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Kimberly Porrazzo’s Video Blog ( October 22, 2008. Kimberly Porrazzo, Youtube.com, Mywomanownedbusiness.com)

Founder of MyWomanOwnedBusiness.com, Kimberly Porrazzo, provides video of the Women’s Conferance in California weeks before the presidential election in October 2008 that she posted on the Videoblog section of her website.  California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady, Maria Shriver, speak in favor of change concerning the gender-related issues of business.

Topic:  Should the new administration offer incentives for investing in women-owned businesses?

Category:  Citizen (multimedia- Video Blog)

What is it?  A video blog posted at mywomanownedbusiness.com from the California Governor’s Conference held at the Long Beach Convention Center on October 22, 2008.

Publication Information:  October 22, 2008.  Youtube.com, Kimberly Porrazzo Videoblog.

Location:  http://www.mywomanownedbusiness.com/VideoBlog.html

Accessed:  March 10, 2009.  16:15 PST

Support:

Kimberly Porrazzo- owner of mywomanownedbusiness.com which was launched on August 12, 2007.  She has written about women-owned businesses for years as staffer at OC METRO Magazine, a business magazine covering Orange County, CA.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver-  California Governor and first lady.  Maria Shriver is an award winning American journalist who speaks for the empowerment of women in the business world.

Along with the California Governor and First Lady, the 2008 Women’s Conferance had 15,000 women in attendance and was promoted by celebrity spokespeople and sponsors.  The Women’s Conferance event began in 1985 under Governor, George Deukmejia, as a non-partisan forum for women small business owners.

Audience and Agenda:  Mywomanownedbusiness.com is a social networking website for female entrepreneurs founded by Kimberly Porrazzo as a resource for potential or current woman business owners.  It is free to create a member profile which allows you to blog or add photos, videos or links to your own website.  Because the site is relatively new, the quanitification of the traffic of the site is not easily found.  The video on Youtube has had 29 views as of March 2009.

Usefulness:  This site was created in order to assist female entrepreneurs or business owners as a way to maintain contact and share ideas among the woman-owned business demographic.  It was established as a response to the commonly reported complaint concerning the lack of networking and assistance resources available that specifically cater to issues women may have.  The website is an example of one approach to eradicating the barriers women entrepreneurs face as far as networking is concerned.  The fact that a website of this nature exists is evidence in favor of the new administration providing incentives for investment in women-owned businesses.

Works Cited:

http://mywomanownedbusinessprofiles.ning.com/

http://www.mywomanownedbusiness.com/VideoBlog.html

http://www.californiawomen.org/about-us/

http://mywomanownedbusinessprofiles.ning.com/profile/KimberlyPorrazzo

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216/bio

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