{"id":123,"date":"2012-06-11T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markerly.wordpress.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-06-11T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T20:39:07","slug":"great-networking-and-support-for-females-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/great-networking-and-support-for-females-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Networking and Support for Females in Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>In my last post I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladiesamerica.com\">Ladies America<\/a> as a great resource, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladiesdc.com\">LadiesDC<\/a> in particular has thousands of great women to network with), with the empowering motto of women helping women. There are chapters in many cities and joining connects you with awesome like minded individuals.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to provide a quick, small list to show those who I&#8217;m following that have recently inspired me, blogs that I read and those I feel are helpful, and a couple of referrals from friends for great networking opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Grasshopper has a ton of advice in this article on 20 reads for entrepreneur women\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markerly.com\/direct.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgrasshopper.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F06%2Froundup-20-reads-for-women-entrepreneurs-part-ii%2F\">here\u00a0<\/a>(thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/natashatherobot.com\/2012\/06\/11\/making-stuff-changes-everything\/\">Natasha Murashev<\/a>\u00a0for sharing &#8211; check out her <a href=\"http:\/\/natashatherobot.com\/2012\/06\/11\/making-stuff-changes-everything\/\">blog<\/a> as she writes about learning to code)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markerly.com\/direct.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.daniellemorrill.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fstarting-referly-took-me-three-years%2F\">Danielle Morrill<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refer.ly\">Refer.ly<\/a>\u00a0(Currently in <a href=\"http:\/\/ycombinator.com\/\">Y Combinator<\/a>) I love reading her posts and tweets. Click on Mentorship at the top of the page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinacacioppo.com\/\">Christina Cacioppo<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usv.com\/\">Union Square Ventures<\/a>. $$<\/p>\n<p>DC-native Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/marissalevin\">Marissa Levin<\/a>, CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationexperts.com\/\">Information Experts<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter. I bought her book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Built-Scale-Breakthrough-Exceptional-ebook\/dp\/B00816IYLC\">Built To Scale<\/a> at a <a href=\"http:\/\/foster.ly\/\">Foster.ly<\/a> event, another great network for <em>both<\/em>\u00a0entrepreneurial men and women to get involved with in DC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/womengrowbusiness.com\/\">Women Grow Business<\/a> is an awesome blog that I recommend you subscribe to.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/cindygallop\">Cindy Gallop<\/a> on Twitter, her posts are always helpful and she is a huge advocate for female-led businesses.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t vouch for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladieswholaunch.com\/\">Ladies Who Launch<\/a> personally, but I have heard many women recommending this network. It&#8217;s on my to-do list, so it should be on yours, too.<\/p>\n<p>(DC) My friend just went to an event hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.successinthecity.org\/events\">Success In The City<\/a>, so this is another one I have not gotten involved with yet, but looks promising!<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/lindseymask\">Lindsey Mask<\/a> for great tweets on articles featuring women.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shetakesontheworld.com\/\">She Takes on the World<\/a> is another blog that I enjoy reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> In my last post I mentioned Ladies America as a great resource, (LadiesDC in particular has thousands of great women to network with), with the empowering motto of women helping women. There are chapters in many cities and joining connects you with awesome like minded individuals. I&#8217;ve decided to provide a quick, small list to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[30,44,57,115,116,118,120,124,139,140,157,160,186,203,204,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.markerly.com\/pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}