Our timing for She’s Geeky seems to be perfect. In the February (published January 15th in print) Issue of Fast Company they published the Most Influential Women in Tech. They also posted about the story behind the story.

It is an amazing list. It was sparked in part by the “heated conversation” that erupted after they posted The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0. They divide the list into these 7 categories and resisted the temptation to “number” us from “most influential to less influential” – thank goodness cause that would have been a very alpha-dog thing to do.

The Executives
The Entrepreneurs
The Gamers
The Evangelists
The Activists
The Bloggers
The Brainiacs

This is a quote from their introduction and reflects the same reasons we feel that a conference like She’s Geeky is so needed.

women in tech remain at a distinct disadvantage by any metric: average salary, top-management representation, board memberships. Silicon Valley, in particular, remains largely a boys’ club. In May 2007, Women in Technology International published a survey of 2,000 working women, about half of whom reported gender-based workplace inequality or said their opinions were less respected or sought out than those of male counterparts.

The only tech sector that I know of that has gender parity is the non-profit technology sector. Beth Kanter who I met at the first BlogHer – has a great post about other amazing women in her sector.

Rashmi Sinha from Slide Share has a post up listing A Daily Dose of Blogs for the Tech Entrepreneur.

Tara Hunt co-founder of Citizen Agency has a post on 7 ways to increase your Whuffie Factor.

I will be doing a post about Women and Identity Online in the coming day. (My work in user-centric digital identity was recognized in the evangelist category)