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Women face different challenges than men in the workplace. Women everywhere can start to meet these challenges by networking with each other. Over 35 million people are on the Net today worldwide, many of them women. Advancing Women provides tools for networking and a global electronic support system for women which can benefit you greatly.
Networking is sharing....information, ideas, resources, opportunities. Psychologists who have studied networking tell us women are better at it than men. Since they were little girls, women have been taught to share, to meet other people's needs. Men do not network as well because it is more difficult to admit they have needs and there is often a fear of appearing vulnerable. Consequently, men bond together in ways which make them feel more powerful, and one way of achieving that is by excluding people. Historically, women have been excluded from many male dominated organizations, from the boardroom to the golf course.
Studies have shown, however, that women are learning daily to network more effectively with other women and the quality of the information, contacts and opportunities they receive is equal to that of male networks.
Advancing Women has witnessed first hand the empathy which develops and the bond created when women network to meet these challenges. All women everywhere share similar experiences of having been excluded or having confronted a barrier in a male dominated organization. All those oppressive systems and outdated stereotypes are lifted when women meet on common ground and create a support system for each other.
Relationships you develop networking may grow into strategic alliances where, for example, a woman who books conventions may meet a woman who supervises tours of the city. Although the relationship may begin by these two discussing issues women confront in the workplace, their professional respect for each other may grow to a point where they begin recommending the other and sending her business. These are informal strategic alliances which can benefit you greatly.
Advancing Women offers MessageBoards, where you can leave your message, in English or Spanish, to start discussions with other women in the workplace in the United States, Canada or around the globe. They find that women share many of the same experiences in the workplace, whether they are in Norway or or Argentina. And never underestimate the power of direct communication using the simple power of email. If you want to inform, network, or mobilize you should be contacting other women's networks. By using email, which is becoming the commonly accepted business and professional norm, you can communicate more informally and quickly, collapse time, and increase your own contacts and resources. If you wish to let other women in the workplace know how to reach you, so you can begin networking, you may register your email address, with a brief description of your interests and what you'd like to communicate about, at Advancing Women Email Registry. This will enable other women in the workplace to learn if you have common interests and areas of concern and contact you either directly, or through our message boards. Remember, as women in the workplace, you are not alone in your attempt to gain equitable business rewards for the same work as men, whether you are an executive, an entrepreneur, an educator, technician or blue collar worker . A broad spectrum of organizations today have endorsed women's advancement as a central goal in their agenda. Women need to tap into the power of these organizations, join together, network with each other, and continue to institutionalize their goals and strategies.
Content headings at this site include:
Wouldn't it be great if someone looked at all of those websites on the world wide web and ONLY gave the good ones, they ask? They claim they have done it.
AltaVista gives you access to an incredibly large Web index: 31 million pages found on 476,000 servers, and four million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 26 million times per weekday.
The AIRS II system is a full-text table-structured data repository server, which features both Boolean and Fuzzyquery capabilities, and is able to store text, data, pictures, video, and sound files (BLOBs). It is a simple, powerful and easy-to-use tool capable of solving your biggest Full Text Retrieval, Data Warehousing, Internet and Intranet development challenges.
A personal women's guide to the Web, pointing you to some of the most interesting, useful and just plain entertaining sites.
At this site you will be able to search for information such as the following:
DisInformation was designed to be the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the 'hidden information,' that seldom seems to slip through the cracks of the corporate owned media conglomerates. The goal is to get users to the information they seek, in the fastest, most efficient way possible. To that end, they're linking FIRST to a smaller, higher quality pool of websites, so someone looking for up-to-date news on the situation in Bosnia, for example, won't have to sift through endless webpages which say something like "Hi, I'm Dave. I think it's terrible what's going on in Bosnia. Here's a picture of my dog." Dave's homepage will be there, too (along with 30 million other WWW pages), but DisInformation ranks the results a little differently. The results which appear first will come from their 'hand selected' database, some accompanied with short reviews from their staff, and all from quality news sources such as 'Time Magazine's on-line component, Hot Wired, etc., 'liberal' newsources like 'The Nation,' and 'Atlantic Monthly, alternative sites like Z-Net and Mother Jones' 'MoJo Wire,' and other e-zines and websites they found interesting, provocative and essential. They are also indexing these sites more frequently than the other services do, so their database is, as they say, always 'hot off the presses,' and absolutely current.
EnvirolinkEnviroLink, is the largest online environmental information resource on the planet. EnviroLink is a non-profit organization...a grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in over 130 countries. All at Envirolink are dedicated to providing you with the most comprehensive, up-to-date environmental resources available. To make it easy for you to learn more about EnviroLink, they have divided the information about EnviroLink into separate categories: Organization Overview; Projects of EnviroLink; Awards to EnviroLink; Donations ;Sponsorship Opportunities; Help EnviroLink; Volunteers; EnviroLink in the News; Online Press Kit.
Excite's primary goal is to raise users' expectations
of information retrieval. They believe that their information retrieval
tools mark a significant advance in both sophistication and ease-of-use.
Excite, formerly known as Architext, was founded in September 1993 by six
Stanford University graduates who were tired of making keyword searches.
Excite, their Internet navigation service, uses their
unique concept search technology to search and summarize more than 50 million
web pages and more than two weeks of Usenet news. Plus it includes over
61,000 reviews of web sites written by professional journalists, and an
hourly news update provided by Reuters.
Four11's goal is to provide the most reliable, centralized way for people who use the Internet to find and communicate with each other. Four11 claims that it was the first company to establish an effective "white pages" directory of this kind, and it has been the leader in providing directory services to the growing global Internet community. The Four11 directory is a free online search and listing service that includes several principal components:
Email Directory
With over 10 million unique listings, the Four11 Email Directory is the largest such directory offered by any company in the category. Customers can use information such as a person's name, company or organization, city, state, or domain name to find the email addresses of the people they would like to contact.
Information in the Email Directory comes from a variety of publicly available sources and from our users themselves. Over two million users have registered themselves in the Email Directory. When they register, customers supplement their listings with valuable incremental data such as location, current company or organization, college attended, and outside interests - books, movies, sports, etc. Registered Four11 users can then search for others with similar backgrounds or interests. Additional features available only to registered users include the ability to maintain personalized address books and to conduct sleeper searches (by which users are notified when awaited friends register with the service).
Telephone Directory
The Four11 Telephone Directory offers a complete listing of U.S. residential telephone listings and contains over 100 million names. As with the Email Directory, customers can use search parameters such as name, street, city and state to help them find the information they need.
Telephone Directory data is provided by Metromail, a subsidiary of R.R. Donnelly. Metromail has relationships with multiple RBOC that enable company to offer us the most up-to-date information available. Metromail is also dedicated to preventing the accidental inclusion of unlisted and unpublished information.
Net phone Directory
The Four11 Net phone Directory provides internet telephone contact information for users of Net phone hardware and software offered by several different manufacturers, including Connectix, Intel, Microsoft, White Pine (CU-SeeMe), and Smith Micro. The Net phone Directory also includes listings for other Net phones based on the H.323 communications standard.
In addition to providing the basic contact information, Four11 has worked to facilitate the process of finding and connecting with other Net phone users through Four11 Connect, a free software tool that works in conjunction with the Net phone Directory. Four11 Connect alerts the Net phone Directory when a particular user is online and registers the user's Internet address with the directory. To contact a particular person, the caller simply find that person's listing in the Net phone directory, checks to make sure he is online, and then launches the appropriate Net phone application to place a call to that person by simply clicking an icon.
Government Directory:
The Four11 Government directory provides customers with the email addresses and home page URLs for the White House, U.S. House and Senate representatives, and congressional committees.
Celebrity Directory
The Four11 Celebrity Directory offers email and street address information for a wide variety of different celebrities and their supporting fan clubs. The Celebrity Directory includes hundreds of listings for actors and actresses, business luminaries, famous authors, models, sports stars, and more.
International Services:
Four11 also offers customers foreign language translations of the full Four11 site. Through partnerships with France Telecomm and Olivetti, Four11 has acquired valuable international content that have helped the company to become a global leader in the internet directories business.
Welcome to Insperation's Free WWW Resources page. This is your last stop to finding all the WWW resources that you want. All of the sites listed on their page provide WWW services absolutley free. Listings on their page include:
HotBot is a fast, accurate tool for finding information on the vast and ever-growing Internet. HotBot periodically visits pages on the World Wide Web using a program called "Slurp the Web Hound." Slurp is an extremely fast "web crawler," or web robot, that uses parallel "network-of-workstations" technology to download over 10 million web pages a day from around the world. While one of the most aggressive web robots of its kind, Slurp is also built to avoid overwhelming web servers by not visiting a site too frequently. In addition, Slurp follows proposed standards for keeping robots out of particular sites and for keeping pages out of HotBot's index. Once Slurp has seen a page, a high-performance indexer processes its full text. The indexer generates a short abstract for the page, adding the abstract to a proprietary database that remembers which documents contain which words.
InfoSpace, launched in April of 1996, is the fastest, most comprehensive, dynamic directory listing service on the Web. InfoSpace is the first service to enable users to easily and instantly locate listings of people, businesses,government offices, toll-free numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, maps and URL's, all integrated into one Website with nearly 100% accuracy. InfoSpace has developed a patent pending technology that fully integrates all of its services, providing users with one comprehensive solution. Distribution, integration, comprehensiveness, speed and accuracy, are the key differences between InfoSpace and its competition. On October 21, 1996, InfoSpace was awarded by SIMBA for the "Best On-line Directory" and"Most Innovative Design". These awards are a confirmation of InfoSpace's commitment to provide the best service and technology for finding people, government listings and businesses, to as many users of the Internet as possible.In addition, InfoSpace was declared by INFORMATION WEEK (June 17, 1996) as one of eight companies "that will change the 'Net". InfoSpace 's technology is designed to handle a very large number of simultaneous users. Our focus is on accuracy and integration. You can, for example, come to their site and search for all the plumbers or florists within an "x" mileradius from any address found by their people, business or government search services for the United States and then view these locations on a map. InfoSpace users also have access to listings of White Pages, Yellow Pages and fax numbers for 60 countries.
A United Kingdom based directory that claims to be the
cream of directories! Connecting YOU to the best sites in the world! Site
categories include:
Best Search Engines, Shopping, Magazines, Jobs
Best Holidays, Fashion, Hair & Beauty, UK News, Meeting Places
Best Transport, Estate Agents, Music, Radio & TV
Best Libraries for Business, News and Education
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Here is what they state about themselves:
Thomas Register on the Internet is pleased to offer access to our enormous database of industrial information to users absolutely free!
Register for free access to:
Search 155,000 companies, 57,000 product & service classification headings and 124,000 brand names
Modify search results by selected states and by detailed product descriptions.
Gain easy access to 3100 online supplier catalogs, 800 company web sites and receive detailed Literature by Fax from over 1000 companies at no cost!
Purchase line item products through our electronic commerce - TPN Register (TPN).
Membership also provides you with free access to all Thomas Publishing web sites:
Thomas Food Industry Register
Thomas Regional Directories
Thomas Register of European Manufacturers
Managing Automation
Managing Automation Software Guides
Best of all, Thomas Register on the Internet is Free!
Media Watchdog is a collection of online media watch resources,
including specific media criticism articles and
information about media watch groups. The emphasis is
on critiquing the accuracy and exposing the biases of the
mainstream media. There is much more information on these
topics available in traditional (non-online) media;
interested readers should follow up elsewhere.
Net Locator is from the creators of NlightN. NlightN was formed to develop a Universal Index to the world's electronically stored information. Under development since 1990, the NlightN Universal Index is the world's largest single index with an addressing capacity of ten to the nineteenth total items (10,000,000,000,000,000,000). The Universal Index allows users to locate data stored in hundreds of public and private databases, news services, and the Internet, with an easy-to-use interface via Web browsers. Their vision, they say, is to make the world's knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Click on the link below to go to the page (at this site)
that lists sites to access information by and about the U.S. government
and its agencies.
This is a subject catalog for the World Wide Web. The WWW Virtual Library Project was started at CERN in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee to keep track of the development of the World Wide Web that he had just created. The WWW Virtual Library is maintained by volunteers.
Without doubt, this site is the premier search directory for women online. Searching WWWomen, you can be assured that their team of online surfers (who can verify links as valid and relevant) have compiled the most comprehensive list possible. WWWomen fills a need for anyone who is looking for topics relating to women. They are dedicated to finding all sites on the Web relevant to women from sites about child rearing and pregnancy to sites about civil liberties, careers and religion. Supportive of women and their interests, WWWomen offers no political, religious or philosophical agenda and hopes to attract women of all attitudes and persuasions. While other search engines do contain sites relating to women- many collected automatically by search robots, they feel it takes a dedicated and constant effort to obtain, qualify, maintain and organize this area. WWWomen will get you to women's related topics faster than any other site. WWWomen has already sorted through all of the irrelevant and invalid links for you so that you obtain the fastest and most relevant searches possible.
Looking for long lost college friends? At this site find
alumni by:
Truly the most comprehensive directory and search engine
for the arts. Categories at this site under which you can search include:
Artist Index
Art Galleries
Art Museums
Art Exhibitions
Art For Sale
Commercial Arts
Arts Publications
Schedules
Art Schools
Arts Agencies
Children Resources
Art History
Film Resources
Literary Resources
Theatre Resources
Dance Resources
Antiques
Crafts
The site also features things such as:
Chat Forum
Message Forum
Arts Events
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