My first proper day on my new project, and our PM says to me - "Cate, you seem to like to travel. How about you spend time in New York?" - I'm tasked with helping another team out, and being the bridge between that team and my team here. Initially I was a bit... thrown. Part ...
My article is out in the OSBR, in the issue on women and leadership. I was trying to make a point about how we should take a broader view of what leadership is, and be supportive of quieter forms of leadership, as well as talking about why I personally don't want to be an entrepreneur. The ...
The wonderful Serena invited me to join her for a panel at a women/tech conference in October. We're still working out the details, but essentially we'll be talking about role models - our own personal superheros. if you will. Some points that I'm thinking about: It's great to see really successful women in tech, I adored Sheryl Sandberg's ...
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Among the (many) reasons I haven't been blogging lately, is the conference I attended at the weekend - CCWESTT, which stands for Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology. It was great - amazing speakers, enlightening talks, and the chance to spend time with some of the other execs from WISE. I left, exhausted ...
I've been in a couple of situations recently where I felt I had to apologize for, or justify my emotions. I contend that's unfair - I don't make decisions as a result of my emotions, but I do react emotionally to events. I cry - at the news, at movies, books, at TV shows. I get ...
Graduating is another word for ending. The ending of your time at university, and the commitments associated with. It's also another word for beginning - the beginning of your next adventure, your next challenge. The next chapter of your life. On Wednesday, I had to go to Kanata to fill in some paperwork for my next ...
From "A Rant About Women" by the awesome Clay Shirky (emphasis mine). And it looks to me like women in general, and the women whose educations I am responsible for in particular, are often lousy at those kinds of behaviors, even when the situation calls for it. They aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing ...
Fascinating post today in CopyBlogger - Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants. It's a female writer outing herself; she's been writing under a male pseudonym for the last three years. She'd tried under her real name, but started working under a second name because she didn't want her own name to be associated with a ...
Last night I went to my first Girl Geek Dinner. It was awesome. I don't think I'd even realized how male-dominated my existence was, until I was in a room full of women (and maybe 2 guys). Yes, there was some talk of handbags, but everyone seemed interested in everyone else, there was so much ...
I was reading a paper today, about mashups. It's fairly interesting, and you can find it here (you'll need an ACM account, sadly). It explores how end users feel about mashups. What kind of value do they see in them and would they create them if they had the knowledge? I read something a long time ...
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