Just wanted to share this photo. It’s of my great-grandparents Reba and James. I was given my middle name, Rebecca, after Reba. How stylish is she? Love the hat!
May 21, 2008
Reba
May 9, 2008
Valleywag Cares Less About Women in Technology than Google Engineering
I’ll be honest, I’m excited that Women 2.0 is tomorrow and proud that Debbie and I made the finals. So, I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been wondering all week when Valleywag would give a shout out to the conference. I pinged them back on Tuesday to let them know that the finalists were announced and their response was “didn’t realize it was this weekend…”. So I waited patiently, but I couldn’t help myself just now. I saw their calendar post was up and it didn’t include the event! After all week, when the only search for women 2.0 on their site came up bashing on the percentage of women engineers at google, they still haven’t posted anything
Well, I just had this conversation over IM:
3:20:55 PM Lindsay Tabas: i’m sad you still left out women 2.0 from the calendar this weekend
3:21:05 PM heyvalleywag: Oh, crap!
3:21:07 PM Lindsay Tabas: there’s probably 300 people registered
3:21:09 PM Lindsay Tabas: for this
3:21:15 PM Lindsay Tabas: the companies were put on tradevibes
3:21:36 PM Lindsay Tabas: valleywag heading: valleywag cares less about women in technology than google engineering
3:21:36 PM heyvalleywag: Sorry, Google Calendar was broken this morning so I had to go by what I could find on Upcoming.
3:21:56 PM heyvalleywag: My bad!
3:22:01 PM Lindsay Tabas: save that, i’ll put that tagline on my blog
3:22:37 PM heyvalleywag: No, I’ll use that headline with your permission.
3:22:56 PM heyvalleywag: And put a post up this evening.
3:23:05 PM Lindsay Tabas: sure, go ahead
3:23:20 PM heyvalleywag: We’re not above admitting when we screwed up.
3:23:49 PM heyvalleywag: Though I’m still going to blame Google (particularly apps for your domain, which we actually pay for and hence should be more reliable).
3:24:09 PM heyvalleywag: What’s the best link for the event?
May 8, 2008
May 7, 2008
Follow ITSkillShop on Twitter
Follow us on twitter as we get ready for the competition this weekend. Twitter address is: http://twitter.com/itskillshop
Debbie and I are hard at work putting together a kick-ass presentation with metaphors and analogies galore.
May 6, 2008
It’s Official: IT SkillShop
Debbie and I officially have a front-face for IT SkillShop, our business we have been working on since deciding to enter into the Women 2.0 2008 Napkin Business Challenge (here). Check it out! http://www.itskillshop.com
May 5, 2008
New Citation in Adaptive Path’s Book
I got a message from my good friend Mariano Ferrario this weekend. He was reading Adaptive Path’s new book “Subject to Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design” and found that they had quoted a paper I wrote with my professor and advisor from the ISchool, Bob Glushko. The paper is called “Bridging the ‘Front Stage’ and ‘Back Stage’ in Service System Design”, which you can download for free here.
I thought that was a pretty cool email to receive : ) I guess I’ll have to pick up the book and see what conclusions they drew from my paper.
Women 2.0
Look for Debbie Cheng and I this weekend at the Women 2.0 conference in Stanford. We extended our master’s project idea, SkillShop, to the IT industry and pitched the idea in the conference’s competition. After several weeks and rounds, we found out this weekend that we are in the finales!
Check out the website at http://women2.org