Women, Work, and the Web

How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Herausgeber: Smallwood, Carol

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities is by contributors from the United States and Canada sharing how the Internet has opened doors, leveled the playing field, and provided new opportunities for women to earn money using technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781442244269
• ISBN-10: 1442244267
• Artikelnr.: 41397492

Autorenporträt

Carol Smallwood coedited Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching on the list of Best Books for Writers by Poets & Writers Magazine; Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing (Key Publishing House, 2012); Lily's Odyssey (All Things That Matter Press, 2010). Her library experience includes school, public, academic, special, as well as administration and being a consultant. Carol has founded, supports humane societies. Bringing the Arts into the Library (2014) is her sixth book for the American Library Association; Divining the Prime Meridian is forthcoming from WordTech Editions.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I Fostering Change 1. Blogging to
Create Change Amanda Peach 2. Creating Opportunities for Women on the Web:
A Mother's New Mother's Quest Denise Powell 3. Girls' Human Rights and
Virtual Empowerment: Celebrating the First International Day of the Girl
with a Virtual Summit Emily Bent 4. Establishing Online Business
Identities: How Female Small Business Owners Use Social Media to Market
Their Business Kara Poe Alexander 5. Find a Hub Kanina Holmes 6. Keeping My
Place at the Table: Growing With a Business Liz Webler Rowell 7. KHORAI:
Promoting Reproductive and Maternal Mental Health Through an Innovative Web
Presence Marie Hansen, Tasha Muresan, Aurélie Athan 8. Leveraging the Power
of the Web for Work: Female Veterans' Online Efforts to Combat Unemployment
D. Alexis Hart and Mariana Grohowski 9. Tips for Starting Your Own Dream
Business on eBay and Etsy in 30 Days or Less Kathleen Clauson Part II
Running a Business 10. Fashion Plus Size Blogging for a 'Size' of Our Own ¿
Jill Andrew, Aisha Fairclough 11. Leveraging the Linky Party: Knowledge
Sharing in the Blogosphere Jennifer Russum 12. Looking at the Technology
Trends of Life Coaches: Finding and Using Successful Online Business
Building Tools Melissa Cornwell 13. Social, Digital and Business
Entrepreneurship: From Online Community to Business Opportunity Jennifer
Sintime 14. Vodcasting for Profit Amanda Peach 15. Women in Work Boots: A
Website Profiling Women in the Trades Jennifer Sintime Part III Educational
Applications 16. Entrepreneurship Research: Using the Tools at Your Local
Library Lura Sanborn 17. Editing Student Writing Amy J. Barnickel 18.
Online Instructors: the New Face of Education Judy Donovan, Julie Adkins,
Debbie Carpenter 19. The Six Ps of Editorial Assistantships: How the Web
Paid For My Doctoral Education Jenny Ungbha Korn 20. Teaching Online from
Home Katherine Sanger 21. A Woman's Journey Through The Web Robert Simpson
Part IV Personal Aspects 22. Getting the Most Out of a Virtual Internship
Laura Francabandera 23. How the Internet has Opened Doors for Women with
Disabilities K Royal 24. Reducing the Caregiver's Burden Darra Hofman Part
V Publishing and Writing 25. Founding an Online Magazine Inspired by Travel
Written by Women Sarah Menkedick 26. Founding and Running Sheila Bender's
Writing It Real Sheila Bender 27. Founding Female Editors: Your Voice, Your
Vision and How to Make it a Reality Nicole M. Bouchard 28. Self-Publishing
in a Male-Dominated Publishing World Leanne Olson Bio List of editors,
foreword writer, contributors Index