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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
Female Heroes Interview: Eileen Gittins
Every week we publish an interview with one of our female internet heroes. MEET interesting women, READ about their WORK, THINK about how they PLAY the internet industry and see how you MATCH them. Be inspired! This week: Eileen Gittins.
Eileen Gittins
Eileen is a serial entrepreneur of the truest kind. She has set up a number of web companies, including Personify, an ecommerce data mining and analytics company and Verb, a context-based search engine company. Her current company Blurb was founded from Eileen’s passion for photography and from the realization that the idea for Blurb was “the idea that doesn’t leave you, that comes back to you while you are under the shower.” The result is a web company that allows anyone to print a book, whether they need ten or a hundred copies. More importantly however, it is a company to which many can relate; artists, families, photography hobbyists, and even Eileen’s mom. Eileen: “My mother used to say: ‘Eileen is in the internet.’ Now she says ‘Eileen runs a company where anyone can make a book.’ There is something very nice about doing something so concrete, something people get.”
Thenextwomen talked to Eileen about why founding a company from a passion is so fulfilling, her success, her mistakes and what she learned from them.
· How did you come to set up Blurb?
it’s a women websites world
Women-sites seem to be taking the internet by storm. According to a report by internet traffic measurement firm comScore, US sites aimed primarily at women are growing. Mother blogs, women network sites and fashion and beauty sites grew 35 percent last year. Women’s sites had 85 million visitors in May 2008, 42 percent more than the same month last year, comScore reports.
Unsurprisingly, advertising follows this trend. A total of 4.4 billion ads were displayed on women’s web sites in May 2008, which is more than the total amount of advertising on children, teens and families comScore records. Read more
Next weekend: Blogher Conference California
Want to see the Blogosphere come to life? Next week is your chance: the ultimate female Blogher will be hosting a conference in San Franscisco from the 18th to the 20th of July.
The conference will feature technical labs, educational workshops, discussion sessions, talks by speakers from the blogosphere, and opportunities to network and socialize. If that sounds good, have a look at the speakers list, it’s even better. It includes:
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