Welcome Technically Women into the world of women in tech. Technically Women is a fairly new site, organized by an international group of business women who intend to examine the way technology is changing the world of business.

I want to give you a mini-profile of the business women involved in the site. Ten women create the core of Technically Women. When I looked at their About page, the first thing I noticed was that each woman gave her Twitter info first in her profile. Not a job title, not a URL to her business site: a Twitter link. I find that a fascinating clue to what this powerhouse group of women will do to market themselves and their website.

Let's take a quick look at each of the women who make up Technically Women.

First is Cathy Brooks (@CathyBrooks). Cathy runs a site called Other Than That. She's a journalist who writes in places like Bitch Buzz and The Huffington Post. She's worked with Guidewire Group and helped develop the LeWeb3 Conference.

Laura Fitton (@Pistachio) is a Twitter maven who I've written about before and who may already be familiar to BlogHer readers. Her business site is Pistachio Consulting. She's been writing a book called Twitter for Dummies, which looks like it might be ready just about the time BlogHer09 convenes in Chicago. Laura will be speaking at BlogHer09 on a panel called Advanced Social Media, Syndication and Stats.

Maggie Fox (@MaggieFox) is an expert in big business, with experience in working with corporate-sized clients. Her own business, Social Media Group is a large company. She's the CEO and founder. Her past positions include working for New Sun Creative and in broadcasting.

Rachel Happe (@rhappe) moves in the world of enterprise social networking and enterprise software applications. She co-founded a business called The Community Roundtable and writes at The Social Organization. The Social Organization has a backlog of great posts that prompted me to subscribe to the feed for more of what Rachel has to say.

Jennifer Leggio (@mediaphyter) writes for ZDNet's Social Business Blog and is a co-host of Quick-n-Dirty on Blog Talk Radio. Her blog is Media Phyter. I subscribed to this blog, too. I cannot resist a technology blogger, especially one who will tattoo her blog name on the back of her neck.

Adele McAlear (@AdeleMcAlear) runs McAlear Marketing and a blog called Marketing Monster. Adele was a co-founder of Digital Eve way back in 2000. Digital Eve was a early site bring women together around the topic of technology. It offers support and education and has real-world chapters in locations around the world.

Francine McKenna (@retheauditors) comes from re: The Auditors about the accounting industry. Francine is a blogger at The Huffington Post. She's writing a book about the Big 4 audit firms which is tentatively titled The Button-Down Mafia - How the Big 4 Audit Firms Run A Racket on Investors. Francine is the President of McKenna Partners LLC.

Anne Kathrine Petterøe (@yojibee) comes from a background in web design. Her blog is Yojibee, which she tells us is pronounced yo-j-ee-bee. Anne's interests include her work for SAP and the Adobe SAP Alliance.

Marilyn Pratt (@MarilynPratt) also worked for SAP in the SAP Developer Network. Her background is in theater and acting; she once lived in a kibbutz. She blogs at A time to mourn a time to rejoice.... and Greenshow.me.

This brings us near the end of the alphabet and to the final name as a founder of Technically Women.

Susan Scrupski (@ITSinsider) is founder of SoCo Partners, a firm that helps companies with socio-collaborative engagement or adopting social media strategies for business. Susan blogs at IT Insider, where she coins words like "collaborosphere" to explain what her work and interests are all about.

Technically Women is three months old. To date, there are 9 posts on the site. In spite of this modest beginnning, I have high hopes that the women involved will provide interested readers like myself a steady stream of leadership and information. Here's to you, Technically Women, may you grow and prosper.

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Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer Technology Contributing Editor
Web Teacher
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