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12pm - 1pm @ the Apple Store on North Michigan Avenue.
Podcasting For Your Business
Looking for a new way to reach potential customers? Learn how to create new opportunities for your business with podcasting. Hear real-world examples from small businesses that made podcasting work for them, and get step-by-step instructions that show you how easy it is to start your own podcast.
Presented by UIC – Center for Urban Business/SBDC
Metropolitan Club Sears Tower, 67th Floor, Chicago
5:00pm – 8:30pm
$50
312-996-4057;sbdc@uic.edu
Seminar - They’re Here. What Now?
Presented by The Lincoln Park Business Development Institute (LPBDI)
Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce Office, 1925 N. Clybourn, Ste.301, Chicago
$249/all four workshops; $79/Individual workshops
“Leading Edge Data Center Technology”
Featured Sponsor: APC
May 23, 2006
Chicago, in the Loop
InfraStruXure is a new data center technology from APC that
integrates power, cooling, and environmental management within a
rack-optimized design. You’re invited to join other select IT
leaders for an exclusive tour to see InfraStruXure in action.
You’ll learn first-hand from peers how InfraStruXure’s modular
approach boosts system availability, shrinks costs, and slashes
design and install time from months to days – for everything from
wiring closets to large data centers!
After the 90-minute tour and discussion, we’ll adjourn to a nearby
upscale restaurant (location TBA) for the “APC Real-time
InfraStruXure Awards Dinner.”
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see today’s most exciting new
data center technology in action right in your own back yard!
Registered attendees with business card will also receive a free APC
Professional Surge Arrest.
Presented by The Kellstadt Marketing Center
DePaul Center, 25 E. Jackson Blvd, Chicago
9:00am -12:00pm
$89/per person
312-362-5913
For entrepreneurs and people in the entrepreneurial community here in the Chicagoland area. Chicago’s First Annual Smart Bet Charity Poker Tournament. Over 350 entrepreneurs expected to attend. smartbet.org
All proceeds from Smart Bet go to the Chicago Entrepreneurial Center’s innovative business education program for talented, underprivileged Chicago high school entrepreneurial students and programs that support those students. Initial funding for this program is provided by Motorola.
Register online by May 8 and receive a free Senseo coffee machine ($70 value) when you attend the event.
Poker players and non-poker players are both welcome and encouraged to attend.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
6 P.M. Cocktails and Networking
7 P.M. Poker Tournament Commences
78 East Washington, Chicago, IL
No Limit Texas Holdem Buy-In: $150.00 (Initial buy in includes food and drinks)
Re-Buys: $50.00 (until 8:30 PM)
Spectator Fee: $50.00 (Includes food and drinks)
SIGN UP NOW: To sign up visit: www.signmeup.com/53723
(Volunteers needed for many positions, poker experience not necessary)
Presented by Small Business Development Center
College of Lake County
19351 W Washington Street, Grayslake, IL
7:00pm - 10:00pm
$30
847-543-2033
PHP User Group (phpug)
Event start date: 6:00 pm
Event location: type a, 223 w. Erie 300, chicago, il
Event purpose: php beginners and experts, and related technologies such as mysql, postgresql, gd, ming, etc.
Event cost: $0
Event related website: http://chiphpug.php.net
Event contact name: richard lynch
Event contact phone: 773-252-8914
Contact email: chiphpug@l-i-e.com
Business cards: business cards optional
Presented by SCORE
SBA District Office, 500 W. Madison, Suite 1250, Chicago
8:30am - 12:30pm
$35
312-353-7724
Why You Could – and Should – Write a Book
May 15, 6:30pm Weaton, IL Free Event
Speakers: Rob Engelman
Do you dream about writing the great American novel? What about a business book? If these thoughts have crept into your mind, now is the time to take action. Join Rob Engelman, co-author of the newly released That Was Zen, This Is Wow: 232 Ideas for Transforming Your Life From Ordinary to Extraordinary as he shares his wit and wisdom to dare, nudge, even drag you to the land of fame, fortune and free donuts through authorship.
Topics to be covered in this highly interactive session include: Why write a book; Selecting a topic; Benefits to authorship; Self-publishing vs. finding a publisher; Marketing a book; Getting started; Finding endorsements; Cashing the checks; and more. If you have ever wanted to write a book, but were afraid to ask…now is your chance. Join Rob to learn first hand how to take that book idea and experience the thrill of your name on the front cover
University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business
ENTREPRENEURIAL ROUNDTABLE
Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus in Wheaton, IL
Chicago.PM - /Perl M([ou]nger|aniac)s/
Chicago chapter of Perl Mongeraniacs.
Coogan’s Riverside Saloon, Free
Open Source related conference
May 15 - 17, 2006, $100
University of Illinois at Chicago
Presented by The Lincoln Park Business Development Institute (LPBDI)
Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce Office, 1925 N. Clybourn, Ste.301, Chicago
5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
$249/all four workshops; $79/Individual workshops
773-880-5200; Jamie@lincolnparkchamber.com.
http://www.lincolnparkchamber.com
Presented by the DePaul Entrepreneurs Association
DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson, 11th Floor - DePaul Club, Chicago
7:30am - 9:00am
Free/Members; $20/Non-Members
312-362-8625, cec@depaul.edu
ChicWIT’s Spring Progressive Networking ExtravaganzaWouldn’t you like a guaranteed way to connect with potential clients, vendors, associates and partners? Don’t you wish that you could attend a mini-seminar that would teach you how to be a networking guru and how to make the most of your time networking?Well…ChicWIT has just the solution for you – our Spring Progressive Networking Event! Not only will Chicago’s own Networking Queen, Sharan Tash, teach you how to be a networking guru, you will be matched up in advance with the people you MOST want to meet! Progressive networking guarantees that every 20 minutes you will meet nine new people via two-minute introductions!
Bella Bacino’s will offer a wide range of delicious appetizers and cash bar.
ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 150 WHO REGISTER. THERE WILL BE NO REGISTRATION AT THE DOOR FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRESSIVE NETWORKING!
To be guaranteed a spot please register early!
***When you register online please make sure to include your name, title, company name, and 8-word limit description of your company.
Cost: $35
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Bella Bacino’s
75 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601
Saturday, May 6, 2006
To RSVP, click the Yes button below:
Presented by SCORE
SBA District Office, 500 W. Madison, Suite 1250, Chicago
May 9th 8:30am - 12:30pm, $35
312-353-7724
Midwest entrepreneurs forum (MEF)
Downtown chapter meeting
6:00 pm 8:00 pm
Kent law business school 565 west adams street chicago, il
Event region: us - midwest
Event theme: entrepreneurial/financing
Event description: jerry mitchell, the president of the midwest entrepreneurs forum, will lead a panel discussion that will examine the issues surrounding entrepreneurial financing from venture capital firms, angel investors, and banks.
Event purpose: the midwest entrepreneurs forum (mef) promotes and strengthens the process of starting and growing companies by providing services, which educate and inform entrepreneurs.
Event speakers: jerry mitchell, president, midwest entrepreneurs’ forum
Event costs: free for mef members, $20 for nonmembers, $60 for annual membership
Event related website: http://www.gss.net/mef
Event contact name: jerry mitchell
Event contact phone: 630-305-0005
Contact email: jerry@jerryrmitchellandassoc.com
Rsvp phone: no rsvp necessary
Rsvp email/link: no rsvp necessary
Must one rsvp?: no
Invitation only?: no
Proper attire: business casual
Business cards: yes - bring business cards
Organization notes: the midwest entrepreneurs forum (mef) promotes and strengthens the process of starting and growing companies by providing services, which educate and inform entrepreneurs. Mef meets the second tuesday of each month (except july and august) at the downtown campus of the illinois institute of technology, 565 w. Adams street, chicago, from 6 p.m. To 8 p.m. A suburban meeting is held the last tuesday of each month (except july and august) from 7 p.m. To 9 p.m. At the daniel l. And ada f. Rice campus of the illinois institute of technology, 201 east loop road, wheaton, ill. Each mef meeting normally features a case presentation/panel discussion that spotlights a single company in a critical stage of development. Mef membership is $60 per year and additional information is available online at www.gss.net/mef, by calling 312-857-0301 or by writing mef, 8 south michigan avenue, suite 1000, chicago, il 60603.
The Largest Conference for Catalog, Internet & Multichannel Merchants.
ACCM is a fit for catalog, Internet, or multichannel merchant professionals across all job functions and all levels of seniority.
With more than 100 educational sessions in 3 days, plus 2 distinguished keynote speakers, and numerous special events and networking opportunities, ACCM 2006 is an exciting, profitable opportunity for catalogers, internet professionals and multichannel merchants to gather together under one roof to learn and network.
From about $100 to over $1000 depending on what you sign up for.
http://catalogconference.com/attendees/conf_overview/index.html
How entrepreneurs take risks, make decisions and how you can to.
Anthony Taquintos and Stephen Spinelli, Jr.
Meet the Author
2-4pm Saturday 5/6 and Sunday 5/7
at Argo Tea (at State and Randolph)
16 W. Randolph St. Chicago, IL
