I’m geeky, you’re geeky, we’re all geeky at She’s Geeky

[1 Feb 2010 | 5 Comments | ]
I’m geeky, you’re geeky, we’re all geeky at She’s Geeky
A perfect storm of synergy develops into an inspiring organic agenda when 300 women working in the STEM fields gather at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

By Wanda Hennig

Super-geek and Berkeley–based internet identity guru Kaliya Hamlin mounted her first She’s Geeky ‘un’conference in October 2007 and her most recent, last weekend. They grew from her observation that while women are encouraged to enter the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — once women leave school and enter the workforce,

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Blogging and Vlogging, Headline, Networking, Social Media Plus »

I’m geeky, you’re geeky, we’re all geeky at She’s Geeky

[1 Feb 2010 | 5 Comments | ]
I’m geeky, you’re geeky, we’re all geeky at She’s Geeky
A perfect storm of synergy develops into an inspiring organic agenda when 300 women working in the STEM fields gather at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

By Wanda Hennig

Super-geek and Berkeley–based internet identity guru Kaliya Hamlin mounted her first She’s Geeky ‘un’conference in October 2007 and her most recent, last weekend. They grew from her observation that while women are encouraged to enter the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — once women leave school and enter the workforce,

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Every year is Year of the Tiger at South Africa’s Tiger Canyons

[20 Jan 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Every year is Year of the Tiger at South Africa’s Tiger Canyons
Acclaimed wildlife author and photographer Daryl Balfour was in the tiger’s den at South Africa’s famed JV Tiger Canyons five hours after tiger Julie gave birth to her five cubs, including a white cub.

Story by Daryl Balfour
Guest Contributor
Photos by Daryl and Sharna Balfour

I spent two hours in a tiger’s den this week, watching her nurse five hours-old newborn cubs — including the first white cub born in the wild in more than 50 years.

Coaching, Conscious Creatives, Headline, Transitions »

Visualizations, creativity and the incredible oneness of being

[5 Jan 2010 | One Comment | ]
Visualizations, creativity and the incredible oneness of being

An inner journey can be more spectacular — and revealing — than a trip around the world. And a weekend spent doing something you really would prefer not to be doing can change the course of your life.
By Wanda Hennig

Can this really be me writhing around the floor in a large, darkened room with a number of other should I call us crazies? I have my eyes glued shut but I know the others are out there because I can hear grunts and whines and hisses and the odd …

Headline, South Africa Travel, Travel Writing »

Tembe has Africa’s biggest tusker and web-spinning spider plus tiny suni

[15 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Tembe has Africa’s biggest tusker and web-spinning spider plus tiny suni
Isilo could be the world’s largest elephant; the suni is one of Africa’s smallest antelope; and scientists thought until recently that nephila komaci — the female spider has a leg-span of five inches — was extinct.

By guest Africa correspondent Graham Linscott

Photos by Wayne Matthews

TEMBE Elephant Park, a wilderness in the remote north-east of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, offers visitors the opportunity to step back 200 years into unspoiled pre-colonial Africa.

It also offers the opportunity to spot southern Africa’s largest tusker, a giant bull elephant named Isilo who is about 65 years old …

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Sex, Social Media and New Zealand (2): How to write a travel blog

[4 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Sex, Social Media and New Zealand (2): How to write a travel blog

Ten tips to publishing online (versus writing for a print publication).
My first journalism job was on The Daily News in Durban, South Africa and — wait for it — we used typewriters.
We’d layer four short sheets of paper — long enough to type maybe three paragraphs, at a pinch — separated by three sheets of carbon paper, and roll them into the machine. God alone knows what the parts of the typewriter were called and by my second newspaper job (on the Sunday Tribune, also in Durban), basic computers were …