Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Tech

Well not only was I happy to see the bright, beaming face of snow/skate guru Shaun White on the cover of February’s Issue of Fast Company magazine but my smile widened when I noticed a feature article on “The Most Influential Women in Tech”.

The magazine admits that they were quite surprised with both the volume of nasty comments generated when they first nominated some top lasses on the fastcompany.com website back in November, 2008 as several trolls went a bit wild with sexist, hateful comments.

The nominees are broken into key categories such as: evangelists, entrepreneurs, gamers, evangelists, activists, bloggers and brainiacs and some of the best of the best are part of Fast Company’s list including:

Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook

Padmasree Warrior, CTO Cisco

Gina Bianchini, cofounder and CEO Ning

Sara de Freitas, Director of Research Serious Games Institute

Tara Hunt, cofounder Citizen Agency

Charlene Li, founder Altimeter Group

Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm, executive director Witness

Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing

Jill Tarter SETI Institute

It inspires me to see so many great tech-savvy women being featured in Fast Company and it gives me hope.