Dear Jerri,
February is a very exciting and busy time at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. All of our 2008 programs are beginning to take shape.
Registration for Women of Vision is starting to grow as we approach the end of our early bird pricing - February 29th 2008 is the last day to get early bird pricing. Excitement is also building in local colleges as we extend complimentary invitations to students to fill our Share the Vision tables at the banquet.
The Grace Hopper Celebration is in October but everyone is buzzing about the Call for Participation. Don’t forget to submit your proposal by March 16th.
And our first TechLeaders of the year will be hosted by Google on Feb 27th & 28th. If you have attended a TechLeaders in the past please come join us again as we focus on how to extend your power and influence. And be sure to tell your co-workers and friends about the class. Our own Jo Miller, of Ask Jo, will be leading this exciting session.
-The ABI Staff
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WOMEN OF VISION REGISTRATION OPEN, SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE
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Join us for the Women of Vision Awards Banquet on May 8th by sponsoring a table or purchasing tickets today! Registration is now open and we encourage you to take advantage of the early bird rates.
Our Women of Vision sponsorship levels offer a variety of ways to gain visibility and to support female visionaries - both present and future.
Gold, Silver, and Bronze event sponsors get to participate in our Share the Vision program providing a branded table for students who wish to attend, but cannot afford the cost of a ticket. For complete sponsor benefit information, please contact Alexandra Krasne at alexk@anitaborg.org or visit the sponsor page for more details.
We look forward to seeing you May 8, 2008 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose for the Women of Vision Awards Banquet. |
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ASK JO: Learning the fine art of self promotion
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 Every month on our site, Jo Miller, CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching Inc., answers your career and leadership questions. In this installment, Miller offers sage advice on learning the fine art of self promotion.
Send us your question and it may be answered in an upcoming column. (Your identity will remain anonymous.) |
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2008 WEBINAR SERIES FOR TECHNICAL WOMEN LEADERS - FEBRUARY 13, 2008
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Best Practices for Advancing Your Technical Career February 13, 2008, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST 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.
Moderator:
Sydnie Kohara
Co-anchor, CBS 5 Eyewitness News
Early EditionSpeakers:
Dr. Katharine Frase, VP, IBM Software Group
Kathy Hill, SVP, Cisco Systems
Dr. Radia Perlman, Fellow, Sun Microsystems
You will learn: Key Strategies for Success in a Technical Career
Including how to build your:
- Reputation as someone who is results focused
- Strategic Network - what relationships can support you?
- Self-awareness and why does this matter
- Understanding of what success looks like
- Confidence to be successful
And lots more!
Learn more about it and register today.
Co-Sponsored by Invent Your Future and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
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ACM Membership Opportunity
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ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has an exciting membership offer for Anita Borg Institute Newsletter readers, which includes a complimentary gift.
As a member of ACM, you will have access to a host of career-enhancing benefits including:
A complimentary print subscription and access to the digital edition of ACM’s flagship magazine Communications of the ACM (CACM), in addition to CACM content in the ACM Digital Library
- Full and unlimited access to 2,500 online courses from SkillSoft
- Full and unlimited access to 1,1000 online books from Safari ®Books Online and Books 24×7®, , featuring a large selection from O’Reilly and other publishers.
- Discounts on ACM Special Interest Group Conference Registrations
- Receipt of Technical Interest Profile email alerts targeted to your technical interests
- The option to subscribe to Table-of-Contents Alerts for all ACM journals, magazines, conference proceedings and Special Interest Group newsletters
- Access to ACM’s new highly trageted Career & Job Center with hundreds of corporate job postings not often seen on commercial sites.
- TechNews and CareerNews email digests
- ACM’s monthly email digests
- ACM’s monthly electronic newsletter MemberNet
- The ACM Guide to Computing Literature with over one million bibliographic citations
- The option to subscribe to the full ACM Digital Library with unlimited access to all ACM journals, magazines, proceedings, and newsletters.
- The opportunity to share your knowledge and experience by participating in ACMs’ MentorNet one-on-one partnership program
- A free “acm.org” email forwarding address with high-quality Postini spam filtering.
Learn more about ACM and their special membership offer, which also includes a 15% discount for professionals.
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| TECHLEADERS: POWER AND INFLUENCE |
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Join us on February 27th & 28th, 2008 in Mountain View, CA at Google for TechLeaders: Power and Influence featuring Jo Miller, CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching. Speakers will include Nina Bhatti, Principal Scientist, HP Labs, Carole Dulong, Senior Staff Engineer, Google and Nehal Mehta, Director of Software Quality Assurance, Symantec.
This two-day workshop will focus on extending your power and influence as a technical woman through increased organizational awareness, negotiation techniques, strategies to increase your visibility, and techniques to increase buy-in for your ideas.
The Anita Borg Institute has surveyed more than 400 technical women about the most important barriers to advancement they face in their current roles.”Two barriers consistently make it into the top five: influencing others, even when you have the formal authority, and increasing your visibility. In response to those findings, ABI has partnered with Jo Miller and Women’s Leadership Coaching to bring technical women a TechLeaders workshop specifically designed to break down those barriers.
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Learn more about it and REGISTER TODAY!
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GRACE HOPPER CELEBRATION CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
Deadline March 16 2008
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Please be sure to submit your proposal for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing - October 1-4, 2008 in Keystone CO.
This year’s theme “We Build a Better World” recognizes the significant role women play in creating and utilizing technology to improve our world.
Submissions on both technical and professional topics are encouraged. The Grace Hopper Conference committee is requesting submissions that reflect the conference theme “We Build a Better World” in the areas of innovation within a company, academia, or individual contribution through social and environmental entrepreneurship. The GHC Committee encourages technical submissions that cross disciplines and other boundaries.
The deadline for all submissions is March 16, 2008.
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| 2007 Grace Hopper Videos Now Available on YouTube |
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Thanks to the hard work of two of our volunteers - Erin Buxton and BJ Wishinsky - we are pleased to announce that the videos were made at the 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing are now available on YouTube.
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| JOIN ABI’s FACEBOOK PAGE |
ABI has launched its official Facebook page. Come check it out - Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
We will use this page in the coming months to communicate about our upcoming events and programs. We encourage all of you to come post and have discussions.
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