Girl Geek Dinners

We’re back! September Girl Geek Dinners

It’s been a lovely restful summer and now Girl Geek Dinners is back for the Fall season.

There is a chill in the air and the fall fashions are out. This September we wanted to talk about being a conscious consumer and keeping fashion close to home, all while being fabulously fashion forward. To help us out we have invited Rachel Dhawan of Brazen Design and Things That Go Bling to do two events.

The first event on Saturday September 5th will be in conjunction with the S.W.A.P. team ‘Take Off Your Clothes‘ event at Piknic Electronik on Parc Jean Drapeau. Rachel will be on hand from 4-7pm for free on-site consultations – helping people on a first-come first-serve basis to pull together the perfect outfit. We’ll also have some picnic blankets ready for some socializing so come down and say hi!

When: Saturday September 5th
Hours: 4-7pm
Where: Place de l’homme at Piknic Electronic on Parc Jean Drapeau [Map]
Price: Entrance to the Piknic Electronik is $10

The second event will be a few weeks later (date and location to be determined) where Rachel will talk about the hows and whys of buying local. She will also be featuring her Top Ten Must Haves & Where to buy them locally & her Top Ten Fashion Faux Pas.

Rachel Rachna Dhawan is the owner of Brazen Design, a line of big bad silver bling. She launched her business as well as her local fashion blog, Things That Go Bling, in June 2007. Things That Go Bling showcases Rachel’s passion for local fashion through features of local boutiques, designers and sales events, as well as fashion tips and street style specials.

The S.W.A.P. Team is a non-profit organization founded by Aleece Germano and Nicole Picard. Through its clothing swap event Take Off Your Clothes, the group endeavours to promote sharing as an antidote to overconsumption while increasing awareness of the human and natural resources involved in the creation, transportation and marketing of mass-produced consumer goods.

Come have a drink @ The Metro

What: Casual gathering to catch up with geek girls
Where: The Metro
When: 7pm Thursday the 3rd of September

Booking is in the name Cathie. See you there.

Europe: Brussels: BGGD night out with Gavriel Lipkind

The title of this blog post is only slightly misleading: on Friday 28 August the Brussels Girl Geek Dinner girls were invited to a Klarafestival concert of Israeli cellist Gavriel Lipkind and pianist Roman Zaslavsky. In the video embedded below you’ll notice at around 1:50 that Mr Lipkind likes to pull his sidekick’s leg from time to time.

T-shirt e shopping bag d’autore in serie limitata per le GGDMarche

L’illustratrice-artista visiva civitanovese, Martina Pagnanini fornirà per l’occasione una serie di t-shirt e shopping bag illustrate e dedicate all’evento GGD Marche con stampa limitata di 20/20.

Come Martina stessa ha tenuto ad evidenziare “il senso di tale partecipazione è quello di accostare la novità di elementi tipicamente artistici al continuo evolversi della cultura tecnologica“.

Sprouter at Toronto Girl Geek Dinners

Toronto Girl Geek Dinner’s is proud to announce that Sarah Prevette, founder of Sprouter, will be joining us on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 to talk about start-ups, strategy and and her experiences.

The energy for start-ups is building and Sarah and her team are tapping into this growth. Sprouter, in private beta, is an online collaboration tool facilitating knowledge exchange between start-ups and business leaders. Augmenting the online tool with community networking events, the Sprouter team is currently touring North America with Sprout Ups. You can request invite codes to Sprouter.com from their twitter account and sign up Toronto’s Sprout Up.

Sarah Prevette has captured attention as a passionate and pioneering web entrepreneur — an exciting voice from inside the online community revolution. Sarah’s nontraditional and multi-faceted approach to branding and promotion provides actionable insight to those looking to build communities, truly engage their audiences and leverage the full power of the web. An entrepreneur long immersed in the start-up community, Sarah has robust familiarity with the common pitfalls of early stage start-ups and the tips and tools that foster success.

Prior to starting Sprouter, Sarah built the tween pop culture community Upinion and held various strategic positions in the recently acquired Cyberbahn Group as well as at Info~Tech Research Group.

Sarah is passionate and knowledgeable on the subjects of social media, startups, usability, advocacy on the web and community building and has been interviewed and profiled in the Canadian media – from IT Business and Profit Magazine to CityNews and CBC.

Speaker: Sarah Prevette, Sprouter.com
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Location: Fionn MacCools – 181 University (at Adelaide)
Time: 6:30 – 10:00 (event agenda starts around 7)
Duration: up to 3 hours
Cost: $10.00 (This nominal fee holds your spot and will pay for your first drink.)

Register for this event at Meetup.com

We created a Meetup group for this event and are returning to Fionn MacCool’s . Meals/drinks are cash & carry. We will be charging a $10.00 fee to sign up for the event. This money will be directly allocated to your first drink at dinner. Meetup is great for helping us connect and planning events. We decided to charge and reimburse you for RSVPs. See our previous blog post on this topic. If you sign up to attend, please come. If you can’t attend, please change your RSVP asap so that it opens the door to others who might want to join us.

Welcome back TGGD! Here’s to a great new season. If you are interested in sponsoring a TGGD event, please contact Leona Hobbs @ leonaATleonahobbsDOTcom.

Ed. note: Sprouter was formerly called RedWire. Sarah’s presentation, originally planned for April, was rescheduled to our fall season.

Girl Geek Dinners 4 Year Anniversary Live!

For those of you who aren’t able to be with us at the 4 Year Anniversary event in person we will have a live feed of the event, an Ipadio channel where you can leave us live voice messages and a TweetMeme top stories page!

You can find all this on our Live Girl Geek Dinner Page!

Live Content of the 4 Year Anniversary!

For those of you who aren’t able to be with us at the 4 Year Anniversary event in person we will have a live feed of the event, an Ipadio channel where you can leave us live voice messages and a TweetMeme top stories page! Final Analysis movie You can find all this on our [...]

Girl Geeks at dConstruct

For those going to dConstruct there will be a Girl Geek Picnic at lunch time.

It’s a great chance to meet other girl geeks from Brighton and beyond.

We’ve set up a wiki for you to stick your name down if you are planning to go.

We’ve also got a discount code for attending dConstruct if you haven’t bought your ticket yet.  Please email rosie[at]schux.com for details.

Hopefully see you there!

Upcoming Fall Season & An Opportunity for TGGD Members

The last few weeks of summer mean we’re gearing up for an amazing new season of Toronto Girl Geek Dinners!

I’m very excited to be working with a stellar group of organizers for the upcoming season of events. We have TGGD co-founders Maggie Fox and Jenny Bullough on board. We’re pleased that Heather Leson has joined us. Heather was a huge help with our events in the Spring.

The organizers took some time this summer to look at where we’re at with TGGD and how we can best meet and exceed the expectations of our amazing members. We are making one change to our meeting sign up process. We’ve decided to charge a nominal fee (around $10) when people reserve for one of our TGGD events. This should help us cut down on no-shows and make sure that we maximize the positive experience of our TGGD events for participants and sponsors.

Oh, and save September 29 for the next TGGD. Event details are in the works.

Leadership Development Opportunity for TGGD Members

We have a late summer treat for you! Members of TGGD get $75 off the fee to attend the September 18, 2009 Poised for Leadership coaching workshop. To qualify for this special TGGD, please write the code “TGGD” on your registration form.

This extraordinary workshop is designed for high achieving professional women, early to mid career, who want to fast track their transition into leadership roles.

Through a combination of case-studies, self-assessment tools and small group discussions, you will learn proven strategies for adding value to your organization, gaining recognition and credibility, communicating with confidence and authority, establishing your brand as a leader, expanding your sphere of influence, and accelerating your career development. Every participant will leave with a personal action plan for breaking into a leadership position. Are you ready to explore your leadership potential?

Download the event brochure.

“Quando Facebook entra in azienda”: il programma

Eccoci pronte a presentarvi il programma della serata di venerdì 28 Agosto al MYM Club di Civitanova Marche.

La serata si prospetta ricca di contenuti che verterenno su come sia possibile utilizzare uno dei più popolari social network, come Facebook,  in maniera vantaggiosa e positiva tanto per l’azienda quanto per il singolo utente.

Ecco il programma:

. la proiezione dell’intervista effettuata al Team di Facebook sugli strumenti Facebook a disposizione delle aziende.

. Una presentazione della sottoscritta, nel web Gioiacommunica, dal titolo “FARE MARKETING SU FACEBOOK…. being creative!”

. Luca Conti a presenterà il suo libro “Fare Business con Facebook” edito Hoepli.

Ed al termine di ogni intervento, sarà aperto il dialogo tra relatore e partecipante, con uno scambio di stimoli e idee.. come in qualsiasi Girl Geek Dinner che si rispetti.

… a dimenticavo, la serata sarà allietata da un ricco buffet ed i gustosi cocktail ovviamente!

Alert iscrizioni

Ragazze/i domani 25/08 alle  10.00 am si apriranno le iscrizioni. Siete tutti chiamati nuovamente a sincronizzare gli orologi

Per partecipare basterà seguire questo link, come vedete ci sono due liste separate “Girl” e “Guy“: ovviamente essendo una GGD i posti per i baldi giovani sono in numero inferiore rispetto a quelli riservati alle ragazze, inoltre essendo questo un aperitivo organizzato con la collaborazione di Marche In non sarà obbligatorio avere l’invito da parte della vostra girl geek (ma speriamo che le buone e vecchie abitudini non muoiano mai), ognuno potrà registrarsi autonomamente.

Il costo della serata è di 10 euro ad ospite e comprende un aperitivo a buffet più, per chi lo vorrà, i pass per continuare la serata in discoteca.

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 Flickr set by CWillaerts

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

SGGD No. 5 announced for Sept 17

We know it’s been a while, but we’re very excited to announce Seattle Girl Geek Dinner #5.

Microsoft’s Corporate Research Development will be hosting us on September 17, 2009 at the Microsoft WestCommons in Redmond.

Find all the details and sign up on our Eventbrite page. This event will fill up fast!

Can’t wait to see you on September 17!

Quando Facebook entra in azienda: aperitivo a tema con le GGDMarche

Che cosa succede quando un’azienda sbarca su Facebook? Come si fa a gestire con efficacia questa potente piattaforma di social networking affinché il nostro business possa trarne beneficio?

Tante le tematiche correlate al più famoso dei social network, che il team GGDMarche, con la gentile collaborazione del gruppo MarcheIN, vuole approfondire attraverso un minitalk estivo ed informale che vedrà la partecipazione di Luca Conti, ospite dell’evento, il quale presenterà il suo nuovo libro “Fare business con Facebook“, edito da Hoepli.

Appuntamento Venerdì 28 agosto alle ore 19,30 presso

Chalet MyM

Lungomare Piermanni – Civitanova Marche (MC)

Questa la mappa con tutte le indicazioni per raggiungerci e per il parcheggio gratuito – thanks to Adriano

Visualizza MyM in una mappa di dimensioni maggiori

La partecipazione ha un costo di € 10,00 per partecipante ed include ospitalità e aperitivo a buffet dalle 19.30 alle 22.30, compreso pass di uscita (il locale MYM continua la serata con musica latino-americana, con libero accesso per tutti i nostri ospiti).

Entro breve apriremo la pagina di registrazione all’evento: non perdeteci di vista per saperne di più sullo svolgimento dell’incontro e gli argomenti del dibattito, ma soprattutto per garantirvi un posto in prima fila!

dConstruct – Girl Geek Picnic

Alongside this year’s dConstruct there will be a Girl Geek Picnic which is being organized by our very own Girl Geek from Brighton, Arsenic and Old Lace trailer Rosie Sherry! Intoxicating move Since the event is in the early planning stages there is just a wiki sign up Legend release Candyman ipod The Perfect Man [...]

Over The Air – Suggest a Session!

.!. After a number of false starts, we are a “go” for Over the Air 2009 – the sequel to last year’s hugely well-received Over the Air mobile developer event. We will be holding the event over the 25th and 26th of September (Friday and Saturday). Once again, we will be featuring a number of [...]

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 Flickr set by saravdv

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 Flickr set by lamazone

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Aperitivo GGD Marche

Foto di Franz78x

Abbiamo messo in agenda un aperitivo per venerdì 28 agosto a Civitanova: hai una decina di giorni per organizzarti, non è molto ma sappiamo che sei vuoi puoi riuscire nell’impresa

Stiamo lavorando sul tema della serata e sugli speech; ti anticipiamo che avremo con noi un super ospite e la compagnia degli amici di Marche In.

Noi ti aspettiamo per due chiacchiere ed un brindisi di fine estate, continua a tenere d’occhio il nostro blog oppure i nostri account social dove, nel giro di pochi giorni, ti daremo tutte le informazioni su dove e come raggiungerci.

A prestissimo!

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 celebrates 10 years of Windows Live Messenger, birthday cake and all!

Windows Live Messenger helped pioneer the concept of social media a decade ago; today it is visited by more people worldwide than any other free instant messenger site. In Europe alone, there are over 128 million Messenger users, each of whom spends an average of 6 hours every day having conversations, sharing experiences, making decisions and influencing others.

Windows Live Messenger has constantly evolved to remain at the heart of online conversation, with ground-breaking technologies that keep users expressing themselves, entertaining one another and sharing everything from videos, photos and music to all-important opinions.

For this special event, Messenger & Girls Geek dinner want you to come and share its Special Birthday cake with you. Everybody now:

Yes we’re going to a party party
Yes we’re going to a party party
Yes we’re going to a party party
(From the very catchy “Birthday” by The Beatles)

London Girl Geek Dinner 4 Year Anniversary Event Announcement!

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We have just finalised all the details for this year’s anniversary Girl Geek Dinner.  Since we know that there will be way more demand for this event than we could possibly cater for we are also going to live stream the event.
The tickets will be released in two batches.  The first batch will be released [...]

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 Weather forecast for Belgium on Wed 19 August

In Dutch: “Dinsdag en woensdag wordt het vrij zonnig en geleidelijk ook warmer. Dinsdag halen we 27 of 28 graden, woensdag is dat mogelijk 30 graden.”.

In French: “Mardi et mercredi, le temps sera bien ensoleillé et de plus en plus chaud. Le mercure affichera 27° ou 28° mardi et dépassera la barre des 30° mercredi.”

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 Course of the evening

In a nutshell:

The 15th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner takes place on Wednesday 19 August. There are still 4 seats available!

Domein Hertoghe (= name of the park)
Corner of Karel Oomsstraat & Markgravelei
B-2018 Antwerp

Toilets and hide-out in case of rain:
These Days
Karel Oomsstraat 47B,
B-2018 Antwerp

Parking:
Near the park. Free after 19:00.

Bring with you:

• your own picnic
• a blanket or plastic sheet to sit on
• a little bit of sunshine

Sponsors take care of:

• smoothies and healthy fruit snacks
• summer cocktails
• Belgian ice cream

Course of the evening:

• 18:00 Set-up (so if you come at 18:00, you can help out – much appreciated)
• 19:00 Kipling bag sweepstake aka the belspeldelspel
• 21:30 clean-up. Get the chairs etc back inside the These Days building, grab a goodie bag and go home.

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 dessert thanks to Belgian ice cream icon Ijsboerke

The quintessential ice cream van in Belgium has “Ijsboerke” on it. Ijsboerke has been pleasing connoisseurs with genuine Belgian quality ice-cream since 1935. The recipe for success in all these years has always been the same: traditional craftsmanship, natural raw materials and day-fresh cream.
And guess who’s bringing at least 70 “icy ice creams” to Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #15? That’s right! Ijsboerke And as usual, this sponsor, too, will “use” us girl geeks to try out their latest products and innovations.

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 goes bananas: Chiquita

The 15th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is a “bring your own food” one. But there are a few tasty extras. Chiquita, for example, has agreed to cater us with

• Chiquita Smoothies for everyone. Yay! A real fresh fruit smoothie consists of 100% pure fresh fruit, no more and no less. That means no additions such as dairy products, and definitely no concentrates, preservatives, or added sugar.
• Something brand new: the Chiquita Pineapple Sticks. 75g of 100% natural pineapples cut, cleaned and individually sealed into a unique, no mess package.

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 Monkey love: Kipling

Sometimes Wikipedia simply says it all:

When Kipling was founded in 1987 in Antwerp, Belgium, it was Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, an iconic symbol of adventure and youth, that inspired the company’s name. Kipling is a company known especially for its line of nylon handbags, backpacks, luggage and accessories distinguished by their round rubber logo and furry monkey keychain. Today, with the belief that fashion and fun can exist together, Kipling continues to make high-quality bags and accessories in nylon, leather and new innovative fabrications, that are found all over the world.

And speaking of fashion and fun:

1. Kipling puts one galactic monkey in every goodie bag
2. Kipling gives away no less then 5 handbags from their latests collection:
   1. Teagan (Small wheeled duffle / Cabin size trolley)
   2. Limit (Shoulder bag with removable shoulder strap / Clutch)
   3. Gaelle (Medium handbag / Shoulder bag)
   4. New Arlene (Small shoulder bag with mirror and removable strap / Clutch / Across body)
   5. Thrill (small purse that’s so new it’s not in the catalogue yet)

We’re giving the bags away during a session of our famous Belspeldelspel sweepstake at around 19:00 during Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #15. So make sure you get there on time!

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #15 Summer cocktail: Grand’O, by Grand Marnier

Grand Marnier has been launching summer cocktails for a couple of years now. And this summer, they’ve baptised their invention the Grand’O. The ingredients? Grand Marnier of course, some orange and lemon juice, cane sugar syrup and Perrier. The results is a light, semi-sparkling, and refreshing drink, presented in a revolutionary container: a small red ball.
More here:

• http://www.grandmoments.be/ pictures, stories and contests
• http://www.grand-marnier.com/ with more recipes for summer cocktails

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #14 & 15 Goodie bag goodies: The List mag

What if you had your own team of personal shoppers and style curators searching worldwide for the most beautiful, exclusive, fun, sexy and smart items around?
The List does that for you.
In the goodie bag of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners #14 and #15 you’ll find the List’s quarterly catalogue catalogue which contains a handpicked selection of 91 fascinating finds, a (minimal) of 10% discount and/or free delivery on a selection of items, gifts, extra’s. Have a look:

Europe: Brussels: BGGD #14 Slideshow by CloWillaerts

Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #14

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