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February/March 2013

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spotlight website www.enspiral.com At the heart of www.enspiral.com is an eco-system of 87 people and 12 companies working for a brighter future. The international brand (with its Head Office based here in Wellington) are re-engineering parts of our society that are worth caring about. Things like how we grow and get our food, lifelong learning in our communities and scalable democratic decision making. Solving problems are what these guys do best. The enspiral service network offers everything from web and software, through to animation, graphic design, legal, accounting, environmental planning, landscape architecture, urban design and engineering design and prototyping services. news The four rich countries where women out-earn men Irish women without kids earn 17 percent more than the typical male worker, according to new research from the OECD. Along with Australia, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, it is one of four rich countries where women without children report higher wages than men. "I think the number one thing women need to be successful in this business is self-confidence" From an interview with Donna Johannes Schuette - Vice president and owner of Johannes Auto Sales. Read more at www.semissourian.com Read more at www.theatlantic.com Beginner's guide to starting a web business Women's march on boards gains momentum "The internet is the ideal place to start a business" but to start a web business requires a whole new game plan and strategy – one that is different to running a standard business. The overall number of female directors in Britain has increased by 24 per cent over the past five years. Research from Experian shows a leap in female appointments, and comes as larger firms narrow the gap with smaller companies in hiring women. Its study of 2.7m British businesses, which analysed the number of male and female directors of UK businesses between 2007 and 2012, found that the increase in female directors since 2007 outstripped male appointments, by 24 per cent compared with 15 per cent. Women entrepreneurs launching start-up businesses had an important part to play in the shift: a third of the 1.4 million businesses that started up since 2007 have one or more female directors, adding 523,000 female directors overall, and 297,000 women were directors at firms that shut down during the five years. Read more at blog.teamtreehouse. com/beginners-guide-to-starting-aweb-business 5 Lessons Girl Scouts Can Teach Women Entrepreneurs About Social Media How do you create more businesses owned by women, especially businesses with revenues in excess of $1 million dollars? Social Entrepreneur Internships Are Casting Off! For the first time, Enspiral is creating an internship experience tailor made for social entrepreneurs. People who use the tools of business to make a positive social and environmental impact, applying their unique skills and passion to the work that matters. If you have a fire in your belly for social justice, environmental health and economic brilliance, this the internship for you! Offices in the Cloud Microsoft is selling a retooled version of its Office software to consumers as an online subscription service for the first time in an attempt to extend one of the company's key franchises beyond personal computers. The attempt to sell online Office subscription to consumers comes nearly seven years after Google unveiled its own internet bundle of word processing, spreadsheet and email programs. Google gives away a basic version of those applications, and charges subscriptions for more sophisticated packages aimed primarily at small businesses. Source: AP Which way to Act? A decade after public holiday surcharges were introduced in restaurants, several eateries have "given up" trying to enforce the added costs. The act says anyone working on a public holiday must be paid time and a half and get a day off in lieu. To cover the extra costs, several cafes and restaurants introduced levies of up to 25 per cent. Owners are free to determine the surcharge. Source: APN Read more www.forbes.com Read more at www.independent.co.uk www.h e rmagaz in e .co.n z | 15

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