Happy New Year, folks! Time just flies doesn’t it? I hope you had a wonderful, safe and happy holiday break. Now that our celebration with our sponsor is over, it’s time for us to resume our equally enjoyable regular Women Grow Business activities. Seems like just a minute ago it was November and we were [...]
Thursday Bram
We’ve got two events coming up this November for Women Grow Business, one live, and one virtual. It also occurred to me when observing shares in Facebook and on Twitter that many community members have their own events to share, so I’ve decided to try a little experiment, which we’ll discuss momentarily. First, let me [...]
Plague, meet Consumer Economics. In my senior year of high school, I had to take Consumer Economics — a class devoted to teaching me how to handle my checkbook, make a budget and generally be a good consumer. This type of class is mandatory in most states (despite incredible efforts on the part of students [...]
Must productivity be macho? When I scroll through my feed reader, I see lots of posts on topics like “10 Ways to Power Through Your Task List” or “How to Absolutely Rock Your Day.” It’s rare that I see something with a perspective beyond assuming that the pile of tasks you need to do today [...]
When I still lived at home, I always knew how I would be spending Mother’s Day. My sisters and I would pull weeds, move dirt and generally labor in the yard for our mother — along with doing any other chore she could think of. We were a captive audience — she knew she could [...]
Necessity’s the mother of invention. So’s her daughter. Technology has never been a game that just guys can play. From the start, women have been involved in the creation and development of computers. But one of the most important contributors — Ada Lovelace — is virtually unknown. Lovelace was the first computer programmer: as Charles [...]
Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series by guest contributor Patrica Frame that looks at the many facets of resilience in women and how we can build our own capacity. This first part of the series takes a preliminary look at a critical capacity-building exercise that is the epitome of resilience – [...]
Lost in work and a running joke In my family, we have a running joke: we tell a certain relative that any family events start an hour before they’re actually slated to begin. He’ll get caught up in work and arrive about an hour after he’s supposed to — our little scheme ensures that he’s [...]
This year has brought great impact and change to many of the blogger community here (and it’s the launch year of Women Grow Business to boot!). Many bloggers have shared recently what they’re most grateful for in their businesses in 2009. The first few: Liz Scherer, producer of Flashfree: I’m thankful for a wonderful team [...]
