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What’s a "Wogrammer"?

A year ago, Facebook engineers Erin Summers and Zainab Ghadiyali founded Wogrammer, an organization devoted to celebrating women's technical accomplishments, not just their gender.  Now Facebook COO and author Sheryl Sandberg has weighed in, via Facebook post."You can't be what you can't see," says Sandberg. Wogrammer is all about breaking the Silicon Valley "Brogrammer" stereotype and changing…...
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Featured Profile: Deb De Sherbinin

Deb de Sherbinin is a creative product and marketing consultant who helps companies develop, brand, and launch products and apps targeted to kids and their families. With twenty-five years experience building world-class brands, she has developed and launched hundreds of products. Her expertise includes strategic planning, brand management, product innovation and development, Kickstarter, market research,…...
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YEAH for Awesome Partners

Part of the East Coast Product team, and our own Sherry Seibel. Steph Bond is second from the right. Like many non-technical tech startup founders, we needed expert technical help to bring our web application to life. We were fortunate to pair with East Coast Product to create the first version…...
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The Biggest News This Week?

The biggest news this week? Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's plans for maternity leave...in December. Seriously? (First - congrats to Mayer. She and her husband are expecting twins later this year.) But the news that she once again plans to take a short maternity leave and work during that leave has unleashed a storm of commentary,…...
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Event Manager Best Practices

Wow! We can't believe how many event managers we have looking for great speakers on our site. Innovation Women was designed to help event managers locate awesome female speakers for their events and conferences, producing gender-balanced speaker panels. We offer event managers free access to our database of speakers and encourage them to use the…...
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