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Dear Maureen,
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.
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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 Edition
Speakers:
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?
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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 24x7®, , 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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Women and Technology. If you have any questions or concerns please
review ABI's
Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Anita Borg
Institute for Women and Technology is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization.
Copyright © 2007 Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
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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:
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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
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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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