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| Aug 17, 2017 | 35 career-building resources for women in tech | Bridging the gender gap in technology must start with a level playing field for professional growth.
Our call to Philly’s women in tech to suggest articles yielded a pitch too good to pass up: Why don’t we make a list of resources for women... |
| Nov 30, 2016 | Here’s our guide to shopping the Delaware innovation scene this holiday season | It’s been reported that holiday shopping can be as stressful as running a full marathon. That’s why we’re here to do you a solid. We wanted to take the heat off of you by putting together a list of our favorite holiday gifts from the Delawa... |
| Jun 24, 2016 | 4 things all women STEM grads should know before an interview | If you’re a recent female graduate in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field, I have good news: now is one of the best times for you to get hired.
Yes, women are outnumbered by men in STEM fields. But you’re steppin... |
| Jun 2, 2016 | Y Combinator accepts Women Who Code | Women Who Code is the latest diversity non-profit to enter Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator that has helped produce companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe and Instacart. Although Y Combinator first started accepting non-profits ... |
| May 4, 2016 | Advice for CEOs who want to hire a diverse staff | When Rakia Reynolds first started out in the media industry, she felt alone.
The founder and president of PR firm Skai Blue Media said she taught herself everything she needed to know — since there weren’t that many woman she identified wit... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | On the Market: Lead Mayor Kenney’s workforce development team | On the Market is a column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.
Mayor Jim Kenney revealed an ambitious plan for his first year in off... |
| Jan 8, 2016 | Girl Develop It is celebrating a major milestone | Girl Develop It is kicking off its biggest marketing push ever.
The national coding education nonprofit, led by Philly’s own Corinne Warnshuis, wants to celebrate the 60,000 women it has taught by sharing their stories and raising $60,000. ... |
| Oct 29, 2015 | How Top Companies Aim to Close the Gender Gap in Tech | October 29, 2015 5 min read
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When I talk about potential professions with my daughter, the words engineering and technology are the first to come out of my mouth. Granted, she is... |
| Oct 15, 2015 | Amber Stradford is a DC technologist you should know | Hey, guess what? There are many amazing women doing great work in the D.C.-area tech community. This should come as no surprise to dedicated readers of Technical.ly DC, but we’re launching a new, ongoing series anyway, to further highlight ... |
| Jul 28, 2015 | This jewelry item can teach young girls how to code | Wearable technology has gathered a considerable hype over the last couple of years, mostly due to the smartwatches introduced by Apple and Samsung. While the concept still isn’t warm with majority of the population there are several people ... |
| Jul 8, 2015 | Смерть стартапа: Создатель финансового сервиса Wesabe о том, почему проект проиграл борьбу с конкурентами Статьи редакции | Создатель закрывшегося в 2010 году сервиса для управления личными финансами Wesabe Марк Хедланд написал заметку в своём блоге, в которой рассказал о том, почему проекту пришлось прекратить свою деятельность, и какие уроки он для себя извлёк... |
| May 20, 2015 | Websites To Visit If You Want To Learn To Code For Free: Codecademy, MIT OpenCourseWare, Coursera, And More | Menchie Mendoza, Tech Times 20 May 2015, 06:05 am
Learning the skill of coding is now made easier and even free. There are now a number of online educational sites that offer free coding courses which students from anywhere in the world can... |
| Apr 16, 2015 | Ticketleap is rolling out its new IRL networking app at Philly Tech Week | Name: Beah Burger-Lenehan
Neighborhood: Lansdowne (not Lansdale)
Job: VP of Product at Ticketleap
Side projects: Met is sort of a side project for Ticketleap, but it’s my main squeeze. Also, teaching a Product Management class for Girl Deve... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Our takeaways from last night’s Start. Stay. Grow. Summit | First there was the Center City building boom. Then the urbanist foundation of a young professional creative class. Now talent retention efforts in Philadelphia need to turn to specific sectors.
This is a damn cool place to stay after colle... |
| Aug 17, 2014 | 10 Resources For Women Who Want To Code | [su_dropcap style="flat" size="5"]T[/su_dropcap]Technology-based businesses are thriving in Bangladesh. Teams of developers are building websites, mobile applications, databases, and more for both domestic and internatio... |
| Jul 29, 2014 | 16 Coding Bootcamps That Offer Scholarships for Women | In a recent study, RJMetrics found that the tech community was about 29% female, with some cities scoring as low as 17% or 20%. Sam Altman just released some Y Combinator statistics on diversity, revealing that 19.5% of the startups they’ve... |
| Jun 23, 2014 | Google’s Tepid Plan To Boost Diversity At Tech Conferences | Less than a month after admitting it hires too many white dudes, Google is committing to increasing the number of women and minorities in tech to better reflect society at large.
This week Google promised $50 million to “Made With Code,” an... |
| May 17, 2014 | For Aspiring Female Engineers, A Square Meal Of Code | Last year, high school student Michelle Nguyen had all but given up her hope of becoming an engineer. A Senior at Mission High School in San Francisco (which did not offer a computer science class), she thought she had to be smarter, more p... |
| May 5, 2014 | Trevor Lalish-Menagh: ‘Philly has taught me to be passionate’ [Exit Interview] | It was Philly.rb, the local Ruby developer meetup, that made Trevor Lalish-Menagh love his job.
Lalish-Menagh, 37, still remembers the talk: Kevin Fitzpatrick, an engineer at Comcast Interactive Media at the time, was talking about a develo... |
| Feb 10, 2014 | These 18 Baltimore tech firms are hiring right now [NET/WORK] | If you want a job in technology, Baltimore has options for you.
More than a dozen businesses, startups and organizations will share information on their open positions Thursday, Feb. 20 at NET/WORK, our tech jobs fair happening at the Emerg... |
| Jan 27, 2014 | Girl Develop It launches in Bucks County | Girl Develop It, the international network of technology classes for women, has launched in Bucks County.
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Led by veteran technologist Lulu Murphy, the group will cater to women in both Bucks County and New Jersey’s Mercer Coun... |
| Jan 14, 2014 | Girl Develop It programming nonprofit launches Baltimore chapter | Girl Develop It has launched a chapter in Baltimore.
With a mission to bring more women into the technology field through regular classes on software programming languages, the global nonprofit gave final approval for the Baltimore chapter ... |
| Apr 30, 2013 | No Boys Allowed: Four Coding Schools Just For Girls | Programming has always been a bit of a boy’s club. Now four startups are turning the tables.
As the coding education bubble swells, there’s room for some companies to target more specific audiences, including women exclusively. Fifty percen... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Atomic Object’s Watson on Its “No Brainer” Expansion to Detroit | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 3/22/13, 2:20 p.m. See below.] Bruce Watson spent 20 years working in IT for Nike in Beaverton, OR, and another six years doing consulting work. Finally, he was rea... |
| Sep 29, 2012 | The Search For Minority Entrepreneurs Is Over — Now They Need To Be Ready For Investors | Editor’s note: Wayne Sutton is the founder and CEO of PitchTo, a mobile development lab that builds tools for investors to make smarter decisions and help entrepreneurs deliver exceptional pitches. This article is inspired by Dave McClure’s... |
| Jul 31, 2012 | Closing the Gender Gap: A Peek Inside Programs to Train Female Developers | The 20 Girls Who Code participants working out of AppNexus’s Flatiron office (Photo: girlswhocode.tumblr.com)
“Maliyah, step away from the mouse!” called Ashley Gavin, a software engineer at the MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and instructor at th... |
| Jul 26, 2012 | 30+ Organizations for Women in Technology | Being a woman in technology has its challenges, but feeling alone shouldn’t be one of them. Whether you’re a girl, a woman, or a grrl, the 20 organizations below can help you get connected with other entrepreneurs, designers, and developers... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | 10 Organizations for Learning to Code | Colleges no longer have a monopoly on education, and programming is no exception. These 10 organizations can teach you to program just the way you like it: free or paid, online or offline, hands-on or hands-off. Rather than threaten you wit... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s SXSW 2012 Highlights: Jay-Z, Leo DiCaprio, Pool Parties, Grilled Cheese Eating Contests & More | Storyful's Erica Berger, ABC News' Maya Baratz, The Today Show's Rina Raphael and Fashism's Ashley Granata & Brooke Moreland hanging out at TheDaily's now epic Pool Party @ SXSW 2012. (Photo: Nick McGlynn)
This ... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | Startup News: Have Fun in ATX—Love, NYC | Hook 'em! | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Wikipedia)
HILL COUNTRY. Made in NY: Austin will celebrate New York based tech startups at South by Southwest on March 11 from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. at the Fast Company Grill at Cedar Door in the... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | Ignite Philly 9: Love, tech and ‘go the f*ck home’ | Maybe it’s because the dust of sweethearts and candy wrappers is still in the post-Valentine’s Day air, but Ignite Philly 9 had a lot to do with love: romantic love, programming love, neighborhood love, tough love, and love for Ignite Phill... |
| 2012 | Still Looking For A New Year’s Resolution? How About Learning To Code … | After eating something greasy to get rid of last night’s Jello shot-induced hangover, many of you are probably in the middle of writing your New Year’s resolutions. Well, here’s a good one (especially considering that the tech sector seems ... |
| Dec 12, 2011 | Women entrepreneurs and technologists: a growing community more welcomed here than Bay Area, other tech hubs [VIDEO] | Kate Krauss did not anticipate getting involved in technology when she moved to Philadelphia 15 years ago. But she did.
When she started working in communications for a friend’s Bay Area startup this past year, she noticed how female-friend... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Goooood Morning, Silicon Alley! Gary Sharma’s Picks for the Week of September 19: The Billionaires & Supermodels Edition | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (a.k.a. “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder of GarysGuide, mentor at ER Accelerator and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over forty red ties. You can reach ... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | GirlDevelopIt launches in Philadelphia, first class Aug. 25th | Event Details:
When: Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Where: Two Liberty – 50 South 16th St
Price: $80
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Founded in June 2010 in New York by Sara Chipps and Vanessa Hurst, GirlDevelopIt was created to help balance a technolo... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | Internet School | Let's say you are my age, about to turn 50, and you want to make a career change. You want to get into the Internet business. But you don't know anything about programming, user experince, ad sales, community management, legal iss... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | Women in tech debate takes center stage | The Women in Tech panel at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco just wrapped up. There was plenty of argument among the women on the panel — not least from TechCrunch’s Sarah Lacy (pictured), who moderated the discussion but a... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Girl Develop IT Takes Off With Low-Cost, Women-Only Programming Classes | The tech industry’s rather extreme gender disparity comes up every once in a while. Most recently, an even-handed Wall Street Journal story prompted TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington to write that women are actually given preferential treatmen... |
