Aspiration Awards Winners...and the Next Gen of Tech Women

What if you knew there was a young girl who had the potential to cure cancer? What if you knew there was a teenage girl who had the potential to engineer affordable, realistic robotic body parts for amputees? What if you knew there was a young woman who had the potential to design sci-fi worthy tools that could repair broken bones and broken hearts, if she got the education, training, support and opportunities she needed?

What if you knew that these were real girls, with real aspirations, and there was something you could do to help them realize their dreams?

These girls are real and are a few of the 2011 winners of the National Center for Women & Information Technology’s (NCWIT) Award for Aspirations in Computing.

And…there is something you can do to help them realize their dreams!

With the help of people across the social web and corporate sponsors, NextGen Tech Women plans to raise $25,000 between now and May 5, 2011 to support the next generation of women technologists. Our effort will be hosted on Crowdrise, the fun way to do good, raise money, and change the world. You can also join us on Facebook and Twitter. The money will go directly to the Aspirations Award fund.

NextGen Tech Women is an effort organized by Danny Brown, a top 50 marketing blogger and co-founder of Bonsai Interactive Marketing; Geoff Livingston, a top cause marketing and non profit blogger and co-founder of Zoetica Media; Kami Watson Huyse, a popular social media and public relations blogger and co-founder of Zoetica Media; Allyson Kapin, founder of Women Who Tech and partner in RAD Campaign; and Julie Pippert, a well-respected parenting and political blogger and account director of Zoetica Media.

The Aspirations Award works to encourage women’s continued interest in computing, attract the attention and support of educational and corporate institutions, and emphasize the importance of women’s participation in computing and IT.

It has succeeded in attracting attention and support from education institutions. All of the following schools offer scholarships to recipients of the NCWIT award for aspirations in computing:

• University of California Berkeley
• University of California Santa Cruz
• University of Colorado at Boulder
• Colorado School of mines
• Harrison College
• University of Houston downtown
• Indiana University Bloomington
• IUPUI: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Massachusetts Boston
• University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Notre dame
• Purdue University
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Rutgers University
• University of Texas at Austin
• Virginia Tech

Awardees are selected for their demonstrated outstanding aptitude and interest in information technology/computing; solid leadership ability; good academic history; and plans for post-secondary education. In its fifth year now, the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing has grown to a combined national and affiliate program. The 35 young women chosen as national winners of the 2011 NCWIT award for aspirations in computing were selected from among more than 2,800 students, representing all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and overseas military bases.

It’s time to do more than talk about supporting girls and women in tech. Come donate now at our Crowdrise page and help the next generation of innovative young women fulfill their dreams to bring their leadership, drive, creativity, intelligence and skills into the workplace.

It can only benefit us all.

For more information:

All About the National Center for Women & Information Technology’s (NCWIT)

• NCWIT
• About the work they do
• NCWIT awards and winners
• Facts, stats, details and need to know information about girls in tech

Zoetica (http://zoeticamedia.com), a leading online communications consultancy, is looking for a senior writer to assist with communications strategy and research documents. Our writer must be able to research and process complex information about online media, and then communicate it in clear, easy to understand documents. These documents range from simple client recommendations to formal research reports. In addition to performing research and writing on behalf of Zoetica clients, our writer may be asked to write and perform online marketing communications on behalf of the company itself.

Candidate must possess:

· Seven years of professional communications experience, as a journalist, as an in-house communicator and/or as an agency professional

· Outstanding writing skills that translate across media types, from formal business reports to casual blog posts

· The ability to research extensively online and create documents that cite sources

· Social media experience, including blogging

· The ability to deliver projects efficiently and on deadline

· At least one prior communications agency or consulting firm experience

· The ability to interface directly with clients

· A bachelors degree

Helpful considerations

· Journalism experience

· Nonprofit marketplace experience

· Residence in the Washington, D.C., San Francisco Bay Area or Houston areas

This is a full-time position. If you are interested in applying for this position, send us your resume, public social media profiles and two relevant writing samples to Kami Huyse at kami [at] zoeticamedia com no later than Friday April 22, 2011.

Photo Credit: By koalazymonkey

Please join Zoetica in celebrating the release of two books, Katie Delahaye Paine‘s Measure What Matters and Olivier Blanchard‘s Social Media ROI. Zoetica is giving away five free copies of each book today to the first 10 people who answer the question, “Why will ROI never die?” If you want to win a copy, please leave your answer in the comments section (responses that do not address the question seriously will not win). Congratulations, Katie and Olivier!

Last year, Zoetica has its official launch at SxSW Interactive with Zoetica’s Charity Challenge. It was the anti-SxSW in that we were looking for what we could give back rather than what we could get.

This year we are back again with a variety of events and panels in which we are participating. We hope to see you all at one or more of these.

FRIDAY March 11, 2011

Social Media Friends Nonprofit Meetup

Driskill Hotel Bar

Time: 6-9pm

http://plancast.com/p/3vv9

Our accounts director, Julie Pippert, has put together a Social Media Friends Nonprofit Meetup on Friday night. This gathering will include lots of fun and sharing, so plan to be there. Everyone will pay their own tab as this is less an event and more a gathering of friends. Would love to see you there.

SUNDAY March 13, 2011 

Nonprofits and Free Agents in a Networked World

Austin Convention Center, Room 6AB

Time: 3:30pm

http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5847

Zoetica partner Beth Kanter, will lead panel Nonprofits and Free Agents in a Networked World, which takes a key them from her book about how nonprofits can work with free agents to expand their reach. Here are the free agents and nonprofits that will participate on the panel:

• Danielle Brigida, Digital Marketing Manager, National Wildlife Federation, @starfocus
• Jessica Dheere, Founder/Director of the Social Media Exchange Beruit, Lebanon, @SMEXbeirut  and @jessdheere
• Mark Horvath, InvisiblePeople.tv and We Are Visible, @hardlynormal

Chevrolet Presents AllHAt III @SxSW

Guero’s, 1412 South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78704

Time: 12:30-3:00pm

Zoetican Geoff Livingston is helping co-hosts David Armano and Richard Binhammer to produce this classic event, along with Mark Drosos. You can get on a waiting list to come here at Eventbrite.

MONDAY March 13, 2011 

Method Tweeting For Non Profits (and Other Players)

Austin Convention Center, Room 9ABC

Time: 9:30am

http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5947

One of our partners, Geoff Livingston, will sit on a panel about “Method Tweeting for Non Profits (and Other Players)” where they will discuss brand, messaging and creating a compelling voice on Twitter. Geoff will be presenting with:

• Carie Lewis, Director of Emerging Media at The Humane Society of the United States @cariegrls
• Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager for Feeding America, @dpmichel or @FeedingAmerica
• Eve SimonCreative, Director Beaconfire Consulting @naieve or @thebeaconsxsw.
• Jennifer Windrum, Founder of WTF? (Where’s the Funding) for Lung Cancer, @jenniferwindrum and @wtflungcancer

You can follow us on Plancast or Twitter to catch up with us there. Hope to see you soon!

• Beth Kanter, Plancast | @kanter
• Geoff Livingston, Plancast | @geoffliving
• Kami Huyse, Plancast | @kamichat
• Julie Pippert, Plancast | @jpippert

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