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Call for entry Social Innovation Camp
Social Innovation Camp: enter now!
Do you have an idea that can bring some major social change? Want to set up a socially responsible business? Make sure you enter Social Innovation Camp. Only two days until the deadline!
Social Innovation Camp brings together people with ideas, UK and European web developers and designers to think about and develop ideas with a view to achieving social change through the web.
Participants organise themselves into teams and help make a back-of-the-envelop idea into a working prototype - complete with working software - in just a weekend.
Check out the ideas that have already been submitted here.
Submissions close on Friday 7th November 2008.
’starting your own business’-quiz
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Thinking about starting you own business? Have a look at the womenowned.com’s start-up quiz.
With questions like ‘can you handle not knowing here your next paycheck comes from?” or ‘Have you been in the “power position” before? Are you a better leader or loner?’ the site encourages you to know yourself first before starting your business. And maybe even saving yourself a lot of time by discarding the idea of starting your own business if the results show your lack of entrepreneurship. Read more
Launch bikini website Habinki
Habinki Website
Chloe Holding, one of thenextweb and thenextwomen’s mentees, has defied the credit crunch and launched her website HABINKI. The website offers a range of custom-made bikinis and necklaces.
Chloe set up Habinki from a passion she had for travelling to exotic places and buying clothes, translating these interests into designing bikinis and sourcing manufacturing and ultimately setting up her own e- business in sexy, glamorous and flattering swimwear for women. Read more
What has she Beeny up to? launch of completingchains.com
Sarah Beeny
Sarah Beeny, known for her no-nonsense advice to would-be developers in TV show Property Ladder, has recently launched completingchains.com – a new website to keep the property market moving during the credit crunch.
Beeny’s concept works with people on the property market, registering all their property details, in addition to all the information about the property they want to buy or sell. It then matches all these people and creates chains. Registered agents then work with sellers across the chain, to release enough equity to adjust the price, so that it is accessible to first-time buyers and to get everything going. Read more
Read this, Skip that: Launch of Daily Beast
The Daily Beast
Tina Brown, famous editor now turned female internet hero, has launched her own controversial version of ‘The Huffington Post’. THE DAILY BEAST seeks to help readers through the clutter and cacophony of the day on politics, business, news and culture, and therefore it’s pay-off is ‘Read this, Skip that’. Brown’s first online venture, after a 30 year career as editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk magazine, is backed by Barry Diller. Read more
start-ups, shopping and social responsibility
shop denida
That shopping and social awareness can go hand in hand, proves recently launched SHOPDENIDA. The US-based website by founder Nikki Denida showcases products by women for women; it aims to be a creative web portal where you can buy art work, pet accessories, or jewellery created by women.
The site puts the spotlight on products but also the women behind them and the issues they have to deal with on a daily basis.
Now it is seeking the spotlight itself by entering in the IDEABLOB competition, the website where entrepreneurs can post and share their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000 towards fulfilling them. Read more
Launch: Ehive, online craft marketplace
EHIVE , a creative community for handmade devotees, launched this week. Anyone who wants to make a living, from doing what they love, can join this online marketplace to sell handmade goods. The website is the brainchild of Louise Campbell, one of the Creative Community founders that have over 20 years combined experience of crafting and online success. See her pitch a FOWA Techcrunch:
Questions for start-ups: PURE!
Nicoline Westen, founder of PURE!
Nicoline Westen’s dream was to help kids in Cambodia lead a better life, the internet enabled her to make that dream a reality. She founded Pure!, a volunteer organisation that support children’s projects in Cambodia, be it financially or by providing helping hands. In our questions for start-ups series, she told thenextwomen how she started out.
1. How did you come up with the idea of your start-up?
Launch: Wordia and the meaning of business woman
WORDIA, a new video dictionary has launched, a next-generation online dictionary. A team of language enthusiasts and general word nuts, headed by ex-Bebo Michael Birch, have joined forces to create a new kind of dictionary - a democratic ‘visual dictionary’. A place where anyone with a video, webcam or mobile phone can define the words that matter to them in their life. Suggestion for the first to video the meaning of business woman: 1) noun, a woman engaged in commercial or industrial business, especially as an owner or executive.
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SHE, Dutch internet TV on business women
Last night saw the launch in the Netherlands of our internet programme SHE.
SHE, sponsored by Bizner Bank, will feature interviews with women entrepreneurs, female internet heroes and discuss marketing to women cases. It is presented by Marianne van Leeuwen and Simone Brummelhuis of thenextwomen.
Blueshots, dubbed the initiator of ‘internet TV for professionals only’, will feature the program. That channel was officially launched yesterday. The Dutch press was present and in the coming days, the resulting tv and radio interviews will be published. Marketingfacts already reported this morning, and so did Dutch Cowboys
Click here for the first programme with Heleen van Oord of DQ&A.
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