Meeting Pauline Wade

If there's one lady worth meeting in Cebu City, that would be Pauline Wade of University of the Philippines Cebu City. This lady who has heavyweight software development experience at AT&T Bell Labs in the US is now working at UP Cebu. This Filipina is teaching the fine elements and practice in software engineering. Very rare would you find highly intelligent people serving in the academe, giving back their blessings to the community.

I met her in the Software Engineering class (July 29 to August 2) that I attended in Cebu City. I hope to see more interesting women like her.

Filipina on the Web - where are they now?

I got the chance to look into this old article, Women on the Web. Hmm after the dotcom crash, I wonder where are they now? Let us see.

1. Therese Ng is still with FemaleNetwork.com
2. Rita Barreiro left my MyPhilippines and headed GCPhilippines. But due to the dotcom crash, the company retrenched. She will go (or went) to Canada to pursue her masteral studies.
3. Ria Ferro is still with ABS-CBN Interactive. (how are they doing there?)
4. Drew Europeo - I think she's still affiliated with them. Their BalikBayanMail.com closed na. Adobo Interactive changed its name to IP Ventures.
5. Janette Toral - that is me. Well still alive and taking care of DigitalFilipino.com. No longer head of PICS so I can do a lot of stuff now without the usual politics.
6. Mary Anne Tolentino - still going strong with BPI Internet Banking group. She is currently the president of the Philippine Internet Commerce Society.
7. Abigail Yap - still with Yapster
8. Patricia Nuguid - no idea if she's still with UnionBank.
9. Perla Daly of Bagong Pinay - no idea.
10. Trixie Reguyal of LegManila.com - the site closed down already right? Don't know what happened to them na.
11. Franchette Soriano of PhilMusic.com - she's still there.
    

Look forward in hearing your comments.

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