We’re putting together a dinner for the end of March and decided to do a vote for the date of the event.
What suits you best? We’ll be talking about mobile devices of all types and want to get a good discussion going around what your must-have device is, how you use your phone[s], what are the must-have features for portables and much more.
Please use the link below to vote on which day you prefer: March 25th, 29th, or 30th.
Have an idea for a future event? We’ve also had a suggestion for a women in gaming event, and are looking for other suggestions for events in 2010. See you soon!
I thought Girl Geeks might be interested in a post by Harold Jarche that I came across courtesy of @josiefraser on Twitter.
I’d really like it if you could read it and give us some feedback here at Girl Geek Scotland. Perhaps you have some ideas about how we can improve our network? Perhaps you can help us do this too?
Here is a summary of the post:
“All organizational value is created by teams and networks. Furthermore, learning may be generated in teams but even this type of knowledge comes and goes. Learning really spreads through social networks. Social networks are the primary conduit for effective organizational performance. Blocking, or circumventing, social networks slows learning, reduces effectiveness and may in the end kill the organization.”
He outlines Jon Husbands work on “wirearchy” which describes a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based primarily on trust: “Communications without trust are just noise, not accepted and never internalized to the recipient” Without those trust networks within organisations, implementation of learning into tangible organisational outputs will be blocked.
About 80% of learning in the workplace comes through informal learning, which “happened by accident or the result of observation, coversation and time in the job.”
Implementing Social Learning in the Workplace
For me this section on how to analyse and implement Social Learning is most interesting. This uses Jane Harts five ways of using social media for learning in the organisation:
ASL – Accidental & Serendipitous Learning: from Stocks to Flow
Online communication can be divided into Stocks (information that is archived and organized for reference and retrieval) and Flows (timely and engaging conversations between people, including voice or written communications)
“the Web is an environment more suited to just-in-time learning than the outdated course model.”
PDL – Personal Directed Learning: from Clockwork & Predictable to Complexity & Surprising
Complexity, or maybe our appreciation of it, has rendered the world unpredictable, so the orientation of learning is shifting from past (efficiency, best practice) to future (creative response, innovation).
GDL – Group Directed Learning: from Worker Centric to Team Centric
Bloggers have learned how powerful a learning medium they have only after blogging for an extended period. With the increased use of distributed work groups, it is even more important to foster social learning and web media are the current tools at hand.
IOL – Intra-Organizational Learning: from Subject Matter Experts to Subject Matter Networks
Subject Matter Networks (Mark Oehlert) are a way of finding organisational knowledge. Collaborative groups are better at making decisions and getting things done. The constraints of the group help to achieve defined goals.
FSL – Formal Structured Learning: from Curriculum to Competency
Work competencies will still need to be developed through practice and appropriate feedback (what training does well) but that practice will have to be directly relevant to the individual or group
In Conclusion
We need to share more of our work experiences in order to grow trusted networks. This is social learning and it is critical for networked organizational effectiveness.
Please also leave comments for us here about how social media can should or could be implemented in your workplace. Or if you have any ideas about how Girl Geek Scotland can develop a stronger social learning network please let us know.
In attesa del prossimo evento GGDRoma (le iscrizioni sono aperte, affrettatevi!) volevamo ringraziare tutti coloro che hanno partecipato all’evento Nemico Pubblico @Universal Pictures Italia!
Un sentito grazie va senza dubbio a Fusion Digital che ci ha dato l’opportunità di partecipare a questo interessantissimo evento; ed ovviamente ad Universal Pictures Italia per averci illustrato i segreti della tecnologia Blu-Ray ed averci concesso la visione del bellissimo film Nemico Pubblico – Public Enemies!
Se vi è piaciuto il film potete collegarvi alla fan page su FB. Se invece non siete stati tra i fortunati che hanno partecipato alle visione in anteprima, vi informiamo che il DVD in Blu-Ray sarà disponibile a partire dal 3 marzo.
E non possiamo che ringraziare in modo particolare
David Moscato, Amministratore Delegato di Universal Pictures Italia Alessandra Margaritelli, Sr. Publicity Manager Universal Pictures Italia
che hanno partecipato all’incontro rispondendo con pazienza e simpatia alla nostra raffica di domande.
Speriamo che l’iniziativa vi sia piaciuta e che la tecnologia Blu-Ray non abbia più segreti per voi.
On the 18th of February Karin Spaink was our guest. And we were very happy to have her!
By the month our privacy becomes more endangered. So many things are happening right now that constrain or violate our privacy, but the general public and the politicians don’t seem to care much. Karin shed some light on all that is happening right now and gave us all a good fright.
Information is stored digitally more and more. Because it hardly costs anything to store digital information, it’s saved longer. Before, no-one knew what you had seen on TV. When you are watching digital TV, Big Brother is watching right back at you.
Digitilization also makes it easier than ever before to piece together bits of information from different sources.
Karin and others hacked the Electronic Patient Dossier to demonstrate how unsafe it was. If she had wanted to, she could have easily killed people, simply by changing their blood type.
Centralization of data means that data is stored on more levels, every level vulnerable to unauthorized access. It also turns out that the higher up your information is stored, the more lax the security gets.
This development also means that more obsolete data about you is around, because the data always trickles upwards with some delay.
Function creep is the term Karin used for the phenomenon that f.e. laws are implemented with the reason being terrorism, and later used to track down copyright infringements.
Monitoring people is no longer done based on the risk that they are to society, or on the higher chance of success that monitoring will lead to. Monitoring is done simply because it can be done. The general feeling is that society will always be safer with than without monitoring. And not only that, more and more parties are doing it.
Karin showed us a Google Street View picture of a man taking out the garbage, with food wrappers and other telltale signs of his lifestyle on display for the whole world. And, as Karin pointed out, it might not even be his own house, it could also be his mistresses’!
Our rights are decreasing. For example for paper mail there is a post secret; no-one is allowed to open your mail and read it. Since paper mail has as good as dissapeared this right has too. For e-mail we have no such right.
One of the reasons it’s very difficult to do anything about all this is that more and more of our legislation is made on a European level. And some of the rules are not even in legislation but in trade agreements, which is very strange.
Karin told us about the ‘3 strikes and you’re out’-bill, where the mere suspicion of copyright infringement could lead you to loose the right to use the internet.
We don’t seem to mind all this, because we have nothing to hide, don’t we? In fact we are giving away lots of information voluntarily.
But while we are becoming ever more visible to our governements, governments are making themselves less transparent. Karin concludes with the question: If I should have nothing to hide, why does my government?
Il prossimo 5 Marzo alle 19:00 c/o Antù, via Libetta 15/c ci sarà la nostra quarta Girl Geek Dinners offerta da Etika Solar e dedicata all’ecosostenibilità. Manca dunque una sola settimana.. ed è giusto quindi aprire ufficialmente le liste per registrarsi all’evento ORA!
Come fare?
Per registravi all’evento andate direttamente al modulo di iscrizione online, valido solo per le Girl Geek!
Se riuscite a rientrare in lista.. il posto è già vostro! E per i Guys? Se siete riusciti a convincere una Girl ad invitarvi alla terza GGD capitolina allora tenete d’occhio il blog, perchè apriremo le iscrizioni per voi lunedì 1 Marzo, più o meno alle 12.00.
Ever since the entry-level price of the Apple iPad was unveiled as $499, plenty of doomsayers have been expecting a UK price-tag of £500 and higher. Not so, according to Geeky Gadgets. They have it on good authority that the basic model (WiFI, no 3G) will cost £389.The site has also heard on the techno grapevine that the 32GB WiFi model will cost £439 and the 64GB WiFi model will be available…
Care Girl Geeks,
stiamo cercando di fare tesoro dei suggerimenti che ci avete fatto pervenire durante il sondaggio raccolto nelle scorse settimane.
Tra le vostre richieste c’era quella, frequente, di consentire a tutte di potersi iscrivere, almeno per avere una chance di presenziare ai nostri eventi.
Ci è parso corretto non penalizzare chi, magari, nell’orario di apertura delle iscrizioni si trova per esempio in riunione o non è davanti al computer.
Pertanto cambiamo!!!
Le iscrizioni dureranno di più e alle partecipanti sarà assegnato un numero da un generatore automatico che, in sostanza, estrarrà poi a sorte tra le iscritte coloro che potranno prendere parte all’evento. In questo modo siamo sicure che tutte voi, davvero, avrete la stessa possibilità di essere estratte.
Le iscrizioni apriranno mercoledì 3 marzo alle ore 8 del mattino e chiuderanno venerdì 5 marzo alle ore 20.
Lunedì le partecipanti riceveranno una mail che confermerà la loro avvenuta estrazione, mentre le non estratte entreranno immediatamente nella lista d’attesa (anche voi riceverete una mail di conferma, non disperate!). Tutti gli altri dettagli li scoprirete nei prossimi giorni.
Ovviamente, come al solito, sarebbe preferibile vedervi accompagnate da altre donne, possibilmente Geek, tuttavia, anche in questa edizione abbiamo scelto di non escludere gli uomini, lasciando però nelle vostre scelte la riuscita di una serata veramente al femminile. Meno uomini inviterete, infatti, minore sarà la probabilità che il generatore selezioni ragazze con cavaliere.
The next Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner will be held at EAT! Bistro in Aqua Books on March 9, 2010, starting at 6:00 PM. This month’s event is sponsored by Microsoft. Ruth Morton, an IT Pro Advisor at Microsoft Canada who is presenting for the Align IT series, will be joining us and providing us with some door prizes for this event and future events.
This Month’s Topic: Keys to Success in the Corporate IT World
Valerie will describe her progression from junior software developer to program manager at a major cancer therapy corporation located in the Silicon Valley and discuss some of the tactics she has used along the way that contributed to her success. One of the key themes of the discussion will be how combining solid technical skills with strong soft skills can provide a significant advantage.
Valerie Romance’s Bio Valerie Romance is a program manager at Varian Medical Systems which is headquartered in Palo Alto California. Since 1994, she has also worked for the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission, James Richardson International, Assante Asset Management, and Cengea Solutions (formerly Linnet). Her jobs have included software developer, systems analyst, project manager, application development manager, and solutions delivery manager.
In her current role Valerie is responsible for delivering integrated releases of Varian’s suite of cancer therapy products to new and existing customers. Varian has many locations around the globe including one in Winnipeg which is the office Valerie works from.
Valerie lives near Lorette with her husband Yury and her daughter Natasha. When not working, Valerie can be found outside gardening in the summer, or cross-country skiing in the winter. Valerie can be reached at Valerie.romance@varian.com.
Finalmente abbiamo tutto quello che serve per una Girl Geek Dinners che si rispetti. Annunciamo con una certa soddisfazione che la #ggdroma4 avrà il suo sponsor!
Etika Solar, azienda leader nello sfruttamento consapevole dell’energia solare e dell’installazione di impianti fotovoltaici, ha infatti deciso di credere nel nostro progetto e di sponsorizzare il nostro evento dedicato all’ecosostenibiltà. Etika Solar offrià a tutti i partecipanti “l’Aperitivo a KM Zero” dell’Antù.
“Green” Speaker
Per l’occasione Marianna Pasquali, responsabile Marketing e Comunicazione di Etika Solar, ci parlerà di cosa e quanto si sta facendo in Italia per lo aumentare l’utilizzo delle energie alternative.
Insieme a lei, il tema della serata, appunto l’Ecosostenibilità, verrà approfondito da altre quattro speaker:
Simona Falasca, direttore responsabile di GreenMe, testata online di informazione su tematiche green
Viviana Valentini, Ufficio Scientifico Legambiente ed eco-blogger
[Update] Tania Valentini, riproporrà alla ggd “Cibo e Km, questione di scelte“
Anche stavolta per permettere di seguire più interventi, verrà utilizzata la formula Ignite: chi presenta ha a disposizione solo 5 minuti e 20 slide che scorrono automaticamente ogni 15 secondi.
Gadget x tutti
Anche stavolta abbiamo tanti “gentili omaggi” per voi! Ad offrirli saranno Tetra Pak, che oltre a parlarci dell’iniziativa TiRiciclo, ci regalerà dei gadgettini utili e rigorosamento Eco-Green e poi ci sarà Lush, che profumerà la serata con una sorpresa per tutte le girl geek.
10 fortunati..
Ma i regali non finiscono qui! Torna a collabroare alla GGD anche l’agenzia di Buzz Marketing Promodigital, che in questa occasione ci regalerà 10 copie del nuovissimo libro “Go Green“, il libro di Diego Masi sulle nuove tendenze della comunicazione. Come per lo scorso evento, i libri verranno estratti a sorte a metà serata.
E poi… ci sarà anche un altro stupendo eco-gadget per tutti i partecipanti, ma questa è una sorpresa!
Media Partner
Media Partner della serata sarà Suitecase Magazine – www.suitecasemagazine.com – web magazine di cultura, intrattenimento, lifestyle al femminile, che da tempo si occupa anche dell’organizzazione di serate di riciclo creativo “Scart Attack”.
Quindi? Appuntamento alle 19:00 il prossimo 5 Marzo presso l’Antù, Via Libetta 15/C. E come sempre, i nostri eventi sono a numero “ristretto”, quindi seguiteci perchè a breve apriremo le iscrizioni per il green event assolutamente da non perdere!
Avoiding the cardinal rule of not naming your new computer product after the world’s most famous homicidal computer, the folks at Haleron are calling their latest 7 inch tablet the iLet Mini HAL.The HAL comes hot on the heels of the original iLet Mini. The new version ups the game with a faster 600MHz VIA processor and it drops Windows CE for Google Android.Like the original iLet Mini, the new…
Hurrah! Our forthcoming Girl Geek Scotland event is mentioned in today’s San Francisco Chronicle
“Some teenagers rebel against their parents by getting tattoos, body piercings, having a child out of wedlock, or abusing drugs,” writes Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres. “I rebelled by acquiring a degree in electronic engineering.”
Sarà Microsoft Services lo sponsor della prossima Girl Geek Dinner Milano che si terrà il 12 marzo!!!
Vi aspettiamo per consentirvi di toccare con mano i prodotti che saranno esposti in esclusiva per noi e, come sempre, per darvi l’opportunità di ampliare la vostra cerchia di contatti, questa volta anche oltre confine.
Del resto, è la settimana in cui a livello internazionale si celebra la donna… e anche noi vogliamo dare il nostro contributo, all’insegna della tecnologia.
E dallo sponsor ecco a voi l’invito in inglese!
Microsoft Services is excited to be invited host an event in conjunction with Milan Girl Geek dinners on the 12th March.
Join us to discover more about the consulting arm of Microsoft and the technology we work with.
Network with females from both Microsoft and fellow Girl Geeks and enjoy a night filled with technical demonstrations on this important week that celebrates International Women’s day.
Tutti i dettagli nei prossimi giorni… rimanete collegate
In a deal similar to the one Yahoo sealed with Facebook, Twitter will now share tweets across the Yahoo network reports the LA Times.The deal will see Tweets be easily sharing across Yahoo properties and “will allow users to take material from both sites without having to leave either one”, said Jim Stoneham, vice president of communities for Yahoo.Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone announced in a…
Ma i regali non finiscono qui! Torna a collabroare alla GGD anche l’agenzia di Buzz Marketing 
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Die weibliche Hälfte des digitalen Wien kommt nicht nur großteils aus den Medien, sondern natürlich auch in die Medien:
