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Many avid shoppers have curbed their habits due to the recession. But brand manager and style expert Anne Marie Harrison hasn’t let the recession get in her way. She shows Wall Street Journal’s reporter Teri Agins how she keeps up with today’s fashion while staying within budget:
February OnMedia Event in New York with Top 50 CEO showcases
OnMedia NYC
CEO’s and experts from the digital media, marketing, branding, advertising and public relations industries all get together on February 2-4 at the OnMedia congress. Silicon Valley Tech experts and CEO’s will debate and present opportunities and trends in these industries.
Also, the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies will be presented. In an unique ‘CEO showcase’ 50 top CEO’s, including CEO Elizabeth Blair of online brand advertising agency Brand.net, from the OnMedia 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts. Read more
Designing Games; Amy Jo Kim, CEO Shufflebrain
Amy Jo Kim, Founder and CEO of Shufflebrain
Amy Jo Kim is founder and CEO of Shufflebrain, a company which aims to create social games that keep you ‘sharp and socially connected’. Amy is a sharp lady herself, proves the experience she has in helping design games and social architecture for such companies as Electronic Arts, Disney, eBay, Digital Chocolate and MTV. She has pointed out on many occasions how elements of game play, such as collecting points or material online, form part of people’s engagement in successful online services such as eBay and Facebook.
Amy Jo shared some of her insights on gaming, launching and running Shufflebrain with TheNextWomen.
How did you get into game design? Read more
Launch of Smarta: a combination of Linkedin, Eventbrite and Meetup for UK entrepreneurs
Today saw the launch of SMARTA, the latest and first social venture of Shaa Wasmund. Some experienced entrepreneurs, like Bebo’s Michael Birch, and some government owned banks like RBS and Nat West, support this new community for entrepreneurs, who are defined as thinking (when they have yet to start a business), creating (when entrepreneurs have taken the step) and growing (after the first struggling years have passed and an exit is in sight). Smarta is a combination of Linkedin, Meetup, Eventbrite and Upcoming for entrepreneurs. It’s for small businesses only, as they leave the larger ones to the FT…, so they say themselves in their introduction.
Smarta Home Page
There is a lot to do, read and learn from the website. Interviews with or columns by women entrepreneurs and female internet heroes like Michelle Dewberry, Hermione Way, Emma Jones, Karen Hanton and Julie Meyer (who all featured in The NextWomen last year, so we are kind of proud to be endorsed by Shaa) will give the reader inspiration or practical tips on the business. How they did it! Business and personal profiles can be made in order to connect with other entrepreneurs. Read more
World Economic Forum Davos: These Are the Women
World Leaders unite today in Davos for the World Economic Forum, a five day conference in which the most pressing issues facing the world are discussed. This year it is entitled “Shaping the Post-Crisis World.” Business leaders, executives, politicians, intellectuals and journalists are expected to talk about the economic crisis and how to get through it, but they also due to cover topics such as environmental damage, corruption, energy or health. Themes can be found here.
The Women Davos Meeting
Attendees in the forum have historically been primarily men, but this changed when Aude Zieseniss de Thuin founded the “Davos” Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society in 2005 to promote a women’s vision on the economic and social issues of the world.
This year, these are the women that will be at Davos: Read more
the battle of the smartphones
With the advent of always-on email, BlackBerry sought to lead the market by combining email with phone capabilities. For many years it ruled the roost, but fierce competition from Apple and Nokia means the BlackBerry is no longer the only choice of smartphone.
Which smartphone is the smartest: the Blackberry Storm, the Apple 3G and the Nokia 97
BlackBerry Storm Read more
Fastcompany’s List of Most Influential Women in Tech 2009
Executives, Entrepreneurs, Braniacs, Activists, Bloggers, Evangelists, Fastcompany has found the most influential women in these categories and listed them. The site presented its ranking this week, continuing a tradition they started last year of naming the most influential women 2.0.
Rashmi Sinha
” Women who have succeeded in technology deserve recognition; they are an inspiration for everyone, male or female, demonstrating what can be achieved through creativity and hard work.” Fastcompany says.
These are the top women in their categories:
- The Entrepreneur: Rashmi Sinha
Cofounder and CEO SlideShare
Rashmi went from psychology PhD to Web designer to business women. Launched with less than $50,000, SlideShare, a side where people can share they powerpoint presentations, now has over a million registered users, plus a partnership with LinkedIn. Read more
Very practical seminars at New Business Live
Tara Carlile-Swift
Coming Thursday January 29, 2009 sees a one day business event for startup- and growing companies with a lot of practical workshops, New Business Live in the Nottingham Arena in East Midlands. UK. Driving force behind the event is Tara Carlile-Swift, Founder and MD of Consortium Events. The NextWomen is happy to be its media partner. Apart from inspirational keynotes from Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation, the website about home businesses and Michael Acton Smith of gaming company MindCandy.com, there are 30 advisory seminars as:
- The 10 skills you must have to make your start-up a success
- What is branding – and how to do it on a small budget?
- Discover 17 sure-fire, low cost marketing ideas for small business owners and start up companies.
- ISIS (payroll) Support Services. First employee, first headache.
- How to manage a small or large team effectively.
Travelling Mamas 2009
Traveling Mamas (Beth- third from the left)
There is life after Motherhood, says travel writer Beth Blair. And it is worth writing about. Hence the blog Travelling Mamas. “We realized that by using our sister-like chemistry combined with our experiences, we could start a blog to inspire moms to travel and remind them that life doesn’t end with motherhood .” As the site exists a year this month, we asked Beth to tell us what the mamas have done this year, what 2009 holds in store for the site and the travel industry as a whole.
What has this year been like for you? Read more
Preventing Fashion Blunders Through Online Register
Laura Bush inaugural blunder: an outfit also worn by three women
While the world is talking about Michelle Obama’s inaugural dresses, a new website hopes to limit the chance of women attending balls to wear the same dresses. The dressregistry aims to prevent social nightmares by allowing you to register the gown you’re wearing to a specific occasion. The site allos yout to enter the color, length, designer, neckline description and other distinguishing characteristics. You can even upload a photo of it. Although the company is US based, events you can register for include the Vienna Opera Ball and the Geneva Fashion Fair Gala.
One would have expected a woman to come up with this, but the founder is, in fact, a man. Read more
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