Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities

by Carol Smallwood (Editor)

Overview

In a tight economy women entrepreneurs are making progress in a field that has been traditionally (along with science, math, and engineering) one which women haven’t been well represented—technology. 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. How the Internet has helped women with young children, caretakers of disabled family members, women with disabilities. How it has helped female veterans gain employment, put women into work boots, publish in a male dominated world, become editors, online instructors, and hold the First International Day of the Girl. The twenty-eight chapters are divided into five parts:

• Fostering Change
• Running a Business
• Educational Applications
• Personal Aspects
• Publishing and Writing.

It is exciting to see how the creative contributors of different ages, backgrounds, and goals, are using the Web to further their careers and the status of other women as they progress online.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442244269
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/11/2014
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Inspiration from creative people extending their niche through the web.

B. Lynn Goodwin

Offers teachers, entrepreneurs, mothers, and editors expert help for business and personal opportunities on the world wide web.

Christine Redman-Waldeyer

A great resource for women with an established business or just starting out.

Linda A. Wade

Gain insight and ideas from this book by women who teach, learn, publish, advocate, and thrive online.

Dorothea J. Coiffe

An excellent addition to the field.

Karla J. Strand

...provides solid, varied, and practical information for any woman seeking to expand her Internet knowledge base.

Rebecca Marcum Parker

Women, Work, and the Web gives practical advice and evokes a greater understanding of Internet culture.

Ada Fetters

This anthology compiles 28 essays that discuss how the Internet can be utilized to aid women in the workforce. Essays are organized according to five themes—'Fostering Change,' 'Running a Business,' 'Educational Applications,' 'Personal Aspects,' and 'Publishing and Writing'—and cover topics such as blogging, growing a business, teaching online classes, and working remotely. The narrative draws from the contributors’ personal experiences, presenting a unique aspect on how the Internet can provide women new and empowering opportunities. Most chapters also include helpful tips and recommendations to employ for the reader’s own personal success. Recommended for public and academic libraries.

Booklist

This anthology compiles 28 essays that discuss how the Internet can be utilized to aid women in the workforce. Essays are organized according to five themes—'Fostering Change,' 'Running a Business,' 'Educational Applications,' 'Personal Aspects,' and 'Publishing and Writing'—and cover topics such as blogging, growing a business, teaching online classes, and working remotely. The narrative draws from the contributors’ personal experiences, presenting a unique aspect on how the Internet can provide women new and empowering opportunities. Most chapters also include helpful tips and recommendations to employ for the reader’s own personal success. Recommended for public and academic libraries.

Booklist