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WOW! Peak Online Event - Chat Sessions
Chat Forum Program
27 Oct - 2 Nov 1999
NOTE: All times Eastern Standard Time
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here for daylight savings time zones
Welcome
message: By The
Hon. John Anderson MP, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Transport
and Regional Development
 27
Oct WOW! Theme: Welcome to Women's Online Week!
Chat 1: Welcome to Women's
Online Week!
When: 11pm - 1pm Wednesday
27th October
Topic: Key themes of WOW, events
and opportunities. What can women do online?
Chat facilitator: Judy
Harrison, facilitator of Pamelas-list and Project Director, Australian
Virtual Centre for Women and the Law
Guests Include:
The
Hon. Judith Troeth, Senator for Victoria (to open the chat)
Dale
Spender, Digital Style Pty Ltd, author of Nattering on the Net
Kathy
Bail, Deputy Editor Bulletin, Editor DIY Feminism
Anne
Moffatt, Director Technology Solutions Pty Ltd, founder of Females
in Information Technology now Females Information Technology and Telecommunications
Chat
Transcript
28
Oct WOW! Theme: Women in Business
Chat 2: Women in Business
When: 12.45pm - 2.45pm
Thursday 28 October
Topic: women using the internet
for business: issues and challenges
Presenters:
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Rosie Simpson, Telstra, Communications Manager
Rural and Remote
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Kitty
Vigo, Director of Media and Interactive Multimedia, Swinburne University
of Technology, Melbourne)
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Josie
Arnold (Lecturer in Media, Literature and Film at Swinburne University
of Technology, Melbourne)
Guests (and possible joint presentation):
Associate
Professor Leonie Daws (Director of the Centre for Policy and Leadership
studies, Faculty of education, Queensland University of Technology)
Ms
Lyn Simpson (Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication, Faculty
of Business, Queensland University of Technology)
Ms
Leanne Wood (Senior Research Assistant in the Communication Centre,
Queensland University of Technology)
Chat
Transcript
Chat 3: Working and Shopping
Online
When: 3pm - 5pm Thursday
28 October
Topic: Have you shopped on-line?
Examples, barriers and hesitancies.
Facilitator: Marian Tye
Presenters:
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Kara
Ward (Internet Marketing Manager, Merrill Lynch (Australia) and extensive
Internet shopper)
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Kitty
Vigo (Director of Media and Interactive Multimedia, Swinburne University
of Technology, Melbourne)
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Professor
Joan Cooper (Head, School of Information Technology and Computer Science,
University of Wollongong)
Chat
Transcript
29
Oct WOW! Theme: Women and IT Careers
Chat 4: Women and IT Careers
When: 10am-noon Friday
29th October
Topic: How to get started in an
IT career, problems and issues women face in the IT industry
Presenters:
Guests:
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Anne
Moffatt (Director Technology Solutions Pty Ltd, Member Females in Information
Technology and Telecommunications)
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Kara
Ward (Internet Marketing Manager, Merrill Lynch (Australia) and extensive
Internet shopper)
Chat
Transcript
30
Oct WOW! Theme: Women in Multimedia & the Art
Chat 5: Sydney
Webgrrls Video Chat
Where: go to http://www.webgrrls.com/sydney
When: 12.30pm:- Aliza Sherman (Cybergrrl
from USA) video chat (1/2 hour)
1pm - 3pm Video/audio online chats
Topic: Chat with Aliza Sherman,
the famous founder of Cybergrrl.com and one of USA's pioneer-women on the
internet!
31
Oct WOW! Theme: Young Women Online
Chat 6:
Young women online!
When: 2pm-4pm Sunday 31
October
Topic: What are young women doing
on line, why and how?
Facilitator: Susan
Meyer (Project Co-ordinator of Females in Information Technology and
Telecommunications (FITT) mentoring program to support girls and women
already in IT or wishing to enter IT, Steering Committee FITT, Member of
IT Think Tank, to examine why girls are not taking up careers in computing)
Presenters:
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Juliette
Mead (Information Technology Co-Ordinator at the Primary School where
she teaches, Member of Guides Australia Webteam)
Guests:
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Kathy
Bail (Deputy Editor Bulletin, Editor DIY Feminism) (will drop in during
the chat)
Chat
Transcript
2
Nov WOW! Theme: Women's Organisations and Communities using IT
Chat
7 (changed to threaded message board): Women
inter-networking
When: 10am-noon Tuesday
2 November
Topic: Australian women's email
lists what are they and what difference are they making?
Presenters:
Go
to the Chat
Chat
8 (changed to threaded message board): Women’s Organisations On-line
When: 2pm-4pm Tuesday 2
November
Topic: How to find women's organisations
on-line, how can women's organisations use the internet
Presenters:
Go
to the Chat
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