Girl Geek: Meet Sarah Blow, founder of Girl Geek Dinners
Maryam sits down with Sarah Blow. She’s a programmer with a phone company in London and hated that she didn’t see many girl geeks at parties. Worse, she was accused of being a marketer, which rubbed her the wrong way. Funny, when she said she wasn’t a marketer, Hugh Macleod said “bull****.” Ahh, we were having fun interviewing her in the hotel where Hugh Macleod was staying.
Tags: Maryam, Sarah Blow, London, girl geeks, Hugh Macleod
December 21st, 2006 at 8:04 am
“Accused” of being a marketer?
Like that is a bad thing?
Or somehow marketing is the antithesis of geekiness?
Marketers can be geeks too!
December 21st, 2006 at 8:40 am
Girls who are Geeks - it’s like all my Christmas at once.
Then again my wife has just discovered gaming through the Wii - first steps to Geekiness? Perhaps not, but it’s a start at least
December 21st, 2006 at 11:56 am
Marketing is almost the antithesis of geekiness. Sales gets the top score.
It’s interesting, though that marketing and being a techie in all it’s forms suffer from the same image problem. No-one other than people doing a similar job understands what you do, so assumes you don’t do very much at all.
December 21st, 2006 at 12:49 pm
“Marketing is almost the antithesis of geekiness.”
Some of the best marketers I know are “geeks” or at least I think they are “geeks” (maybe they would deny the marketing though) — Scoble and Pirillo come to mind.
Or maybe they aren’t geeks?What is a geek?
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:47 am
Lovely interview with Sarah… Interesting and informative!
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