President / CEO at GG Web Group
San Antonio, Texas Area
- Current
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- President / CEO at GG Web Group
- President / CEO at Advancing Women
- Past
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- Financial News Editor at Hearst’s iVillage
- Education
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- Wellesley College
- Columbia University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Online Media
- Websites
Gretchen Glasscock’s Summary
Gretchen Glasscock, Pres/CEO of GG Web Group and Pres/CEO of AdvancingWomen.com is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO-San Antonio). She currently operates GG Web Group.com AdvancingWomen.com website, a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WEB), Careers.AdvancingWomen.com, the AW Career & Biz Blog , Advancing Women in Leadership Journal and NewEnergyResearch.net, the first of several planned "green business" websites and has developed, executed and oversees a number of websites for professional and business organizations, universities and software developers in the U.S. and Europe.
Glasscock’s websites have won Lycos Top 5% Award, Dow Jones Award, Beatrice-Yahoo Top Site, and WWWomen Best of Net, listed in Femina as a top women’s career site; have been featured in Elle, Self, Women and Success, and Fast Company magazines, Access, a Sunday Supplement, Business Class, an Australian magazine, and the San Antonio Business Journal.
Glasscock attended Wellesley College and graduated from Columbia University in New York City, took courses at Wharton School of Business. Glasscock has published and spoken on business and career issues and Internet technology internationally; has provided career and business content to Fortune 500 companies like Citibank and Hearst; has been published internationally by Cambridge University Press, by universities, military academies, medical and business societies, and financial organizations in Australia, India, and Saudi Arabia and translated into Mandarin Chinese, reaching a Chinese audience of over 2 million. She also served as financial news editor for Hearst.
Gretchen Glasscock’s Specialties:
Gretchen currently operates GG Web Group.com AdvancingWomen.com, Careers.AdvancingWomen.com,the AW Career & Biz Blog , and,the first online refereed journal on women’s issues, Advancing Women in Leadership Journal and NewEnergyResearch.net, the first of several planned "green business" websites.
Gretchen Glasscock’s Experience
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President / CEO
GG Web Group
(Online Media industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Comprehensive web solutions and strategy to empower business and professional leaders to achieve their goals using the many powerful and affordable tools readily available on the web today. We help clients create and fine tune their websites to , grow their business, build community and communicate more effectively with their clients or members.
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President / CEO
Advancing Women
(Online Media industry)
1994 — Present (15 years)
Glasscock founded AdvancingWomen.com, shortly after Netscape introduced the browser; the web site was the first to offer online tools support and strategy to level the playing field for women in career and business. It is winner of Lycos’s Top 5% Award, the Dow Jones Award, the Beatrice-Yahoo Top Site, and WWWomen Best of Net.
Glasscock and Advancing Women have provided career and business content to Fortune 500 companies like Citibank and Hearst, been published internationally by Cambridge University Press, by universities, military academies, medical and business societies, and financial organizations in Australia, India, and Saudi Arabia and translated into Mandarin Chinese, reaching a Chinese audience of over 2 million. Glasscock also served as financial news editor for Hearst’s MoneyMinded.com/Woman.com. -
Financial News Editor
Hearst’s iVillage
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IVIL; Online Media industry)
January 1997 — January 2000 (3 years 1 month)
Glasscock served as financial news editor for Hearst’s MoneyMinded.com/Woman.com which morphed into iVillage.com
Gretchen Glasscock’s Education
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Wellesley College
Comparative Literature
I attended my first year of college at Wellesley and was thrilled to go to a college which had produced women leaders like Secretary Madeleine Albright and Senator Hillary Clinton
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Columbia University
B.S. , Writing
Glasscock is a past member of the Board of Directors of National Association of Women Business Owners ( NAWBO-San Antonio); is active with the White House project, whose mission is to encourage women's participation in politics and to place women in the pipeline to reach the highest offices in our land; also active with Win With Women, National Democratic Institute, Washington, D.C. to promote women in political leadership in 65 countries and various organizations supporting the increased use and funding of technology.
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- I attended Wellesley College and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in writing.
Additional Information
Gretchen Glasscock’s Websites:
Gretchen Glasscock’s Interests:
Developing websites, new web platforms, tools and technology, social media tools, marketing, entrepreneurship, writing.
Gretchen Glasscock’s Honors:
My websites have won Lycos Top 5% Award, Dow Jones Award, Beatrice-Yahoo Top Site, and WWWomen Best of Net, listed in Femina as one of 4 top women’s business sites
Gretchen Glasscock’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
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