Comments on: Not Your Mother’s Tech Org http://girlygeekdom.com/set/technology/not-your-mother%e2%80%99s-tech-org Science, Engineering and Technology news and reviews, for women, girls, students and teachers! Thu, 17 May 2012 21:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Weefz http://girlygeekdom.com/set/technology/not-your-mother%e2%80%99s-tech-org#comment-187 Weefz Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:32:00 +0000 http://girlgeekdinners.com/girlygeekdom/2007/08/10/not-your-mother%e2%80%99s-tech-org/#comment-187 GIT. Tee-hee!<br/><br/>Okay, immature moment over. I'm sure it can only be a good thing to combine forces. GIT. Tee-hee!

Okay, immature moment over. I’m sure it can only be a good thing to combine forces.

]]> By: Sarah Blow http://girlygeekdom.com/set/technology/not-your-mother%e2%80%99s-tech-org#comment-186 Sarah Blow Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:47:00 +0000 http://girlgeekdinners.com/girlygeekdom/2007/08/10/not-your-mother%e2%80%99s-tech-org/#comment-186 Hi Kaisa,<br/><br/>Thanks for your comments, they have been noted and I'll send you an e-mail with details on how to contact Adriana and her team. Girls in Tech have been working offline for about 6 months and that had been working for them. <br/><br/>Unfortunately they don't work in the web design field so creating a full blown website can, for anyone without experience of such things, be more than a little challenging.<br/><br/>When I did the London Girl Geek Dinners site I had never ever designed a site in my life. (no need really) which is why we have a very basic site and are looking to re-design and make it whizzy and get everything nicely integrated within one site. :) The blog is a simple way for me to drop info out without doing any coding or having a huge great CMS to do it all. (thank goodness for blogs!)<br/><br/>Feel free to put any suggestions on what you would like to see on Girly Geekdom in the future, we love to hear from our readers about things that interest them! :)<br/><br/>Sarah Hi Kaisa,

Thanks for your comments, they have been noted and I’ll send you an e-mail with details on how to contact Adriana and her team. Girls in Tech have been working offline for about 6 months and that had been working for them.

Unfortunately they don’t work in the web design field so creating a full blown website can, for anyone without experience of such things, be more than a little challenging.

When I did the London Girl Geek Dinners site I had never ever designed a site in my life. (no need really) which is why we have a very basic site and are looking to re-design and make it whizzy and get everything nicely integrated within one site. :) The blog is a simple way for me to drop info out without doing any coding or having a huge great CMS to do it all. (thank goodness for blogs!)

Feel free to put any suggestions on what you would like to see on Girly Geekdom in the future, we love to hear from our readers about things that interest them! :)

Sarah

]]> By: Kaisa http://girlygeekdom.com/set/technology/not-your-mother%e2%80%99s-tech-org#comment-185 Kaisa Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:04:00 +0000 http://girlgeekdinners.com/girlygeekdom/2007/08/10/not-your-mother%e2%80%99s-tech-org/#comment-185 OK, it seems the missing code is there again, so the index page doesn't fail. Turns out to be a form for filling in my email address so I can get a notification when they launch their site. (Seemed it was an error because the form was hosted on a completely different web site, which was offline last time I tried accessing the GIT site.)<br/><br/>Haven't this organization been operating for almost half a year? When are they going to launch their web site, which should be THE most important element for an organization geared against a techie audience?<br/><br/>Guess this upsets me so much because they claim to be all about tech and girls. Well, being a girl techie, I don't want to be "represented" by someone whose skills seem a bit lacking. I think the web site is horrible from both a PR, design and a tech perspective. <br/><br/>* PR: because it's pretty hard to find any info about GIT on their web site (had to google to get a direct link to their bio page on the site in order to get past the index page.) And it doesn't seem to be updated since some time in May. Come on, a web site is the face of an organization, you can't neglect it with this audience.<br/><br/>* Design: Low contrast between colours used, pages that are "coming soon", busy background image etc.<br/><br/>* Tech: Having a form on some other web site just doesn't cut it. It also makes me very sceptical about adding my e-mail-address to their list, even though they are saying they won't spam me.<br/><br/>And why am I writing all these negative things about GIT here? Because there's no way of contacting GIT on their web site. <br/><br/>To finish my rant on a slightly more positive note, I just want to express a gratitude to Sarah, Maz and Nicole for having a proper tech web site with usefull content. OK, it seems the missing code is there again, so the index page doesn’t fail. Turns out to be a form for filling in my email address so I can get a notification when they launch their site. (Seemed it was an error because the form was hosted on a completely different web site, which was offline last time I tried accessing the GIT site.)

Haven’t this organization been operating for almost half a year? When are they going to launch their web site, which should be THE most important element for an organization geared against a techie audience?

Guess this upsets me so much because they claim to be all about tech and girls. Well, being a girl techie, I don’t want to be “represented” by someone whose skills seem a bit lacking. I think the web site is horrible from both a PR, design and a tech perspective.

* PR: because it’s pretty hard to find any info about GIT on their web site (had to google to get a direct link to their bio page on the site in order to get past the index page.) And it doesn’t seem to be updated since some time in May. Come on, a web site is the face of an organization, you can’t neglect it with this audience.

* Design: Low contrast between colours used, pages that are “coming soon”, busy background image etc.

* Tech: Having a form on some other web site just doesn’t cut it. It also makes me very sceptical about adding my e-mail-address to their list, even though they are saying they won’t spam me.

And why am I writing all these negative things about GIT here? Because there’s no way of contacting GIT on their web site.

To finish my rant on a slightly more positive note, I just want to express a gratitude to Sarah, Maz and Nicole for having a proper tech web site with usefull content.

]]> By: Kaisa http://girlygeekdom.com/set/technology/not-your-mother%e2%80%99s-tech-org#comment-184 Kaisa Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:17:00 +0000 http://girlgeekdinners.com/girlygeekdom/2007/08/10/not-your-mother%e2%80%99s-tech-org/#comment-184 You might hate me for writing this, but it's so ironic that an organization called "Girls in TECH" has an index page with a piece of embedded code that just fails miserably in IE 7... It's basically violating every rule in the web design book when you actually get inside to read it. I really hope their events are better than their web site! They're probably sincerely interested in women in technology, though, which is a good thing. You might hate me for writing this, but it’s so ironic that an organization called “Girls in TECH” has an index page with a piece of embedded code that just fails miserably in IE 7… It’s basically violating every rule in the web design book when you actually get inside to read it. I really hope their events are better than their web site! They’re probably sincerely interested in women in technology, though, which is a good thing.

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