Identitywoman

Author's details

Name: Kaliya Hamlin
Date registered: June 13, 2010
URL: http://identitywoman.net
AIM: kaliya@mac.com
Jabber / Google Talk: identitywoman@gmail.com
Yahoo! IM: earthwaters

Biography

I work in the field of user-centric identity - OpenID, Information Cards and VRM and other technologies that are emerging to support people being able to port their identifiers and information about themselves between websites/contexts on the web. My blog on this topic is http://www.identitywoman.net. I also design and facilitate unconferences for professional and technical communities. http://www.unconference.net.

Latest posts

  1. Topics for Bay Area – January 27-29 — January 23, 2012
  2. Women 2.0 PITCH, February 14 — January 4, 2012
  3. She’s Geeky – Inspiration and Value — December 10, 2011
  4. Updates – Twin Cities and DC — July 7, 2011
  5. She’s Geeky Bay Area #4 Sponsors — January 24, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Announcing She's Geeky DC Nov 13-14 — 8 comments
  2. It costs money? I thought this was an unconference. — 7 comments
  3. Fast Company Women in Tech Coverage — 2 comments
  4. Can I bring my daughter? YES! — 2 comments
  5. On the Brand of "She's Geeky" — 2 comments

Author's posts listings

Feb
27

Resouces from She's Geeky

We put up a big sheet of white paper for She’s Geeky Attendees to write down information for other attendees.  This is what they shared: Women Meetups/Workshop in Bay Area SDForum – Tech Women’s Program Fountain Blue – When She Speaks – 2nd Friday 11:30 – 1”30 pm Codechix.org – meetup Free workshops for women to… Continue reading »

Feb
26

SXSW Booth – Women Techies United

This is a cooperative effort organized by She’s Geeky to share a booth at the SXSW Interactive Conference.  You can find us at booth 219. Astia astia.org Astia is a unique organization whose mission is to propel women’s full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in high-growth businesses, fueling innovation and driving economic growth. Astia provides… Continue reading »

Feb
13

She’s Geeky Bay Area #3 Blog Highlights

200 Girl Geeks in a room: First of all, simply to have 200-300 technical women together is relatively rare (at least in my experience).  The only other large gathering of technical women that I’ve attended is the annual Grace Hopper Conference.  While that conference is equally geeky, the most noticeable difference between these two conferences is… Continue reading »

Feb
05

Dare 2 Be Digital needs Proctors & other Volunteers

Several women who are working on Dare 2 Be Digital attended She’s Geeky last weekend. They are looking for volunteers. This one-day event, held February 27th from 9-4 on the Foothill College campus in Los Altos Hills, is designed to provide middle school and high school girls with a better understanding of what a career in… Continue reading »

Feb
04

Amazing She’s Geeky #5! Bay Area #3.

Last weekend was amazing. It was the first time She’s Geeky was three full days, Friday January 29th to Sunday January 31st.  We chose to extend it to three days because women who were technical asked us to, because many of them could not get off work for Friday and wanted 2 days of unconference… Continue reading »

Jan
22

More Women Geekiness in the coming weeks.

Before She’s Geeky Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference (in our last post) Tuesday January 26th SDForum presents “Organizational Savvy for Women: Shattering the Glass Ceiling” Thursday, January 28th, 2010, 6pm, Symantec, Mountain View, CA Based upon his Wall Street Journal bestselling book “Survival of the Savvy”, Dr. Rick Brandon will deliver “Organizational Savvy for Women:… Continue reading »

Jan
07

Female Geek Week – the last week of January

Ok I declare it here – Female Geek Week is the last week of January in SF.  Why? Cause there are two great events happening. Girls in Tech is hosting a day long traditional conference on January 26th in downtown San Francisco. Speakers include: Leah Culver; Product Manager, Six Apart Poornima Vijayashanker; Senior Software Engineer, Mint.com Sandy… Continue reading »

Dec
17

PyCon offering Financial Assistance for Women to attend

Different tech communities are taking different approaches to addressing the issues around increasing women’s participation. There are many experiments one of them is the Python Community Conference offering Financial Assistance Grant for Women to attend its 2010 conference. The application deadline is tomorrow. Financial aid for PyCon 2010 has just gotten even better. Because of… Continue reading »

Nov
24

Collaboration: Women Techie's Booth at SXSW

She’s Geeky is primarily an unconference that brings different women in Science Technology Engineering and Math groups together in various cities across the country.   In this spirit of collaboration we are working with several different women in tech groups to have a joint booth at SXSW.  So far there are 4 groups along with She’s… Continue reading »

Nov
23

Results from She's Geeky DC

At the closing of each day of She’s Geeky in DC we asked all the women who attended to answer the question “As a result of today…” the answers are amazingly inspiring and affirm why we created she’s geeky. You can see the complete set of results on our wiki – here are some highlights… Continue reading »

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