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Jul 29, 2010
3 Comments5th Anniversary Dinner @ Google UK – Winners Announced
London Girl Geek Dinners is turning 5 and we wanted to celebrate! As well as growing our member list, we’ve also arranged a 5th Anniversary dinner to be held at Google UK, with help from our very generous sponsors. The birthday events are always very popular, and this year has been no exception. We decided...
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Feb 17, 2009
Comments OffThe Science Council Need Your Help
We are looking for volunteers to take part in the ‘Careers Hotel’ – an area where young people can find out about the range of careers and jobs available from a science, technology, engineering or maths background.. Here’s the kind of thing we’d like volunteers to do: School for Seduction ipod – Mingle with the...
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Nov 28, 2008
2 CommentsAmplified 2008 :: The Future of the Book
Amplified 2008 Amplified 2008, a ‘network of networks’ event bringing together entrepreneurs, creatives, digital media practitioners, and geeky types, was held from 4-8pm on Thursday, 27th November 2008 at NESTA’s offices by Chancery Lane. NESTA did a great job of hosting the event, also providing much-needed refreshments throughout. Amplified 2008 attracted around 200 attendees, followed an unconference...
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Sep 09, 2008
Comments OffWe have a winner
.!. Now that Developer Day voting is open the competition to an MSDN subscription is closed. We ended up with three potential female speakers, one from an MVP, Bev Hatchard who spoke at DDD Scotland and is now bitten by the presenting bug, one from Chris Hart The Firm rip The Dead Zone dvd on...
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Aug 04, 2008
10 Comments(London) Girl Geek Dinner: 3 Year Anniversary! – Sponsored by Google!
Girl Geek Dinners have been going now for almost three years! (Officially that would be 3 years on the 16th August 2008 but due to venue availability we are celebrating on the 28th instead!) So we had a long think about the perfect place for a reasonably large girl geek birthday/ anniversary party and came...
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Jul 01, 2008
1 CommentJuly Newsletter
We had a great Girl Geek Dinner with IT4Communities in June. The videos, slides and pictures from this event will be up here in the next few days. But in the meantime we’ve just launched our next event. This next event is all about Getting into IT so if you are toying with the idea...
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Jun 19, 2008
2 CommentsSubmit a DDD session – win an MSDN Premium Subscription
As a way of getting the Girl Geeks more involved with the Microsoft community we are opening up a competition that is running alongside DDD, with a prize donated by me. Firstly; what is DDD? It’s FREE one day events, all about .NET developers learning, sharing and interacting with each other in an informal and...
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Jun 11, 2008
Comments OffJune Newsletter
Based on some good feedback about the last newsletter I’ve moved the Girl Geek Dinners News out of the newsletter as it confused some people as they thought it finished were I signed off, so I’m hoping this fixes that. You will find the newsletter here. Unfortunately, we didn’t have an event in May but...
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May 05, 2008
Comments OffFree Mentoring via MentorSET
So recently it was brought to my attention that MentorSET have just recently launched their online mentoring system for women in the Science, Engineering and Technology industry. This is a great opportunity for anyone in the industry to link up with a mentor if they haven’t already. The program is currently open to anyone with...
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Apr 08, 2008
2 CommentsThis site is currently in Beta!!!
We are looking for a nice clean WordPress design for the new site… most of the content is already created… We are just after a nice pretty design. Feel free to get in contact and let us know if you would like to give it a go! Feel free to leave a comment! UpdateI think...
