National – 1 July 2010 If you want to go in one direction, the best route may involve going in another. This is the concept of ‘obliquity’: paradoxical as it sounds, many goals are more likely to be achieved... read more
HerBusiness has appointed multi-award winning businesswomen Amy Lyden as its Advocacy Ambassador, heading up the network’s herVoice advocacy program. Amy Lyden has been an HerBusiness member since 1995. Amy has mentored a number of women through the HerBusiness mentoring program, spearheaded International... read more
HerBusiness’s MentorNet mentoring program has won a Platinum Award for Best Mentoring or Coaching program at the prestigious LearnX Asia Pacific 2010 E-Learning and Training Awards. MentorNet provides women business owners with six months of business skills training and... read more
The program that caught my attention on Facebook was their '30 Days of Social Media' a practical guide on how to effectively use these platforms for business. Suzi so right when she said "telling women to use facebook and... read more
The Apprentice (the Aussie version) has seen women behaving badly according to a journalist who called HerBusiness last week to ask if the behaviour (women being catty and playing ‘dirtier than the men’) was what we consider normal behaviour. In... read more
The Australian Business Magazine – The Deal – recently featured an article on how women are joining forces and partnering with other women to co-create businesses. The HerBusiness’s Advisory Board Member, Susan Wareham McGrath, was asked to comment on the... read more
On 23 August the Sun Herald newspaper featured Julia Nekich of The Ideas Suite who participated in the HerBusiness MentorNet mentoring program. The story, titled, Your Guide to Greatness, explored the role a mentor can play in the growth and... read more
Recently, Dynamic Business magazine held a lunch hosted by Blackberry. The topic – work/life balance and the role that smartphones can play to either help or hinder. I’m an iPhone user… so on this day I kept my beloved... read more
On 11 August MX magazine featured and article titled “Future in Female” which quited a UK article that suggested that business is moving away from masculine styles of leadership and doing business to a more ‘female’ version of doing... read more
Media Release: If Men Are From Mars & Women are from Venus, How On Earth Do they Network? Being successful in business requires women to be able to network equally effectively with men and women. On 4 August HerBusiness presents “Networking with... read more
The world is a-flutter with news of microblogging site Twitter. The early adopters are wondering what all the fuss is about (and possibly that everyone would just quit acting as though they discovered sliced bread) … but for those... read more
HerBusiness is featured in this month’s Dynamic Business magazine. In the article: Joining the Social Media Revolution (page 38) HerBusiness is used as a case study on a business using social media (Twitter specifically) to do business. Here’s a quick look at the Social Media Conversation article. Grab a... read more
