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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
