I like starting the year looking forward, thinking about what I can do to make a difference for WITI members, partners and stakeholders. With a fresh slate, and a new year ahead, I always feel optimism and excitement about taking a fresh look at our goals, our vision and how we can play in a satisfying, meaningful way in the universe we continue to create

As always, I wanted to share my ideas and perceptions and ask you to write me yours, since it has always been your feedback, your perspectives, that have moved our WITI team to achieve greater heights and take on new challenges.

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Have you ever been working on a project, with everything running fairly smoothly when you realized there was a little knot in your stomach? Some little nagging, aching feeling right in the pit?

So many of us - especially we women - are caught up in the pressures of meeting customer expectations, commitments to deadlines, and dealing with the stresses of a project that we fail to listen to that inner voice. I've had the experience described above on many occasions, but only recently learned to listen to it. I had to learn the hard way.

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• No Girls Allowed - By Melissa Solomon
• WITI Honors Distinguished Women in Science and Technology During June
• Women In Technology Can Work Part Time - By Karen Steede Terry
• Reporting to Wall Street about Diversity - By David Creelman & Norm Smallwood
• Get in the Game - By Shannon Ridge, PMS Clan
• Here Come the "Brides" - By Marcia Tanner, Guest Curator, San Jose Museum of Art
• Making Lemonade: Preparing for and Sustaining Executive Positions - By Dr. Tammie Page
• Go with the Girls! - by Margaret Heffernan
• Nearly Sixty Years Later the World's First Programmers Are Still Doing Gender Battle - by Robin Raskin
• Reflections on Carly Fiorina's departure from HP - by Carolyn Leighton, Founder
• The Role of Men in Women's Organizations - by Carolyn Leighton, Founder
• Defying the Numbers - by Carolyn Leighton, Founder
• Why Aren't the Numbers at the Top Changing? - by Carolyn Leighton, Founder
• Women's Groups - Victimization and Male Bashing - by Carolyn Leighton, Founder
• The Power of Role Models - by Carolyn Leighton, Founder

• Xeni Jardin, tech culture journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing, contributor to Wired Magazine and more.
• Amber Mac, G4TechTV co-producer, co-host on Call for Help (daily one-hour TV show) and Gadgets & Gizmos, Web Strategy Manager at OsmosisIA and Arktyp
• www.newsonwomen.com
• Annalee Newitz, "surly media nerd"
• WM_IN, Women in Technology series, focusing on women at Microsoft, from Channel 9