Comments on: oh dear. http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/10/oh-dear/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Sonja Bernhardt http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/10/oh-dear/#comment-25 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:32:15 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/10/oh-dear/#comment-25 hey ps re: focusing more on PR - actually that happened to us was an inaccurate story was printed that the press jumped on and went wild it was 6 weeks before we were going to go to the press with our entire "it's about diversity, of ages, roles, body shapes, ethnicity but the one common thing is the women in IT LOVE their work" - have a look at what they have to say themselves. BUT the press went bezerk over the cover shot and the ursula andress one - leaving little room to be able to 'correct' the perceptions. And by the way when I TRIED to correct the media messages no one wnated to print it so we lost opportunities. SO didn't happen the way we planned and left us scrambling to even finish teh web site and ebanking facilities. SO best laid plans WERE another focus but media PR machine went beserk AND missed the real messages. Me - I'm still tyring to recover from the media and actually feel a bit battered by it and disappointed that the WRONG messages got out. hey ps re: focusing more on PR - actually that happened to us was an inaccurate story was printed that the press jumped on and went wild it was 6 weeks before we were going to go to the press with our entire “it’s about diversity, of ages, roles, body shapes, ethnicity but the one common thing is the women in IT LOVE their work” - have a look at what they have to say themselves. BUT the press went bezerk over the cover shot and the ursula andress one - leaving little room to be able to ‘correct’ the perceptions. And by the way when I TRIED to correct the media messages no one wnated to print it so we lost opportunities. SO didn’t happen the way we planned and left us scrambling to even finish teh web site and ebanking facilities. SO best laid plans WERE another focus but media PR machine went beserk AND missed the real messages. Me - I’m still tyring to recover from the media and actually feel a bit battered by it and disappointed that the WRONG messages got out.

]]> by: Sonja Bernhardt http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/10/oh-dear/#comment-24 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:25:43 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/10/oh-dear/#comment-24 yeah wrong dates ended up costing us $10,000 in wasted pritned stock (but we're going to give them away next year post calendar season to people running IT events. Speaking of geeks WHERE ARE THEY - we have 3 great competitions in the calendar with fab prizes eg: TV, DVD, iPod, iPod accessories, broadband cards, laptop tekskins, wireless equipment, professional travel bags, wine, movie tickets etc. just waiting for people to enter and win: The 3 competitions are– “LaMarr Code” to locate and decode a message that is hidden in the calendar; “Inspect for Gadgets: - every main image has technology placed, some obvious, some hidden; and “Desperately seeking Sonja” – hidden in one image is a smaller image of Sonja Bernhardt the calendar innovator. Please send all geeks you know to enter SOMEONE has to win and be the first to break the code and solve the hidden message! http://www.itgoddess.info/competitions.htm yeah wrong dates ended up costing us $10,000 in wasted pritned stock (but we’re going to give them away next year post calendar season to people running IT events.
Speaking of geeks WHERE ARE THEY - we have 3 great competitions in the calendar with fab prizes eg: TV, DVD, iPod, iPod accessories, broadband cards, laptop tekskins, wireless equipment, professional travel bags, wine, movie tickets etc. just waiting for people to enter and win: The 3 competitions are– “LaMarr Code” to locate and decode a message that is hidden in the calendar; “Inspect for Gadgets: - every main image has technology placed, some obvious, some hidden; and “Desperately seeking Sonja” – hidden in one image is a smaller image of Sonja Bernhardt the calendar innovator.

Please send all geeks you know to enter SOMEONE has to win and be the first to break the code and solve the hidden message! http://www.itgoddess.info/competitions.htm

]]> by: Ashish http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/10/oh-dear/#comment-21 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:22:07 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/10/oh-dear/#comment-21 "With role models like those, how can any woman fail to rush into a career in IT?" -- Well I guess the calendar just proves that women are as geeky as men!! - i.e. they too ship lotsa bugs with their piece of code, which means they are really a HARD CORE GEEK! :) On a serious note, I found it very discouraging for the fact that the organizers of the calendar focussed more on PR aspect rather than the on the main theme for the product, i.e. a perfectly delivered calendar which breaks the taboo of geek females being not sexy/charming!!.. ~Ashish. “With role models like those, how can any woman fail to rush into a career in IT?”
– Well I guess the calendar just proves that women are as geeky as men!! - i.e. they too ship lotsa bugs with their piece of code, which means they are really a HARD CORE GEEK! :)
On a serious note, I found it very discouraging for the fact that the organizers of the calendar focussed more on PR aspect rather than the on the main theme for the product, i.e. a perfectly delivered calendar which breaks the taboo of geek females being not sexy/charming!!..

~Ashish.

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