Women in Tech

Where are the Women in Tech and Social Media?

Allyson Kapin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:05:57 -0400

When you look around the room at a tech or social media conference what do you see? Are the panels filled with a diverse group of tech and social media experts? Chances are they are probably filled with white men. So why is that a bad thing, when after all, the tech sector is comprised of about 75% men and 25% women? It's a problem because when we design technology and social media platforms we design it for all. Women make up approximately 50% of computer and social media users.

Who's to Blame for Creating the Digital Ceiling?

Allyson Kapin — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:11:51 -0400

Let's be honest, no industry is immune from sexism, racism, or ageism for that matter. The tech industry is no different.

Why Women Should Play Video Games

Morgan Romine — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:46:38 -0500

Morgan Romine, better known as “Rhoulette” in the video game online community, helped found and build Ubisoft’s all-girl gaming team, the Frag Dolls. As captain of the Frag Dolls team, she serves as spokesperson, gamer, road manager, and liaison between the team and Ubisoft.

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10 Tools to Make Your Blog Smarter, Faster, Better

Gina Trapani — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:17:56 -0500
Tech writer and developer Gina Trapani was recently honored on Fast Company's, "The Most Influential Women in Tech: The Bloggers," list.
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Career Path: How I Became an Ethnocentric Digital Marketer

Alicia Morga — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:32:37 -0500

Prior to founding Consorte Media, Alicia Morga was an investment professional focused on U.S. venture opportunities in the technology sector for The Carlyle Group's U.S. Venture Fund. Prior to joining Carlyle, Morga was with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners where she focused on early-stage software investments. While at Hummer Winblad, Morga was also VP Operations for Napster and CEO of Zero Gravity Internet Group, Inc., a venture fund.
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Women Building the Future of Identity on the Web

Kaliya Hamlin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:40:01 -0500

Kaliya Hamlin aka Identity Woman, for the last five years has been a tireless evangelist for user-centric digital identity. She co-produces and facilitates the Internet Identity Workshop, Internet Identity Workshop the leading industry forum for working on innovation, collaboration and interoperability. This event is an unconference without a pre-planned agenda.
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Women in Tech

Fast Company staff — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:08:25 -0500

The Most Influential Women in Technology story was a collaboration of the most inspiring kind -- the bits and bytes we pieced together about these women tell a bigger story about the history of women technologists, and the futures they are laboring to create. (It was also the first time that women writers from both the Fast Company web and magazine staffs collaborated to create a print story, which was more fun than I just made it sound.) To do the best possible job in an imperfect
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How to Work Remotely, From Very Rural Locations

Aliza Sherman — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:56:25 -0500

Aliza Sherman, co-owner of Conversify, a social media marketing company, founded the first woman-owned, full-service Internet company -- Cybergrrl, Inc, back in 1995.She also founded Webgrrls International, the first women’s Internet networking group that grew to over 100 chapters worldwide in its first year.
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A Daily Dose of Blogs for the Tech Entrepreneur

Rashmi Sinha — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:10:20 -0500

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder & CEO for SlideShare, doesn't have a lot of time to read a lot of blogs, but the following sites are the ones that she makes time for, because they help her with the day-to-day challenges of running a startup. Sinha, who also appears on Fast Company's, "The Most Influential Women In Tech: The Entrepreneurs," lists her daily reads as:
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7 Ways to Increase Your Whuffie Factor

Tara Hunt — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:20:06 -0500

Tara Hunt, co-founder of Citizen Agency and author of The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business, appears on Fast Company's, "The Most Influential Women in Technology: The Evangelists." Here she shares "7 Ways to Increase Your Whuffie Factor."
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6 Sources of Inspiration for Tech Bloggers

Corvida Raven — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:06:01 -0500

Corvida Raven, author of the blog SheGeeks.net, made the Fast Company list of "The Most Influential Women In Technology: The Bloggers." Here, she shares her sources of inspiration.
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Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock

Beth Kanter — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:39:46 -0500

In December, Fast Company published an article called "The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0" featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 world.
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What's It Like to Be a Girl in Tech?

Chris Dannen — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:17:50 -0500

Girls in Tech is a social outreach organization founded in 2007 by Adriana Gascoigne, communications director of social network Hi5. GIT's mission is to enhance the careers of tech sector women with workshops, lectures, networking functions, and recruitment events in each of its chapter cities.
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The Most Influential Women in Technology

Lynne d Johnson, Ellen McGirt, and Sherri Smith — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:05 -0500

We inadvertently ignited a firestorm late last year when we posted a story on fastcompany.com called "The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0." The post became the subject of heated debate on the user-recommendation site Digg, as well as on our own site.
2009 BIO International Convention

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Women in Tech: The Executives

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:04 -0500

- Genevieve Bell
Director
User Experience Group
Intel

- Sandy Carter
VP, Service-Oriented Architecture & WebSphere Marketing
IBM

- Safra Catz
President
Oracle

- Susan DeckerPresident
Yahoo
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Women in Tech: The Entrepreneurs

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:03 -0500

-Gina Bianchini
cofounder and CEO
Ning

This custom social-network maker made a splash on our May 2008 cover, and not just because she knew what a viral expansion loop was. With 500,000-plus networks now running on Ning, the company has had its share of developer challenges but remains cashed up and growing.

-Caterina Fake
cofounder
Flickr
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Women in Tech: The Gamers

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:01 -0500

-Paulina Bozek
Development Director
Atari

After a six-year tenure at Sony running the 15-million-copy SingStar franchise, Bozek was tapped in September to revitalize Atari.

-Lucy Bradshaw
Executive Producer
Electronic Arts
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Women in Tech: The Evangelists

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:00 -0500

-Mitchell Baker
Chairwoman
Mozilla Foundation

Baker, a part-time trapeze artist, is a full-time advocate for open-source software and an Internet that functions as a public resource.

-Danah Boyd
ethnographer and social-media expert
Microsoft Research New England
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Women in Tech: The Activists

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:58 -0500

-Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm
executive director
Witness

A member of Witness's board of directors since 2005, Alberdingk Thijm joined the nonprofit human-rights video community full time in 2008.

-Dana Bourland
senior director
Enterprise Community Partners' Green Communities
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Women in Tech: The Brainiacs

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:57 -0500

-Vice Admiral Nancy Brown
Adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

In the future, technology will be both the means of waging war and the key to keeping peace. Brown has literally written the book: Her Joint Net-Centric Operations Campaign Plan is the strategy to "better integrate and synchronize joint community transformation and maximize joint warfighting capabilities." Sit up straight when you read that, soldier.
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Women in Tech: The Bloggers

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:55 -0500

-Heather Armstrong
Dooce

Best known for getting fired for blogging about her work life, Armstrong coined the term for the experience: "dooce." Now she's the model for mommy blogging, writing with humor and candor about her battles with depression, being a former Mormon, and, yes, the rugrats. Apparently, honesty puts food on the table too.

-Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone
BlogHer
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The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

Saabira Chaudhuri — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:45:11 -0500

In the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact online. Fast Company tracked down the most influential of these. Our list wasn't chosen by star power, nor by career altitude. Rather, we feature the biggest innovators

Who she is: Lead developer and co-founder of social networking site Pownce.
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Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

Saabira Chaudhuri — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:45:04 -0500

We've heard the stats before -- only a quarter of those involved in computer and mathematical occupations are women. And yet, in the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact online. To give credit where it's due, we tracked down the most influential of these. Our list wasn't chosen by star power, nor by career altitude. Rather, we feature the biggest innovators.
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