The Next Women

Parliaments across the world slow to go online

[caption id="attachment_2425" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A press conference in second life"][/caption] Only 10 per cent of parliaments in the EU, Africa, Latin America, Australia and Canada use the internet to reach out to the citizens, according to a recently published UN report. The figures are interesting, if you consider that 21.9 % ...

Luck has nothing to do with it- Van Leeuwen’s online adventures

[caption id="attachment_2398" align="alignleft" width="213" caption="Marianne van Leeuwen: founder of dutch price comparison site Miepkniep"][/caption] It is a perfect morning in Amsterdam and sitting at a tiny bar table is a woman, Marianne van Leeuwen. Without saying a word, she radiates a playful energy coupled with an air of someone ...

Katarina Skoberne talks about growing a global business

Katarina Skoberne, founder of OPENAD.NET will talk about setting up and growing a global business in the internet industry tomorrow at the Female Internet Heroes Event. Further, she will interview Andrea Cockerton, founder of MUDHUT Consultancy, and prior thereto director of the Great Eastern Investment Forum, one of the leading ...

Controversial online baby store launches

High heels for babies are now sold online at HEELARIOUS. But the launch of this website has given rise to many reactions. In the US Britta Bacon & Hayden Porter are childhood friends turned business partners, who joined forces to launch heelarious®. Even though safety and comfort was the main ...

Entrepreneurs to pitch business for women panel

Four entrepreneurs will pitch their business during the Female Internet Heroes Event in front of a panel, consisting of Penny Gowers, Founder and CEO of Everyclick and Blackberry Woman in Technology Award winner in 2008, Jenny Fielding, UK Advisory Board Member of Astia and Katarina Skoberne of Openad. Julia Macmillan, Founder ...

Lisa Sounio to host Female Internet Heroes event

[caption id="attachment_2351" align="alignleft" width="108" caption="Lisa Sounio"][/caption] Another two days until the Female Internet Heroes Event in London will take place. Together with Jackie Brennan of Freshideas Events, we have arranged for an excellent line up of speakers who will talk on setting up an online business, business models, raising finance, pitching ...

Book: Why Women Mean Business

The Web, Women and the Weather are the three challenges of the 21st century that the book Why Women Mean Business seeks to discuss. [caption id="attachment_2341" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="They mean it "][/caption] While it may appear to be a title on female empowerment, the book is, In fact, a book for ...

Priceless Laptop

[caption id="attachment_2332" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Pinkish delight"][/caption] Hot on the heels of the credit crunch, the ASUS EEE PC 901 laptop is still the perfect all-rounder with a fantastic specification and free of the strangling tug of purse strings associated with so many of its competitors. Unveiled 2008, this 12GB SSD ASUS is ...

Online collection of art murmurart launches

A first online platform offering art has launched this month. The site is dedicated to the promotion of emerging artists and can be found at murmurART.com. [caption id="attachment_2292" align="alignleft" width="312" caption="Find artists..online"][/caption] Over the last six months murmurART, with the help of the former editor of Art Review Catriona Warren, has ...

Art Project: dresscode of social groupes in Exactitudes

[caption id="attachment_2274" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="London city girls"][/caption] European Director of TED, Bruno Giussani, points us to "Exactitudes", a truly amazing art project about similarities in the dress codes of different social groups. Take a look at the dress code of Babes, Formers, Ghoullies, Women in Charitas (Rotterdam) and London City Girls ...