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Who says there are no women in IT?

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

At the recent GeekNRolla event in London there was a panel on how to get more women into IT. One of the (well made) points was women in IT typical don’t describe themselves in IT. Despite working exclusively with or for IT companies they are in marketing or sales or PR or design etc.

So I put this to the test with the four women from Merrion BD who ran an excellent marketing event for tech companies here in the Digital Hub today.

There answers, marketing, sales, PR, business development etc. Not one considered they were working in IT. At most they would grant they were working with IT companies.

If we want to encourage women to work in IT, we need the existing women in IT to start admitting it ;-)

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Startup-Ireland.org : A new website for Startups

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

I have created a new blog/website called Startup-Ireland to provide a single location where entrepreneurs and startups can find information about starting and running companies in Ireland. Its a little light on content at the moment but I plan to fix that in the coming weeks

The best thing about the site at the moment is an Irish Startups Search Engine. Thanks to to a little  help  we now have a serarch engine that contains the site of every High Potential Startup (HPSU) that has engaged with EI since 2003.

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