Scoop: Web 2.0 Expo NY & BlogWorld Expo
Posted Tuesday, 22 October 2008, Written by Lena West
On Thursday, October 30 @ 6 p.m., yours truly will be joining my fellow Girls in Tech bloggers, tech gal pros and Kay Koplovitz at the Springboard Winners’ Circle Award Celebration Dinner.
The evening marks a celebration of entrepreneurial women and the community that supports their ventures.
The honorees include Maggie Wilderotter, chairman and CEO, Frontier Communications Corp., and Geraldine B. Laybourne, founder and former Cchairman and CEO, Oxygen Media.
And if that’s not sexy enough, guess who the special guest of the evening is? None other than Project Runway’s own Tim Gunn. Carry on, designers. Make it work.
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Techzulu.com
The Scoop: Web 2.0 Expo NY & BlogWorld Expo
Posted Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:21, Written by Guest Writer
Hey peeps! Sarah Carr here taking a few lines of TechZulu’s blog to give a quick recap of Web 2.0 Expo NYC and BlogWorld Expo Vegas that took place this last week(end). For those of you who aren’t familiar with me, I just wanna say - WTF?! No, no but really I’m super stoked to be guest blogging here for TechZulu and hope you find my blogs not only entertaining but informative. Because if not, I don’t think Efren will invite me back…so here goes nothing.
Web 2.0 Expo NYC was great! The Javits Center was, of course, amazing and well, HUGE. This was my first O’Reilly conference and it didn’t fall below my highest expectations. The vendors included big dogs like SalesForce.com, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Sun microsystems, the list goes on. My favorite vendors are the ones who may be a bit smaller but are still doing amazing things (especially open source companies) - Brickfish, Kablink, Girls in Tech, LiquidPlanner, the list goes on as well. Mindtouch exhibited with SnapLogic this year to promote our recent partnership and product launch of Deki for CRM - check out our press release for more info.
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MediaPost.com
Just An Online Minute… Girls! Girls! Girls! In Tech
Posted September 17th, 2008 by Kelly Samardak
Girls in Tech Launch, The Cutting Room, New York
September 17, 2008
Ok, ok, I’ll keep the sorority nudges and estrogen level references to a minimum. I mean, isn’t this what we women have fought against since the 1800s? Aren’t we at a place where a huge group of women won’t get the “chattering,” “gaggle,” “henhouse” grammar treatment? Come on; don’t take yourself so seriously. I don’t. Especially if I’m at an event for “Girls in Tech” where the sign is pink and the dudes were sparse. Well, this wasn’t called Dudes in Tech now, was it?
I walked in and filled out my lovely nametag and immediately saw my pal and party wrangler, Matt Caldecutt, emerging through the pond of women like Sasquatch lumbering through the Mantua, Ohio marshes. It doesn’t take a master of espionage to deduce that Nichelle Stephens would be nearby.
My +1 was the always lovely and currently alcohol-abstaining Gail Hilton, Director of Sales and Marketing for Qwikker, and Rebecca Reyes, Internal communications specialist, IBM, my old employer and tech-savvy giant. Both women are good people. That’s right, I said women, not girls.
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Women in Tech, September 16th, 2008
Posted 16 September 2008
I wanted to take a moment to thank all my fellow women in Tech. Two important events to highlight for tonight! Voter registration deadlines are creeping up soon ladies and WE Vote ‘08 is getting the word out on-line and off-line (a WE tv initiative).
Join some of the leading women of social media for a series of “tweet-ups” in cities across the country tonight, September 16th!!! Our favorite online rock-stars are getting their friends together in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Houston and Anchorage, and you are invited!!
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Natali Del Conte
Social Studies In New York
Posted 15 September 2008 by natalidelconte
In my continued effort to be social, I would like to invite any and all in the New York area to a few events. Tomorrow I will be giving a toast at the Girls in Tech New York Launch Party. I attended the launch party for this group last year in San Francisco and I am honored that I was asked to speak briefly at the New York launch tomorrow. I have no idea what I am going to say yet but hopefully I will come up with something witty and inspiring to fill my allotted three minutes by tomorrow night.
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The Next Women | Business Magazine for Female Internet Heroes
more women at web 2.0 conference
September 8, 2008
This time next week, the web 2.0 EXPO will be held in New York.
This year’s event will see more women attend then ever, now that Girls in Tech, an organization that supports women to succeed in internet, technology and digital media/ entertainment business, will be launching a New York City chapter of its activities in conjunction with the Web 2.0 Expo.
Girls in Tech was formed in March 2007 by three women; director of Corporate Communications for hi5, Adriana Gascoigne, founder and CEO of Mavin Digital, Jessica Valenzuela and Creative Director for the NY Daily News, Davina Anthony. With Girls in Tech they host educational events, workshops, and social mixers for women in all facets of the tech and digital media/entertainment business. With their New York City chapter, these women will similarly work towards connecting and inspiring women these industries…
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Los Angeles Times | Business
Hard out there for a chick: Girls in Tech starts L.A. chapter
6:00 AM, July 18, 2008
If you polled tech companies in Los Angeles to see if they employed more men or women, it’s easy to guess what they’d say: For reasons that perhaps only former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers can explain, men dominate tech.
But to paraphrase Jon Stewart, it just got a little easier out there for a chick. Thursday night, as SoCal techies partied the night away at the Twiistup event at the Viceroy in Santa Monica, Adriana Gascoigne (pictured) launched a Los Angeles chapter of Girls in Tech, the organization she founded last year with two other female consultants in the tech industry…..
Mashable Social Networking News
Los Angeles: Mashable’s Summer Tour 2008
June 11, 2008 — 05:12 AM PDT
… ‘Girls in Tech is an organization which caters to intelligent, professional, and influential young women working in the technology industry. The organization is a membership driven group, which aims to provide tools and information to empower, encourage innovation,inspiration and involvement among its members, while seeking to collaborate with like-minded men in the industry’….
Mashable | Social Networking News
Announcing Girls in Tech femme-POWER RoundU
April 25, 2008 — 01:12 AM PDT
Have you ever wanted to start a company and needed to know the resources required to begin? Join Girls in Tech on April 29th for an evening filled with extremely exciting and POWERFUL conversations with some of the leading influencers in the field….
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Girls in Tech - Club H, San Francisco
July 3rd, 2007
Girls in Tech recently held its second event to bring the women of tech together for an evening of networking and technology discovery.
Athena von Oech, product manager of Ning, introduced the company’s DIY solution for building and hosting dedicated social networks, which is a killer app for creating a community around GIT….