News Archive: December 2007
Ask Jo: Getting Credit for Your Ideas
Every month on our site, Jo Miller, CEO of Women's Leadership Coaching Inc., will answer your career and leadership questions. This month's column touches on ways to pitch and get credit for your ideas. Please send your question to advice@anitaborg.org and it may be answered in an upcoming column. ... Read more
Foster City company infuses shopping with cyber philanthropy
A new service called Maatiam turns shopping into giving by allowing users to buy products from online retailers and have a portion of the sale go to their choice of charitable organizations — including ABI.
Women of Vision Award Nominations Open
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology Celebrates Women Technology Leaders Palo Alto, CA, December 11, 2007 — The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology opened the nominations for the third Women of Vision Awards, now offered annually. The Women of Vision Awards honor women making significant contributions to ... Read more
Webinar: Best Practices for Advancing Your Technical Career
Career advancement requires more than just hard work—strong networks, up-to-date technical skills, visibility within your company, an actionable career plan and an ability to articulate why you are the right person for that next promotion are also critical to your success. Our panelists will share their career strategies and answer ... Read more
Industry-University collaborations
Senior Technical women at TechLeaders: Leading across cultures are discussing the importance of collaboration between industry and academia. Industry can bring real problems for students and faculty to work on both on a short term and long term basis, while academics want to ensure research experience for their graduate students. Such ... Read more
Senior TechLeaders: Remaining Technical while Becoming an Executive
One of the breakout topics discussed by the senior technical women at TechLeaders this afternoon is how to remain technical while in an executive management position. The recommendations from the group in how to achieve this include: Define the technical requirements of your job as a leader Make it a part of ... Read more
Women of Color Action Network
In November I attended the Women of Color Action Network's (WCAN) annual VIP Reception and Fall Forum held at Yahoo!. WCAN was founded in March 2000 by a group of women who wanted to create an organization that would assist women of color to realize their maximum potential in the ... Read more
Senior TechLeaders Day 2: Dr. Francine Berman
On day 2 of Senior TechLeaders: Leading across culture, keynote speaker Francine Berman, Director of the San Diego SuperComputer Center and Professor of Computer Science at UCSD, continued the discussion of cultural differentiators - Berman talked about the dimensions of uncertainty avoidance, power distance, masculinity and feminity, and individualism versus collectivism. Berman talked ... Read more
Senior TechLeaders: Leading Across Cultures
66 eminent technical leaders from industry and academia are gathered at Cisco in Silicon Valley for TechLeaders. The theme is Leading Across Cultures. The workshop is designed to expand particpants' network of senior leaders, their own understanding of their leadership, and increase their collective impact as a group of senior ... Read more
Virtual Bali on OneClimate Island in Second Life
Anuradha Vittachi, co-founder of OneWorld.net and speaker at the 2007 TechLeaders for Social Innovators last October, is spearheading an effort with OneWorld to leverage technology to impact global climate change. OneWorld just launched "Virtual Bali," to coincide with the thirteenth United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held on the island of Bali from 3 ... Read more