Where the bright women are is created by Fiona Greggains Perks and
Kath Ludlow.
christianbanfield.com
We’ve worked for years in communications and started this site and network of bright women to share our experiences and thoughts. Please contact us at wherethebrightwomenare@gmail.com if you’d like to find out any more about our blogsite, survey and what inspired us.
Our small marketing consultancy is called Bright Stuff and you can email us at kath@brightstuffcommunications.com
We look forward to hearing from you.
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Join us on facebook and twitter
Just to let you all know that we’re also to be found on Facebook (Where the bright women are) and twitter (@brightwomenare). See you there!
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Brightwomenare goes global!
We’ve had loads of requests from women living all over the world who want to fill in the survey. As the first one was created to find our what everyone in the UK is thinking at the start of the new decade, and to create a vision of what we all want, we’ve created a second, international version, adapted for those of you living outside the UK who want to take part and join us.
So when you click on survey, choose the overseas one if that’s where you are.
Please forward on to all of those smart, cool women you know across the globe!
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Digital free on a Saturday?
“When I visit my friends who are mums, they all have a laptop in the kitchen, and they all use them for a few minutes a time in between cooking, cleaning up, and playing with their little ones. But they’re on their laptops all day long.”
This is what my friend said over dinner last week, and it really got us thinking about our own digital habits. When we log on, and what we do. Do we follow the same pattern each time, or are we always seeking something new? Are we organised enough to bookmark our favourites, or do we just use Google search now?
We’ve talked to a lot of bright women about this, and one thing we all seem to have in common is that Saturdays are not really a digital day. Although most of us are online on Sunday evening.
What about you? We would love to know what you think.
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viva la rev…
bring it on… find this survey totally fascinating and inspiring… thanks a lot! x x
How funny, I’m exactly the same! I tend to have my laptop in the kitchen when I’m eating lunch or cooking the tea, and also keep my Blackberry in the kitchen when I’m not actually at my desk. I can then check emails and send out quick replies, read articles, catch up on twitter. If I find a useful site, I do tend to bookmark it to save time searching in future.
But Friday nights and Saturdays I tend not to log on as I’m doing family stuff. But yes, by Sunday night the laptop is usually on my knee when I’m watching TV. Good to know we’re all in the same boat.
Looking forward to the survey results
Julie
…although we have to admit, since getting the iphones, our Saturdays have become a teeny bit more digital! Hard not to engage in Twitter from time to time. But the laptop and computer remain firmly off during family time. And it definitely seems to be a trend from our site visitor stats.
…wondering why you’re limiting your search to women in their late 30s. Now in my mid-forties working as Non-Exec, starting a new online business but still fitting it around school pick ups etc. and identifying with ‘where the bright women are’…(With many of us pursuing our corporate careers for as long as possible, we have our children late and still have small children when others our age have grown up kids!)
Thanks. I will give it a try. Mike
I have just discovered your website by accident and almost immediately feel a part of your online community. I am now considering returning to the work force after 8.5 years of raising 2 beautiful children but am clearly aware that the environment is not conducive to school pick ups/ drop offs, sick children, extra curricula activities and the desire to provide all that is stable and domestic on the home front. Before starting a family, I was climbing the corporate ladder, completed a Masters in Marketing and my mind felt finely tuned. During my 8.5 years at home, I dabbled in the building industry and became a home based interior designer/ decorator / marketer of properties etc. Now I am faced with reentering the workforce at a junior level to jump start my “traditional” marketing career and am not sure if I have the patience to start “all over again.” Are there any women out there that have taken this path or a similar one?
By the way, this site is a great initiative!
Catherine – it’s really hard to go back after a break – have you thought about freelancing or taking short term contracts just to get you back up and running? I only had very short breaks to have my children then went back into Marketing jobs but it was still daunting. I then set up my own business which fits into my life much better. It could be that a similar option would suit you.
There is a company called workingmums.co.uk who have lots of people looking to do just that. They might be worth talking to. Fiona