Website: http://butyoureagirl.com
Twitter: @adriarichards

Adria Richards is a “girl geek” dedicated to empowering people through technology. She shows you how to be more productive and grow your business based on the GTD workflow (that’s “Getting Things Done” for you nongeeks). In addition to blogging, Adria does public speaking, hands-on training and offers direct consulting services to businesses and bloggers. Adria started her career at Geek Squad® in 1999, is self taught and has 11 years of experience in the IT industry. Certifications include MCSA, MCDST and A+.

Butyoureagirl.com is Adria’s conversational blog chronicling the perspective of a female geek who simply wants to save the world. Via written and video blog posts, Adria talks about and demonstrates the latest social media tools, lifehacks (that’s a geek term for “shortcuts”), ways to save the planet and her adventures as a fearless consultant. She also does a weekly video show on technology at http://askadria.com. Adria values work+life balance, open source projects, cloud apps, equality for all, yoga and reducing our footprint on the environment.

Adria will be speaking at this year’s SXSW, “How Sci-Fi Shapes The Internet” and BlogHer, “Your Stats Are A Business Asset”. She will be attending several technology conferences including Drupalcon, WordPress San Francisco, WordPress Chicago, Blogging While Brown, RailsConf, Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Of Women In Computing Conference, Blogalicious, Gnomedex, Web 2.0 Summit and TechCrunch50.