Ellen Bialo

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References

DOLS (n.d.). Dirty Old Ladies of Software. Accessed 8/14/08: http://thedols.net/about/. Quoting from the Website:

Ellen Bialo - recognized to this day as our leader and mother figure - teamed up with Mary Claire Scanlon to organize the dinners and spread the word about the DOLS.

The idea for the DOLS grew over a several-year period in the late 1980s when microcomputer technology was less than 10 years old and the ed tech world was attracting many interesting, high-energy women with great hopes for the future of education. Some of us were worried about glass ceilings and the possibility that an "old boys network" would take hold here as it had in other settings. Others were simply excited about the great new women they were meeting professionally and aware of an opportunity to grow a new industry together - learning from one another while making new friends.

All sorts of informal get-togethers, involving small groups of women, began taking place before, during and after key educational conferences. Linda Roberts, Bobbi Goodson, Jenny House (then Jenny Better), Marge Cappo (then Marge Cosel), Sue Talley, Barbara Bayha, Carolyn Stouffer and Helen Joseph agreed to meet once a year in Calistoga, California, for a retreat. About the same time, another group, including Marylyn Rosenblum, Becky Conners, and Ellen Bialo, were having dinner together in Atlanta after an IBM customer event and talking about how nice it was to grab time away from work to talk about hair, clothes, kids, and partners - and, especially, to laugh!

Contact Information:

Ellen Bialo, President

Interactive Educational Systems Design, Inc.

Phone: 212 769 1715

Email: iesdinc@aol.com

http://www.edroom.net Quoting from this Website:

Founders Ellen Bialo, Glen McCandless, and Jay Sivin-Kachala have combined more than 60 years of education-market experience, in market research, product development, sales, and marketing. They understand the urgent need for meaningful exchanges between those who create products and services used by educational institutions and educators who use them to address their academic mission. They also understand the limitations of traditional formats—and the increasing challenges of managing budgets, time, and bringing together key people from across the globe.

http://www.iesdinc.com Quoting from this Website:

Interactive Educational Systems Design (IESD), Inc. provides a variety of services related to research and evaluation, marketing, and development of educational software, multimedia products, websites, and print-based instructional programs. IESD was founded in 1984 by Ellen Bialo and Jay Sivin-Kachala, the firm's President and Vice President. IESD's clients include publishers of technology-based and print-based instructional products, technology hardware manufacturers, non-profit institutions, government agencies, and school districts.