Andrea NewsBytes: Alltop, 800CEOBook Review, and Me on TalkZone
1) Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop single-page aggregation site has just launched a women’s category in addition to its science, green, Macintosh, fashion and other topics – and Learned On Women is there. Alltop is like a digital magazine rack – you can scan blogs for your interests by seeing the last few post titles of each included blog. Many thanks to Linda Sherman for nominating Learned On Women.
2) I recently read What Men Don’t Tell Women About Business, and it gave me lots of insight into male-female relationships and interactions in the business world. You can read my review of this recently published book by Christopher Flett on the 800ceoread blog. Here’s a clip:
Another apparent self-sabotage mechanism for women is the way they tend to compare failures more than they compare successes (as men are so much more likely to do). Flett writes: “When one talks about how bad
her life is, the rest of her support group jumps in to talk about how their experience is worse.” Perhaps, just as positioning and status games can seem like obstacles to getting anything done, a woman’s tendency to seek common ground in all situations may also get in the
way.
3) I was interviewed by Dave Baum on TalkZone radio yesterday as the “dolls” half of their Guys and Dolls themed show (they didn’t ask me what to call it…). The first half was Rose Cameron of Leo Burnett speaking about her expertise in male consumers (I recommend you check out her work via this interview and a google search). I talk about a woman’s buying path in comparison to a man’s and how women have driven the green movement. Give it a listen…
