So I’ve heard about this from a number of different sources and it’s taken me til now to get myself into gear and get back into blogging! Yep you heard right… All this tweeting and doing the London Girl Geek Dinner website re-designs has been using up a fair bit of time. So now that’s out of the way and I only have the Girl Geek Dinners dot com site left to go maybe, just maybe I’ll have a bit more time free to be able to get back into blogging again!
I’ve got a whole host of interesting things to post over the next few weeks and the first one I wanted to share with you was a new website called GeekSpeakr. In true web 2.0 style it’s got a mis-spelt name and a nice shiny web 2.0 style to it. However there is an important reason for this site being in existence.
At technical conferences how many of the speakers are female? Usually I see that it is a minority… maybe 2 in every 40 speakers is female (on a good day!). This website is there as a portal for women who are willing to speak at technical conferences. It gives organizers of conferences a single location to look to find a speaker on the right subject for their conference. It is also a great way to find out who else in your area is into the same things as you!
Next time you go to a conference and are disappointed about the no of good quality female speakers put a note in the feedback form and refer them to GeekSpeakr. Hopefully in the long term we will start seeing a few positive changes! 
Also this isn’t just for the conference organisers, if you are female and interested in speaking at public events then do sign yourself up to GeekSpeakr. You’ll find me there and I’m sure you’ll also find a whole host of other well known people on the site too! And if you would like to give public speaking a try and are a little nervous about large audiences you can always sign yourself up to your local Girl Geek Dinner as a speaker! I’m sure they would be happy to have you!
A word of advice when filling out your profile information, I did try to search for speakers in a specific location on the site. What you need to do to come up on that list is to put somewhere other than in Location where you are based and willing to travel to. It makes the searches for speakers much easier to find!! And will probably get you more hits!
About Sarah Lamb
Sarah is the founder of the Girl Geek Dinners & GirlyGeekdom. She is a lover of gadgets, geeky things and sport! Find out more about her on her website.
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