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Kirtsy - Social Networking

There is a social networking site designed by women and geared specifically to women's needs. It's called "kirtsy dot com", and we talked with CEO, Laura Mayes, about and what Kirtsy is all about.







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" Let's start with the web Sally you know navigating it can sometimes be overwhelming at times got to figure out where to look how do you decide which sites are best suited for your needs. Well now there's one social networking site designed by women and geared specifically to women's needs it's called currency dot com and we talk with the CEO Laura -- About why she's got computer giant Microsoft to backers site and what currencies all of that. It started with three little brains and an idea."

" We thought that it would be fun for the three of us to be able to share. Send web sites who are already for design by the that the time and we needed to kind of share information we've found something we email each other whenever. And it just became cumbersome and we thought I would be really cool if we can just -- in one place that searchable and easy year -- using words software they created this site and send it -- to twenty people in 24 hours we had 300000 heads on the side it's one of those weird story is that people talk about it actually happen. And so it's kind of just an hour ride ever since then that was two years ago and and so curtsy sort of -- best what's going on online anyone can contribute to a story and you can actually rank them there nine categories. My lifestyle categories from arts and entertainment to politics world of business mind body spirit. Design and -- student home. And you can go through it just sort underneath those things located near the top twenty stories today on these different categories so it's just kind of helps organize it's really -- Easy and -- and then kind of addictive actually here's how it works we have thirty editors across the world and to pick out some of the best things that they found so we have an editor's picks column. And then there's a sort of be the wisdom of the majority -- in Tennessee editor's picks and popular tech."

" Its currency got a big boost partnering with Microsoft Office live to create a program called hands on small business where women just like Laura and her friends to learn how to start up new business. With a few simple online tools like Microsoft Office Twitter and FaceBook we --"

" Or anyone any good day hands on some business dot com and to learn where they are there in cities across it. The country it's a two hour session and our teachers get through different pools and hot really I have started small business and it's real hands on so when you leave you'll don't know if you have a Twitter account you'll have a currency account you'll. Be able to work a lot of these tools there's so many awesome opportunity city that with a very passionate about it."

" We'll lore has written a book about a project called -- takes about and it's available."

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