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Who's Coming to Boot Camp Southeast Mass? Tickets on Sale Now!

POSTPONED – will have new date soon! Who’s coming to Boot Camp Southeast Mass 2010? Registration is now open for Boot Camp on May 22nd at Bristol Community College in Fall River, MA, from 8am-6pm. If you are interested in learning about the following, then Boot Camp is for you! What is it? Geek Girl Boot Camps are technology “unconferences” for women of all ages and knowledge levels where you can go to take classes on everything to do with computers, PC and Mac, the Internet, marketing, consumer electronics, software, social media, Photoshop, blogging, podcasting, digital photography, and more. It….

Geek Girl Tech Boot Camp Cape Cod 2010 is Booked!

Well, you asked for it. And we are bringing it! So save the date. We booked the first of our 2010 Geek Girl Camp Boot Camps in the place where it all began; Cape Cod, Massachusetts! And if you think Cape Cod is not a mecca for inspiring geek girls, then tell that to the 200 ladies who attended last year! Cape Cod Boot Camp 2010 will be held on Saturday, March 6th from 9am to 5pm at the same location, the Cape Cod Community College Adult Learning Center in Hyannis, MA. We could not resist their 3 fully equipped….

Win an Extreme Geek Makeover by Geek Girl Camp

Are you frustrated at slow computers, blue blinky screens, SPAM from a 12 year old in Bulgaria, having a Facebook Fan Page of only 1 (yourself) and a website as old and tired as Larry King? Are you in need of a “tech tuneup”? Are you a non-profit on Cape Cod or the Islands? Well, Bubby, then you need to enter the Extreme Geek Makeover, Geek Girl Camp style! Geek Girl Camp is offering the first regional Extreme Geek Makeover for a lucky non-profit in the Cape Cod, southeastern Mass region. If you think you need a makeover, get over….

How you can "Pay it Forward" with Geek Girl Camp…

I was just contacted by someone who asked me “well, how can I get involved paying it forward to Geek Girl Camp?” Good question! Well, here are eight good ones for now: 1.) Donating laptops: Geek Girl is collecting workable laptops that are no longer being used and repurpose them by upgrading and cleaning up and donating to non-profit organizations who need them. Most of these organizations help women in transition in getting them jobs and getting the employed. Many cannot afford them. Geek Girl has offered to be the in between to get the laptops, fix them up and….

The utimate dream team Advisory Board an entrepreneur could have…

When in the course of human events, as an entrepreneur, working day, night, and weekends on your business, or your “baby” as frenzied entrepreneurs like myself will apt to call it, and after you have finally gotten to the point and suddenly realize that you really don’t know everything, something clicks in your noggin and you start thinking logically instead of emotionally. You start thinking of big picture instead of tunnel vision. You – literally – start asking for help. You start actually believing what all those business books and blog posts by successful business people, that maybe what you….

Geek Girls Give Back! Over 3K in Scholarship Money Donated

At our recent “Networking Social | Social Networking” Event on Tuesday night, I was so happy to hand out 2 $1,500 checks to two very worthy women’s scholarship organizations from some of the proceeds we made from our very successful “Tech Boot Camps”; Cape Cod 2009 and Boston/South Shore 2009. The recipients are the American Business Women’s Association Cape Cod Chapter (ABWA Cape Cod) and the South Shore Women’s Business Network Educational Foundation (SSWBN Ed. Fund).  Both were in attendance at last Tuesday’s events and both ladies who serve as their organization’s president seemed quite shocked, but very excited. That….

Come to the O'Reilly Twitter Boot Camp – with a Big Geek Girl Discount!

It’s the Twitter event of the Summer! The O’Reilly Twitter Boot Camp! Join Tim O’Reilly from O’Reilly Media – a very proud sponsor of Geek Girl Boot Camps, by the way – and tons of spectacular speakers on Twitter on June 15th in New York City at the New World Stages. Geek Girl Camp has some great discounts! Join me there! I’m going! Special Code for Geek Girl Camp: GGC Use this for $100 off an individual admission! Win a FREE PASS by signing up 5 people! (Email Laurel Ackerman at O’Reilly for more info!) Here’s a glimpse at what….

O'Reilly Media signs on for Media Sponsor for both Geek Girl events

Geek Girl Camp is so excited to have O’Reilly Media as a Media Sponsor for both Geek Girl Boot Camps! O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. O’Reilly Media is sending some awesome books for….