Ed & Ashley's 5 Minute Show

Episode 54, Lynn Langit (PDC09)

Posted by: Erin 'Ed' Donahue on: November 24, 2009

Lynn Langit, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, talks about her volunteer project, DigiGirlz, and being herself.

Links from this episode:

Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Episode 53

Posted by: Ashley Myers on: October 5, 2009

Telle Whitney, CEO and President of ABI, tells us what the Anita Borg Institute is and what ABI is doing for social good, the theme of GHC09.

Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Episode 52

Posted by: Erin 'Ed' Donahue on: October 5, 2009

Sue Dorward tells us why women leave IT jobs in industry and what can be done to combat this phenomenon. Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Episode 51

Posted by: Erin 'Ed' Donahue on: October 5, 2009

Erin Chapple, Group Program Manager for Windows Server at Microsoft, talks about Technical Mentorship and Sponsorship. Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Episode 50

Posted by: Ashley Myers on: October 5, 2009

Diane Curtis of Microsoft tells us, well our viewers, what the Imagine Cup is. Find out more at www.imaginecup.com or www.imaginecup.us for students in the US.

Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Episode 49

Posted by: Ashley Myers on: October 5, 2009

Rebecca Norlander of Microsoft talks about the super powers involved in being a person of influence.

Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Wiki notes for Becoming a Person of Influence (workshop): http://community.anitaborg.org/wiki/index.php/Workshop_-_A_Person_of_Influence.
Wiki notes for Becoming a Person of Influence (panel): http://community.anitaborg.org/wiki/index.php/Panel_-_A_Person_of_Influence_-_In_Real_Life
Official GHC blog post for Becoming a Person of Influence: http://ghcbloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/jo-miller-session-becoming-person-of.html

Episode 48

Posted by: Ashley Myers on: October 5, 2009

Valarie Bubb Fenwick of Sun Microsystems explains what open source is and her role as a developer on the Open Solaris project.  She also blogs at http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva/.

Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Wiki notes for Open Source Community Development: http://community.anitaborg.org/wiki/index.php/Open_Source_Community_Development
Official GHC blog posts for Open Source Community Development:

http://ghcbloggers.blogspot.com/2009/10/ghc09-open-source-community-development.html

http://ghcbloggers.blogspot.com/2009/10/technical-track-open-source-community.html

Episode 47

Posted by: Ashley Myers on: October 5, 2009

Deirdre Straughan and Teresa Giacomini, both with Sun Microsystems, discuss growing the community behind the OpenSolaris Open Source project.

Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Episode 46

Posted by: Ashley Myers on: October 5, 2009

Deidre Straughan a Community Specialist and (Video)blogger at Sun Microsystems discusses why video is effective. You can find her video at http://blog.sun.com/video and her blog at http://blog.sun.com/deirdre.

Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Episode 45

Posted by: Ashley Myers on: October 2, 2009

Nina Bhatti of HP Labs explains her job and how to become a person of influence when you first get into a position.

Thanks to Cody Whitesell and Ruby Shuz.

Wiki notes for Becoming a Person of Influence (workshop): http://community.anitaborg.org/wiki/index.php/Workshop_-_A_Person_of_Influence.
Wiki notes for Becoming a Person of Influence (panel): http://community.anitaborg.org/wiki/index.php/Panel_-_A_Person_of_Influence_-_In_Real_Life
Official GHC blog post for Becoming a Person of Influence: http://ghcbloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/jo-miller-session-becoming-person-of.html


  • Ashley Myers: Thanks Beth! In response to your comment, I checked out Google.org and found a list of their projects (http://www.google.org/projects.html). I can't
  • Beth Oppenheim: Ah! Great video :) Don't we all want to work for Google??
  • OrganizeFISH » Blog Archive » November Goals: [...] the beginning of the month, I followed link from a retweet by Kelly Feller, whom Ed and I interviewed at BlogHer09, to a post by Rebecca Thorman

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