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Book Excerpts

Don’t Hook Up With the Dude in the Next Cube:

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Don’t Hook Up With the Dude in the Next Cube:
200+Career Secrets for 20-Somethings
By Nancy Shenker

“…So here are five simple ways you can use social media to help you get hired:

 

  • Post an online resume, using one of the free blogging apps like WordPress
  • Buy the URL for your name and get a tech-savvy friend to point it to your online resume.
  • Learn to use LinkedIn. It’s where the power professionals hang out. Twitter can also be a great self-promotion and connecting tool. Direct-message people you want to meet or retween something interesting they tweeted. (Just don’t do it so often that you come across as a suck-up or creeper)
  • Set up a separate Facebook page or Pinterest Board for your professional self and connect with brands and individuals in your field of interest
  • Start a blog or comment on other people’s blogs in your “passion category.” Listing your own blog on your resume shows your hiring manager or boss you have initiative (and that you can write too).”

States Nancy: “As a mom, I sometimes lapsed into the role of “Boss Lady” at home, helping both my daughters construct their resumes, role-play interviews, search for both summer and permanent jobs, and deal with at-work drama. I decided to make some of my wisdom (and wit) available to young women all over the world by writing/publishing my book with co-author Lindsay Ellen Brown, a 20-something writer who has had her own winding and successful career path. Although the preceeding excerpt deals just with online communication, the book includes lots of tips for face-to-face networking, which is more important than ever before in the digital age!” Order “Don’t Hook Up With the Dude in the Next Cube” via www.nunumedia.com, Amazon.com, or via www.2booms.com.

Nancy A. Shenker, a Chappaqua resident, is Founder/CEO of theONswitch® marketing as well as nunu media, LLC. After a long corporate career (including MasterCard and Citibank), she followed her heart to the world of entrepreneurship, writing, blogging, and professional speaking/training. Her daughters are now 19 (a sophomore at Cornell who was gainfully employed last summer!) and 23 (a Business Analyst at comScore). Nancy can be reached at nancys@theonswitch.com

Book Excerpts: V is For Vagina

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V is For Vagina
By Dr. Alyssa Dweck

“Vaginas. I’ve seen thousands of them. As a full-time practicing OB/GYN for almost two decades, I’ve learned women have a complex relationship with their V’s. Whether curious, closed, excited, elated, tenacious, mortified, tearful, or fearful, shy, panicked, pugnacious, even petrified, women first and foremost all want to know one thing: Am I normal down there?

This essential question is the reason that I’m Facebooked frequently, cornered in the grocery store aisle, sidelined at the gym, questioned in cafes, and stopped on the street by women who have urgent issues about their vaginas. Their queries and concerns inspired me to write V is for Vagina. Rather than talk yeast infection in the produce aisle or labioplasty on the elliptical machine, I wanted to get the word out, to educate women in an easy-to-read, nonthreatening, down-to-earth way. I wanted to share medically sound and up-to-date information in a humorous, hip and relaxed style. And I wanted to have a little fun, too.

So, here it is, V Is for Vagina: a humorous but informative guide to the sometimes mysterious but always fascinating and amazing VAGINA.

Please read, laugh, and learn…”

Alyssa Dweck MS, MD, FACOG is a full time practicing OB/GYN at the Mount Kisco Medical Group. She is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and Hahnemann University School of Medicine.  She is on the Health Advisory Board of Family Circle Magazine, contributed regularly to YM Magazine, and has been featured in Cosmopolitan, SheKnows.com, Shape.com,  parents.com, More.com and HealthRadio.

Meet Dr. Dweck for a 
May 10th “Straight V-Talk!”

Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester and Inside Chappaqua are proud to be co-sponsoring a talk and book signing by Dr. Dweck on Thursday, May 10th at 7pm at Temple Beth El. Come and meet Alyssa and have your questions answered! This is a free event open to the public. For more information, please contact communications@bethel.org.

The Wedding Writer

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From a new novel about weddings, women, and the world of work…
By Susan Schneider

Known to wedding industry insiders as the Angel of Bridal, Sara Mason, fashion editor of Your Wedding magazine, takes her seat at the Vera Wang show. Sara is uncomfortably aware of Keith Harvey, a man who has aroused something quite new in the hard-working, unmarried editor’s heart.

“She feels no peace until she settles into her chair in Vera Wang’s showroom. Works of art float by: a blush tulle number with three huge bows–one at the waist, one at the shoulder, and one at the hem–and a lilac faille mermaid silhouette dress with a draped bodice. She’s mesmerized by a sumptuous ball gown in black taffeta–utterly unbridal in the usual sense–that today strikes her as daringly sexy, beautiful in a vampirish sort of way that leads her thoughts back to the evening she’d spent in Keith Harvey’s loft.

It’s as if that night, months before, were last night. She can’t forget about him, the way she’d melted into his arms, forgotten everything. She slips her hand into her purse and touches his business card; she’d put it in the little pocket that holds her lipstick and compact for quick access. But now that she’d seen him with that awful model, she knows she won’t call him.

‘Sit back, for goodness’s sake, I can’t see the train,’ she hisses at her assistant, Courtney. Courtney ignores her. The last several dresses have gone by without Sara even noticing. Her mouth is dry, and she pops in a stick of gum, lets the sweetness burst. Of course, it won’t last. She keeps her eyes fastened on the surreally slender, melancholy girls wafting by, wearing the most romantic dresses on earth. As each model rounds the bend, there’s a whisper-soft, lush rustle. You have to listen for it, you have to make an effort to notice it beneath the soft clicking of the cameras. It’s the sound of this world’s soul, its very fabric, a secret revealed to only a few of them. It’s as familiar to Sara as the whisper of her own breath.”

St Martins Press Pub date:
June 7, 2011 Available by preorder on amazon.com, www.susanschneiderauthor.com, facebook.com/TheWeddingWriter.