http://girlygeekdom.com Science, Engineering and Technology news and reviews, for women, girls, students and teachers! Tue, 22 May 2012 09:35:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Science, Engineering and Technology news and reviews, for women, girls, students and teachers! GirlyGeekdom no Science, Engineering and Technology news and reviews, for women, girls, students and teachers! http://girlygeekdom.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://girlygeekdom.com/category/inspiration/interviews http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/anne-sweeney http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/anne-sweeney#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:30:02 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=18036
New research shows the earning power of women is on the rise – something that, the Most Powerful Woman in Television, Disney’s Anne Sweeney knows all about. There’s good news for female workers this week with the news that the earning power of young women has now surpassed that of their male counterparts. News of [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/anne-sweeney/feed 2 http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/3-questions-reene-chauhan http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/3-questions-reene-chauhan#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:00:16 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=8298
Name: Reene Chauhan Role: European Resourcing Co-ordinator at Diageo 1. What is your current job and what are the best and most challenging parts of it? I’m currently on secondment (from a Global Systems Analyst role) to our HR function – Resourcing for England. The best part is meeting a wide variety of diverse applicants [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/3-questions-reene-chauhan/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/education/hedy-lamarr-exclusive-preview-telegraph-tv http://girlygeekdom.com/education/hedy-lamarr-exclusive-preview-telegraph-tv#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 13:44:39 +0000 BCS Pioneers http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=8266
Today, the Hedy Lamarr film created for BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT’s Information Pioneers campaign, went live exclusively on Telegraph TV. Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr created a form of spread spectrum communications, making the use of telephone communications, Wifi and GPS navigation possible today. Hedy Lamarr is currently in the lead on the ranking of [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/education/hedy-lamarr-exclusive-preview-telegraph-tv/feed 1 http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/3-questions-rebecca-caroe http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/3-questions-rebecca-caroe#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 09:00:51 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=6607
Name: Rebecca Caroe Role: Business Development Consultant 1. What is your current job and what are the best and most challenging parts of it? My current job is marketing and business development and I am self employed. The best part of my job is the flexible working and good money for good work and success [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/3-questions-rebecca-caroe/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/3-questions-vicki-kolovou http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/3-questions-vicki-kolovou#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:30:31 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=6382
Name: Vicki Kolovou Role: Web Entrepreneur at netWire 1. What is your current job and what are the best and most challenging parts of it? My current job is in website development. I have recently added mobile app development to our projects. The best part is that it’s a completely new and challenging media (Internet) [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/3-questions-vicki-kolovou/feed 1 http://girlygeekdom.com/education/an-interview-with-timothy-hill-of-ferguson-hill http://girlygeekdom.com/education/an-interview-with-timothy-hill-of-ferguson-hill#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:54:02 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=2728
A while back I got the opportunity to catch up with some great people at the Beam Presents event, and chat to them about their technologies, what they do and how young people might be able to get into something like their jobs. The second of these video’s to be released out into the wild [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/education/an-interview-with-timothy-hill-of-ferguson-hill/feed 1 http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/ella-takes-us-on-a-gadget-tour http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/ella-takes-us-on-a-gadget-tour#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:17:27 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=2739
At the Beam Presents event a few weeks back I got chatting with Ella from I Want One Of Those where she gave me a gadget tour of their latest geeky gadgets that they have been selling this Christmas holiday! Ella is the buyer for I Want One Of Those… She possibly has one of [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/ella-takes-us-on-a-gadget-tour/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/interviews/women-in-high-level-management-no-opportunities http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/interviews/women-in-high-level-management-no-opportunities#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:45:56 +0000 Sara Stephens http://girlygeekdom.com/?p=838
Provides an outline of women within the IT sector the reasons for their lack of numbers, if they face any gender related obstacles with conclusions around awareness, communication and confidence issues.]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/inspiration/interviews/women-in-high-level-management-no-opportunities/feed 0 http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/gadgets-entertainment/the-next-web-chippy-the-girl-geeks http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/gadgets-entertainment/the-next-web-chippy-the-girl-geeks#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:16:00 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlgeekdinners.com/girlygeekdom/2009/04/20/the-next-web-chippy-the-girl-geeks/
Whilst over in Amsterdam for The Next Web Conference I decided it would be a great idea to catch up with the Amsterdam Girl Geeks. Also whilst over there I came across a couple of Belgium Girl Geeks too so we all got together with Chippy who I sort of accosted after meeting him at [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/entertainment/gadgets-entertainment/the-next-web-chippy-the-girl-geeks/feed 3 http://girlygeekdom.com/events/the-next-web-09-wilg-sketch-notes http://girlygeekdom.com/events/the-next-web-09-wilg-sketch-notes#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:38:00 +0000 Sarah Lamb http://girlgeekdinners.com/girlygeekdom/2009/04/19/the-next-web-09-wilg-sketch-notes/
As many of you know, writing conference notes can be dull and distracting, however when I was at The Next Web conference over in Amsterdam I came across Esther Gons, aka Wilg/ Wilgengebroed. She did some wonderful sketch notes whilst at the conference and I managed to borrow her for a few minutes to give [...]]]> http://girlygeekdom.com/events/the-next-web-09-wilg-sketch-notes/feed 0