Geek Girls Guide's Podcast
By Geek Girls
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Podcast Description
Nancy Lyons and Meghan Wilker launched the Geek Girls Guide in January 2008 as a place to publish their perspective on the Interactive industry and demystify technology for non-technical audiences. Their mission is to make web technology accessible and exciting and cultivate a movement of empowered women and men online by hosting safe, welcoming places to ask technology questions online and in real life; and educating non-technical audiences on the practical applications of Internet technology.
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045: The No-Fluff Podcast | We may not always have an agenda filled with bullet points when we sit down to record these podcasts, but we generally will have a few ideas in our heads when we hit the record button. Not this time… What types of topics do suppose come up when microphones are in our faces and even we don't know where we're headed? Broadway musicals? IT folks? Real Housewives of New Jersey? The idea of a Geek Girls bookmobile? Thomas Edison and/or Jefferson? Yes. | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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044: Q&A | -- | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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043: The De-Hype Machine | -- | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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042: Checking In | -- | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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041: Pinsanity | -- | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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040: Geek Grrls | Lordy, Lordy, look who's 40! It's our "over the hill" podcast and we spared no expense with this one.....on sound effects. Because they're free. From Meghan's sister's wedding, an almost finished book, owning the term "girl" to about two seconds of a Styx song, this podcast is full of reasons to celebrate. Happy holidays! | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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039: Divas | When you do a Google search for "Celine Dion"+"Steve Jobs"+"Pop Tarts", 1,630 sites pop up. Here's number 1,631. Wondering how our book is coming along? Interested in hearing about our weekend at AIGA's Design Camp? Curious as to why Steve Jobs, Celine Dion and Pop Tarts are somehow all mentioned in a 30 minute podcast? Well then, this podcast is for YOU! | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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038: The Private Island That Exists Only In Our Minds | After one final Summer trip to the lovely Geek Girls private island, this week's podcast focuses on ways to customize your online world for privacy or for fun. Examples: Pregnant but haven't told the fam yet? -Turn your Facebook wall off so your dad doesn't find out about his first grandchild via the son-in-law that he doesn't really like posting a picture of Harley Davidson baby clothes. On a friend's computer and stumble upon a long article about some body abnormality that you'd rather not discuss? -Set up a Google+ circle with no friends, co-workers or relatives so you can share things with yourself for later. (Depending on what you search for, you might want to delete the browser's history after you've successfully posted it to your page.) There are plenty of small ways to think outside the box when it comes to social media sites. Any other quick and easy suggestions for customizing your social media spaces? | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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037: A Digital Walk Down Memory Lane | Have you heard?! Facebook is taking all of your contact numbers from your phone, posting them all over the internet and selling them to terrorist organizations around the world! Okay, so that's not entirely true, but with all of the posts on Facebook the past few weeks, you'd think Gaddafi was about to call everyone in your phone to see if he could crash with them for a few days until things settle down at home while Mark Zuckerberg laughs maniacally in his giant bed that's stuffed with $100 bills. We'll give you the rundown on the newest thing to panic Facebook users. We also discuss a few ways to back up your facebook profile and a site that lets you look back through the years of your online posts. | 8/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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036 Announcement and Google Plus Redux | It's the music episode and the request line is open, so give us a call and dedicate a song to that special someone in your life. Now that everyone (including commoners like Nancy) has been given access to Google Plus and has been playing around with it for a while, we look at it again with a different perspective than last time to see what benefits it could have for us. We also have an announcement that we, uh, already announced a day or two ago, so it probably won't come as much of a surprise, but we're excited anyway so we're going to announce it again. But you have to listen to find out, because we're not going to type it here. Pretty sneaky, huh? PS - To keep the announcement a surprise, you probably shouldn't look at the links below until after you listen to the podcast. Deal? | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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035 Google Plus | Is Google Plus our new social media savior or just another site for us to bide our time until the next one comes along? | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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034 We're Baaaaaack | You may have been asking yourself, "Where are Nancy and Meghan? Are they okay? Have they forgotten about us?" It's been a busy couple of months in the Geek Girls' world, but we finally had a chance to hop back into the podcast studio and fill you in on what's been going on in our lives. We've been traveling from coast to coast, attending conferences and spotting celebs (well, 1 celeb and a few Law & Order extras). Oh, by the way, who could take a home computer set-up and make it sound dirty? Nancy, that's who. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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033: Geek of the Week - Kyle DeLaHunt | Home entertainment guru Kyle DeLaHunt is this week's Geek of the Week. Kyle, a second generation A/V geek, has been nerding out about home entertainment since the age of 8. We asked him to come down to the studio and discuss how to make simple digital home entertainment systems to fit your needs. | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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032: Informational Interviews | p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} Whether you're finishing up school, looking for a career change, or just want to meet some bitchin' new contacts in your field of work, informational interviews can be key in stumbling upon your dream job. It's up to you, though, to get the most out of your time with the interviewee. In Podcast 32, we discuss how to reach out and request an informational interview, as well as what to do and what definitely NOT to do when you're finally face to face with the person you're interested in learning about. | 3/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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031 Hot Mess | Anything goes when Nora McInerny walks into a room. The same can be said for this podcast. Nora originally planned on stopping by the studio this week to talk about manners and etiquette regarding Facebook friendship with family. Nora's a bit of a "wild card" though and within minutes she was dazzling us with her brilliant animal noises. Come along as we go from point A to point B while taking brief pitstops at high school proms and family get-togethers. We might even sneak a quick nap in during a story about children. | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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030: MIMA Recap | In our 30th podcast, we discuss the process behind The Geek Girls' presentations, focusing on our recent speaking gig at MIMA where we spoke on the subject of Cultivating a User-Centered Culture. If you attended the event, you may have been asking yourself, "Why has the projector been displaying nothing but the color blue for the past 15 minutes?" or "Why are Meghan's shoes filled with snow?" Well, look no further. For the love of Bieber, we will answer those questions, plus many more right here and right now. | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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029 Geek of the Week - Jodi Chromey | This week's Geek of the Week, supergenius Jodi Chromey, stops by the studio for a choreographed 'Pinky Tuscadero hand jive' with Nancy and to chat about her career as a writer. Jodi initially claimed to be more "nerd" than "geek", but after talking about her former life as a tech writer and then admitting to her love of Fonzie, her past blogs about Dawson's Creek and cataloging her Sweet Valley High books as a child, it became obvious that we had chosen a true geek. Jodi began writing her blog, I Will Dare, in 2000. Aside from her own blog, Jodi is the editor for Minnesota Reads and is the mastermind behind paulwesterberg.net. In this podcast, Jodi offers up advice on becoming a writer while giving us a brief glimpse into what inspires her (peanut butter and gin!), which begs the question, how did it take us this long to invite Jodi to be our Geek of the Week? | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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028: Facebook Mail & Personal Brand | In podcast #28 we dive deeper into the ever-changing Facebook as we examine their new messaging feature. In addition we take a look at your personal brand online, how to showcase it, and things to keep in mind when building it. | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean027: Keynote News With A Side Of Security | In our 27th Podcast we share some exciting news about MinneWebCon and well delve a little deeper into the Firesheep/Security discussion from the last podcast. | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean026: Social Engineering (or whatever) | In our 26th podcast we talk about the phishing scam known as social enginnering and touch on how to stay secure online. | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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025: Facebook's New Button | In this week's podcast, we discuss a new button. No, really. A button. Facebook switched its Friend Request options from "Accept and Ignore" to "Accept and Not Now." So, what does that mean and how does it affect how we interact with the tool, and with each other? | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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024: Geek of the Week: Rachel Baker | This week's Geek of the Week is Rachel Baker, a freelance IT consultant in Chicago who also founded the Chicago Nerd Social Club. It was a pleasure to talk to her, and we really only scratched the surface of her geekdom. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Rachel as much as we did! | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean023: Entertainment Solutions | In our 23rd podcast we talk about the upcoming Minnesota Bloggers Conference, as well as some DIY entertainment solutions for kicking cable to the curb and still getting to see your favorite shows. | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean022: Self Promotion | In Podcast #22, we discuss walking the fine line between self promotion and being an annoying blowhard, and how to get over the resistance to self promote. | 8/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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021: Geek of the Week: Matt Wilson | This week's Geek of the Week is Matt Wilson, who has the special honor of being our first male Geek of the Week. Matt is the kind of geek that wears many hats (or capes, depending on the situation). Sometimes he's an analytics geek (his profession), sometimes he's a techie geek (taking things apart), and other times he's a gamer geek (D&D, anyone?). | 8/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean020: Geek of the Week: Gini Dietrich | This week's Geek of the Week is Gini Dietrich. She claims to be a geek because she wasn't popular in high school, but really..she's the biggest PR geek we know. | 7/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean019: The Follow/Unfollow Debate | In podcast #19, we talk about what effect being plugged in with technology can have on our productivity. We also touch on the subject of Twitter follows. Should you follow back everyone who follows you? Does the number of people you follow say something about how engaged you are with them? | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean018: Geek of the Week: Jen Kramer | This week's Geek of the Week is Jen Kramer. Jen is a Joomla geek who's been building websites for nearly a decade, but her geek roots actually go back to the 70's when she learned BASIC while sitting on her computer programming grandmother's lap. In addition to building websites Jen is a published author and teacher. | 7/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean017: Geek of the Week: Charlene Jaszewski | This week's geek is Charlene Jaszewski (@theredheadsaid). Charlene is a self-proclaimed geek hybrid, crossing gadget geek and content/usability geek; claiming the geek started before it was even cool to be a geek. She explains that even though being a geek wasn't cool she still was because she had all the new video game systems and other gadgets before anyone else. | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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016: Geek of the Week: Erica Mayer | This week's geek is Erica Mayer (@ericamayer). Erica recently used her skills and connections to raise $11,111 in less than 3 months for Charity Water. She credits the campaign as opening her eyes to a whole new generation of giving, and says, "It just shows you you don't know what you're capable of until you have to do it yourself." | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean015: Phones & Online Bullies | In our 15th podcast we couldn't decide whether to talk phones or bullies. Luckily, Gossip Girl solved all our problems and we talked about them both! | 6/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean014: Geek of the Week: Sarah Evans | The Geek Girls are excited to bring you the first Geek of the Week, which will be a new series in which we feature someone who's well, a geek. These people can be self proclaimed geeks, people using technology to further their career, or seriously geeky geeks who make rockets and other geeky things. | 5/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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013: Facebook Privacy | In our 13th podcast we discuss the ever-changing world of Facebook and how the changes affect its users. | 5/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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012: Social Graces | In our 12th podcast we answer a question from our Men's Auxiliary about social media etiquette. Namely, how to approach people in real life when you really only know them through Twitter. | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean011: Don't Talk Me Out of Hiring You | In our 11th podcast we expand on some thoughts Nancy shared on Future Tense about how women interview for jobs. ZOMG, we're dismayed at how differently we've seen men and women present themselves in the interviews we've been conducting at Clockwork recently. Buck up, ladies! Straighten those shoulders, look us in the eye, and tell us why we SHOULD hire you, not why we shouldn't. What do you think? Does that explain it? | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean010: What is the Cloud? | In our eleventh podcast we break down yet another buzzword, "the cloud." | 3/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean009: Stupid Social Media Advice | In our 9th podcast we react to a recent news channel's story on how social media, and especially Facebook, can affect your marriage. What? Yeah. | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean008: The Cult of Social Media | In our eighth podcast we talk about the cult of social media, what to look for when choosing your social team and how to tell the difference between social media enthusiasm and expertise. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean007: Social Media & Personal Safety | For our seventh podcast we invited Geek Girls Guide reader Alexis Bell over to talk about some concerns her family members had with her jumping into the world of social media. | 1/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean006: The Decade in Review | In our sixth podcast we take a look at the last ten years, how technology has played a role in our lives, and what we think is on the horizon. | 12/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MPR Technology Follow Up | Geek Girl Nancy Lyons (@Nylons) was a guest, along with Geek Squad Founder Robert Stephens, on MPR this morning with host Kerri Miller. The topics ranged from gender roles in technology, to the future of mobile, to Google's new real-time search, and as a result the Geek Girls wanted to do a quick follow up. | 12/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSocial Media for Job Searching | In our third podcast we talk about some ways to think about social media for job searching. It's more exciting than it sounds! (Not really, but just go with it.) | 10/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Social Media Haters | Our second podcast (running time: 18 minutes and 7 seconds) is on Social Media Haters. Subtitled, "Maybe the Problem is You", or "STOP HITTING YOURSELF IN THE FACE WITH A HAMMER". | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Dark Side of Online Reputation Management | In our first podcast (running time: 14 minutes and 44 seconds), we explore the dark side of online reputation management. Or, what to do when someone is posting mean things about you online. Think that kind of stuff only happens in high school? Think again. | 2/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Conversational
I've been a listener for quite a while now. I love the laid back approach to discussing topics that I'm interested in and how Nancy and Meghan use their sense of humor(and shame) to keep me listening.
Fearless Leaders!
The Geek Girls bring the straight scoop on the digital space for the many of us who would be considered "non-technical" and they do it in a most entertaining way. Keep up the good work Ladies!!
Informational and fun!
It's great to hear there are more geeks out in the world who know a thing or two. I've been listening to the Geek Girls Guide for sometime and have enjoyed how insightful and honest they are. Keep it up!
