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Ning vs Meetup
Building a casual riders social network on Ning – FAIL. Creating a horse riding weekend meet-up on Meetup – WIN. Silicon Stilettos on Meetup – 300 passive members, on Ning – 113, but it’s a vibrant community. Do I grudge paying Meet-up £50 every six months? I don’t. Small price to pay to ‘eliminate the barriers [...]
When women ruled the world
This whole Ada Lovelace Day gave me a bit of a headache. You’d think to write about one woman in technology that you admire is a doddle. But I am not easily impressed. I hold many of my fellow tech ladies in awe: Amanda for organsing the global Twestival; Sarah for taking her GirlGeekDinners to [...]
Wish I had Sarah Lacy’s balls
I love Kathy Sierra, but there’s a new hero in town.
A friend prevented me today from publishing what I thought was a clever (and funny) post, written in response to someone who achieved the unachievable – made me angry. Sarah Lacy is a kind of person who would’ve turned to my friend and said: [...]
One down, more to come
It’s been almost a week since more than 80 Silicon Stilettos met for the very first time at LVPO in Soho. It was loud, it was dark/awfully bright depending on whether the camera lights were on or off, but the free bar lasted all night (thank you Winston & Strawn/Bootlaw) and I bumped into a [...]
You hide, I seek
27 members of Silicon Stilettos since its midnight launch. But finding women in tech is not easy. With no existing networks I turned to Facebook. Nada. Everyone seems to be based across the pond.
BusinessLink promised to put me in touch with several women’s network, surely there must be some techie ladies there. I am meeting [...]
Ladies’ night, take 2, launching Silicon Stilettos
Time flies in a start-up. I started writing this blog just before taking off for America, for almost a month. When I got back, there were enough Huddle things to occupy me day and night. My ladies’ tech night ended up on a backburner. Five months later, I finally caught my breath and it’s back [...]
