Social Media Women, a formal networking group that will encourage and assist women to participate more prominently in social media has been launched today to coincide with International Women’s Day.
Having recognised the important role women play in social media, the group will give women a voice in all areas of social media. It’s a place to connect and share to support each other and build a community. 
Co-founder of Social Media Women, Catriona Pollard says, “Social media comes naturally to women. We are networkers, nurturers, gatherers, builders of villages and communicators.”
“Women want inspiration and collaboration, support and confidence. They don’t want self proclaimed social media guru’s pushing them to the sidelines.”
“With Social Media Women we have created a safe place for women to gain experience and confidence to ask questions, learn and challenge themselves to grow, evolve and aspire.”
“It’s a strategic group. It’s more than just talking about social media tools. It’s about taking a step back and seeing the big picture. It’s about collaboration and nurturing of ideas and creating change from them,” said Ms Pollard.
The founding members are Nancy Georges (Magnolia Solutions), Catriona Pollard (CP Communications) and Kristin Rohan (Sassy SEO).
Social Media Women is both online and in person, with meetings taking place on the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm.
Social Media Women welcomes all women whether working on their own or in an existing company, business, organisation or still studying. It’s for women that are interested in media, networking, communications and exploring the new ways people are communicating.
At the meeting along with social media discussions, public speaking and networking opportunities, an open forum will also be held to toss around ideas for speaking topics as conferences arise. This will lend to the group’s lobbying efforts to secure more female speakers at social media conferences.
The first meeting will be Tuesday 9 March at Blues Point Hotel, 116 Blues Point Rd, McMahons Point 2060.
To register: http://socialmediawomen.eventbrite.com/
Web: SocialMediaWomen.wordpress.com
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