Girls In Tech

Yesterday’s blog entry on “The Best of Web 2.0: The Cheap Seats Report” covered the keynotes, and today’s blog entry covers the Web 2.0 sessions that received the most buzz and praise from fellow attendees. You can tell it’s a good session when the audience is furiously taking notes instead of twittering or facebooking.

#1. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Eric Ries has led two startups — the first startup failed fabulously, and the second startup is profitable and making millions in revenue. The difference? Startup #1 spent $40 million and employed 200 people before there was a launched product. Startup #2 launched a beta product quickly, and continuously released newer and better versions while engaging with customers early and often.

Take Away: The #1 reason that startups fail is they are too busy marching to their own beat, with no idea of what customers really want.

#2. Optimize Your Organic Search Results by Leveraging Social Media by Heather Lutze
Internet marketing speaker Heather Lutze loves the start of this sentence because it is helping to drive up her search capital by employing a key learning from her session: Use a consistent phrase to position yourself or your company throughout social media outlets to remarkably and organically improve your search ranking.

Take Away: Your search ranking should not be an accident, think strategically about how to consistently position yourself across the internet to earn the top search spot for free.

Example: See how Heather uses consistent phrases on LinkedIn to drive up her search ranking as an Internet Marketing Speaker.

Thanks to Eric and Heather for sharing their valuable lessons with us!

September 8 – September 10 TechCrunch50

San Francisco Design Center 635 Eight St. San Francisco, CA
http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/get-tickets/

TechCrunch 50’s goal is to find the best start-ups and launch them in front of our industry’s most influential VCs, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs and press.

September 16 – September 19 Web 2.0 Expo – New York City

Javits Convention Center 655 West 34th St. New York, New York
http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home/

As large as the crowd was that gathered at the inaugural Web 2.0 Expo last April in San Francisco, the majority were from the Bay Area and the West. In order to serve the thriving web community on the East coast, interwoven with the financial, advertising, and consulting industries headquartered in New York, we’re building a vibrant event for the developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and other web professionals who’d like to learn and network with like minds in the Big Apple.

November 7-9 Web 2.0 Summit

The Palace Hotel 2 New Montgomery St. San Francisco, CA
http://en.oreilly.com/web2008/public/content/home

This summit is known for its interactive format, encouraging audience interaction and participation. Web 2.0 Summit brings the intelligence, innovation and leadership of the Internet industry together in one place at one time. Attendees will learn what business models are working, what’s next on the horizon, and how all of this will affect your own business.

After many weeks of silence we would like to welcome you to an energized place that will contribute to your engagement, learning and empowerment.

Girls In Tech is dedicated to influencing the landscape and promoting the work and contribution of women in technology. Check back very soon on new event dates for future women in tech entrepreneur workshops, social mixers with technology community leaders in New York, collaboration among start-ups and future start-ups, tech in art and music festivals and much, much more!

We’re excited to be part of a vibrant social network brand focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. As young women with the capacity to inspire, we made it our personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the technology sector.

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