Welcome, Victoria Pynchon!

I get email . . . below, a casting director who asked that I pass this along to my network, as I am, with no recommendation whatsoever. Just passing along the word.

Hi Victoria!

My name is Michael Cimino and I am a Casting Director for an all-new cable network TV series. I came across your group and I think it's awesome. Coming from a single-family home with a hardworking single mother, I can really appreciate a group like this. I attribute all of my success to my mom. You may also understand… Continue

This is a great list with tremendous comments on the strategic use of more than a dozen social networking platforms.

From Lauren Stiller Rikleen of the Bowditch Institute for Women's Success

Fall is generally the season when the evaluation process is fully underway. Too many workplaces, however, fail to address the link between the evaluation process and the unexamined biases we all carry within us. Understanding these unconscious beliefs is an important first step towards a fair system of evaluations. A more detailed discussion of ways to address unexamined bias can be found in this week's… Continue

If [social networks] are to be analogized to anything offline, [they] are simply virtual buildings – with rooms and accoutrements by which people can share information and connect.



And the participants? They are people – and people are not one thing in one place and another somewhere else – solely interested in one thing when they are here and in another when they are there. They are like you and me.



Whether I’m scanning my home page on Facebook, reading my Twitter stream, or checking o… Continue

byline Marissa Levin on Women's Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial traits according to a credible study... and my perspective too

The Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship (www.kauffman.org) recently released a report entitled “The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur”. It’s based on a survey of 549 company found… Continue