charjtf’s posterous

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, "an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology". People all over the world are blogging about women in technology...specifically, their "unsung heroines". (Here's why.)

Anyone who signed up for Ada Lovelace Day is supposed to talk about someone who inspired them, so let me introduce Paula Berger, currently Director of the NFC Forum and former president of STC.

When I first met Paula almost 20 years ago, she was running SOLUTIONS with Lynn Harris. What started out as a short-term tech writing contract led to a long-term professional and personal relationship that has helped me in more ways than I can count. (Paula jokes that she and I started an IM conversation years ago and we've never stopped.)

It's because of Paula that I started speaking at conferences. It's because of Paula that I'm a better writer (she's an awesome editor). And it's because of Paula that I recognized my potential as a tech writer and a technical communicator. She has great insights and, more importantly, she gets me to think.

Who's your unsung heroine?

(In case anyone had any doubts.)

So I now have a Posterous blog, thanks to Guy Kawasaki ;-) I'm not sure why I should use it instead of any other blogging software that's available, but I figure it's worth a try. And I can use this blog for the non-business stuff that's rattling around in my brain.