This morning I opened up my trusty feed reader (feedly), and soon clicked on a post of mine to see how it looked in feedly. There are so many things about using this clean, minimalist feed reader, but one of my favs is the fact that it recommends things "you might also like". The suggested reading for those who like GenPink just so happen to be some of my favorite ladies.
Check it out (I did not pick these – but it’s pretty close to what I would have picked):
I saw this via twitter and I thought was worth sharing.
The venerable Estee Lauder cosmetics brand has found a seemingly natural way to connect with social media: offering free makeovers and photo shoots at its department-store cosmetics counters coast-to-coast to produce shots women can use for their online profiles. – AdAge
The promotion will start in New York Bloomingdale’s October 16th and expand into Macy’s and Saks in other cities.
The gift that the brand hopes will keep on giving is that the profile photos include the Estee Lauder logo in the background, which, assuming they aren’t Photoshopped into oblivion, could give the brand lasting presence on Facebook beyond its own 27,000-member plus fan page. The promotion is being plugged on that page, as well as on Estee Lauder’s website, and the company is also using PR to spread the word. – AdAge
I am entrenched in the marketing and social media world so "new" ideas always appeal to me. What do you think of this idea? Do you think you’d act on this offer? I’ve never used Estee Lauder, but it sounds fun to me.
I find it ironic that I filmed this video on why women suck at self promotion several days ago and I kept doubting whether I should put it up. Umm hi I suck at self-promotion!
According to a great post my friend Nisha Chittal wrote, The Politics Of Self-Promotion: Women Suck At It – "eight times as many men as women graduating with master’s degrees from Carnegie Mellon negotiated their salaries". She has a lot of other great statistics on her post – all which floored me! So I’m very curious WHY women suck at self-promotion. I think it’s pretty clear from watching my circle of friends there is certainly a different style of promotion among men and women but I’m curious what that is.
Since I like promoting other people … Here are some of my favorite Gen Y Women Bloggers you should be following!
Monica O’Brien – Twenty Set: Monica O’Brien is a Marketing Consultant specializing in marketing strategy and consumer insights at the juncture of new media and traditional marketing.
I just finished watching The Upside of Anger, as the credit music plays in the background I’m still unsure of whether or not I even liked the movie. I do know … it’s one of those that leaves you thinking. Either way this quote from the end is certainly worth sharing:
Anger and resentment can stop you in your tracks. That’s what I know now. It needs nothing to burn but the air and the life that it swallows and smothers. It’s real, though – the fury, even when it isn’t. It can change you… turn you… mold you and shape you into something you’re not. The only upside to anger, then… is the person you become. Hopefully someone that wakes up one day and realizes they’re not afraid to take the journey, someone that knows that the truth is, at best, a partially told story. That anger, like growth, comes in spurts and fits, and in its wake, leaves a new chance at acceptance, and the promise of calm. Then again, what do I know? I’m only a child.
"In my experience, female bosses tend to be better managers, better advisers, mentors, rational thinkers. Men love to hear themselves talk. I’m so generalizing. I know I am. But in a couple of places I’ve worked, I would often say, ‘Call me 15 minutes after the meeting starts and then I’ll come,’ because I will have missed all the football. I will have missed all the ‘what I did on the golf course.’ I will miss the four jokes, and I can get into the meeting when it’s starting."
This declaration of managerial skill is very intriguing to me. However, upon reflection I realized I’ve yet to have a male manager. I’m not quite sure how that has happened but as the case may be, it’s true. Savvy Sugar has a poll that last I checked was leaning towards "Management skills have nothing to do with gender." But the comments were certainly less than neutral. According to the Boston Globe is may be more profitable to put women in charge. So what do you think?
This morning I opened up my trusty feed reader (feedly), and soon clicked on a post of mine to see how it looked in feedly. There are so many things about using this clean, minimalist feed reader, but one of my favs is the fact that it recommends things "you might also like". The suggested reading for those who like GenPink just so happen to be some of my favorite ladies.
I saw this 
, as the credit music plays in the background I’m still unsure of whether or not I even liked the movie. I do know … it’s one of those that leaves you thinking. Either way this quote from the end is certainly worth sharing:
People are talkin’