A new Canadian publication titled, HEART, launched this month for women in business. They describe themselves as:

“…the only publication of its kind dedicated to providing mentorship for career and life success. We get to the heart of issues concerning women in business today, profiling successful professionals, focusing on health and well being, and providing articles of interest that encourage personal diversity and creative exploration to augment your life.”

HEART is offering a sneak preview into their July/August 2008 premiere issue at http://www.heartbusinessjournal.com/extras.html

Take a read and let me know what you think…

Melany Gallant | Women 2.0 Canada | Ottawa Co-founder

Good time tracking is key to any successful project. Throughout the years  I have used many different tools to help me keep track of time spent on any given task or project. Here are some of the best tools I’ve come across in my time-tracking travels. 

Lightweight (and free): If you’re you’re a part-time entrepreneur simple is best.

ClockingIT is a hosted application for tracking all your tasks, issues, projects and time spent, with a focus on software development and handling large amounts of tasks.

Heavyweight: When the basics just won’t do.

Tickspot.com  is a simple and friendly time tracking application focused on helping you hit your budgets, by accenting the ‘time left’ on a particular job. - Includes both mac and pc widgets. 

Harvest is designed and built so you can quickly and easily track time, log expenses, run reports, and bill your clients. - Includes both mac and pc widgets. 

Geekspeakr - ‘We help you find technical women to speak at your events’

A wonderful resource for event organizers and the tech community in general. It’s incredibly important that women in technology step out of the shadows and start embracing the limelight. So ladies, if you have the tech knowledge and flair for public speaking, stop by geekspearkr.com and sign up. 

ana.g | women 2.0 | Toronto Co-founder

Shane Schick of ITWorldCanada has taken the time to recognize 10 Canadian tech bloggers worthy of following. Shane lists some great bloggers to check out, including two well-known female tech bloggers you may have heard of before.

Shane promises the list is in no particular order so I’ll put the two female bloggers first…just because I like them so much:

Maggie Fox - Longtime W20′ers know of our great respect for Maggie of Social Media Group. A guest speaker at our February Pass the Torch event, Maggie is a leader in the social media industry with great insights on how to leverage social media as an engagement tool.

Kate Trgovac - Of My Name Is Kate - Kate is a Internet marketing expert. She blogs about marketing and technology in a funny and engaging way that makes you want to read more.

Jevon McDonald - StartUp North - I started following Jevon on Twitter (@startupnorth) because he gives really great overviews of companies that have pitched or demo’ed products at BarCamps, DemoCamps and other Canadian tech events. If you’re interested in following tech happenings in Canada, follow this blog.

ITWorldCanada bloggers - http://blogs.itworldcanada.com - Because they deserve to promote their own talent!

Alec Saunders - http://saunderslog.com - Alec is an Ottawa blogger and co-founder of Iotum, an Ottawa-startup focused on communication technologies. He discusses a lot of different topics related to technology. Check out his list of Ottawa blogs.

Michael Geist - http://www.michaelgeist.ca - a law professor at the University of Ottawa, Geist is also a columnist for the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, and BBC. Writing about technology law, Geist covers topics such as digital copyright, net neutrality, Internet governance and user-generated content.

Mark H. Goldberg - http://www.mhgoldberg.com/blog - Goldberg covers the telecommunications industry including issues, news, trends and so much more.

Stephan Ibaraki - http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers - Ibaraki is a key contributor to this blog. As ITWorldCanada states, he “interviews countless executives (such as General Motors of Canada’s CIO) and turns them into easy-to-download podcasts. He also serves as a sort of online liaison between the vendor community and associations like the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), giving him a good understanding of issues across the board.”

Mark Evans - http://markevanstech.com - Evans is a technology journalist with The Globe & Mail and The Financial Post. He’s also the co-founder of the mesh Conference - Canada’s only Web 2.0 conference. He covers a range of technology topics including telco and emerging technologies and startups.

Rob Hyndman - http://www.robhyndman.com - Another mesh Conference co-founder, Hyndman describes himself as “a lifelong student of technology, and a geek at heart.” His blog covers topics related to business law and technology, as well as developments in business, media and politics.

Melany Gallant | Women 2.0 Canada | Ottawa Co-founder

I’m a bit late in writing this event recap about Martini Tuesday because of home renovations taking up all my spare time. My husband and I are installing hardwood floors on the main level of our home (with the kind help of friends) and let’s just say our home has been turned upside down in the process. I am stealing a bit of time today to give you the scoop on a fun and informative evening we had on Tuesday with our Women 2.0 Ottawa members.

Kristina Mausser of Digital Word led this session focused on productivity tools for business with a discussion about Freshbooks, an online invoicing and time tracking service. What Freshbooks does is make it easy for you to send, track and collect payments - all offered as a hosted service. Read more »

At our January 24th Women 2.0 Ottawa event, we discussed creating a series of discussions around the essential tools and skills you need to run your small business or startup smartly. We’ve dubbed this series the Technology Purse aka toolkit.

Out of that discussion was a question about Twitter - what it is and how to use it. So I thought I’d take a stab at explaining the benefits of of this microblogging platform and then direct your attention to some other sources of information.

First, a definition of microblogging is in order. According to Forrester Research, microblogging is “a social computing tool that allows users to send brief updates to public and private networks.” Huh. OK - that definition implies that you understand what social computing is.

Those of you on Facebook and LinkedIn, buying and selling on eBay, writing or reading blogs, using instant messaging systems and contributing to wikis - are all in the social computing game. Social computing is essentially the act of using these forms of social software to interact with others, build relationships and collaborate online. Read more »

Thanks to W2.0′er Jen Hunter of the Learning Catalyst for this info about an upcoming women and leadership event taking place April 2, 2008 in Toronto.

Organized by Margaret Wheatley of the Berkana Institute, the Women’s Leadership Revival Tour will gather women together in communities all over North America to participate in a full day of learning and development. The focus of these events is on how women’s leadership in our region and all over the world is vital to our communities, work environments and societies.

Jen Hunter is working with the Canadian organizers bringing the Revival to Toronto. The one-day event is scheduled for April 2 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.  at The Eglinton Grand, 400 Eglinton Ave. West, Toronto.

Early bird registration is $159 (a steal!). Visit www.berkana.org/women for more info and to register.

To learn more about Margaret Wheatley, visit her website.

Below are some of the female bloggers I follow. Who do you follow?

Technology Starlet - Technology Starlet, who describes herself as a “Professional graphic designing and tech training geek”, wrote this post a few days back about successful female bloggers and what makes them tick.

Charlene Li/Groundswell: Winning In a World Transformed by Social Technologies - Vice-president and principal analyst for Forrester Research. Charlene covers the impact of social computing and web 2.0 on business.

Blogher - a community of female bloggers with 13,000 members and 10,000 blogs on their blog list. They have a technology and web section but also offer up a list of blogs covering a wide variety of topics like family, politics, travel, etc.

Tracy Sheridan / The Long Blonde Tail - founder and CEO of Waxxi, a new media company which has pioneered interactive, or participatory, podcasting. Tracy writes about artificial intelligence, emerging technologies and so much more.

Some Canadian favs to catch your interest…

W2.0′er Natasha / EyeSee - Natasha is an Ottawa blogger writing about technology, business, photography and whatever else takes her fancy.

Kristina Mausser - WordUp! - Kristina’s is a web copywriting and communications consultant based in Ottawa. Her blog is about technology, consumer electronics, the Internet and all things geeky.

Maggie Fox / Social Media Group - Maggie is a social media expert and co-founder of Social Media Group. Maggie shares her insights and expertise via the Social Media Group website and blog. Women 2.0 Ottawa is also excited to have as a guest speak at our February 26 Pass the Torch event.

Tara Hunt / HorsePigCow - Tara is an online marketing professional writing about community marketing. She covers a lot of topics about new media and interactive technologies and even wrote an article for O’Reilly Media titled Women Who Risk: Making Women in Technology Visible. (Note our Women2.org sisters also contributed to the O’Reilly Media’s Women in Technology series. Access the Women in Technology articles here.

Goaliegirl - an IT consultant who blogs about hockey, gadgets and geekiness in no particular order.

So who do you follow?

Post your fav female tech bloggers below so we can keep this list growing.