No blog post today – I’ve been too busy podcasting. Check out the latest episode over at www.geekgrls.com – I’m talking Podcamp Montreal, SavvyAuntie.com and what I did on my summer vacation!

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I know lot of women who are truly geeky, very technology savvy and aware. I have met some online, and some at various meetups around town. But my experience in general with the online communities I’m involved with (mostly web technology, social media and business) is that it is still a very male-dominated area. Most of my Twitter friends are male. Most of the people at the technology meetups and PodCamps I’ve attended are male.

For a long time I’ve wanted to create something that appeals directly to women who are interested in this space. A place where women are encouraged to make a contribution to the community and embrace the power of the Web, technology and social media.

Several weeks ago my good friend Sheri and I were sitting on a sunny patio and we came up with idea to do The GeekGrls Podcast. We are both super-geeky in our own right, and though it would be fun to share some of that geekiness with the world. The show is by women, for women, about the things that women care about when it comes to technology. We’ve posted our first show at www.geekgrls.com. On this show we talk about our vision for the show and a bit about ourselves.

I encourage you to go and subscribe for free, Episode 1 will be available next week. We really want to encourage participation in the show, so if you have suggestions for topics or guests, ideas or just want to drop us a line, we’d really appreciate it.

And even though the show is presented from a female perspective… you boys are allowed too! :-)

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Yesterday I met up with my longtime friend and fellow geek girl Sheri on a sunny patio where we held our first brainstorming session for our new podcast. (Incidentally, Sheri, who has called me by the nickname ”

Suze” ever since we met was the inspiration for the name of my blog).

I’ve been wanting to start up a podcast for some time now, but I’ve been waiting for the right opportunity to come along. Sher and I got to talking a few weeks back and it turned out she had the same desire and wants to talk about the same things I do. It was a natural fit!

Our plan is to spend the next couple of weeks working out the topics and researching for Episode 1. We’ve set up a blog which I will disclose to you later this week, once I’ve cleaned it up a bit. We’ll be sorting out the technical side of production and our goal is to record our first episode the weekend after next.

I hope you’ll tune in when the time comes. In the meantime I’m wide open to hearing any advice or suggestions anyone has for building a successful podcast. I won’t give too much away about the subject matter just yet, suffice it to say that it will appeal to tech-curious and tech-savvy women.

Stay tuned!

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