Network
Network and gain knowledge with other Sistahs on these recommended sites for:
Career Development - Entrepreneurship -
Wealth Building/Investing/Home Ownership
Professional Networking - Social Networking - Dating - Family - Health |
CAREER DEVELOPMENT |
Black Enterprise
Black Enterprise, your ultimate guide to financial empowerment, is the premier business, investing, and wealth-building resource for African Americans, providing essential business information and advice to professionals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and decision makers. Black Enterprise is the definitive source of information for and about African American business markets and leaders, and the authority on black business news and trends.
WSJ Career Journal
CareerJournal.com is the Internet's premier career site for executives, managers and professionals providing information on hiring demand, salary data, job hunting and career management. Features also include assistance with resume writing, interviewing, networking and negotiating a new job offer, as well as in-depth guidance on improving your current career.
DiversityInc
DiversityInc's mission is to bring education and clarity to the business benefits of diversity. DiversityInc is the leading publication on diversity and business. DiversityInc.com has the largest dedicated career center for diverse professionals. Our audience is diverse in race, gender, orientation, ability and age — and includes senior executives, community leaders, educators and professionals who are highly educated, key influencers and decision makers — all passionate about diversity in their professional and personal lives. |
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP |
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur is the definitive guide to all the diverse challenges of business ownership. Entrepreneur equips entrepreneurs with the critical information they require and demand to grow their businesses.
Inc.com
Inc.com, the website for Inc. Magazine, delivers advice, tools, and services, to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. You'll find information and advice covering virtually every business and management task, including marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people, and much, much more.
Black Enterprise
Black Enterprise, your ultimate guide to financial empowerment, is the premier business, investing, and wealth-building resource for African Americans, providing essential business information and advice to professionals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and decision makers. Black Enterprise is the definitive source of information for and about African American business markets and leaders, and the authority on black business news and trends.
U.S. Small Business Administration
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has delivered about 20 million loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses since 1953. SBA was created as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. |
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WEALTH BUILDING/INVESTING/HOME OWNERSHIP |
Forbes
Forbes is one of the most trusted information resources for the world's business leaders, providing the uncompromising commentary, relevant tools, concise analysis and reporting they need to succeed at work, profit from investing and have fun with the rewards of winning.
Money
Money is the nation's largest personal finance magazine. Money's accessible and user-friendly articles are aimed at anyone who is responsible for making money decisions in his or her household - from seasoned investors to those who are just starting their financial lives. The magazine's mission is to help readers make better decisions, not just in their investment portfolio, but in all areas in which life and money intersect - family, home, health, finances, career, spending and their future.
Black Enterprise
Black Enterprise, your ultimate guide to financial empowerment, is the premier business, investing, and wealth-building resource for African Americans, providing essential business information and advice to professionals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and decision makers. Black Enterprise is the definitive source of information for and about African American business markets and leaders, and the authority on black business news and trends.
Reuters
Reuters is a global information company providing indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Our information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe. We have a reputation for speed, accuracy and freedom from bias.
BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek’s mission is to inform and inspire business leaders to make smarter decisions in their professional and personal lives. Through passionate voices and provocative viewpoints, we create an open dialogue among a global community to generate and share ideas. We offer the actionable insight affluent professionals need at every stage in their career. |
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PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING |
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a free online network of more than 17 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. Our mission is to help you be more effective in your daily work and open doors to opportunities using the professional relationships you already have. Through your network, you can find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and candidates, search for great jobs, post job listings, and get introduced to other professionals.
ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo is the premier business information search engine, with profiles on more than 37 million people and 3.5 million companies. ZoomInfo delivers fresh and organized information on industries, companies, people, products, services and jobs.
Spoke
Spoke provides business data and detailed contact information on demand. This information as a service is designed specifically to help organizations identify, access, and research the right individuals at all levels of an organization. Underlying Spoke's on-demand application is a comprehensive network of information on prospective customers. More than 100 companies have joined the Spoke revolution.
Minority Professional Network
Minority Professional Network (MPN) is the premiere interactive global Career, Economic, and Lifestyle Connection™ for progressive culturally diverse and women professionals. The MPN web site is regularly visited by hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs, consumers, community leaders, corporate executives, politicians and other culturally diverse and women professionals and students internationally.
BlackRefer.com
BlackRefer.com is the largest online directory for locating black websites. |
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SOCIAL NETWORKING |
MySpace
MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. MySpace is an international site that offers email, a forum, communities, videos and blog space. You can create a community and share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends!
Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
BlackPlanet
BlackPlanet is your place to meet and connect with African Americans around the country. Chat, post photos and videos and share your black experience with other members. Search for news about what’s hot in music, fashion, sports and events or look for the buzz in business, politics and trends. This is the largest online community for Africans, African Americans and Caribbean Americans to network, share an urban lifestyle, find romance, entertainment, and even jobs.
BlackVoices
BlackVoices, the premiere site for African-American culture and community, offers African-American message boards, profiles and chats, African-American sports, African-American news, African-American entertainment, African-American style and beauty, relationship advice and more. Share your voice at BlackVoices!
Ning
Ning offers the latest social networking features, all infinitely customizable to meet your unique needs. The Ning Platform makes this possible. As a platform, you don't have to appeal to Ning for the features you want. If you have the time and the inclination, you can build them yourself!
TeeBeeDee
TeeBeeDee is the place for people over 40 who believe that life is still to be determined. Learn from others, share what you know, and connect with people who want to keep on growing.
Eons
Eons is the largest online gathering of people who are lovin' life on the flipside of 50! Users can learn and discuss everything from living to 100 and investing for retirement to dating after 50 and growing orchids.
Multiply
Multiply gives you an easy way to share all kinds of digital media, including photos, blogs, videos, music and more, all in one convenient place: your own personal web site. With Multiply, you can share and discuss your stuff with everyone in your "social network," and also be alerted whenever they have something new. |
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DATING |
Match.com
Match.com is the most recognized dating service worldwide, and today serves more than 15 million singles in 37 countries. Match.com continues to redefine the way single men and single women meet, flirt, date and fall in love, proving time and again that you can make love happen through online dating and that lasting relationships are possible. Whether you're interested in Christian Dating, Jewish Dating, Asian Dating, Black Dating, Senior Dating, Gay Dating, Match.com can help you find the date or relationship that fits you best.
eHarmony
eHarmony is America's #1 trusted relationship service. eHarmony is the first relationship service on the Web to use a scientific approach to match highly compatible singles. Millions of people of all ages, ethnicities, and religious backgrounds have used eHarmony's patented Compatibility Matching System™ to find the love of their lives.
LavaLife
LavaLife offers members in-depth profiling, unique searching and real-time instant messaging (with video) capabilities that are based on member-designated criteria. Newsletters, polls and email alerts keep singles engaged.
Yahoo Personals
Yahoo Personals allows you to search photo personal ads and meet other singles looking for fun dates and long-term relationships.
BlackSingles.com
BlackSingles.com is an online community created specifically for African American singles, to make new friends or to find a life-long partner that shares similar values, traditions and beliefs. By utilizing many interactive features, including email, chat rooms, message boards, instant messenger and more, BlackSingles.com enhances relationship building within the black singles community. |
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FAMILY |
Parents
Parents is the gold standard for raising happy, healthy children. Since inventing the parenting category decades ago, Parents has only grown in influence: we answer questions and concerns; voice the broadest array of authoritative opinions; advocate good causes affecting children and families; and help moms and dads celebrate the joys of parenthood.
Family Circle
Family Circle is filled with quick, easy & healthy recipes for the whole family, do-it-yourself decorating ideas, fashion and beauty secrets plus advice for raising a healthy, happy family - and more!
Disney Family
Disney Family was created to help parents with the most important job of their lives: raising their family in the best environment possible. We are committed to creating a nurturing, safe, and well-informed environment for guests and members to expand their parenting knowledge in a fun, entertaining way - just what you'd expect from one of the most trusted names in family entertainment.
FamilyFun
FamilyFun, the country's number one family magazine, is about all the great things families can do together. We are the family experts on travel, food, crafts, parties, holidays, games, activities, and products--all the essentials that enrich the important time parents and children share. |
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HEALTH |
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people’s health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
American Diabetes Association
American Diabetes Association’s mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by this disease. To fulfill this mission, the American Diabetes Association funds research, publishes scientific findings, provides information and other services to people with diabetes, their families, health professionals and the public. The Association is also actively involved in advocating for scientific research and for the rights of people with diabetes.
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is: "Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke." The association's impact goal is to reduce coronary heart disease, stroke and risk by 25 percent by 2010.
AIDS.gov
AIDS.gov provides comprehensive government-wide information on HIV/AIDS for the general public, Federal agencies, state staff/public health departments, Federal grantees, medical institutions, research institutions, and HIV/AIDS-related organizations. |
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| Local |
4th Annual Golfing for a Cause
Black Jewels Ladies Golf Association
NY Country Club, New Hempstead, NY
September 6, 2008
www.BlackJewelsGolf.com
4th Annual African American Literary Awards Show
Harlem Gatehouse, New York, NY
September 25, 2008
www.literaryawardshow.com
5th Annual Art Off the Main Art Fair
Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
October 2-5, 2008
www.artoffthemain.com |
| Industry |
Film Life's 12th Annual American Black Film Festival
Los Angeles, CA
August 7-10, 2008
www.abff.com
National Sales Network's 12th Annual Conference & Career Fair
Dallas, TX
August 13-16, 2008
www.salesnetwork.org
30th Annual Conference & Exposition~Catalyst for Change
National Black MBA Association, Inc.
Washington D.C. Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
September 17-20, 2008
www.nbmbaa.org
23rd Annual Educational Conference & Diversity Recruitment Expo
National Association of Health Services Executives
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
October 14-18, 2008
www.nahse.org
4th Annual Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit
The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Orlando, FL
February 11-14, 2009
www.blackenterprise.com |
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