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We Win- Women Empowering Women in Need

Catriona Pollard - Tuesday, February 21, 2012

You are invited to attend WE WIN, a celebration of International Women’s Day presented by Women as Entrepreneurs (WomenAsEntrepreneurs.com.au).

This is an awareness event - a celebration of successes of women with a focus on enabling change for women as entrepreneurs, both here and in the third world. Profit will go towards empowering women living in poverty in developing countries.

We would like to extend our offer to you to join us for drinks and light refreshments for our event. Both the ladies and the gentlemen are welcome to attend WE WIN, so feel free to bring your partner along!

In addition to the generosity of the speakers, our sponsors have arranged to put together a gift bag for all attendees to ensure that they can take a little bit of the WE WIN event home with them.

MC: Angela Vithoulkas - CEO VIVO Cafe Group / CEO Eagle Waves Radio( @AngBizMix)

Date: Thursday 8 March 2012
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Level 20, 2 Market Street, Sydney
Price: Early bird $45 or General admission $65

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

1) Orsi Parkanyi - Women As Entrepreneurs

2) Hannah Schwartz - Ninefold

3) Maria Padisetti - Digital Armour and RedHands non-profit Topic: empowerment of women entrepreneurs in developing countries.

PANEL DISCUSSION

1) Catriona Pollard - CP Communications and Social Media Women ( @CatrionaPollard)

2) Kim McGuinness - Network Central and The Businesswomen’s Breakfast Series( @kimmcguinness)

3) Nicole Kersh - 4Cabling( @4Cabling)

4) Lisa Messenger - The Messenger Group @LisaMessenger)

Twitter handle: @We_Sydney / event Twitter# is #WE_WIN

Note that $10 flat rate evening parking is available on Kent street from 5pm.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
Orsi Parkanyi
Women As Entrepreneurs

Event sponsor: ninefold
Partners: The Messenger Group - Table of Plenty - Show Pony Fashion
Contributors: Jess Murray - Beni Creative - Garnet Mae

Register here.


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Strike a pose for International Women's Day

Catriona Pollard - Tuesday, February 21, 2012

A striking and public expression of International Women's Day, this is an event for everyone.

Ever felt thrilled at the idea of being involved in a flashmob and never known how to get involved? This is your chance to take part in a professional and fabulous flashmob in the name of a great cause ... the very public celebration of International Women's Day.

This is a FREE EVENT and the more women involved the greater the impact. We're working towards global recognition for our effort.

At 2pm on 8 March women from across Sydney will converge on Martin Place (between Castlereagh & Pitt, at the foot of the stairs to MLC Centre) to Strike a Pose for International Women's Day. Having been given the poses weeks in advance we're sure you'll be champing at the bit to play your part. Don't fret ... you certainly we don't need you to be Ginger Rogers to be involved!

How it works 

  1. Register here to reserve your place in the line-up
  2. Stay up to date and visit our She Business Australia Facebook site to receive updates and all the news. We'll be holding 'chat sessions' regularly so you can post questions and ensure you're fully briefed before the event.
    Our choreographer will be posting the sequence of poses (YouTube clip) on our site and will be available to answer all your questions. There'll be no more than 10 poses to learn and the sequence will be repeated for 5 minutes.

Meeting place 
On hearing of the event, Servcorp offered to lend their support and have given us their MLC boardroom as a meeting place and they're also providing T-shirts FREE for the first 50 registrants.

Date: Thursday 8 March 2012
Time: 1pm at Servcorp (if you can't make 1pm you can meet us at 1.50 in Pitt St Mall)
Venue: Level 57, 19-29 Martin Place, Sydney

Walk to Pitt street mall 
At 1:45 we'll make our way from the MLC Centre to Martin Place and get into position for a 2pm start.
At the completion of our awe-inspiring and fabulous sequence we'll disperse and meet for coffee at VIVO Cafe on George Street Sydney.
Address: Servcorp
Level 57 MLC, 19-29 Martin Place
Sydney, NSW

Date: 08/03/2012
Start Time: 1:00 pm
End Time: 2:15 pm
Price: A $0.00

Register here.


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Media Release: Social Media Women, unite!

Catriona Pollard - Monday, March 08, 2010
Social Media Women, a formal networking group that will encourage and assist women to participate more prominently in social media has been launched today on International Women’s Day.

Having recognised the important role women play in social media, the group will give women a voice in all areas of social media.  It’s a place to connect and share to support each other and build a community.

Co-founder of Social Media Women, Catriona Pollard says, “Social media comes naturally to women. We are networkers, nurturers, gatherers, builders of villages and communicators.” 

“Women want inspiration and collaboration, support and confidence. They don’t want self proclaimed social media guru’s pushing them to the sidelines.” 

“With Social Media Women we have created a safe place for women to gain experience and confidence to ask questions, learn and challenge themselves to grow, evolve and aspire.”

“It’s a strategic group. It’s more than just talking about social media tools. It's about taking a step back and seeing the big picture. It’s about collaboration and nurturing of ideas and creating change from them,” said Ms Pollard.

The founding members are Nancy Georges (Magnolia Solutions), Catriona Pollard (CP Communications) and Kristin Rohan (Sassy SEO). 

Social Media Women is both online and in person, with meetings taking place on the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm.  

Social Media Women welcomes all women whether working on their own or in an existing company, business, organisation or still studying. It’s for women that are interested in media, networking, communications and exploring the new ways people are communicating. 

At the meeting along with social media discussions, public speaking and networking opportunities, an open forum will also be held to toss around ideas for speaking topics as conferences arise.  This will lend to the group’s lobbying efforts to secure more female speakers at social media conferences.

The first meeting will be Tuesday 9 March at Blues Point Hotel, 116 Blues Point Rd, McMahons Point 2060. To register: http://socialmediawomen.eventbrite.com/  
Linkedin Groups: Social Media Women
Facebook: Social Media Women

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