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FWL Night Out at the San Francisco Opera
Future Women Leaders and San Francisco Opera are pleased to invite you to Bizet's Carmen on Tuesday, November 29. Please join us prior to the performance for a casual no-host networking reception with special guest, Susan McConkey, Chief Information Officer at San Francisco Opera. We will be meeting...

Small talk is the starting point of all relationships. Unfortunately by calling it “small talk”, we actually perpetuate the notion that it is trivial and unimportant which it isn’t. Turns out that the ability to converse easily with others (make small talk) can make or break one’s career. That’s what researchers at the Stanford School of...

There’s plenty of talk about relationships & personal finance, but very little practical knowledge on integrating the two. With a 40%+ divorce rate; a woman’s standard of living plummets 27%. Clearly, there’s a need for education!

In this presentation, Monica Mazzei, a family law attorney, and Michelle Soto, a financial advisor, share...

Most applicants to the top business schools are qualified to attend. For example, the average applicant to the Stanford Graduate School of Business has scored close to a 700 on the GMAT. With acceptance rates as low as 10-15% at some top schools, how do you ensure that your application will rise to the top of this highly qualified pool? This...

Future Women Leaders is proud to announce that Colleen McCreary, Chief People Officer will be joining us for dinner at King Fish in San Mateo on Thursday, August 11 at 6:30PM.

Come have an intimate dinner with head of HR of the world's top social gaming companies. Ask her what her favorite game is? How has working in technology changed for...

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Poll #1: Friday Evening (7/22/11)
For Friday evening/night, which of the following activities would you prefer?

1) Meet at the bar in the Flamingo at around 6:30 pm and then break out into separate groups for dinner in downtown Santa Rosa, with everyone meeting back at the Flamingo bar at around 10:30 pm that night.

2) Have a more...

Learn about hot new web technologies and mingle with 200+ fellow entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts. This meetup fills up quickly, so be sure to RSVP two weeks early each month.

We announce the lineup the day of the meetup, and we always feature four interesting companies.

The first hour of the meetup will be demos (actual...

Join our panelists from Steady
On Productions, Sharethrough, Newspepper.com &
Techfluff.tv, The Bleacher Report, BitTorrent & Flingo for
a discussion on the direction of the media industry in the
current digital environment!


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Foggy skies were not a deterrent for the hundreds of kite enthusiasts who turned out to celebrate the art of kite flying at the Ninthth Annual Habitat for Humanity Kite Festival in June. The sight of kites of all shapes and sizes gliding up into the fog like so many elegant ghosts enthralled the crowd of spectators. Children made their own kites...

ps. The monthly experiment is a self-paced, independent activity which allow you to try something new on your own, and post some images of your result to share.
We did a fun experiment in April and I hope people who tried had learn something new and enjoy it the fun. (If you try this afterward, you are welcome to upload the images afterward...

This unique networking mixer will connect job-seekers with hiring parties and recruiters, will get your resume directly to relevant interested parties, and will provide some keynotes with advice on the tech-related job market in the Bay Area today. Representatives from various areas of tech and the surrounding industries will be in attendance,...

Sunday, May 15, 2011, 11 AM – 4 PM Admission free.
Program: Mochi Pounding Performance, Tea Ceremony, Tsugaru Shamisen, Koto and Flute Performance, Japanese Kimono/Obi demonstration, Shorinji Kempo, Flower Arrangement, Okinawa Dance, Children's games, etc.
Silent Auction: includes round trip air tickets to Japan, electronic...

Think you've got the secret sauce for the next hot app built off the DocuSign API? Ready to put your code to the test? Join entrepreneurs, developers and systems integrators at the DocuSign Hackathon in San Francisco May 14-15, 2011. Hack out the Most Innovative, Best Consumer, Enterprise & Mobile Apps on the DocuSign API to win. Space is...

Social Media Success Summit 2011 is the web's largest live online conference that will empower you to use social media to gain more exposure, better engage customers and grow your business. Fully online. No travel expenses. The world's leading social media gurus will show you how. Join 22 experts, including Jeremiah Owyang (Altimeter...