Contributed by Judy Lindenberger
I love LinkedIn. It’s one of the best networking tools out there to help you expand your reach. It’s “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” for the business world. But it can be a big, foreign maze. To stand out in the LinkedIn crowd, here are ten quick tips:
1. To increase your Google [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
The Glass Hammer is taking a few days off to celebrate Thanksgiving here in the US. We’d like to give thanks for all of the incredible women (and men) who are working hard to shatter the glass ceiling.
If you have some time off this week, why not catch up [...]

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By Danielle Sonnenberg (New York City)
Everyone knows that men get a lot of their business through the “boys’ club.” Now women are getting in on the action. Yes, women are forming their own version – a girls’ club.
Building Women’s Networks
The numbers show that women have a lot of catching up to do. Only [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
On Tuesday, The Glass Hammer hosted our latest event on career management. Sponsored by Accenture, Bloomberg, and Sungard, the event discussed how women can build professional negotiation skills, and provided tips on networking and how to navigate tricky office politics.
Panelist Carol Frohlinger, Principal at Negotiating Women Inc. and co-author [...]

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By Nicki Gilmour, Founder and CEO of The Glass Hammer
It has been a busy week at theglasshammer.com – as you can see from our coverage we have been attending several events: The Women’s Conference, the FWA’s event with PIMCO’s Mohamed El-Erian, and Deutsche Bank’s Women on Wall Street Conference.
What constitutes a good event, which [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
While visiting Norway last month, it became obvious that the country’s push for gender equality is about more than regulation, like quotas or parental leave legislation. In fact, various organizations outside the government work hard, with both women and men, to improve gender parity.
For example, in order to [...]

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By Dr. Eric Shoars, author of Women Under Glass: The Secret Nature of Glass Ceilings and the Steps to Overcome Them
Corporate America has seen the rise of ERGs – Employee Resource Groups – to help advance women and minorities in the workplace. Though this is a good trend, an employee resource group will do [...]

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Contributed by Tanya Hall (Austin, Texas)
Achieving a successful career depends just as much on your network as it does on your skills, knowledge, and experience. Though any professional connection you make is important, nothing impacts your career or has as much influence on your success as a group of likeminded women vested in each other’s [...]

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By Stephanie Wilcox (Middlefield, CT)
“Women are the original prototype of a network,” said Susan RoAne, an influential networking and business communication expert and author of The Secrets of Savvy Networking. “They helped each other through famine and harsh times. They got together on the farm or in quilting groups, which were the first examples of [...]

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By Cleo Thompson, founder of The Gender Blog
“I haven’t got time for networking”, one senior woman from a major City of London investment bank told me recently.
“All that standing around in rooms full of complete strangers, drinking either bad wine at the end of a long day, or bad coffee and stale croissants at [...]

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