Do you use Social Media marketing?  Are you overwhelmed by all of the tools that are out there?  Do you want to learn some of the best tools that can be used to help you manage your Social Marketing efforts?

On Monday March 5, the Webgrrls community gathered to talk about the different social media tools that people use and why. During the Twitter Chat, we explored and shared answers to the following questions:

• What are some of your favorite social media tools to help manage Twitter & Facebook?
• What are some great tools for social media analytics and reporting? 
• What are some tools you use to find new followers?
• Niche site = more targeted audience. Dog clothes designer will get better ROI at @Dogster. What niche sites do you use? 
• What tools do you use to find and aggregate resources and content?

Below are some highlights from the event with answers to the above questions

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Networking is one of the most important skills professionals need to have…whether you are doing business development, are trying to find a job, or building relationships.  

During the Twitter Chat, we explored and shared answers to the following questions:

• What does networking mean to you?
• What is your primary goal when you network?
• What are some things that you do to maximize your networking time at events
• What are the three stages of the networking process?
• What are some tools that you use to streamline your networking and follow-up process?

Below are some highlights from the event with answers to the above questions

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Webgrrls International often receives tickets to industry events and we have two FREE full passes to attend the Women 2.0 PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition in NYC that we want to offer to our members. The date for the Conference is November 14. The value of each pass is $750.

2 Ways to Win

1. Attend the NYC Webgrrls The Art of Less Doing & Networking event on November 7.  We will randomly choose a winner at the event. Note: you must be present to win.
    
2. Enter to win online.  You must be a member to participate…so, if you are not a Webgrrls member or your membership is not current, please Join or Renew your membership now.  We will randomly determine who receives the ticket for the event and will email you if you are the winner. 

All Webgrrls receive 30% Discount to Attend!

All Webgrrls are eligible to receive a 30% discount to attend the event. Be sure to enter discount code: WEBGRRLS-30 when registering.

See you there!

March is Women’s History Month, the theme is empowerment through education. As I started to consider what I knew about the role of women leaders throughout history, I decided to come up with a list of 75 inspirational female leaders through time, some of these are for fun others are truly admirable women …. Some I knew of, others I got to know while researching this list – ALL are fascinating and brave who have contributed to our history.

Please share this list with your friends, sisters and daughters – and come up with one of your own, the more we know about women, the more we are empowered with “her-story”.

1. The women in my family who emigrated from Cuba with nothing, and managed our family in exile
2. Asmaa Mahfouz (1987 – ) Egyptian activist, founder of the April 6 Youth Movement
3. Sheryl Sandberg (1971 – )
4. Arianna Huffington (1950 – )
5. Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, Supreme Court (1954 – )
6. Zaha Hadid, First Woman to Win a Pritzker Prize (1950 – )
7. Michelle Bachelet (1951 – ) Ms. Michelle Bachelet Under-Secretary-General Executive Director of UN Women, former President of Chile  

1. Angela Merkel (1954 – ) Chancellor of Germany
2. Kazuyo Sejima (1956 – ) SANAA Japanese architect 
3. Wangari Maathai (1940 – 2011) Founder of Green Belt Movement and 2004 Nobel Peace prize
4. Hillary Clinton (1947 – ) US Secretary of State, former First Lady
5. Madeleine Albright (1937 – ) Former US Secretary of State, first woman.
6. Isabel Ayende (1942 – )
7. Benazir Bhutto (1953 – 2007)
8. Mother Theresa (1910 – 1997)
9. Margarret Thatcher (1925 – )
10. Gloria Steinem (1934 – )
11. Sirivamo Bandaranaike (1916-2000) Sri-Lanka, First elected woman prime minister
12. Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers (U.F.W.) (1930
13. Antonia Coello Novello first Latina Surgeon General of the United States.
14. Julia Child (1912 – 2004)
15. Princess Diana (1960 – 1997)
16. Margaret Mead (1901 – 1979)
17. Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005)
18. Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India (1917 – 1984)
19. Golda Meir (1898 -1978)
    
20. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USNR  (1906 – 1992) Computer pioneer
21. Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954)
22. Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946)  
23. Valentina Tereshkova (1937 – ) Cosmonaut, first woman in space
24. Amelia Earhart (1897 – 1937?) 
25. Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910) 
26. Juliette Gordon Low (1860 – 19270 Founder of the Girl Scouts 
27. Marie LaVeau (1801 – 1881) Voodoo Queen of New Orleans and famous herbalist.
28. Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) 
30. Pocahontas (1594 0 1615) 
31. Joan of Arc  (1412 – 1431)
32. Madame Curie (1867 – 1934) The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903
33. Wilma Mankiller  (1945 – ) First woman to lead the Cherokee Nation
34. Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906)
35. Clara Barton (1821-1912) Founder of the Red Cross
36. Frances Perkins (1882-1965) First woman member of the presidential Cabinet 
37. Mary Lyon (1797-1849) Founder of Mt. Holyoke College, first college for women in the US
38. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651 – 1695) Mexican poet, writer
39. Anne Bonny (1698-1782) Female pirate 
40. Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793)
41. Isabella I of Castile Queen of Spain (1451 – 1504)
42. Queen Victoria (1837 – 1901)
43. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122 - 1204)
44. Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533 – 1603)
45. Queen Sukda of Mandara (Cameroon) (Around 1500)
46. Regent Dowager Empress Eleni of Ethiopia (1507-1516)
47. Governor Sayyida al-Hurra of Tetouán (Morocco) (1510-1552 )
48. Maria Theresa of Hapsburg (1717-1780) Empress of Austria
49. Queen Regnant Anacaona of the Maguana (early 1500) Taino Tribe Hispanola
50. Catherine the Great Empress of Russia (1729 – 1796)
51. Verónica I of Matamba ruler of Ndongoand Matamba (1681-1721)
52. Lady Isabel Xipaguazin Moctezuma of Tacuba (1525-1550) Mexico
53. Regent Dowager Duchess Chiara Giorgio of Athenai (1451- 1454) Greece
54. Female King Atotoztli of Tenochtitlán (1466-1472) Mexico
55. Princess Regnant Bigum Hatun of Qara Quyünlü (1435-67) Iran/Iraq 
56. Governor Lucrezia Borgia of Spoleto and Foligno (1480 – 1519) Italy
57. Queen Regnant Paccha of Quito (Cara) (1487-1488)  (Ecuador)
58. Empress Theodora  (500 – 548)
59. Wu Zetian (690 – 705)
60. Cleopatra (69 – 30 BC)
61. Makeda, Queen of Sheba (10th century B.C.)
62. Chieftainess Sharifa Fatima of the Zaydi (Yemen) (1450-1500)
63. Taoist Priest Empress Zhang in China (1493 – )
    
64. Empress Liu (Wu) (318–349)
65. Kubaba (only queen on the Sumerian King List) (2500-2330 BC)
66. Sapho (580 – 570)
67. Esther from the bible
68. Deborah was one of the Judges of Israel

Do you know another woman leader that I didn’t mention? please let me know in the comment section.

Parlodel

I had the pleasure of attending IGNITION WEST conference last week in San Francisco. Organized by Business Insider, the event explored the future of Mobile.  I was really excited to be in a room full of people interested in one of the hottest trends right now.

The Current Trends in Mobile

The Business Insider’s team kicked off the conference with the discussion on the current trends in mobile…the growth of smartphones and tablets, the platform wars, and how consumers are using mobile devices. 

Last year the number of smartphones sold exceeded the number of PCs sold and the potential for growth in mobile is still enormous and in fact, we’re still early (835million SmartPhone users vs. 5.6billion DumbPhone users).

 View the Full Slide Deck.

The Future of Mobile Apps

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