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Promise to include the boys.. (next time)

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It’s been a frenzied few months, but { Huddlemind } is getting stronger by the day and it’s time to look up from the books and get out to play.

Many months ago at a geekdinner in Cape Town, the bright Sarah Blake suggested that we start doing geek.girl gatherings here in South Africa. What a great idea! what appalling timing!
We’ve finally resolved to do something about it: though admittedly we haven’t really rolled up our sleeves on organising a serious event, no extravaganza of prizes, nor yet with seeming effortlessness whipping up a luscious feast for the occasion - because we’re too damn BUSY. As you probably are.

Instead we spoke very nicely to the good peeps at Gardens Virgin Active & Stormhoek who are sponsoring workouts and wine (virtue or vino balance each other out surely) and we’re inviting some of the startlingly bright women we know to just come & hang out at my new fave wi-fi & alt.office spot & re.connect ..before we drown in to.do lists and meet our demise ingloriously, at our desks. No karoshi for me thank you!

This isn’t necessarily a GEEK.girl session - I’ve realised there are sadly very few of us xx chromosome creatures who go crazy for code - and more about the tech.supported social media infused lifestyle and embracing the new economy that women are flourishing in. One where relationships have heightened value over process. And where trust is the gold standard.

So all that said, it’s ever a good idea to enrich your networth: come hang out with us at Sinn’s on Wed 9th April afterdirections-to-wembley-squar.gif work at about 6ish . Click on the pic (above) you can RSVP on the Facebook event, or mail me & I’ll pop you on.

Directions & map >> just click on the thumbnail (right).

Easypeasy, no agenda, no lectures ..just some great women I’d love to introduce you to. hooray.

www ..wonderful.web.women.co.za*

geek.girl lunch

It was very informal, no official invites, just a Facebook event but Tertia & I were surrounded by outstanding women - and some of the boys who volunteered to dress the part - who picked up the idea with a dash of speed (primarily women who work in technology, naturally).

Who came to share lunch and non.pink and fluffy company?
(In order of introduction around the table, and then order of appearance)

Continue reading ‘www ..wonderful.web.women.co.za*’

SA’s best & brightest : reversing brain.drain?

Newly returned from some wild.ass pilgrimage - traversing between sleek conference rooms with ergonomic chairs and mountains in the winelands - I introduced my new series I’ll be doing in the regular Monday slot at SA Rocks. Celebrating some of the wonderful inspiring people who make the land at the bottom of Africa their home. Those who make it worth staying in South Africa. Worth pouring our talents into, to generate sustainable growth and maybe inspiring a daring pitch for the impossible.. peace?

Sharing their vision is exhilarating - and refreshing - especially after the numbing effect of news. The news presented by mainstream media, (TV & papers particularly) is largely reactive, and leaves us feeling impotent to change the outcome of almost everything we’re offered.*

No wonder so many of us are disproportionately stressed. We’re operating on hair.trigger fight or flight. Pumping our adrenals, pushing blood.pressure and flooding our blood with redundant cortisol. Not a foolproof recipe for creative healthy problem.solving. And yet the world is demanding that we operate at higher speeds, learn faster to keep up with technology, innovate, take on multiple projects just to get into the game.. aah yes and then we have to bloody well be remarkable too!!

talent banking : max kaizen

It’s frankly exhausting.
So who the hell are the brilliant ones who get it right? The ones who determinedly live out their dreams & follow their hearts & minds into places most of us won’t dare. Curiosity drove the hunt, love drives the connection: gratitude that these power people exist. Each is a thought leader, as well as expressing their being in their doing.

My choices may surprise you.. but you’ll surely know why soon enough ;-)

* [hunt down a copy of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death if you haven't yet - it made a ding in my perception of the media/publishing/ entertainment industry years ago - it's still right on the mark]

27dinner gathers force for FreedomDay

27dinner capetown

The 27dinner has outgrown itself again.
The Cape Town dinner has popped its seams due to demand :)

Marketing Geek Dave found us a gorgeous spot looking out over the Atlantic Ocean & Robben Island - how appropriate for Freedom Day! Clever fellow.

The lineup for the talks has been confirmed :

Greenman Ian Gilfillan, the awardwinning ZAshow podcaster Glen Verran, the wild & wonderful cartooning sire of Bru and Boegie Mike Scott… and maybe if we’re very lucky my mate Rus Nerwich (world class muso & wildman of jazz) will swing some beats for us.

It’s going to be yet another cooking night of engaging with the brightest minds of new media, marketing and technology in the Mother City.

Oh did I almost forget? Just in case you weren’t convinced by the quality of the company : the legendary Graham Knox will be bringing on free Stormhoek wine AGAIN! (aaaargh.. hope I behave this time)

There are now 20 more seats that can be snapped up due to the new venue (click pic) so dash to the wiki to avoid feeling left out if you missed the first ones >>




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