Meet Boot Camp Cape Cod Keynote Speaker, Trish Kennedy from BackOffice Associates®

It’s always nice to find a real “geek girl” to address…well…300 geek girls and give them some awesome praise and support. And we are slap-happy to announce that Trish Kennedy of BackOffice Associates® will be our Keynote Speaker for Boot Camp Cape Cod 2010 on March 6th in Hyannis sponsored by The Community Bank. If this does not move you right now, well consider this. Trish is the CEO of BackOffice Associates, LLC (BOA), a big – er, huge – fish in a small pond. Headquartered in South Harwich, Massachusetts, BackOffice Associates® is a global corporation with additional offices in….

Meet Geek Girl Catherine Weber

Catherine Weber will be teaching some of the workshops in the Social Media Series including Social Media Primer, The Power of Facebook for your Business, The Power of LinkedIn for your Business, YouTube for Business, and Twitter for Business. See all workshops here 1.      How and when did you become a Geek Girl? As a marketing professional, it was crucial to understand technology as a communication tool. From the beginning of my career, I have had to learn how to use the internet to help my clients. We built our first website in 1994 for ourselves and our first client…..

Meet the Educational Scholarship Partner for Boot Camp Cape Cod, ABWA Cape Cod

At each Boot Camp, we partner with a local women’s group in that region to not only assist us in running the Boot Camp, but because of their involvement, we try to donate a portion of the proceeds to their educational scholarship fund which helps women take classes, workshops, attend conferences and go to college. Last year at Boot Camp Cape Cod 2009, we were able to donate a $1,500 check to them, and this year we are hoping to break that record, and see if we can give some other organizations some help. The Board got together and answered….

How to find top blogs

Originally posted on SocMedia101 So many blogs, so little time! How do you find the best ones? I’m working on a project right now where I need to find the top blogs for a number of different topics. And it’s not as easy as you’d think. There isn’t one place that categorizes all blogs or top blogs or best blogs in terms of traffic, rank, subscribers and social media reach. And, interestingly, Google isn’t really cutting it. I’ve found that blogs that end up on the first page of my Google search returns aren’t necessarily highly trafficked. When I tweeted….

Meet Geek Girl Lesa Snider

Photo credit courtesy of Richard and Tanya Hories Lesa Snider will be teaching all workshops on the Design, Photoshop and Graphic Imagery Series including The Skinny on Great Design, Image Editing Bootcamp with Photoshop Elements, Photoshop: Quick Photo Fixes, Photoshop: Combining Photos and Vectors, and Elements: From Photo to Graphic Art. See all workshops here 1. How and when did you become a Geek Girl? I have always loved computers and in school I found them fascinating. When I grew up and became a secretary, I delighted in recreating print documents and forms on my computer using WordPerfect for DOS—my….

Meet Geek Girl Sue Malomo

Sue Malomo will be teaching workshops on: Using a Mac: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Advanced Google, and jQuery. – See all workshops here 1. How and when did you become a Geek Girl? Fresh out of college (with a degree in Political Science**) I took a job as an administrative assistant with an architecture firm in Boston. That was my first introduction to the Mac and I never turned back. I happened to fall into the admin position that required Adobe Photoshop and Pagemaker, as well as FileMaker Pro, a desktop database for the Mac. I quickly discovered that I vastly….

The new annoying way to spam on Twitter and how to stop it

Originally posted on SocMedia101 Once again, we have a Twitter epidemic. Spam accounts post tweets asking for action or promoting their links and they include as many twitter handles as they can fit. The pick big name Tweeple and little ones. Their strategy is that we will see them because they included, for instance @writingroads, and so their tweet shows up in my @replies tab. Here’s what one of these spammer’s Twitter page looks like: What can we do to stop this? Aside from getting out the pitchforks (and violence is never the answer), we can report them as spam….

Meet Geek Girl June Bertucci

June Bertucci will be teaching workshops on: Becoming Proficient on my PC! and PC Maintenance and Troubleshooting a/k/a Be your own Techie! – See all workshops here 1.      How and when did you become a Geek Girl? Over 25 years ago at my first real job.  (Not in High School as they were still using manual typewriters waaay back then!) But I took to it from the very beginning…so I consider myself a natural born geek girl! J 2.      Technology is so big, so diverse: in what parts are you an expert? in what realms are you still learning? All….