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BettyConfidential
BettyConfidential.com was a United States women's online magazine. It had 2.5 million unique visitors a month. History Launched in March 2008, BettyConfidential.com was co–founded by author and television commentator Deborah Perry Piscione and Internet entrepreneur Shaun Marsh. After conducting studies of women on the internet, both Piscione and Marsh wanted to connect women who shared similar life stages, circumstance, goals, and interest in order for them to help and support other women. The name Betty was chosen for the website to convey a trustworthy friend. Confidential was chosen to represent the hidden aspirations that exist in all women. * March 5, 2008: NBC 11, the NBC affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area, produced a full segment profiling BettyConfidential.com. * March 9, 2008: msnbc and WCAU-TV of Philadelphia profiled BettyConfidential.com. * March 11, 2008: BettyConfidential.com officially launches. * March 11, 2008: The BettyConfidential.com launch was cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Perry Piscione
Deborah Perry Piscione is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, national bestselling author, media commentator and public speaker. She is a Principal at Vorto Consulting and specializes in innovation process and talent development. Perry Piscione is the architect of the new innovation methodology, Improvisational Innovation, which engages all of the organization's talent in bottoms up innovation. She is the co-founder and CEO of Desha Productions, Inc., a multimedia company that owns and operates Alley to the Valley™ and BettyConfidential, and co-founder of Chump Genius, an educational gaming company for kids. Career Perry Piscione began her career on January 3, 1989 with the 101st United States Congress. During her time in Washington, D.C., she served as a congressional staffer for U.S. Senator Connie Mack and U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and as a political appointee for President George H. W. Bush. In 1998, Perry Piscione first appeared on MSNBC, and then subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Polonsky
Sarah Polonsky is a Canadian-American journalist and editor who specializes in media and music.Emma Rosenblum, June 25, 2010, VulturePeople Are Still Watching The Bachelor, But Why? Retrieved March 25, 2015, "...according to entertainment editor Sarah Polonsky, people have continued to tune in to the show ..." Known as the "global voice of dance music," she spearheaded and served as Chief Editor of the North American division of ''DJ Magazine.'' During her tenure there, she launched the Best of North America Awards as the sister event to the UK iteration, Best of British. She previously oversaw an electronic music magazine called ''Elektro'' as the title's managing editor. She was a Senior Editor of the online magazine ''BettyConfidential'' and at '' Vibe''.Kyle Jaeger, 9/18/2013, The Hollywood ReporterAvicii's 'True': What the Critics Are Saying Retrieved March 25, 2015, "...Vibe's Sarah Polonsky does an excellent job of capturing the critical response to Avicii's release,..."July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrna Blyth
Myrna Blyth (born 1939) is an American editor and writer. She currently works at AARP Media and has authored four books, including the nonfiction book ''Spin Sisters''. Biography She was born in New York and graduated from Bennington College. Blyth is currently the Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of AARP Media. She is the former editor-in-chief and publishing director of ''Ladies' Home Journal''. She was the founding editor and publishing director of ''More'' magazine. She was also Director of Magazine Development for the Meredith Corporation. Earlier in her career Blyth was the Executive Editor of ''Family Circle'' and Senior Editor of ''Family Health'' Magazine. She is also the author of two novels, ''Cousin Suzanne'' and ''For Better and For Worse'', both Literary Guild selections, and two non-fiction books, ''Spin Sisters'', which was a New York Times bestseller and ''How To Raise An American''. Blyth was the Chairman of the President’s Commission on White Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values than simply economic ones. An entrepreneur is an individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards.The process of setting up a business is known as entrepreneurship. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business/or procedures. More narrow definitions have described entrepreneurship as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often similar to a small business, or as the "capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks to make a profit." The people who create these businesses are often referred to as entrepreneurs. While de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erikson's Stages Of Psychosocial Development
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated in the second half of the 20th century by Erik Erikson in collaboration with Joan Erikson, is a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of eight stages that a healthy developing individual should pass through from infancy to late adulthood. According to Erikson's theory the results from each stage, whether positive or negative, influences the results of succeeding stages. Erikson published a book called ''Childhood and Society'' around the 1950s that made his research well known on the eight stages of psychosocial development. Erikson was originally influenced by Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages of development. He began by working with Freud's theories specifically, but as he began to dive deeper into biopsychosocial development and how other environmental factors affect human development, he soon progressed past Freud's theories and developed his own ideas. Erikson's stage theory characterizes an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portfolio
Portfolio may refer to: Objects * Portfolio (briefcase), a type of briefcase Collections * Portfolio (finance), a collection of assets held by an institution or a private individual * Artist's portfolio, a sample of an artist's work or a case used to display artwork, photographs etc. * Career portfolio, an organized presentation of an individual's education, work samples, and skills * Electronic portfolio, a collection of electronic documents * IT portfolio, in IT portfolio management, the portfolio of large classes of items of enterprise Information Technology * Patent portfolio, a collection of patents owned by a single entity * Project portfolio, in project portfolio management, the portfolio of projects in an organization * Ministry (government department), the post and responsibilities of a head of a government department Computing * Atari Portfolio, a palmtop computer * Extensis Portfolio, a digital asset manager Media * '' The Portfolio'', a British fine ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies' Home Journal
''Ladies' Home Journal'' was an American magazine last published by the Meredith Corporation. It was first published on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States. In 1891, it was published in Philadelphia by the Curtis Publishing Company. In 1903, it was the first American magazine to reach one million subscribers. In the late 20th century, changing tastes and competition from television caused it to lose circulation. Sales of the magazine declined as the publishing company struggled. On April 24, 2014, Meredith announced it would stop publishing the magazine as a monthly with the July issue, stating it was "transitioning ''Ladies' Home Journal'' to a special interest publication". It was then available quarterly on newsstands only, though its website remained in operation. The last issue was published in 2016. ''Ladies' Home Journal'' was one of the Seven Sisters, as a group of women's service magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Observer
''The New York Observer'' was a weekly newspaper printed from 1987 to 2016, when it ceased print publication and became the online-only newspaper ''Observer''. The media site focuses on culture, real estate, media, politics and the entertainment and publishing industries. History The ''Observer'' was first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, as a weekly newspaper by Arthur L. Carter, a former investment banker. The ''New York Observer'' had also been the title of an earlier weekly religious paper founded by Sidney E. Morse in 1823. In July 2006, the paper was purchased by the American real estate figure Jared Kushner, then 25 years old. The paper began its life as a broadsheet, and was then printed in tabloid format every Wednesday, and currently has an exclusively online format. It is headquartered at 1 Whitehall Street in Manhattan. Previous writers for the publication include Kara Bloomgarden–Smoke, Kim Velsey, Matthew Kassel, Jillian Jorgensen, Joe Cona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soledad O'Brien
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien (born September 19, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer. Since 2016, O'Brien has been the host for ''Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien,'' a nationally syndicated weekly talk show produced by Hearst Television. She is chairwoman of Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production company and distributor that she founded in 2013. She is also a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. O'Brien co-anchored CNN's '' American Morning'' from 2003 to 2007, and was the anchor of CNN's morning news program ''Starting Point'' from 2012 to 2013. In 2013, O'Brien became special correspondent on the Al Jazeera America news program ''America Tonight,'' and is also a correspondent on HBO's ''Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel''. Early life and education O'Brien was born and raised in St. James, New York, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women's Websites
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
