Explore 2B Bolder's curated list of essential career and business resources tailored for women who want to get ahead. Find everything you need to empower your journey, from tools to enhance your professional skills to guidance for entrepreneurial success. Dive into our resources and take your career or business to the next level.
Sites for Women by Women
Chief - A private network for the most powerful women in leadership
DevelopHER - Support and secrets to make more money in your tech career
Ellevest is a fiance platform built for women by women, focused on helping you properly invest and grow your money.
Career Contessa - Great resource for career-minded women
Lean In - A global community dedicated to helping women achieve their ambitions.
The Mom Project - A digital talent marketplace and community that connects professionally accomplished women with world-class companies.
WomEng is a multi-award winning social enterprise developing high-skilled girls and women for the engineering and technology industries.
eWomenNetwork - Networking and referral business community for women entrepreneurs
DW/EN Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network - Empowering Women in Business
Female Founder Collective Community Education and Business Resources
Female Startup Club Resources that help you build your business
Boulo Solutions - Boulo connects women to companies that value women’s influence in the workplace, prioritize diversity, and promote a flexible work culture.
WatchHerWork - helping women go further faster.
Generation Female - is a community of current and future women leaders from across the globe.
50/50 Women on Boards Accelerating Women to Corporate Boards
Athena Alliance - Advanced Learning and Support for Women Leaders
Tory Burch Foundation Providing business resources for women
Fempeak - a platform aimed at leveling the playing field for professional women
Gotara: Get career advice that is personalized and confidential. Get Connected and Grow in your career.
The Balance Career includes finding a job, getting a promotion, and setting boundaries.
PDX WIT (Portland Women in Tech) empowers individuals within the Portland-area tech industry by offering community and skill-building events, mentorship, and access to jobs and opportunities.
Women in Technology - Women in Technology (WIT) aims to advance women in technology -- from the classroom to the boardroom. WIT meets its vision through a variety of leadership development, technology education, networking, and mentoring opportunities for women at all levels of their careers
Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - Empower women to achieve their full potential in careers as engineers and leaders; expand the image of the engineering and technology professions as a positive force in improving the quality of life; and demonstrate the value of diversity and inclusion.
AI for Women - Social campaign: Empower the next generation of women by sharing the insights you’ve gained during your career.
eWomenNetwork - Business Networking for Women
The Female Quotient - equality
Fire Up Bootcamp Website (Oregon)
Fire Up Bootcamp Resources (Oregon)
Job Sites
indeed - Employment website
Monster - Premium Site For Job Search and Job Postings
Fairygodboss offers a women's career community, expert career advice, job openings, and company reviews to help you advance your career.
Mogul is a technology platform and mobile app for women.
The Muse - Providing a look inside hundreds of companies hiring now
Freelance opportunities
Education
Creative Live - Online classes in photography, art, design, craft & DIY, marketing, business, and entrepreneurship. Available on-demand 24-7
Master Class - Watch thousands of lessons from the best as they share their stories, skills, shortcuts, failures, and successes.
Future Learn - Grow Your Digital Skills with Accenture
Social Media Tools
Hoot Suite - This powerful Tool Helps Manage & Optimize your Social Media posts to various social platforms from one dashboard.
Behance is a social media platform owned by Adobe that claims "to showcase and discover creativity.
Dribbble is a self-promotion and social networking platform for digital designers and creatives.
Followerwonk - Match your activities to gains and losses in followers to give your followers what they like best.
Content & Social Listening Resources
Content Marketing Institute (CMI) - content marketing education through online education, print, and in-person events.
Buzzmo - Run a search to quickly discover content ideas, uncover platform insights, identify passionate influencers, and more. Start your free trial now!
Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers.
All Top - aggregates all of the top news and information in real time. Find a topic and learn what's happening from trusted sources.
Reddit - is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site, such as links, text posts, and images, which others then vote up or down.
LinkedIn Pulse - is a publishing platform created by the professional social networking channel LinkedIn. To get started on Pulse, visit www.linkedin.com and sign in to your account. From there, on your homepage, you will see the updates from people you follow or interesting/trending stories on LinkedIn that you may be interested in.
Social Talent - be a contributor, take time to learn, or provide learning classes for your teams.
SlideShare - an American hosting service for professional content, including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Sqribble - is a cloud-based tool that allows you to create eBooks (reports, whitepapers, etc.) ... It uses ready-made templates and drag-n-drop design features that make self-publishing your eBooks a breeze.
Medium - read and share ideas on any topic.
Podcast Resources
Buzzsprout
Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user-generated audio, across categories.
MatchMaker enables users to grow their network and be productive when they are self-isolating by arranging remote conversations with people worldwide.
Listen Notes The Best Podcast Search Engine
Website Tools
WIX - Easy template-style website platform tool
WordPress - Popular and user-friendly website platform tool (requires a bit more tech knowledge than WIX
Fonts Google provides a wide choice of free fonts for branding.
Printful - create and sell custom products online
GraphicRiver - Fonts, logos & icons
Creative Market - is an online marketplace for community-generated design assets. The company sells graphics, WordPress themes, stock photography, and other digital goods for use by web creatives.
Women in Tech Events
The best list I've found on Women in Tech related events
Storefronts
Shopify - Set up an e-commerce site quick and easy
Freelance services
Fiverr - a platform that connects businesses with freelancers offering digital services in 300+ categories (super cheap - do your homework - sometimes you get what you pay for)
99 designs - A global creative platform that makes it easy for designers and clients to work together to create logos, branding, websites, and more.
Upwork - formerly Elance-oDesk, is an American freelancing platform where enterprises and individuals connect to conduct business.
Envato - top digital assets and services
Data-Driven Decision Making
Smart Data Collective - The world's best thinkers on big data, the cloud, analytics, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and other innovative ideas.
Top Affiliate Programs
Clickbank
Click Funnels
CJ Affiliate
Shopify
Berush
Volunteering opportunities
Million Girls Moonshot - The Million Girls Moonshot seeks to re-imagine who can engineer, build, and make. It will inspire and prepare the next generation of innovators by engaging one million more girls in STEM learning opportunities through after-school and summer programs over the next five years.
Online Courses for Skill Development
Leadership and Management
Course: "Leading People and Teams" by the University of Michigan on Coursera
This specialization covers team leadership and personal leadership development, focusing on managing people, diversity, and team dynamics.
Data Analysis and Data Science
Course: "IBM Data Science Professional Certificate" on Coursera Offers a comprehensive introduction to data science, including data analysis, visualization, and machine learning.
Digital Marketing
Course: "Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate" on Coursera
Learn about digital marketing strategies, e-commerce, and how to analyze and optimize campaigns.
Programming and Web Development
Course: "The We Developerb Bootcamp 2021" on Udemy, a Comprehensive boot camp to learn HTML, CSS, JS, Node, and more.
Project Management
Course: "Project Management Principles and Practices" by the University of California, Irvine on Coursera, Specialization designed to teach project management skills that can help in organizing, planning, and executing projects effectively.
Books for Personal and Professional Growth
Leadership
Book: "Dare to Lead" by Brené Brown A Guide to Brave Leadership, combining research with practical examples.
Productivity and Time Management
Book: "Deep Work" by Cal Newport, Strategies for focused success in a distracted world.
Career Development
Book: "Designing Your Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans Applying design thinking to build a well-lived, joyful life.
Communication Skills
Book: "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie, Timeless principles in making lasting coions and improving interpersonal skills.
Financial Literacy
Book: "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Insights into wealth building and financial independence.
Workshops for Hands-On Learning
Creative Thinking and Innovation
Workshop: "Creative Problem Solving" by Coursera Project Network. This is a hands-on, project-based workshop to enhance creative problem-solving skills.
Public Speaking and Presentation
Workshop: "Dynamic Public Speaking" by the University of Washington on Coursera
A practical workshop to master public speaking skills.
Emotional Intelligence
Workshop: "Developing Emotional Intelligence" on LinkedIn Learning Learn to manage emotions, read emotional cues, and improve interpersonal skills.
Entrepreneurship
Workshop: "Becoming an Entrepreneur" by MIT on edX Guidance on starting a business, from idea generation to market analysis.
Career Transition
Workshop: "Switching Your Career" on LinkedIn Learning- Practical advice and strategies for successfully changing career paths.
Life Coach
Bernadette Logue - transformational life coach, Founder of The Daily Positive Chanel, formerly Pinch Me Living on YouTube
If you want a resource added to this list, please send it my way. Not all submissions will be guaranteed to make the list, but I promise to check out each one personally and add it if appropriate. Thanks, Mary@2BBolder.com