Frances Bell’s Blog

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/77.html
I came across this interesting site last week - Damsels in Success.
Like Knowandnetwork, you can build a  profile and link to friends. There are also links to jobs and recruitment services.  I am wondering if that is something that might be of interest to Know and Network members.

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http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/28.html
This article indicates that women are driven out of public spaces online by sexual threats.?
“Robert Scoble, a technology blogger who took a week off in solidarity with Sierra, said women have told him that harassment is a “disincentive” to participate online. That, he said, will affect their job prospects in the male-dominated tech industry. “If [...]

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http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/24.html
Sarah Blow blogged the latest Girl Geek dinner held in London on 26 April. I think that we at Knowandnetwork should study the Gril Geek activities and contact them for links and ideas on networking.
When we go public, we’ll be sure to contact them to publicise our activities.
Has anyone ever been to one of these?

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Last week I returned from a lovely family holiday in Iceland. Geysirs were not the only explosions though.
While I was away a very strange incident happened that culminated in death threats issued to Kathy Sierra who summarised her position here.? When I first read about this, I was (and remain) completely horrified by her experience, [...]

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KAN Flyer
Here is the text from the Know and Network project flyer - feel free to circulate this, as long you include contact details.?
The KAN (Know and Network): women in IT project, funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) under the HE ESF Objective 3: Solutions to gender discrimination, is a twelve month project that [...]

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