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Women 2.0 is having a business plan competition for a chance to win one-on-one meetings with some of the top venture capital investment firms in the world.
Your company must be in concept or beta-stage and have not received significant funding and your team has to be at least 50% female ownership to be eligible. The deadline is April 15th, so hurry! Fill out the online application form (here)
Selected finalists will pitch in front of a judging panel and live audience at the Women 2.0 Conference and Pitch Night on May 10th for a chance to win one-on-one meetings with some of the top venture capital investment firms in the world. Previous year’s prizes were meetings with Michael Mortiz, Sequoia Capital and Tim Draper, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. This year, prizes include a meeting with Esther Dyson, CEO of EDventure and investor in companies such as Flickr, del.icio.us, and 23andMe.”
Good Luck!
By: Nelly Yusupova
Posted: April 8, 2008 Topics: Events, Marketing, Women in Technology, Blogs, Business, Career, Technology Tags: brand equity, marketing, SEO, social media
Last week, I had the pleasure moderating a panel/case study at the BlogHer Business ‘08 conference here in New York City, where I interviewed three prominent Microsoft bloggers. The panelists were Ani Babaian, Sara Ford and Ariel Stallings, and we discussed how their blogging helps to build a bridge between the world of corporate social media and their own personal technology passions.
I really enjoyed getting to know these three very dynamic women and learning how their efforts are helping Microsoft add a new dimension to the corporate perception.
Ani Babaian is a senior product manager with the LiveSearch team at Microsoft and she blogs on a variety of topics with a focus on SEO.
Sara Ford is a program manager for codeplex.com, Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. She is a hardcore techie and blogs about the Microsoft product that she works with, interacts with the open source community, and participates in the conversations to help users find solutions to their issues.
Ariel Stallings is a marketing manager with staffing marketing. It’s her job to convince you that working at Microsoft is cool. She profiles microsoft employees by focusing on the diversity and life style of the Microsoft employees…their fun side…their personal side.
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 Podcamp NYC is a free “unconference” focused on New Media. It is focused on educating participants on how to use, implement and share any/all new media tools including, podcasts, videocasts, blogs, Second Life, Facebook, and YouTube.
This year’s unconference will take place on April 25-26 at Brooklyn Polytechnic. It is a good place to learn trends, tools and technology, to keep up to date with the New Media industry. Register to attend or speak.
The session schedule is still being finalized. Below is a preview of the tracks and topics that will be discussed, organized by track.
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I am at BlogHer Business conference today and this morning we heard the results of the social media benchmark study that BlogHer conducted in conjunction with Compass Partners.
The study consisted of more than 6,000 women. 1,250 female Internet users were surveyed via a nationally representative panel, and 5,000 visitors to BlogHer’s network. The results?
* 36.2 million women actively participate in the blogsophere every week (15.1 publishing, 21.1 reading and commenting)? (Page 3 of report below)
* Women are so passionate about blogging that large percentages of women said they would give something up to keep the blogs they read and/or write:
- 55% would give up alcohol
- 50% would give up their PDAs
- 42% would give up their i-Pod
- 43% would give up reading the newspaper or magazines
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Microsoft is holding a free four day Small Business Summit online. The event is broadcast live March 24-27, 2008 (12pm EDT/9am PDT)
“You’ll get tips, advice, and secrets from experts, all designed to make the hats you wear each day fit more comfortably”.
For more information and to register go to: https://www.sbsummit.com/default.aspx
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