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    How Motherhood Is Changing Dramatically—in 11 Graphs

    Tuesday, May 14, 2013

    Modern motherhood has changed dramatically over the course of just a few generations. Take a look at this information The Atalntic compiled on how everything from education to marital status has changed for many American mothers. Image credit Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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    Mom Blogging for Good Karma

    Wednesday, May 8, 2013

    Below is an excerpt of a piece Morra wrote for the Huffington Post in response to the Wall St. Journal‘s recent article on blogging conferences — or, as they refer to it as — the “mommy business trip”. In 2007, I agreed with the Wall St Journal’s take. As a longtime but hardly famous blogger, I felt [...]

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    Modeling Joy

    Tuesday, May 7, 2013

      The following is an excerpt of a piece by Morra that appeared on The Accelerators blog on The Wall Street Journal online. When I say “working mother,” what image pops into your head? It’s probably not a joyful one. It’s probably a stressed out, barely holding it together mom on the run. Close your [...]

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    We the [Online] People: What Marketers Need to Know about Civic Action Online

    Thursday, May 2, 2013

    The ways in which people activate around social and political issues is changing. Between the explosion of online fundraising that started with former Governor Howard Dean in 2000, to Presiden Barack Obama’s mastery of social media beginning in 2012, the last decade and half has shown how the internet can inform how political campaigns are [...]

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    7 Blogger Outreach Best Practices All Inbound Marketers Should Know

    Thursday, May 2, 2013

    The following is an excerpt of a post by Lisa Gulasy at Kuno Creative. Check out Rachel’s suggestions best engaging with bloggers. Inbound Marketers can utilize blogger outreach to help achieve a number of objectives. Want to position your company’s CEO as an industry thought leader? Contact a mainstream media blog and offer him as an expert source [...]

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Apr
30

Face It: Facebook Needs Women on its Board

This past February, Facebook put an end to its will-they-or-won’t-they hypothesizing about its initial public offering. Included in its S-1 filing is a list of risk factors investors should beware of before buying stock in the company. A loss of users to other social networking sites like Google+, a loss of advertisers, user privacy breakdowns, [...]

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Apr
22

Every Child Deserves a Shot at Life

Some moms walk 15 miles to reach life-saving vaccines for their children. We invite you to join us and spend 15 minutes (or less!) each day during World Immunization Week – now through April 28th – to help spread the word about the importance of global vaccines to give every child a shot at a [...]

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Apr
17

Equal Pay Day

Today is Equal Pay Day – a reminder that working women in the United States still earn 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, on average. The wage gap between the genders has remained statistically the same over the past year. Here are a few more not-so-fun facts about unequal pay: The wage gap [...]

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Apr
13

Women @ Work

Women are starting businesses at 1.5x the national average. Check out this infographic from Harrison Kratz at MBA@UNC and read the full post here.                                                               [...]

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Apr
5

Moving from Awareness to Action

Below is an excerpt of a post Morra contributed to the Good Purpose Blog, powered by Edelman. You can read the post in its entirety here. Here is my checklist for moving beyond awareness into action: 1) The Narrative Matters Most. Dr. Marshall Ganz, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, explains that “the story of self” is critical [...]

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Mar
27

Pivot 2.0 – Dare, Dream, Do

Last October, Women Online, along with Roxanna Sarmiento of Everyday Treats and Whitney Johnson of Rose Park Advisors and Dare to Dream put on Pivot, a networking event for women in business and technology in Boston. It was a smashing success. The event sold out and the wait list filled. We were even told it was [...]