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Updated! 2013 Conference tips for the New Media Expo in Las Vegas #NMX

NMX 2013 Conference tips

This year two major conferences are happening back to back in Las Vegas - the New Media Expo (also known as NMX, or the conference formerly known as Blog World) and the 2013 International Consumer Electronics show (CES). NMX is from the 6th to the 8th at the Rio All Suite hotel, about a mile off the strip, and CES will be held in several hotels from the 8th to the 10th. (If you're going to NMX and haven't registered, time's a-wasting! Use code NMX20 for
Photos, tweets and video from Washington Post Live’s Women in 2012 Event #womenin2012
This December, I was honored to be invited to cover the Washington Post Live event, Women in 2012. Previously I'd intended to upload my own video clips of the event, but found after several weeks that most of what I sent for editing was unusable. Upon a second look at the Washington Post site, I was surprised to find that each session was available, in full, on the event page. In the Storify embed below, I've included the highlights of the event, links to the full discussion,...
Summary of Our #wgbiz Chat with Nicolette Pizzitola (@nicpiz) on Building a Business That Reflects You

Women in Business Want More Fulfilling Careers

Whether we've created businesses or climbed the rungs of the corporate ladder, women in business in the WGB community have made it clear: we yearn for our businesses to reflect us. And so it was just our luck that when our expected chat guest had to reschedule, several synchronous events granted us the miracle of a spot in Nicolette Pizzitola's schedule on incredibly short notice. It used to be that even with planning, we dared not...
CNN Leading Women section Wants to Know Your Professional Plans for 2013 #LWresolutions
CNN Leading Women Asks: What Are Your Professional New Year's Resolutions? For many people it's a yearly ritual - new year, better me. Totally engrossed with this concept, I researched it last year. I found that though there's a high probability that most of us will break at least one of our resolutions, some research shows that the very act of making them has intrinsic benefits [pdf]. (Although the commonly referenced Harvard/Yale Study is a myth, the university research cited...
Highlights from TEDxWomen Adams Morgan #TEDxAdMo #TEDxWomen [pics &video]
TEDxWomen in Adams Morgan was a wonderful experience. Of course I have to admit a bias. We had  not one but two Women Grow Business community members represented. Shonali Burke of Waxing Unlyrical, our out-going editor gave a riveting speech, as did Nicolette Pizzitola. As you probably already know, she was one of the co-sponsors and co-hosts of our last Women Grow Business live event, as well as our most recent guest expert in our monthly Twitter chat series. (WGB was also...
TODAY Noon ET – Building a Business That Reflects You Featuring Nicolette Pizzitola (@nicpiz)
This December, we are honored to have Nicolette Pizzitola as our guest expert on the critical topic of How to Create a Business That Reflects You, especially on such short notice. (Those of you who read the summary of our last chat may remember that we had another  guest planned but she had to reschedule for January.) To participate, all you have to do is meet us here at noon Eastern today, or if you're familiar with Twitter, log in and follow the #wgbiz hashtag. Whether...

by Tinu Abayomi-Paul - December 8, 2012

Advice from Top Women CEOs and Debunked Myths [infographic]

Advice from Top Women CEOs  and Debunked Myths [infographic]
Did you know that 80% of women CEOs have children- the same ratio as the average American adult woman? Or that the number of female CEOs is twice what it was in the late 90s, after decades of modest growth? You can discover these and many other fascinating facts, some that truly challenge the prevailing myths about women chief executives. Be sure to have a look at the section in the second half that gives advice from some of the most powerful professional women in the world. Read...