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• 1. tdc  |  March 6th, 2008 at 10:35 am

  “jokes”???

  well, the joke would be on liz smith because that one was registered in march of 2002.

• 2. Lois Slavkin  |  March 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am

  Dear Ms. Stahl,

  I have read with interest about your involvement with “WowoWow.” Please consider an enormous opportunity that you have, in the launching of “WowoWow.com,” to create a nationwide project to train and deploy soon-to-retire or retired women leaders to provide pro bono management assistance to nonprofit organizations that serve needy women and girls! As the founder of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation (WAWF) and Charter Founder of the Los Angeles Women’s Foundation (now merged with the California Women’s Foundation), and a strategic planner who has focused on the nonprofit sector and women’s issues for many years, I am acutely aware of the need that women-serving nonprofits have for skills such as public relations, advertising, board recruitment, program planning, strategic planning, business plan development, fundraising and grant writing, to name a few. Women leaders possess these critical skills and could help hundreds of thousands of women and girls through sharing their expertise as mentors and facilitators to help nonprofit executive directors realize their mission and goals. I envision this as a highly interactive component of your new initiative, with all aspects of the “management assistance program” taking place online. I suggest this to you, Ms. Stahl, as I know that your work exposes you to the harsh realities of the nonprofit world and the women and children to whom they provide services. It has been my intention to create a local start-up using this model, sans Internet; but when I read about “WowoWow,” it seemed like a great venue for a program such as I described above. I’m sure that you agree with me that professional women of a certain age want desperately to retain their sense of purpose in life and want to use themselves well and proudly in the third chapter of their lives. I would be happy to discuss this further if you have interest in pursuing the idea.

  Sincerely,

  Lois Slavkin

• 3. Safran  |  March 6th, 2008 at 10:42 am

  And, funny enough, LesleyStahl.com is available.

• 4. Pete  |  March 6th, 2008 at 10:53 am

  Looking at that url makes me think it’s a World of Warcraft (commonly referred to as WoW on the web) fan site.

• 5. Rob  |  March 6th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

  Women of World of Warcraft?

• 6. tdc  |  March 6th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

  cory, would you mind looking at king5’s stats on compete for the last few months and telling whether you feel they are a fair represation of your visitors?

  of course, there’s a whole host of issues with some other dotcom’s i’m tracking over there which lead me to look at yours and ktvb’s for a representative comparison.

  don, feel free to chime in, too.

• 7. Anonymous  |  March 6th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

  I thought it was wowowow.com, as in, “Wow-wow-wow!” Not that that’s much better.

• 8. TR  |  March 6th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

  On one hand this sounds promising, as I have been learning in community news coverage that it tends to be the over-40 women who make the world go ’round. On the other hand, I fully expect it will be laden with ads for the usual “he gals, we know you hate the way you look so maybe this will help” crap such as Botox, tummy slimmers, dye-out-the-gray, etc., rather than anything thoughtful that’s also a very big part of “older” women’s lives. (I’d love to see ad campaigns for tech stuff like Mac, iPod, phones, etc., with a few 40-plus gals, for example.) Dearly hoping to be proven wrong …

• 9. Olsen  |  March 6th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

  Does this remind anyone of the SNL commercial for clownpenis.fart??

  Name points to sketch.

• 10. Hussman  |  March 7th, 2008 at 6:47 am

  Actually, this makes me think more of the ‘Continental’ on SNL - the Christopher Walken bit.

• 11. tdc  |  March 7th, 2008 at 10:18 am

  thanks to rob and the others who responded in “the circuit”.

  this is a topic that is not going away, guys. neither are those felonious looking charts at compete.

  oh, that’s right… we keep two sets of books, one for promotional purposes and the other for sales.

  right.

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