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Female Internet Hero: Audio Interview with Dina Kaplan of Blip.tv
As part of our Female Internet Heroes series, and in conjunction with NCWIT (the National Center for Women & Information Technology), The NextWomen will be publishing audio interviews highlighting a diverse group of women innovators from small companies, larger corporations, and non-profits, whose ideas and products are changing the way we think, work, play, and communicate. Listen as these women discuss how they first became involved with tech, why they chose to be entrepreneurs and what advice they would give to young people interested in IT or entrepreneurship.
Dina Kaplan, Co-Founder of Blip.tv
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Dina Kaplan
Dina Kaplan is the co-founder of blip.tv, overseeing business operations for the company, including media partnerships, advertising and sponsorship deals, distribution deals, PR, marketing and investor relations.
Blip.tv is the double Webby-award winning video sharing site focused on shows. It enables independent producers to create their own TV shows for the Internet, from scripted sitcoms and dramas, to journalists covering the war in Baghdad. In writing about online video sites, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal recently wrote:
“My favorite is blip.tv.”
In 2008 Business 2.0 named blip.tv in a cover story as one of “25 start-ups to watch.”
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Twestival Global London is set to Raise Money for Concern Worldwide
Thursday March 25th 2010 will see people meeting in cities across the Globe, ‘Using Social Media for Social Good’. Now in it’s second year, the event, which uses the power of Twitter for marketing, aims to bring people together offline at locally held events in an attempt to improve education, have fun and create awareness.
With this year’s theme of Education, all (and they mean 100% of) ticket proceeds go to Concern Worldwide, which aims to make education accessible to the some 72 million children across the world that presently have no opportunity to go to school.
Last year saw:
- Involvement from 202 cities
- 1,000 volunteers
- 10,000 donors
- Funds raised of over $250, 000
As those involved gave money to improve access to safe and clean water for the 1 billion who currently do not have this.
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Are Women Networks solving the ‘Problem’ of the Lack of Women starting Technology Companies?
How is the situation for Women in IT? Or for Women in Mobile? And are there female role models starting technology companies? We are not talking Sillicon Valley but the UK. Sarah Blow, founder of Girl Geek Dinner with around 40 chapters worldwide, a .net developer and having her own ‘geek credentials’ and Helen Keegan, organiser of Mobile Heroes have taken part in a video, compiled by journalist Leilla Makki, discussing the women in IT issue in the UK. Networks via Facebook and Twitter relating to women in internet are starting to increase, and what is following is of course women starting technology companies or not?
Marion Bernard, a female VC in the North of the UK, who just launched a new tech fund, Northstar Equity Investors for technology companies, is hopeful, particularly for women who have the confidence, the networks and the belief that they will be able to raise funds and the commitment as an entrepreneur.
Question raised is whether women only networks are positive to the development of women-led technology companies.
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TNW Spotlight on Female Founders: Fiona Price and her Community for Horse Lovers
The NextWomen are always looking to make female founders and leaders notable and quotable. In our new series – ‘TNW Spotlight on Female Founders’ we look at ventures that are making waves online and the women that are leading them. Here we look at Horse Hero – Paradise for Horse Lovers on film – and its founder Fiona Price.
‘I thought I was the Only MBA Graduate Who Couldn’t Read a Balance Sheet’
I started out in the financial sector, having graduated with a degree in Psychology and an MBA. It was a shock to find myself in the City as I believed I was the only MBA graduate who couldn’t read a balance sheet! However, having begun my career at the same time as the first women’s networks were starting, I felt drawn to pioneer the concept of financial advice for women, something which was unheard of at the time. In fact, Harpers & Queen described me as “The first woman of finance”. I set up my own business at the age of 28 and sold it 18 years later with a staff of around 35.
It had been amazing creating something from scratch with no business experience and no finance, I’d won a lot of awards which I’m sure were due to the novelty value, but for someone with a short attention span, it was way too long a chapter! For the next few years, I had a more varied career as a non-executive director on a variety of Boards which gave me a new perspective on business. I felt I was finally being paid for turning up – a long term career aspiration! But it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be and again, I felt it was time to do my own thing, even though I had said I would never set up another business. It’s amazing how time erases pain from your memory!
Fiona Price – The ‘Financial Expert’
Media was where I wanted to be, especially TV or video. In my years in the financial sector, I have done all the PR myself and latterly, it occupied a large part of my work doing TV and radio interviews each week, from the Today Programme and News at 10 to Women’s Hour! The term financial ‘expert’ was not one I was ever comfortable with. Maybe that’s a woman’s thing?
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TNW Spotlight on Female Founders: Jenny Buccos and ProjectExplorer
The NextWomen are always looking to make female founders and leaders notable and quotable. In our new series – ‘TNW Spotlight on Female Founders’ we look at ventures that are making waves online and the women that are leading them.
Award-winning Children’s Films
ProjectExplorer.org is an award-winning children’s series that provides free, online films and multimedia materials aimed at fostering the next generation of global citizens, helping students discover the common humanity they share with the cultures and histories of the world. Founded by Director and Producer, Jenny Buccos in 2003, ProjectExplorer is a non-profit organisation that aims to open a door on the rest of the world, allowing children to experience different countries and cultures without the expense of leaving their own.
Marketing for Web-based Start-ups Ignited the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Arriving in New York City in 1999, Jenny Buccos began working with Credit Suisse First Boston as a marketing project manager on two web-based startup projects. It is here she gained experience with global media production as part of web-based marketing campaigns where she managed projects in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York.
$500,000 in Funding
In 2001, she left the corporate world and in 2003, Buccos founded ProjectExplorer.org: a NYC-based nonprofit organization that has since produced over 160 free films and multimedia materials designed for classrooms and students. In five short years, ProjectExplorer went from a simple idea to a world-class, award-winning program that has raised nearly half a million dollars in personal donations, grants, and sponsorships.
Three Series’ Later and with a Further Two in the Pipeline
After 18 months of fundraising, business development, and research – including educator, student and parent input – she produced and directed ProjectExplorer.org’s first educational program entitled “Shakespeare’s England”. The first time director/producer’s unique vision of learning and student-focused mini-documentaries attracted the support of world-renowned organisations such as The Old Vic Theatre in London, The National Archives, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Film London.
In 2007/2008, Buccos went on to direct and produc ProjectExplorer.org’s South Africa series; working with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr. John Kani, the Apartheid Museum, Robben Island, The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, photojournalist Greg Marinovich and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. In June 2008, and in recognition of the great work Buccos and ProjectExplorer have achieved, she was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine for her work in South Africa.
Not satisfied with her work in Africa, Buccos went on to direct and produce ProjectExplorer.org’s third series, this time in Jordan, whilst she is planning future series’ in Malaysia and Mexico. ProjectExplorer has placed a huge emphasis on global cross-cultural understanding and has as a result seen Ms. Buccos as the recipient of a GOLD Parent’s Choice Award for Excellence in Educational Programming.
Over 40 Countries and 2.5 Million People
The award-winning series is now used in over 40 countries, by over 2.5 million people – kids in London, Los Angeles, Lusaka, and everywhere in between, have logged on to become more globally aware.
In addition to leading ProjectExplorer,org she is a contributing writer for AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole blog focusing on issues in Southern Africa, the environment, and education. Ms. Buccos also serves on the Board of Directors of Artists Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP).
Sheryl Sandberg: A Female Internet Hero fulfills her Promise at Facebook
Sheryl Sandberg is one of the genuine female internet heroes, we reported about her in our first article back in June 2008 in our search for female internet heroes. With a huge task she started at Facebook last year: the company wanted to scale and make real money and she was the one brought in from Google to make that happen. Today she announced in a CNN video that Facebook is cashflow positive and – by the way- has 300 million users worldwide. We wrote earlier that mostly women make up the the growing number of users. The NextWomen on Facebook seems inevitable.
Blueshots TV: Karin Loeffen on her role as Founder of Bookingstool Startup Libersy
On Dutch Entrepreneur TV, Blueshots, Founder and CEO of Libersy, Karin Loeffen, talks with Simone Brummelhuis of The NextWomen about her role as initiator of the company, thereby designing a strategy which takes care of getting the best team, the best web developer and the best investors. She discusses the challenges of pitching in Sillicon Valley, taking out a mortgage to fund the seed-stage, and deciding on redeveloping the website after the initial phase. Albeit a minority shareholder she has retained founder’s veto voting rights on major issues. She has entered into big contracts with Hyves and BT, and expects an exit in a couple of years.
SHE, (a programme of Blueshots) sponsored by Bizner Bank, features interviews with women entrepreneurs, female internet heroes and also discuss marketing to women cases. It is presented by Marianne van Leeuwen of Sisteract and Simone Brummelhuis of TheNextWomen.
Video: Inspirational Female Internet Heroes.. who Code
Can Women code? Yes, they can! Last week, at “Her Code”, an event by our sister organisation Women 2.0, the common view was that women who code should encourage girls at school to do math, science and technology, so that ultimately the world will be designed and decided by men and women.
A very encouraging video from Inspirational US Women who founded, are leading or are investing in internet companies:
Dutch Media Lady Nicolette Hulsebos on her Publishing (Ad)Ventures
On Dutch Entrepreneur TV, Blueshots, Founder and CEO, but above all very experienced publisher, Nicolette Hulsebos of Paint IT Blue Magazines talks about her business ventures, the launch of new B2B and B2C titles, her adventures in the M&A world of publishing and the role of a publisher who is also the editor-in-chief.
SHE, (a programme of Blueshots) sponsored by Bizner Bank, features interviews with women entrepreneurs, female internet heroes and also discuss marketing to women cases. It is presented by Marianne van Leeuwen of Sisteract and Simone Brummelhuis of TheNextWomen.
Blocter: The Face Behind the Blog
Dutch Cowgirl, Marjolijn Kamphuis - from Blocter
A student project called Blocter from the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam, is using multimedia to showcase the driving forces and faces behind blogs. Started out of curiosity by Jorrit Spoelstra, it has become his thesis and major final exams project: A series of short, especially for the web created, documentaries/interviews on blogs and the people who run these blogs.
May 26th saw him publish his first online video documentary with Marjolijn Kamphuis, co-Founder of Dutch Cowgirls. Aimed at both men and women, the site uses an all women team of contributors to cover news items on trends, tech and gadgets.
Here, Marjolijn discusses how time pressures of a full time job led her to start Dutch Cowgirls, and end her own personal blog which took too much time to single handedly keep up to date. She notes how she is committed to addressing the lack of female voice in tech writing even though Twitter is littered with female tech professionals. Marjolijn is also part of the team at The NextWomen.
Dutch Cowgirls from Blocter on Vimeo.
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