Phoenix, AZ - City Resources, Biz Networking for Women
Contacts - Movers & Shakers - Networking Contact or join these groups before your stay to mazimize your access to powerful networks.
Linkedin.com - LinkedIn is an online network of more than 13 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Highly recommended.
Largest Industries
As the result of the population boom, the economy of Phoenix has taken on new dimensions in recent decades by moving into technology and service industries. Tourism and business services in particular now account for nearly 77 percent of the area's total employment.
Another sector of growth has been financial services and banking as several significant processing and/or regional headquarters operations call Phoenix home. American Express hosts their financial transactions, customer information, and their entire website in Phoenix.
Phoenix is currently home to three major Fortune 1000 companies. Intel has one of their largest sites in Arizona, employing about 11,000 employees and 3 chip manufacturing fabs, including the $3 billion dollar state of the art 300mm, 45nm Fab 32.
Magazines
Business
City Guides
City of Phoenix | City Search-Phoenix | Digital City-Phoenix
TV
KNXV (ABC) | KPHO (CBS) | KPNX (NBC) | KUTP (UPN) | KTVK
Radio
Business Resources
Elance - Outsourced freelancers for any type of work
Fedex-Kinkos - for any type of doc production, shipping
American Exress - for flight reservations, hotels, automatic flight insurance
Leisure
