LornaJane

Professional Development for Girl Geeks

Thursday, August 14. 2008

Last night I gave a talk at the Leeds Girl Geek Dinners entitled "Professional Development for Girl Geeks" - and you can find the slides on slideshare if you're interested.

Most of what I said wasn't on the slides, but the gist of it was along the lines of:

  • Use the resources around you

  • People can be resources

  • Interact with resources

  • Ask Questions - do it well and ask each question once


I had a great night and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as I did - and if you were there, are you asking questions yet?
Posted by LornaJane in tech at 07:32 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)
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Great presentation last night. I really enjoyed your talk. I am just starting out to program again – been in IT for years but haven’t programmed since Uni.

#1 Hawkhill on 2008-08-14 08:06 (Reply)

Haven’t asked any questions at $work yet (got the rest of the week off, yay!) but I have been asking questions & helping people on IRC :)

#2 Caius Durling (Homepage) on 2008-08-14 16:43 (Reply)

Yes, great "speech" – been meaning to send a thank you message all day. Excellent content and really made me re-think everyone around me as a source of useful information!!

It was great to see your energy and enthusiasm.

Really like your posh personalised camera case – my camera had a sock for a while (!) when I got overally excited and lost mine en route (‘nuf said).

#3 Issy on 2008-08-14 17:32 (Reply)

Hawkhill: Glad you enjoyed it – and good luck with the programming, hope to see you at the next event too!

Caius: Yay! Asking and answering are definitely the way forward :)

Issy: Thanks for dropping in and I’m glad you like the camera case. Have fun on your hunt for new people to ask things of …

#4 LornaJane (Homepage) on 2008-08-14 21:39 (Reply)

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