Go Girl Go For IT

Hi!

I am on the program committee for the VIC Go Girl Go For IT event.
It's my job to find great speakers to attend the event!

:D

I'm really passionate about this and will work really hard to make it happen!!
If you are an amazing speaker, please drop me a line:
tammybutow@gmail.com

Tammy Out!

Mashups

Recently submitted a mashup for the mashupaustralia.org competition.
It's a really fantastic initiative to open up public data and encourage the public to create useful websites and mobile phone applications for the general public.

http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/race-around-your-block/

Yay!
Just made my first php Google Map with a mysql db!
http://www.miseryskateboards.com/phpsqlajax_map.htm
Wooooo
:D
Tammy Out

USA was awesome

Had a fantastic time!!

The adobe MAX conference was super fun!
It was really great to meet people from all over the world who are passionate about technology.
We sat next to one guy from Disney and another guy who has his own web app company with employees across the USA. They use a lot of Skype to get their work done and he said it's great because he has some of the most talented people working with him.

Totally loved New York, LA and Vegas. We even went through Salt Lake City and Chicago on the plane. Pretty neat to see so much different stuff.

We recorded heaps of video footage and took tons of photos! :D
I was really inspired by all the fantastic museums and galleries we visited.
Also by the amazing scenery. The Las Vegas mountains and New York's Central Park were a highlight.

Also bought some really great cookbooks for cake decorating!
Hoping to make some amazing cupcakes!

Work wise have been playing around with more web design and flash. Have been looking into Silverlight as well, in conjunction with Sharepoint/Sharepoint Designer. Starting to make a few demo sites to showcase things that I create.

Doing a lot of reading like usual, watching a lot of Ted Videos and doing some MIT free courses.

Tammy Out
That's all from me.

Sharepoint & Flash & Customer Experience

Lately I have been playing around with Sharepoint and Flash....
I am going on a trip to the USA in a few weeks...hoping to find some new inspiration! :D

Currently interested in
*Customer Experience
*Sharepoint
*Flash
*Silverlight
*ASP.NET 3.0
*Volleyball

USA Trip Goals

• VLOG once a day. Upload to youtube.
• Collect heaps of everyday items.
  
• Take photos & upload Deviant Art
• Skateboard in a mall
• Attend the Adobe Max Web Conference
• Attend the Oracle OpenWorld Conference
• See Statue of Liberty
• Eat a Bagel
• Go shopping at 2am
• Play an old school casino slot machine
• Eat a Lemon Pie at a dinner
  

Yammer

I love Yammer.

I would love to organise a charity fundraiser.

I love learning about new technologies. Webby awards, TechCrunch top 50!

I'm in Melbourne!

You can see that most of my old posts were about being a pre-service teacher but now I've stepped into the corporate world....

I'm currently working as a Graduate Programmer / Tester / Developer / Support Personnel !

But I'm still extremely pro for encouraging students to study ICT at school and university!
I really think more needs to be done to encourage girls as well.

I've been thinking about the different things I would like to do this year in terms of volunteering, in the past I've done mostly tutoring and working with students. I still really want to do more of that! I miss it a lot.... I am going to be attending the business chicks breakfast as a volunteer next month so that will be great :D

Have been having such an amazing time in Melbourne but, tomorrow we are going to the snow :D Can't wait!

Also mindmapping ! Found this amazing mindmapping tool yesterday called mindjet... best one I have seen so far (and I have seen way to many) I wish I new about it last year! I am going to start using it at work and meetings.

Ciao
Tammy