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Online exhibition on Women, Power and Politics
online exhibition: women, power and politics
The stories of women around the world fighting for their rights, are showcased in the online exhibition Women, Power and Politics of the offline International Museum of Women (IMOW). Every month this exhibition brings the untold stories of remarkable women who are claiming and exercising their power around the world.
The latest the topic was about campaigns and elections, and asked questions such as ‘Do women make unique contributions to the election process? Is campaigning more dangerous for women?.’ Very topical was one of the features ‘blogging about Sarah Palin.’ Read more
Women in management means protection against financial crises
Diversity benefits companies during the credit crunch (Pic:CC: chrisfry)
New research shows that firms with a higher ratio of women in management have better resisted the financial crisis. Nearly all of the French national press, papers such as Le Monde and Le Figaro have reported on this study of Michel Ferrary, a professor of Human Resources at CERAM Business School.
Using data from companies in the CAC40, the equivalent to the FTSE 100, it is shown that the fewer women a company has in its management, the greater the drop in its share price since the beginning of the year; and the more women in management, the smaller the drop in share price. The market currently values risk adversity. Read more
Pinking our phones
The new phone
At TheNextWomen we have long said that simply making your product pink is not the way to reach female consumers..but the mobile phone industry keeps trying.
Next Month, Motorola is launching a jewel-shaped mobile handset aimed at women, called the Moto Jewel. The handset is a flip-top phone ..in the shape of a jewel, indeed. Which of its features appeal to women is unknown. Motorola?
Blog08: A Report with questions to be answered
Last Friday was the first Dutch blogger conference Blog08. These were the questions that I came up with while being there:
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‘Aren’t we all or shouldn ‘t we all be speakers at a bloggers-event?’. I think that a static and old fashioned panel discussion, as chosen at this conference, does not suit a blogger-conference. I would opt instead for a more interactive program i.e. small groups discussing whatever they like. I have attended several open space unconferences and know from experience that this makes an event far more lively. Read more
EconWomen Conference with Hearst, Glam and Shine
econwomen conference
A conference completely devoted to women media is taking place today in New York. Hearts, Glam or Yahoo, they are all there. The line-up of speakers is equally impressive, featuring a number of ladies that we consider female internet heroes. They include:
- Victoria Colligan, Founder of online women entrepreneurs community LadiesWhoLaunch in a panel on Advertising, Ad Networks and Other Revenue Opportunities.
- Joni Evans, Co-founder and CEO of wowOwow, the online community for women who like to share their stories on politics, culture and other women topics. She is in a panel on community building.
- Brandon Holly, women web portal Yahoo Shine Read more
how the next generation women manages their finances
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Mothers and daughters talk about financial topics more than sex, drugs or even politics, compared to the previous generation, where the most discussed topic between mothers and daughters was marriage.
These findings were published by Women& Co, a financial resource program for women, from Citi, who looked into how the new generation of affluent women deals with finances. Some of the key figures were:
- 94% of women are discussing financial topics with their daughters, compared to 54% who have discussed money with their own mothers, representing a 42% shift over the generations.
- 63% of affluent women consider themselves the CFO of their
household. Read more
E-Search International Member ‘Partners at Work’ at NYSE Euronext
Women-only executive and head-hunting firm Partners at Work has today opened the trade day at the NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam to celebrate its 5 year anniversary.
Opening by Partners at Work
The firm advises, counsels, selects and places experienced professionals and senior managers in banking, law and human resources. As a member of E-search International ,an international alliance of executive firm agencies, Partners at Work also recruits and places executives internationally. Through E-search it is linked by the internet to associate companies based throughout the UK, Continental Europe, the USA and Asia.
Partners at Work is founded by Marline Stoffer, Read more
HERSEO helps women website owners get found
Her SEO
HerSEO is a search engine optimization company specializing in women owned businesses. Holy Klaassen, founder of the service has a reason to focus on this group. “With the huge boom in growth of women and mom-owned startups, there are many women looking to increase relevant, qualified traffic to their sites.
“Typically, SEO companies charge high fees, but often these small startups just don’t have the budget for this. We focus on educating business owners about SEO, finding the right keywords for their particular product or service, and giving practical, easy to understand instructions on what they need to do to increase their rankings.” says Holly who became interested in SEO after starting her own website, www.FussyBaby.ca. Remembering that time, she notes: Read more
Sourcing Angie Byron
Angie Byron
It’s not often you meet someone like Angie Byron.
In meeting her you are reminded that the success of any business model rests squarely on the strength of its underlying relationships. Mostly though, you are reminded of the gift some people have in sparking the good out of people. The kind of good which harnesses diversity and reins it seemingly effortlessly into a direction of cooperative and mutual benefit. Building. Building of people. Building of relationships. That is Angie Byron. Naturally. Read more
FT and Business Schools launch free MBA workouts
The FT has combined forces with several business schools to offer readers a mini-MBA called MBA Gym. Registered users can do a series of online interactive workouts -for free-, each lasting approximately 15 minutes.
MBA Gym
There are typical MBA courses, such as entrepreneurship, business plans, funding needs, marketing and accounting. Other workouts are: Read more
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