You know our disdain for the DREADED ALL MALE PANEL but there’s another trend we find equally distasteful… The dreaded ALL FEMALE panel. Yes, you read that correctly. All female.
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Is Sunday the new Monday?
Last week’s “Sunday” edition of the Innovation Women newsletter and survey aptly demonstrated one thing that we’ve always known, that what works for one woman may not work for the next woman. But also, sometimes it’s great just to know that you are not alone.
Read MoreUpcoming Events: December 11, 2015
Upcoming events and opportunities for you. This week we’re able to feature one of our own Innovation Women, Jules Pieri, founder of the Grommet, as she talks about the challenges of entrepreneurship. Check out the do-gooder holiday parties from the Women’s iLab and the Boston Business Women. And, information on […]
Read MoreUpcoming Events: December 3
Upcoming events and opportunities for you. This week we have information about a great awards program from Biogen and WEST, the Women’s iLab holiday party, the Boston Business Women’s holiday party and information about the nationwide InnovateHER challenge.
Read MoreBeing a Part of the Speaking "Circuit"
This week, Nick Morgan, a contributor to the Forbes blog, wrote an article about Why Are There So Few Women Speakers. Nick talked about the Catch-22 of speaking: “Few women getting hired to speak means fewer can become stars, which means fewer will get hired to speak.” Nick’s talking about the […]
Read MoreSome of Our Best Tips for Innovation Women Speakers
Worried, scared or nervous about presenting? Forget presenting and have a conversation with your audience. Make it interactive. Ask who is in the audience. What do they want to talk about/learn? Fast Talker? Add more pauses than you think are natural. Give people a chance to consider what you said. […]
Read MoreYEAH for Awesome Partners
Like many non-technical tech startup founders, we needed expert technical help to bring our web application to life. We were fortunate to pair with East Coast Product to create the first version of Innovation Women. (Oh yes, we have future plans…) The ECP team in Boston works from one of […]
Read MoreWhy All Speakers are Also Event Managers
On the Innovation Women website, we have two kinds of accounts, event managers and speakers. The event managers can use the site’s database to find speakers for their events and reach out to them to book them for an event. The speakers can load their information into our profile and […]
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