Key Publications:
- Katy Dickinson, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, and Eileen Brewer created TechWomen Emerging Leaders poster and playing cards to honor 54 TechWomen Alumnae Emerging Leaders from 16 countries in Africa and the Middle East. (December 2014). Now available for sale on Notable Women in Tech Cards.
- Katy Dickinson with the Everwise team created “Mentoring in a Box” – best practices and structure for small mentoring programs (November 2014):
- Mentoring in a Box: Read Me First (PDF)
- Everwise Partnership Kickoff Guide (PDF)
- Everwise Getting Started Guide (PDF)
- Metrics Tracking Spreadsheet Template (Must Be Copied to Use)
- Mentoring in a Box – Mentoring Program Manager – Resources (folder)
- 5.1 Mentoring Program Manager – Overview and Contents (PDF)
- 5.2 Mentoring Program Manager – Basic Guidance (PDF)
- 5.3 Mentoring Program Manager – Templates and Samples – Letters and Emails (Must Be Copied to Use)
- 5.4 Template: Kickoff Call Agenda, Presentation Contents (Must Be Copied to Use)
- 5.5 Everwise Mentoring in a Box, Sample Spreadsheet: Protege Roster (Must Be Copied to Use)
- 5.6 Template: Pilot Program Candidate Selection (Must Be Copied to Use)
- 5.7 Sample Pilot Results Report (PDF)
- Everwise: Mentor Recruitment (PDF)
- Expert Mentoring Advice: Best Practices / Worst Practices (PDF)
- Everwise: Mentoring vs. Coaching vs. Sponsorship (PDF)
- Katy Dickinson, Professor of the Practice, Susan Rodger (Duke University – Computer Science), and Jessica Dickinson Goodman: “Notable Women in Computing” Grace Hopper Conference poster and playing cards, and associated Kickstarter crowd funding project (October-November 2014). Now available for sale on Notable Women in Tech Cards.
- Dickinson, Katy, “Leveraging Technology to Create a Mentoring Program in a Global Diaspora Context” People to People Conference Poster (September 2014).
- Dickinson, Katy, and Ian Gover, “Why Emerging Leaders Need Mentors Webinar”, 9 September 2014
- Goodwin, Shanarae, “An Interview with Katy Dickinson, Everwise Vice President of Mentoring” 15 July 2014
- Dickinson, Katy, Ravishankar Gundlapalli. “Professional Mentoring – Fostering Triangular Partnership” Chapter in Triangular Partnership: the Power of the Diaspora book by Enawgaw Mehari MD, Kinfe Gebeyehu MD, Katy Dickinson and Matt Watts (People to People: 2013).
- Dickinson, Katy. “Sharing the Hopper Conference“ article for “Anita’s Quilt – Threads of Inspiration” blog (November 15, 2012).
- Dickinson, Katy and ABI Advisory Board, “Famous Women in Computer Science” web resource of the Anita Borg Institute (8 March 2012).
- Gammal, Denise, Katy Dickinson “Mentor Guide” TechWomen 2011 Program – Anita Borg Institute and Institute of International Education – training, resources, and reference materials for mentors and mentees for the TechWomen U.S. State Department mentoring program for women in the Middle East and North Africa (May 2011).
- Dickinson, Katy and ABI Advisory Board, “Award Winning Career Timelines in Computer Science and Engineering” web resource of the Anita Borg Institute (13 September 2010).
- Dickinson, Katy, Tanya Jankot and Helen Gracon. Sun Laboratories Technical Report “Sun Mentoring: 1996-2009″, TR-2009-185, August 2009. Also available free from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): ACM Digital Library
- Dickinson, Katy, Susan Rodger. “Notable Women in Computing” – Ongoing project sponsored by the Anita Borg Institute and the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (started in 2009).
- Dickinson, Katy. Katysblog – Almost 1,500 web log (blog) entries about mentoring, process architecture, Shakespeare, travel, technology, trains, church, books, gardening, pets, writing, and family, at least weekly since 2005. (June 2005 to January 2010 on blogs.sun.com/katysblog and after that on katysblog.wordpress.com). Katysblog is honored to publish directly to almost 1,000 subscribed readers.
- Dickinson, Katy. “SEED: Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development” Research Disclosure: May 17, 2004 – Research Disclosure Database Number 482013, defensive publication of mentoring program process flows and description.
- Dickinson, Katherine V.G., Jos Marlowe, James Gosling “Method and apparatus for automatically archiving and clearing intellectual property” US Patent Application 20030055848 (20 March 2003) – about Sun Laboratories Archivist system.
- Gandel, Deborah E., Katherine V.G. Dickinson, et alia, “Method and apparatus for implementing electronic software distribution” US Patent 6,167,568 (26 December 2000). Referenced by 43 later patents.
Videos
- 2014 TechWomen Emerging Leaders Mai Temraz (Palestine) and Seham Al Jaafreh (Jordan) and Katy Dickinson worked together to record seven videos about mentoring in Arabic, posted on Katy Dickinson’s YouTube channel:
- Everwise: Mentoring in Arab Culture, Featuring Seham Al Jaafreh
- Everwise: Mentoring Feedback, Featuring Mai Temraz
- Everwise: Mentoring Recommendations and Resources, Featuring Mai Temraz
- Everwise: Questions for Your Mentor?, Featuring Mai Temraz
- Everwise: Mentoring Introductions, Featuring Mai Termaz
- Everwise: Why Be a Mentor?, Featuring Seham Al Jaafreh
- Why Mentoring?, Featuring Seham Al Jaafreh
- People to People Radio: US Ambassador to Ethiopia Patricia M. Haslach, Interview by Katy Dickinson, video posted to YouTube 28 May 2014
- TechWomen Mentors in their Own Words 2011 (Katy interviewed)
- What is TechWomen? 2011 (Katy interviewed)
Best Practices – From Katysblog:
- How to Blog: “Blogging and Web Research Workshop” presented as part of the TechWomen delegation day at Gashora Girls Academy, Rwanda, 4 February 2014, and “How to Write a Blog Entry” (24 January 2013, Katysblog).
- Mentoring Value: “Lifetime Value of Mentoring” poster with best practices, presented at the 2013 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and “Mentoring Research Poster and SOL Panel at GHC13” (30 September 2013, Katysblog).
- Process Architecture – Successful Implementation Examples:
- Railroad Caboose Restoration Project: “The Adventures of WP668 1916-2013: Buying and Restoring a Western Pacific Caboose” – presented to the National Model Railroad Association, NMRA Pacific Coast Region, Coast Division, and “Caboose Clinic: The Adventures of WP668” (10 December 2013, Katysblog)
- Making a Family Video from 1,346 Photos: “How to Make an 80th Birthday Video” (14 March 2011, Katysblog).
- Project Management: “Business Process Architecture: What Project Managers Need to Know” (26 January 2010, Katysblog) – presented to the PM PM SIG 2010
- Sun Labs Archivist, and Missions – measuring long-term process success: “Process Success Measures” (6 January 2010, Katysblog).
- Electronic Commerce: “Keeping an Electronic Commerce Shop” by Katy Dickinson, ACM StandardView, Volume 6, Issue 3 (September 1998) – see below for free link to the ACM Digital Library
- Software Development Life Cycle: “Software Process Framework at Sun” by Katy Dickinson, ACM StandardView, Volume 4 Issue 3 (September 1996) – presented at ProjectWorld 1996 – see below for free link to the ACM Digital Library
- Estimating: “Planning Poker and SEED – Estimating and Rating Tools” (13 January 2010, Katysblog).
- Leadership: “On Leadership – Ivan Sutherland’s SEED talk, now on YouTube” 2006 presentation to Sun Engineering mentoring participants by Internet pioneer Ivan Sutherland (13 January 2010, Katysblog), also on YouTube video: “On Leadership, 1 of 8”.
- How to Survey: “How to Survey” (16 April 2008, Katysblog), and “How to Survey, Part 2 – Best Practices” (1 May 2008, Katysblog).
- How to Talk with the Press: “How to Talk with the Press” (10 April 2008, Katysblog).
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