Expat Women Site Relaunches!

Hi Everyone, We are excited today to finally unveil our new-look Expat Women website.  Please come and visit it, share it, tweet it and 'like it' on Facebook. Your support helps a lot. Thank you!

New-Look Expat Women Site
Here are a few images to give you a quick guided tour...
PS. If you are reading this by blog feed and cannot see the images, please click here to read this post on our blog instead. Thanks.

Image 1: Top of our new Expat Women home page

* Search button

* Main menu bar (with sub-menu options appearing when you scroll over with your mouse)

* Introductory text for new users, but with handy text links for everyone to use!

* Sign-up box

* Sponsor logos

Image 2: Twitter Update

Now, it will be much easier to see the latest news and links :-)

Image 3: Monthly Features

* Success Story

* Business Idea

* Expat Confession

* Plus other great feature articles and interviews for that month :-)

Image 4: Expat Women Blog Update

* A quick way to see our latest blog postings updates :-)

Thanks in advance for your support of our new website, and for your sharing of our new-look Expat Women site with women all over the world. We appreciate it sincerely. Warmest wishes, Andrea x

OLX - Free Classifieds Worldwide

Hi Everyone, Have you heard of OLX? They describe themselves in the press release they sent us as: "The largest free classifieds site no one’s ever heard of!"

But unlike the inference, it appears that the folks at OLX know exactly what they are doing:

• Launched in June 2006;
• Over 50 million unique visitors per month;
• 400 million page views per month;
• Almost 2 million new ads are posted monthly;
• OLX has raised $28.5 million in funding since March 2006;
• OLX has offices spread over the globe with 125 employees working out of New York, Buenos Aires, Beijing, and Moscow; and
• OLX is now present in 84 countries and 36 languages, but Americans are not likely to have heard of OLX because its popularity lies mainly outside of the United States in places like Spain, India, Portugal, Mexico, South America, China, and the Philippines.

One of the co-founders of OLX, Fabrice Grinda, was previously:

"...the founder and CEO of Zingy Inc., which he built into one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas, while successfully closing deals with some of the top wireless providers in the world. Within four years, Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in content sales before selling the business in 2004 for $80 million." Smart guy.

If you need a free, worldwide classifieds site, OLX might be for you.

Best wishes, Andrea.

Global Post - A New Voice For Global News

Hi Everyone, If you take a keen interest in world news, you may like to take a look at the recently-launched news site Global Post - watch their video and read their mission. They make some big promises, so I hope they can live up to their goals.

Interestingly, to fund the site, their business model revolves around three streams of income: advertising; syndication; and, the interesting one, designed for the real news junkies - their Passport program. The user-pays Passport program offers readers a voice in news coverage, interaction with on-the-ground journalists, global briefs from the editor and more.