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Web Publishing Roll-Up: Micropayments, RSS and Women's Whims
This week, the newspaper industry tries to solve its crisis with micropayments and syndicated feeds, while iVillage.com continues to evolve to keep up with what women want. Magazines and Newspapers Consider Micropayments When The Economist moves to charge users for access to content, people pay attention.
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More Moms Ditch Magazines, Turn to Social Media
Once, all that was needed to identify a mom was her jeans. Now, it's her twitter handle. New research presented by BabyCenter has introduced the 21st Century Mom. She spends more and more of her time online within the realms of social media.
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Women in eDiscovery
Women in eDiscovery is a nifty non-profit that brings together women in technology and law and offers them opportunities for leadership, education, and networking. Since 2007, with more than 25 chapters worldwide, they have organized conferences, training seminars and the means for women everywhere to come together around significant technology issues facing the legal industry.
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Open Web Vancouver 2009: Want More Women In Your Project?
When Angela @webchick Byron started writing a talk about women in open source for Open Web Vancouver 2009, she found the topic silly. In fact, she planned not to talk about that at all. There was no shortage of women. Instead, she would focus on recruiting people to projects.
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Women Blog, Increase Activity Online
Blogs have come along way. We know this because women say so. According to the 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners, women are nearly twice as likely to use blogs than social networking sites as a source of information (64%), advice and recommendations
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A New Year of Women on the Web
Signs of economic unrest usually include a push to pander to a different or wider demographic. During 1992's economic recession, it was declared the Year of the Woman, a nod to the 34 women in the House and Senate.
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Women Get Online and Advertisers Follow
Where women go, advertising follows. The web is no exception. As we've mentioned before, women appear to outnumber men online, with many writing, reading or otherwise contributing to blogs. And advertisers are finally getting hip to their jive. ComScore results, as highlighted in a recent New York Times article, indicated
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Women: Under-Reported in IT?
About a year ago, CMSWire reported on the number of women resigning from information technology jobs in the UK. A new report now indicates that women in IT in the US are declining as well. In 2006, women made up only 26.
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Yahoo's New Site for Women is Shiny But Not Bright
The other day, colleagues and I made a list of of things that sound bad but aren't -- such as Jawbreakers and Chunky Monkey. But now I've started making a list of things that sound good but aren't. Topping the list are sites catered toward women. Don't get me
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Girls Find Their Groove Online
As a woman working in the field of e-communications and technology, I am always giddy when surveys highlight the growing presence of women on the Web. Back in July, we learned how women are contributing to and advancing the collaborative Web. And we're always spreading the word about geeky girl stuff.
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Women and Mothers Get More of the Same
Ahh…to be a mom in today’s world of Internet dominance. To have big networks clamoring for your attention, night and day, anxiously waiting to tell you celebrities’ views on childrearing, must satisfy every mother’s daily needs. If only the 'net actually changed the diapers. But not for lack of trying.
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'Online Identity Calculator' Drives Double-Edged Sword into Woman Execs
It's hard to be a competent, successful woman these days. It seems that you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Of course I speak to two articles published in the past few days highlighting the posh double-edge swords with which we, the "gentler" sex, are accessorizing. A
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Ladies! Ever Feel ... Geeky?
It's time to set the stage for a tech conference that's just for women. She's Geeky is an "(un)conference" for that one coding chick among many man geeks. Make your appearance from October 22-23, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
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Study: UK Women Throw Their Hands Up at IT
Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but we're all equals in the workplace, right? Recent data regarding women in the IT industry seem to say otherwise. According to the UK's National Management Salary Survey, garnered by the Chartered Management Institute and Remuneration Economics, the number of
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