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Ada's Sisters podcastThe Great HiatusOk, not so great (either emotionally or in terms of size) but the Ada's Sisters are on hiatus while they try to find time to record more episodes!2018-02-2702 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 75: Imposter Syndrome, Marvel women in suits, #MeToo, VC Clubs for women Fascinating article this week in Fast Company identifying women as the canary in the data mine. And we’ll talk about the seven ways to fight imposter syndrome. If you don’t know what that is, we’ll elucidate you. And we’ll tell you about a new VC club for women. Plus, Time’s people of the year are the silence breakers, which, on the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, is very appropriate. Also appropriate? The twitter-verse’s response to Marvel’s superhero pic.2017-12-1334 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 74: Google’s Sentiment Analyzer, Gen-x and Amazon's Future EngineersWe should talk about Google’s SENTIMENT analyzer because it thinks being Gay is bad. That’s ok, so’s being over 40 according to a story in INC.com. What about the mom after our own hearts who fought the biggest social media companies in the world to gain access to her son’s accounts? Mamma bears unite! This story in the Harvard Business Review about sensors and gender is on our radar as is the Amazon Future Engineer project.2017-11-0823 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 73: Salary woes and updates, Best Canadian cities to live in and Sidewalk TorontoFast Co. says women are making less than men in the creative industries by a whopping 32 per cent! And in The Star’s look at the best Canadian cities to live in if you’re a woman, Toronto came in… TENTH. This is despite the innovative brains - like the people who came up with Sidewalk Toronto. And all the awesome tech at the Deloitte Greenhouse this week. And if you’ve ever wondered if you’re being paid what you’re worth in this wacky technology industry, Stack Overflow can help.2017-10-2220 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 72: Google Pixel 2, role models, Time MagazineWe think Laurie Schultz wrote an important piece for the Huffington Post on being a role model to your daughters. She’s the CEP of ACL and chair of the board for the BC Tech Association. And TIME put out a whole magazine dedicated to women who are changing the world. They highlighted 46, but we know there are so many more. We do, just like we knew that the turn in U.S. politics is bringing more great talent up to Canada. But what about the latest Google announcements on their Pixel 2 and Google Clips? Welcome or Wary about that?2017-10-1123 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 71: Amazon HQ2, Catalyst, Google Drive, Verrit and BeccaToldMeSome big changes coming in Google Drive and the newest Apple OS update and Amazon is looking for a new HQ, could a Canadian city provide that spot? Maybe if they haven't heard about the terrible hiring choices Catalyst Canada is making. At least #BeccaToldMe gives us something to be proud of. What about MOMs TO “A very mommy wine festival?” Something to be proud of? We’ll talk about it. And we have to talk about Verrit because it’s so weird. And more than 100 thousand Canadians were effected by the Equifax breach, so of co...2017-09-2742 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 70: Facebook and the election, fake partners, Flipd app and Google MapsFacebook just released some information about inauthentic accounts and their influence on the 2016 US election that we should talk about because things couldn’t possibly get weirder on THAT front. Speaking of weird things - there’s an app to get students to stop fiddling with… their apps. Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer faced a lot of sexism and condescension when they launched their e-commerce marketplace for weird art until they introduced an imaginary cofounder named Keith. We're loving this awesome twitter thread satirizing how SOME men talk about women that reverses the sexism with humour. And Google Maps has some ad...2017-09-1327 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 69: Amazon Tenmarks, lonely nerds, eclipses, and when women stopped codingThis is our last podcast before school starts, and we want to talk about Amazon’s new TenMarks writing coach. And we like the idea of shutting down hate accounts all over the place that’s spreading like wildfire in the wake of Charlottesville. We also loved the NY Times article about the dangers of that whole lonely genius nerd stereotype. We don’t LOVE the graph NPR released tracking when women stopped coding but we love the attention to the problem. Now let’s fix it! And we want to tell you how TECH helped the visually impaired...2017-08-3043 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 68: Anon-IB, Google madness, twitter smackdown, and #MakeMineMilkshakeWe could spend the entire episode talking about that Google document because it's repercussions just keep spilling out. But we also have to talk about the Marvel editor who was getting trolled for basically being a female writer for Marvel. Fortunately, she got lots of support for her online, even from competitors like DC Comics. And Dr. Karin Lachmi has a radical proposal to fix inequity between men and women in STEM fields, while getting a seat at the table continues to be a fight. We'll talk about that too. If you didn't follow the twitter fashion...2017-08-1635 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 67: Vimeo promotes Anjali Sud, a whole new Doctor, Airbnb karma and the RoombaYou might remember an AirBnB story we talked about a few months ago where a host cancelled a reservation when he found out his guests were Asian. Happy to tell you about the happy ending to that story - because karma is ALSO Asian. We also want to tell you about X factor Ventures, a new VC fund that will invest $3 million US in female-led startups. Vimeo just promoted Anjali Sud as their new CEO and we're thrilled, as well as Google's promotion We are excited for the newest Doctor Who and not that concerned about...2017-08-0231 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 66: Retention of women in tech, supporting mom students, bizarre app to pray for women seeking abortionLast week’s #DayofAction kind of went by without much fanfare, but we’ll talk about net neutrality because it’s an important subject. As is this story in the NY Times about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley and this CBC story about diversity in Canadian tech companies - or lack thereof. We're 100% behind this Wired story advising tech companies not to recruit women if they’re going to do nothing to RETAIN them. And we're curiously optimistic about DeepText - this Instagram AI system that will supposedly delete nasty comments without involving a human editor. And then in t...2017-07-1939 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 65: Tanmay Bakshi, Google pay fail, Wonder Woman and the Nancy PodcastWe’re back to regular programming this week, and wow, some stuff happened while we were on our Bob Mob cruise! Like Google announcing that it would be too expensive to actually equalize salaries across genders, and that panel at the Hall of Femme event that was ALL men and mansplained the heck out of the topic. We'll tell you about a good news/ bad news story with a Calgary twitter account that secretly filmed women but was shut down thanks to some good social media samaritans. Wonder Woman continues to blow the box office out of the water, but the...2017-06-2126 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 64: The Bob Mob cruise in KingstonA special episode of the Ada's Sisters Podcast recorded while Eden, Angela and special guest Connie Crosby drove back to Toronto from Kingston where they had attended the Bob Mob cruise celebrating the life of Bob Goyetche.2017-06-0726 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 63: AI, google, Instagram, the value of online communitiesWho knew that Instagram was such a competitive social network? Insta-star Sara Melotti in the Daily Mail it turns out. And the Globe and Mail has an interesting story about the online community and if it's even worth saving. The 11 richest self-made women in tech are worth a combined $10.3 billion and PRNewsWire has a list of the best tech companies in Silicon Valley for women to work at. And finally, two AI stories for this week - one from Google and one from Wired.2017-05-2431 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 62: A Hackathon solution, Wired’s tech visionaries, NewCO Shift, and 1000 namesThe Dallas Morning News had a pile of tech issues they weren’t getting to, so they had a creative solution - they held a hackathon And WIRED released their list of 20 Tech Visionaries You Should Have Heard of by Now. We’ll tell you all about them. We like when media puts a focus on female founders, so we’d like to direct your attention to a new series at NewCO Shift. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 opened last week, but you can open up a Doritos bag to get a taste - of the music? We'll also t...2017-05-1035 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 61: What a surgeon looks like, GAP win, Ladies storm hackathon and a good subredditWe’re all consumers, and one of the benefits of social media is that we get direct access to give feedback to businesses. Just this week I tweeted about battery issues to Apple, and got a solution through tweets. And the CEO of GAP just took a 5-year-old's complaint to “I can do that” in two weeks. Maybe United should take a page from GAP. And this is the second time we’ve talked about a brand using cancer as a metaphor for something stupid in their social media - this time Cosmo thinks cancer is a great solution f...2017-04-2628 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 60: A mechanical reproductive system, #hackathon, AI research moving to Canada and Kaya Thomas's new appWe have to tell you about this working model of a female reproductive system, her name is Evatar. And it had its first period. We'll get the chocolate and heating blanket, and maybe we’ll get it to download this new app by Kaya Thomas that helps you find books written or about people of color? Lots happening in Toronto, with Google moving their AI research up here, and the BlockChain hackathon is coming up on us, at the end of the month. But hey BlockChain, would it have killed you to include a couple women or people of colou...2017-04-1233 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 59: Ashley Jane Lewis, Knitting for math, We-Vibe, Instagram, Mayim BialikI say this way too much as I get older, but my mother was right… again… Turns out knitting and crocheting can help you be better at math. We’re pretty impressed by Ashley Jane Lewis. And we’ll tell you why. We-Vibe was sharing personal information about their customers and they're about to pay a pretty hefty price for that. People should be in control of their information, take a look at how Amanda Seyfried and Emma Watson are handling it. And Mayim Bialik's latest video is about using the word ‘girl’ to describe grown-ass women. Words matter, and so do action...2017-03-2945 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 58: Peanut App, NASA Lego women, Google fortune-telling and comparing Feminism to CancerWe have to tell you about PEANUT - a new app that connects lonely mothers. And we're so impressed with Lego's career women figurines for women of NASA. We're less impressed by the Wildrose on Campus email comparing feminism to cancer. This year's clever Google Fortune Telling app is something we want to point out, and also this fourth-grade feminist group. With International Women's Day last week we read a lot of stories about women in tech finding their place at the table. Just a reminder that EVERY day with Ada's Sisters is International Women's Day.2017-03-1540 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 57: HonkMobile, Snap Sunglasses, trolls beware and trying to stay anonymousDo you have a parking spot you don’t use? Well, it could be a new source of revenue if you use the new HONKmobile app. It’s like an Air BnB for a parking spot — you can rent yours out, or find one to rent. And SnapChat has released new spectacles (sunglasses really) that you TAP once to make a memory. Snap! Snap! Then we’ll tell you about an augmented reality app that tells you indigenous stories as you walk around Canadian cities. And we want to make sure you hear the story of a Canadia...2017-03-0135 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 56: Baycott, DressLikeAWoman, Heartmob and MalalaAll kinds of politically motivated boycotts going on this week are being driven over social media. From the #BAYcott over Ivanka Trump’s fashion line to Starbucks because the CEO said he was going to hire refugees. Political messages are all the rage in digital, just take a look at the open letter from the Canadian Tech Community about diversity being our strength. Malala is (not surprisingly) against the refugee ban, and we talk about a new social network called Heartmob that seeks to end online harassment. And maybe our favourite positive response to Trump this week: women responding online (with...2017-02-1527 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 55: Icaros, CRA and big data, the Hater app and Gen ZIf you've ever wanted to fly you’re going to love the ICAROS flying fitness machine. You're not going to love hearing that the Canadian Revenue Agency is using big data to find cheaters. Actually, we're not surprised. But you know what did surprise us? This article about how Gen Z uses their mobiles and this new HATER app. Crazy what we’ll do to find Mr. Right. Speaking of crazy, we need to talk about the hate tweets against Premiere Wynn. But don’t worry, we’ve got a fun, tool tip this week from Google Maps. 2017-02-0129 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 54: Disparity amongst CEOs, live suicides, malware for Macs, and epic editorial failsPerhaps it was eventual for a generation who live their entire lives online but a young girl committed suicide on live on Live.me, and now, it seems impossible to remove from the internet. Macs, and gmail are being targeted by malware and hackers this week, and The Washington Post and Toronto Star need some editorial aide. Advances in breast pump technology are important, but at what price? And speaking of price, why is it that only two women made the list of 100 top paid CEOs in Canada?2017-01-1838 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 53: Reductress, troll in the bed, alt-Jedi and Emmy RossumWhat would you do if you discovered your spouse was a troll? Well, there's a woman on Reddit is going through it live. Speaking of going through things. You should read Reductress efforts to make fun of people who make fun of rape. Sometimes sarcasm is all you’ve got. That toolbox is full of possibilities: Slate used another tool to combat Fake News, and Emmy Rossum employed basic human rights in negotiating her salary. And we need something good to talk about, how about Vicki Saunders, CEO of SheEo and the awesomeness that is Rogue O...2016-12-2829 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 52: Ellevate, Canada Post vending machines, HoHoTo, and the internet archiveHave you finished your holiday shopping yet? If you’re ordering clothes online, you may want to check out what Canada Post is doing in Vancouver. And as part of another smart move in Canada, the entire internet will be archived here to protect it from the U.S. President Elect. Interesting times, including the fact that Stephani Renae Lawson is going to jail for creating a fake Facebook account to frame her ex. She gives all the women legitimately being harassed online a bad name. The internet archive needs to be protected as well, fr...2016-12-1434 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 51: Apple hour of code, The Skimm, countering sexual assault with design and MentorWalksA county council in England has come up with a clever and discreet way of combatting sexual violence and abuse and we'll tell you about THESKIMM, who registered almost a hundred thousand women to vote in the latest U.S. election. Mila Kunis’ wrote an article in A Plus about more sexism in Hollywood and Toronto's Marie Henein’s wrote an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail in support of Hillary Clinton. MentorWalk has launched in Australia (and we wish it would come here) and don't forget to register for Apple’s free ‘Hour of Code’ December 52016-11-3035 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 50: In honour of our friend Bob GoyetcheThis morning (Friday, November 11) we learned about the sudden passing of our friend and a true podcaster, Bob Goyetche. This episode of Ada's Sisters is dedicated to a good man and his wonderful family, especially his wife Cathy and son Simon. Bob was a community builder and one of the co-founders of the Canadian podcasting community. He and Mark Blevis launched the Podcasters Across Borders (PAB) and co-hosted the Canadian Podcast Buffet podcast showcasing Canadian podcasters and introducing new podcasts to listeners. He volunteered countless hours sharing his knowledge with other podcasters helping them learn the technology. Some of...2016-11-1622 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 49: Gender pay disparity, Jessica Jones, Cupertino and Crowdfunding menstruationWe have two worrying gender equality stories to talk about this week: the World Economic Forum says the disparity between women and men and how much they get paid WILL be solved…. in about 170 years. And you know who can really move that process along? The all male standing committee on finance. Yup. This might be why it’s going to take two lifetimes to make a change. At least there’s good news coming from Hollywood: Season 2 of Jessica Jones is supposedly going to be directed by a roster of amazing female directors. And we have to tell...2016-11-0227 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 48: What a doctor looks like, Face-stealing on Facebook and GlobotsWe’re pleased to announce that despite all the smear campaign nonsense going on right now, we haven’t included any in this episode. Which doesn’t mean we won’t be discussing other nonsense, including a warning about Facebook author pages from author, Lauren Layne In other bad news stories, Motherboard recently reported that tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Tim Cook, aren’t following women on Twitter. But thankfully entrepreneur Mark Cuban says he has a plan to make Silicon Valley more woman-friendly A group of tech leaders in Canada including the chief exec of Shopify...2016-10-1931 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 47: Climbing and sexism, bad advice for women in tech and Bob LeDrewFox newscaster Brit Hume had the Internet in an uproar after the first presidential debate, and we want to make sure you see Outdoor Research’s response to GQ’s sexist climbing story. John Greathouse’s article about women in tech in the Wall Street Journal has us wondering if we’re all timewarped back to the 1950's. This week’s tool tip comes from Kim Vallée — it’s an app for kids called Swift Playgrounds and our hashtag this week is #podcastday for International Podcast Day. And on a lighter note, we’ll end with a renditi...2016-10-0533 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 46: Pinksourcing, redesigning Girl's Life, the Scale Collective and Sit with usKristen Bell’s Pinksourcing video is going viral for all the right reasons and there's an Austrian teen suing her parents for posting her childhood pics on Facebook. Graphic designer Katherine Young’s cover take on Girls’ Life magazine is perfect and we all need to do our best to influence real change in that medium, kind of like 16 year old Natalie Hampton, who has created the “Sit With Us” app to counter bullying in the school cafeterias. Jory Des Jardins (founder of BlogHer) has launched The Scale Collective - a new conference aimed at women tech foun...2016-09-2142 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 45: Returnship, #itsoktoTalk, Cindy Gallop and Sci Fi harassmentAnother awesome return-ship program, this time including some big name companies like IBM. Our hashtag this week is about supporting mental health because #ItsOkToTalk. Jim Hines over on Gizmodo wrote an article about sexual harassment in Sci Fi that we think is worth your attention. Our friend Kim Vallee tagged us on a Forbes article featuring a top 11 list of things women can do to get ahead - as preached by Cindy Gallop of MakeLovenotPorn fame.2016-09-0737 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 44: Olympic sized sexism, Code Club Senegal, Lindsay Lohan and Sara BenincasaBLAB and Google Hangouts are going the way of MySpace, but Facebook Live is stepping into the vaccum with a new feature. The Olympics have wrapped up, and like everyone else, we think the ladies were the main story in Rio. From Penny Oleksiak to Fu Yuanhui to Simone BILES, there is so much to talk about in changing the culture of reporting on women in sports. Sara Benincasa is maybe not a household name, but the comedian had a medium post response to fat-shaming that we think deserves some attention. As does the Lindsey Lohan vide...2016-08-2431 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 43: Captain Marvel, TTC Harassment app, Parkdale WiFi and Instagram StoriesToronto's Parkdale neighbourhood now has free wi-fi blasting out there for anyone to use as part of a pilot project we really hope sparks a city-wide initiative. And who knew the ice-bucket challenge could actually amount to anything? Turns out, Eden did - the $100 million dollars raised by celebrities challenging each other led to some exciting breakthroughs in ALS research. We're loving the support Brie Larson is getting about her new role as Captain Marvel, especially after the opposite treatment of Leslie Jones and the rest of the Ghostbusters. But it's not all sunshine and lollipops...2016-08-1031 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 42: Canva app, #LoveforLeslie, Shannen Doherty and Mr. Theresa MayWe thought the UK's Metro story about Theresa May's husband was so on point it sang and are thrilled that Angela Lindow has won the first James Golick grant for women in Computology. We're 100% behind Twitter's lifetime ban on Milo Yiannopoulos for leading that hate campaign against Ghostbuster Leslie Jones. Two hashtags this week on that topic: #loveforlesliej and #TheFutureISFemale. Eden tells us why she's gone all-in on the Canva iPhone App and we'll talk about the brave images Shannen Doherty posted on Instagram tracking her battle against breast cancer. 2016-07-2727 minAda's Sisters podcastEpisode 41: Zencaster, Ledbetter, Ulysses app and SpectorWe love all these accounts and apps set up to track diversity - for example, the LedBetter, a web based database that shows you the representation of women in positions of power. Then we tell you about this new Spector tool - a Shazam for fonts. And we're eager to try out Zencaster a new way to record Skype or Google Hangout and not at all eager to try out the BabyPod an intravaginal bluetooth speaker. And Wayne MacPhail is back with another tooltip for an iPad app called Ulysses.2016-07-1330 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 40: Clinton and Tech, Apple Coding Camp, Uber ConferenceWe love how the women of Google responded to sexist comments from shareholders - with LADY DAY - a day when we get to put the word "Lady" in front of all our titles. And on the topic of women responding to sexism, we get fully frontal with Samantha of Manchester’s response to an unwelcome dick pic left as a result of her Facebook restaurant review. Hillary Clinton unveiled her technology platform for the U.S. presidential race. “Connectivity, education, and entrepreneurship” sound like ideas we can get behind, and on the topic of education and th...2016-06-2925 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 39: The Stanford heroes, the Aussie heroes and #TryBeatingMeLightlyIt's been a bit of a depressing week for the ladies despite Hilary Clinton's landmark gains in the U.S. We don't understand why anyone is talking about how the next President of the United States looks, and we suggest that everyone stops and focuses on what really matters (economy, education, equality... pick one!) We simply can't avoid talking about the ridiculously light sentence given to the Stanford rapist, but we're going to give way more airtime to the two men who stopped the assault: Carl-Fredrik Arndt and Peter Jonsson. Heroes. Speaking of heroes, we're p...2016-06-1529 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 38: Chewbacca Mom, Blab, creepy bartenders, girlswhocodeSomething is going on over at BLAB, and we're not sure it is the smartest move. But a move we totally approve of is Girls Who Code's series of videos making fun of the totally erroneous idea that women aren't able to work with technology. Really, what can you say after that piece of awesomeness? Well, we have some thoughts on My.Flow - a bluetooth connected tampon that helps avoid leakage. No, seriously. Many thoughts. And Chewbacca Mom has had more than her 15 minutes in the sun, but we'd like to give her a shout-ou...2016-06-0135 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 37: Sophie Trudeau, female emojis, the Glance clockA weekly podcast about technology and digital culture hosted by Angela Misri and Eden Spodek.2016-05-1828 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 36: Etsy, female sportscasters, #morethanmean, playing the woman cardIf you haven't seen the video where men read horrible tweetssentto female sportscasters, we're going to tell you all about it.Andthen we'll pull out our woman cards. Never heard of them?Neitherhave we. But Trump tells us it's a sneaky thing we've hadaccess tofor generations and have used to become the strongestforce in theworld. If you believe that load of cow paddies, thenyou should readsome of Ross Putman's tweets. He's a Hollywoodproducer who postslines from some of the more ridiculouslygendered scripts he getshanded.Thankfully, there is some good news from the internets,namelyEtsy's efforts to balance out...2016-05-0426 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 35: Lemonade, nipples, longest invoice and playing in the backyardThis has been one of those weeks where you can learn a lot about
how and why things go Viral.
Like how that 11s video of Kim Kardashian disappointing Prince
on-stage is on everyone's Facebook wall. Or how a 1-hour video
message about infidelity can dominate the twitter-sphere.
Or how a Winnipeg mom's choice to let her kids play in her
backyard can get social services called in (and the set the
internet on fire).
Here's hoping The Freelancers Union's LONGEST
invoice project goes viral - to bring attention to a huge
problem facing fr...2016-04-2729 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 34: Bots, female avatars, the web we want and red red lipstickYou know what happens when gamers are arbitrarily assigned female characters? Well, they certainly didn't thank the makers of RUST who did just that.
An endeavour that is getting a lot of support is The Guardian's subsite dedicated to confronting cyber-bullying called ‘THE WEB WE WANT.’And if you want an example of why such a site is neccessary, we'll tell you about a PEI reporter who got taken to task on social media for wearing red lipstick. No, seriously.
And we've got two new tooltips specific to podcasts this week - Google Play, which h...2016-04-2023 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 33: Kerry Washington, Chariot for Women, Reddit hate and the GapFirst, we talk about The GAP ad that’s got people all aflutter on social media and then we look at the dismal stats around speaker diversity at Tech-related events in Toronto.On the Uber-side, we are getting excited for this new app called Chariot for Women (though we're not loving the name).We peek into the SCANDAL (ha ha!) around Kerry Washington’s unrecognizable ADWEEK cover and how can we not talk about the REDDIT thread that called women "The Hitlers of Sex.” No, seriously.2016-04-1332 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 32: Uberpitch, gender-friendly emojis, Blendoor, #unfairandlovelyWe ruminate on whether there really is a problem with technology designed primarily by men for men, and the American Medical Association study that says yes. Then we turn to gender-based emojis and a body positive underwear campaign for men.Speaking of color, our tooltip of the week is a new app that hides an applicant’s details to eliminate unconscious bias in hiring.And we have some thoughts about the #UnFairandLovely hashtag that’s trending on Instagram and the new UberPitch app.2016-04-0627 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 31: Hilary Clinton and feminism, SXSW follow-up, two Toronto teens of distinction and Marvel scientistsWe’re not obsessed with Barbies, but there’s a matching DAD BOD Ken doll now! We promise to spend less time talking about silicon equality and more talking about real human equality - namely about the personal attacks on Hilary Clinton and how that is effecting women at large.
SXSW finally followed through on their panel discussions about Gamergate and online harassment but the results were a little disheartening.
Two Toronto teens won Women of Distinction Awards for their efforts in battling sexual harrasment and Marvel has launched a program for girl scientists we want to tell you all abou2016-03-2335 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 30: Sexist dress codes, naked selfies, Land's End Legend program, circular phones and WikipediaWinnipeg's Amy Tuckett-McGimpsey and Allison Ferry attack sexist dress codes because at some Canadian restaurants, you are still required to dress like you're going to the club if you're a waitress. We talk about a teacher who was forced to resign because of her naked selfie and the quick end to Land's End's Legends program.Did you know that women had trouble with rectangles? Neither did we, but a new phone start-up is designing circular phones for confused females we have never met.Speaking of circular problems, RBS is experimenting with an AI customer service pilot project that really...2016-03-1641 minAda's Sisters podcastEpisode 29: Blab panel discussion on Gender, Public Speaking and Pay EquityThis is a special episode we recorded on Tuesday, March 8th with guest Gini Dietrich @ginidietrich and surprise guest Bob LeDrew @bobledrew (we had planned to have Elan Morgan @schmutzie join us too but the technology failed her).2016-03-0941 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 28: Kesha, rent-a-minority, PartPic, and Access NowChris Rock's monologue for the 80th Academy Awards was all about the #WhiteOscars hashtag, and we loved it. And one solution Hollywood might want to look into is the Rent-a-Minority website, made for employers who "are racist, but don't want to look racist."
Ok, it's a satirical website, but we think it makes an interesting statement.
Speaking of interesting statements, Toronto's own Maayan Ziv has created an app that crowdsources accessible spots in different cities -- it's called ACCESS NOW.
And another app that has our attention is the PartPic which is like Sha...2016-03-0222 minAda's Sisters podcastEpisode 27: the Crunchies, U Waterloo, women code better and Hijabie BarbiePodcamp Toronto was a blast as always, and our panel on Women in Podcasting generated some awesome discussion — we grabbed a few members of the audience for some quick audio clips.
The University of Waterloo is offering some free computer science courses that we think people should be paying attention to.
The Crunchies welcomed some diverse members of the Slack team to accept the fastest-rising start-up award, and a recent report seems to indicate that in blind taste tests, the code written by women outshines similar code written by men.
And Hijarbie Barbie is sho...2016-02-2428 minAda's Sisters podcastEpisode 26: Work-Life Balance for Women in TechThis is a special episode we recorded on Monday, Feb 15th with guests Whitney Hoffman and Alexandra Samuel. 2016-02-1748 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 25: Podcamp TO, Rey’s hackathon, hiring women in tech industries, social networks for kidsWe will be at Podcamp Toronto, so register (it’s free) and upvote our panel please!
Steamlabs is running a hackathon we can (and will) get behind — to create your own Rey doll ala Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What a great way to take a negative (Hasbro excluding Rey from their action figure set for the movie) and whip up a positive!
We’re interested in Twitter’s crackdown on accounts that support or talk about terrorism, and the 125k accounts they have suspended since last year.
Do you know how to attract and...2016-02-1030 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 24: Freshbooks' blind dates, dating profile managers, #Sting and the #NBA and HeartmobToronto’s own Freshbooks has an innovative new way to build teams — they’re setting up blind dates between their employees.And speaking of dating, we have thoughts about Katerina Lyadova’s approach — to hire someone as her dating profile manager — for $12 an hour. Who knew that the price of love was so low?Your Instagram might finally have an update worth sticking around for called Mashfeed.Sting is scheduled to play at the NBA All-Star’s halftime show and the folks on twitter do NOT approve.
And if you haven’t heard of Heartmob, it’s t...2016-02-0324 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 23: Scholarships for girls who code, Rey’s action figure, Vimeo Shares the ScreenStrap yourself in because this is an episode full of ups and downs. The Girls Who Code scholarship is all up, with a plan to give away US $1 million to high school students who want to learn to code this summer. The non-profit’s inspiring plan is to offer the workshop to more than 1,600 XX’s and add to the 10,000 ladies who have already been trained through the program.
In the list of downers this week, Gillian Anderson was offered half the salary of her fictitious FBI partner to star in the 6-part X-Files series. Now THAT’s some...2016-01-2722 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 22: Tracie Wagman, Peach, #whiteoscars, battleship with the periodic tableHere come the #WhiteOscars again, bereft of a person of color, except for the guy who is hosting (poor Chris Rock). But is it a problem with the awards show or a larger problem with the industry? According to PBS (and the two of us) it’s the latter.
If you’re on Peach, we’d love to hear from you… Hell, we’d love to hear what you think of it, cause we’re still figuring it out.
Have you seen the Battleship game all fancied up with the periodic table? OH you NEED TO.
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Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 21: CES 2016, Code-a-pillar, Just not sorry extension & Carrie FisherThe Golden Globes made a statement this year, supporting Amy Poehler's #SmartGirlsAsk campaign, encouraging people to ask the kinds of questions of actresses that are worthy of them. We think that's fabulous. We also think Carrie Fisher is three kinds of fab for her response to the body-shamers who attacked her on social media after her stellar appearance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The Code-a-pillar from Fisher Price is one of the cool items that popped up around CES 2016, and we also love the Prism - we'll tell you why.
And we're NOT SORRY...2016-01-1335 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 20: #SteveHarvey, Nima, gender bias in animation, and the death of the infographicOh Steve Harvey, it could have happened to anyone, but not everyone would be able to recover from naming the wrong Miss Universe, with a photo and a tweet.
Was 2015 the year of Open Source? According to Wired Magazine it was. And on the other side of the spectrum, you’ve got FastCo predicting the End of the Infographic.
Think you’re gluten-intolerant? Yeah, you and everyone else. Now, if you’re really gluten-intolerant, you might be interested in the Nima food detector.
And our tooltip for this week comes from the AppSumo newsle...2016-01-0230 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 19: A Ladies' Panel of predictions for 2016Our latest BLAB was full of our predictions for changes in the digital industry for 2016. We were joined by Tara Hunt and Tamera Kremer, two stellar ladies in their fields PLUS everyone on BLAB who joined us live - listen in!2015-12-2358 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 18: A STEM badge, Vogue, WiFi anti-terrorism, #hackahairdryerIBM has once again proved how disconnected it is from the general population by offending more than half of it with their #hackyourhairdryer campaign aimed at women in STEM professions.
Fortunately, both France and the Donald threw out the idea of banning public wi fi (because terrorists are easily dissuaded from their targets by using a data plan to communicate) so maybe IBM won't be able to stick their entire foot in their mouth digitally.
But just in time to restore our faith in the world, a Girl Scout group in Orange County, Florida just...2015-12-1636 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 17: Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, Uber growth, a truly ugly poll, Hype and what the heck does Yahoo do now anyway?
Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department
Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student
It has been 26 years since the Mont...2015-12-0932 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 16: #blackfriday, the returnship program, Holly Brockwell, Adele and iPad ProBlack Friday was surprisingly (and happily) less black than usual and that might have been in part due to #CivilizedSaturday — we talk about the bookstore initiative.
We also have great things to say about Sapient Nitro’s new pilot program for people ‘returning’ to work after an absence.
Is anyone NOT singing Adele’s new single Hello? More importantly, has anyone NOT remixed the catchy depressing tune? We think not. Check out this one for the X-Files revival.
Holly Brockwell has been trolled all over the internet for daring to declare that she doesn’t want t...2015-12-0230 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 15: Alanis, dick pics, Facebook Fundraisers and #BrusselsLockdown
She may be known only for one Jagged Little Pill of an album but Alanis is back social media style. Then we’ll tell you why dicks shouldn’t mess around with Debra Messing. The #BrusselsLockdown and the adorable cats that went viral on Twitter as an attempt to bury tweets about police anti-terror operations was an awesome hashtag this week. And we talk about Facebook’s new dedicated “fundraiser” pages for nonprofits. Finally, Eden speaks to Angie Kramer of JobBliss about her experience as a women founder.
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Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 14: Starbucks red cups, dumping Instagram, diverse stock photos, and #ZolaWe recorded the podcast on Diwali which should mean that we could go to a local Starbucks and get our beautiful cups celebrating the Hindu Festival of Lights right? NO? Well that holiday is ruined I guess. #SorryNotSorry.
Instagram star Essena O'Neill has flipped the photo-sharing social medium on its head but we talk about whether this was a clever hoax or a real change of heart on her part.
The #Zola story is the latest example of what we think is a new genre of story-telling and we talk about why.
And i...2015-11-1827 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 13: Panel discussion on working for exposure vs working for cashThis was a special episode we recorded using BLAB featuring a panel discussion with Connie Crosby (@conniecrosby) and Kim Vallee (@kimvalee)2015-11-1136 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 12: SXSW and gamergate, Hello Barbie, silver spun yarn and Hello TorontoJust when you think things really can’t get worse in the whole Gamergate story (see episode 1 for a longer chat with Natalie Zina Walschotts about this) SXSW enters the fray and essentially lays down arms without a shot fired.
Their two scheduled panels — “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games,” and one that featured Brianna Wu — were down-voted by the types of people who believe gaming is under siege by an “army of sociopathic feminist programmers and campaigners” who are “lying, bullying and manipulating their way around the Internet for profit and attention.” That’s real by the way — written by Gamerga...2015-11-0422 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 11: Justin Trudeau, BLAB, ADvice from PepsiCo and double-standardsThis week seems to be all about double-standards and bad form - from Prime Minister designate Justin Trudeau to Jennifer Lawrence and Hollywood.
While it is rare to see a male politician held to the same aesthetic (and ridiculous standards) as his female counterparts (which come to think of it, are rare birds themselves) Justin Trudeau, the newly elected Prime Minister of Canada has suffered a week of catcalls via the internet.
The always vocal Jennifer Lawrence outed Hollywood as just-as-bad an employer of women as the rest of the world and Bradley Cooper declared t...2015-10-2822 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 10: Panel discussion on Mompreneur vs EntrepreneurRecorded using Blab, this episode is our panel discussion with Renée Warren and Julie Cole talking about Mompreneur vs Entrepreneur.2015-10-2138 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 9: Peerby app, #RehtaehParsons, how not to interview women in tech#RehtaehParsons is trending again in Canada and we'll tell you why and look at the [almost] laughable disparity between the crime of changing a few words on a website and the crime of raping a seventeen-year-old girl and posting your assault online.
We have some tips on how NOT to interview a woman in tech and then finally take a look at the Peerby app - designed to help you share things with your neighbours.2015-10-1424 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 8: #Peeple app, Jouzge, Grandma Sandy and BellabeatWhen two women from Calgary come up with a new app that everyone is talking about we at Ada's Sisters feel compelled to talk about it - it's right in our wheelhouse after all. Problem is that the app in question is Peeple, and we don't think we can get behind that concept at all. Speaking of the negative ramifications of being able to rate your ex like a restaurant, we throw some light on Grandma Sandy, an amazing lady in the UK who is a one-woman anti-bullying squad.A project we can get behind is Dana Wendt's...2015-10-0734 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 7: #OldStockCanadian, Dooce, Partnership parenting and 100DaysofUIAs predicted by Eden Spodek, this is going to be the year for #CanPoli to be overshadowed by some interesting hashtags. First we had #peegate, and now we have #OldStockCanadian (from Prime Minister Harper) and #GlibandMale from Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
Dooce had the holy grail of mommy-blogging - more sponsors than she could accommodate - so why is she signing off? We'll get into it.
Our tooltip for this week is all about the 100 Days of UI project that Paul Nechita started and we talk about two articles in The Atlantic - one by...2015-09-3028 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 6: Companion app, #IStandwithAhmed, Sociality Barbie and Grok NationIt's awesome when you have a bad news story that is rescued by social media. 14-year old Ahmed Mohamed started his Wednesday in just the worst situation - his self-made clock had been identified as a potential bomb threat and he stood in handcuffs in the principals office. Forunatly for him, the rest of his day, and dare we say, the rest of his life, will be all uphill from there. We have kids, we saw the reaction on social media and we'll tell you all about it.
Then we talk to Lexie Ernst, one of the...2015-09-2324 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 5: #peegate, Alayne Hynes and sexism in marketingThe U.S. presidential election is more than 12 months away and already we get daily soundbites of insanity from a full roster of potential candidates.
Perhaps this is why when #CanPoli finally got overtaken by #Peegate for a day I was so very excited. We deserve a tinkle of funny in our federal election (about which there is very little to laugh about). Let us tell you all about it.
And just when you thought that you had figured out what to post on each social medium, we have some individuals who are getting Tinder...2015-09-1625 min
Podcaster NewsWomen in Podcasting: Interview with Angela Misri – PCN Show 021In this episode of the Podcaster News Show, I bring you more news about women in podcasting.
This episode features Angela Misri, who is one of the hosts of the Ada’s Sisters podcast. (She hosts the show with Eden Spodek.) The show is a weekly podcast about technology and digital culture.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Ada’s Sisters
Angela’s Twitter is: @karmicangel
My Twitter is: @queenofhaiku
The post Women in Podcasting: Interview with Angela Misri – PCN Show 021 appeared first on Podcaster News.
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Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 4: #FHRITP, Topless in NYC, and Instagram goes landscapeMore than a year after John Cain created the #FHRITP hashtag and movement (if you can call it that) we talk about the ramifications for women in the media and most recently for the CBC's Megan Batchelor. Eden fills us in on her trip to NYC and the topless protest in Times Square and we talk about the barely-news-Instagram landscape. Wayne MacPhail drops in with our Bookmark this week, on an application called Cardflow.2015-09-0921 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 3: #iLookLikeAnEngineer, Donna Papacosta and auto-playWe start off with reading some mail from the Communitech folks about their Bootcamp that we talked about in Episode 1.Then we dive right into revenge porn and all that entails. Isis Anchalee's rallying hashtag #ILookLikeanEngineer gets our thumbs up approval as does a feature interview with veteran podcaster and author Donna Papacosta. We wrap the episode with some advice about turning off the auto-play feature in Facebook in light of the Virginia newsroom shooting.2015-09-0227 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 2: #brelfies, slack.com, wearable tech & selfie cultureThis week we respond to some comments made in regards to the first episode around Gamergate, then get into the Women's Entrepeneur Bootcamp and its value for those lucky start-ups who participate. We dig into #selfie culture and contrast that with the trend of #brelfies as a protest and finally look at some neat wearable tech tailored towards young female coders.2015-08-2631 min
Ada's Sisters podcastEpisode 1: #curvee, Gamergate, vocal fry and who is Ada Lovelace?The first episode of the Ada's Sisters podcast introduces co-hosts Angela Misri and Eden Spodek as they discuss the digital culture they are surrounded by and the technology they both love. Starting with the short-lived Instagram ban on #curvee and then delving into vocal fry, they have lots to say about both along with Natalie Zina Walschot's update on Gamergate one year later.
The background music is 'Funky Element' from BenSound.com and is used with attribution.2015-08-1924 min