The 100 Best U.S. Companies for Working Moms, according to @_workingmother_ – I’ll keep this in mind for the book

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Christine Perkett

Always supportive of helping working moms. Earlier this week I tweeted (http://bit.ly/a4fnct) about writing a book for helping working moms to cope without guilt. I received a lot of positive feedback, and it was nice to know I wasn’t alone in my struggles! I just may go for it, and I’ll keep lists like this in mind. What do you think?

Amplify’d from www.workingmother.com

2010 Working Mother 100 Best Companies

Family-friendly benefits and programs that help keep working moms’ careers on track have mored forward in the 25 years since the launch of Working Mother’s first Best Companies list. Now Working Mother 100 Best Companies offer programs that help all employees with their struggles to gain some work-life balance. Here’s what we have found.

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“Cost aprx $165/yr to make drip coffee at home vs $636 to buy at your local café.” Can YOU Do The Reuse?

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Christine Perkett

You can choose your challenge! An intriguing site – Aladdin’s 30-day commitment to give up disposable paper cups, water bottles, or food containers. Everyone’s welcome to participate (the more, the better!), and nine families will be blogging about their experience on the website.

I’m going to try it, will you?

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Technology, access, connections & potential transforming the world of fashion; via @NYTimes. Happy #NYFW, #FNOnyc

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Christine Perkett

New York Fashion Week kicks off and today is also Fashion’s Night Out in NYC. This article captures a new spirit in the industry. I love that technology plays a big part in the transformation of how things are done – along with a lot of creativity, connections and spirit, of course.

There’s a great Q&A if you click through and read the entire piece.

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The Next Wave

Fashion always loves a moment, and none has captivated the industry quite so thoroughly in recent times as the ever-booming population of impressive young designers who have staked their flags proudly in Manhattan. Not a decade ago, the captains of industry were asking themselves who could revive American fashion in the eyes of the world, since the big guns of New York had grown stale, retired or expired, and Paris reclaimed the mantle as the place to be. A Paris Six emerged, as Cathy Horyn, fashion critic for The New York Times, noted in 2005, citing a small group of designers who held the most profound influence over global fashion at the moment, comparable to the Antwerp Six of the early 1990s, or the Japanese designers who dominated Paris in the two decades prior.

What is most exciting about what is happening in fashion now, however, is that it is not just six names who are making waves in New York, but an entire generation of designers who have the potential to transform what we think of as American fashion. The majority of designers showing during New York Fashion Week, which begins today, started their labels within the last decade, chasing the dream of fashion in a city that has not always been so hospitable to talented designers. In fact, very few who started here since the 1980s managed to survive.

Yet there are more new designers working in New York fashion than at any point in its history, a rush of tenderfeet that one can say with some certainty began in 2002, when Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, two students at Parsons the New School for Design, sold their senior collection to Barneys New York and became the toast of the industry with their label, Proenza Schouler. Their example changed the way young designers looked at their careers. They no longer had to apprentice for years or scream to be heard — New York was crazy for the new.

The savviest among them have created businesses that have eclipsed their predecessors in both scale and speed. Alexander Wang, who started his street-meets-couture collection in 2007, reached $25 million in sales last year; Phillip Lim, his contemporary, has flagships in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Seoul. Their generation, which grew up with the Internet and the ease of access to information, is keenly aware of the power of fashion today in popular culture. They are also incredibly well connected, having formed a mutual support network through the many new initiatives designed to promote designers in New York, and uniquely suited to the moment.

“I suppose this is the first generation that has had access to everything in the palm of their hand,” said Simon Collins, the dean of the school of fashion at Parsons. “They can find factories on their phones.”

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Okay Facebook, that’s fine but it will make me close acct & stick to Twitter; via @FastCompany #stalkersnothanks

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Christine Perkett

Seriously, this is just stupid. If I wanted to let just anyone know what I’m doing on Facebook why would I have all those Profile Privacy settings? (Even if it’s just my status update – which are very often personal updates.) If I treated Facebook like Twitter, I would accept all those friend requests sitting in my inbox from complete strangers with no reason why they want to be “friends.” If I wanted to let the world know what I was doing an didn’t care who knew, I’d say it on Twitter.

But I use Facebook differently. For now, that is. If they do this, I see no use for Facebook and will go to a different community for private communications with friends and family.

What do you think?

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Facebook Tests Stalker-Friendly “Subscribe to” Feature

Facebook SubscribeFacebook is testing a new feature that allows any user to “subscribe to” another user. What with having hundreds of friends, multiple news feeds and only so many hours in the day, you might miss out on what your ex-girlfriend is doing these days–and that will not stand!

Facebook Subscribe

The “subscribe to” feature gives you notifications whenever someone to whom you’ve subscribed takes action on Facebook, from status updates to photo uploads to wall comments. The new feature doesn’t seem to extend as far as Facebook Places check-ins–Facebook says it only applies to updated statuses and new content. Here’s their statement:

Yes, this feature is being tested with a small percent of users. It
lets people subscribe to friends and pages to receive notifications
whenever the person they’ve subscribed to updates their status or posts
new content (photos, videos, links, or notes).

AllFacebook notes that while this is sort of creepy for individuals, it could be used to great (and less weird) effect with public pages (eds. note: Please stalk Fast Company on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/FastCompany). Imagine following a band, and never missing when that band sends out a Facebook message with new tour dates. You could see how business and other groups would find the feature pretty useful, especially since it distills the true fans from the casual ones who join every page.

In the wake of pretty much continuous privacy scandals, it’s unclear how Facebook will make this feature seem palatable. It doesn’t exactly allow anything that wasn’t possible before, but it makes obsession much easier. Perhaps Facebook would implement a way for users to approve subscribers?

In any case, the feature is merely being tested now, and may or may not ever be implemented for the general public. How do you all feel? Is this a valuable new tool, or a step over the line into creepiness?
Dan Nosowitz, the author of this post, can be followed on Twitter, corresponded with via email, and stalked in Brooklyn (no link for that one–you’ll have to do the legwork yourself).Read more at www.fastcompany.com
 
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