An Experiment

The purpose of this blog is to create a forum for exchanging ideas and information about public policy issues of interest to women business owners and about ways women business owners can become more engaged in public policy at all levels of government, state, local and federal.

As the principal author, I will be guiding the development of the blog and moderating the commentary. I'll be adding other women business owners to the blogging team who are active in the National Association of Women Business Owners Public Policy Council and Forum ... allowing them to post items directly.

All are welcome to post comments to the blog. You'll have to register to do so. The blog will not accept anonymous posts. If you are reticent to register under your own name, you can create a blogger identity and use that. Using a consistent identity (real or created) will allow readers to track a person's point of view based on their blogger name.

The purpose of the blog is to discuss ways in which women business owners can build their capacity to participate in the political process, and to discuss substantive business issues of interest to women business owners.

This blog is not the place for partisan debates or for discussion of other than business issues.

I look forward to seeing how this blog unfolds. If you'd like to see an example of the kind of blog that I hope that this blog will become, take a look at Bacon's Rebellion. Jim Bacon has developed a blog about Virginia politics that is always interesting (to us public policy wonks) but never juvenile or uncivil.

Let me know what you think.

Claire Guthrie Gastanaga
NAWBO VP Public Policy 2005-06