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Join us at the October BNC IT Speed Networking Event. You don’t have to be a member to attend. You just have to possess a desire to meet IT and IT related professionals who can help you with your career or IT needs.
Questions? Contact: jpic333@hotmail.com
Questions? Contact: http://chicagoruby.org
Cyber Law and You: What New Media Professionals Must Know
Attorney Chris Juillet will discuss a variety of legal issues of import to technical communicators developing content for and conducting business over the Internet. Topics include recent developments in copyright, trademark, defamation and contract law with respect to web sites and Internet communication.
Also covered is UCITA, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, which will be considered by many state legislatures. As UCITA is adopted by the various states, it will drastically alter the way in which independent consultants will conduct business, as well as the liabilities they will incur as business owners. The presentation concludes with a brief discussion of the issues related to conducting a website legal audit.
Questions? Contact: program@stc-chicago.org
ORGANIZATION NAME: Campaigner
EVENT NAME: Email Marketing 2.0: Strategies for the Web 2.0 World
EVENT START DATE: 10/17/2007 9:00:00 AM
EVENT END DATE: 10/17/2007 12:00:00 PM
EVENT LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601
EVENT REGION: US - Midwest
EVENT THEME: Seminars
EVENT PURPOSE: Marketers currently frustrated with their email marketing strategy or service functionality.
EVENT SPEAKERS: Luc Vezina and Simms Jenkins
EVENT COST: $ 0
EVENT RELATED WEBSITE: http://www.campaigner.com/seminar.html
EVENT CONTACT NAME: Jen Levin
EVENT CONTACT PHONE: 888-845-4544 x363
CONTACT EMAIL: jen@campaigner.com
RSVP PHONE: 888-845-4544 x363
RSVP EMAIL/LINK: events@campaigner.com
MUST ONE RSVP?: Yes!
INVITATION ONLY?: No
REFRESHMENTS: Continental Breakfast
BUSINESS CARDS: Business Cards Optional
EVENT NOTES: This seminar offers an educational and innovative look at Email Marketing 2.0 - the strategies used to ensure that emails are targeted and customized, keeping customers engaged so they open, read and respond to your emails. Learn how to optimize your delivery rates, automate your lead nurturing programs, organically grow your opt-in lists, effectively segment your database, and much more.
ORGANIZATION NOTES: Campaigners software-as-a-service products enable organizations to have highly personalized one-to-one email dialogues with their customers, measure how they respond, and analyze those responses to interact in a more intelligent, automated way - resulting in more profitable relationships. Campaigner is partnered with industry leaders including Salesforce, Comcast and Yahoo! Its customers include companies such as Nokia, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Nielsen Media Research, AT&T, West49 and over 10,000 small and medium-sized businesses.
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Questions? Contact: jen@campaigner.com or 888-845-4544
An amazing half-day seminar training experience to ignite a new level of accomplishment for Magnificent Women executives and business owners. We didn’t invent personal branding, but wait until you discover the modern ways we’re sharing to help you makeover your career or take your business to the next level.
The Art of Personal Branding Conference features real tools women can implement for greater personal branding success on the job and in their business. An inspiring half-day session featuring Michelle Anton, former Oprah freelance associate producer and author of The Weekend Entrepreneur; award-winning branding aficionado, Cheryl Scales; real talk with Strong Women, Powerful Financial Strategies from our sponsor, Ameriprise Financial Services. SMART Girls is our designated charitable organization.
About Magnificent Women Organization:
The Magnificent Women Organization is dedicated to celebrating women of accomplishment in every environment. We believe: Magnificent Women are full of purpose and respect abundance, are authentic, not arrogant, are impressive and bursting with confidence, are multi-cultural and celebrate the connections, are spectacular and their signature is their personal brand.
Questions? Contact: info@magnificentwomen.org
B2B Power Exchange focuses on helping entrepreneurs, consultants and biz dev pros who sell to senior decision makers at companies with $ 10M or more in annual revenues. Our members focus on large, complex sales and we leverage our combined skills and executive contacts to expand our pipelines. Please pre-register, because we try to limit attendance to 25 people per location.
For locations and other information, please call 877.7.B2B.POWER or register online at http://www.b2bpowerexchange.com/application.asp
Agenda:
8:00 - 8:35am Registration and pre-meeting networking
8:35 - 8:40am Welcome, exchange business cards, order breakfast
8:40 - 9:55am Introductions including:
* Your elevator pitch
* A brief description of your services
* The sizes and types of companies you work with
* The titles of decision makers for your offering
* Types of companies you are interested in partnering with
* Specific requests
9:55 - 9:55am Sharing of local events that may be of interest to other members
9:55 - 10:30am Networking, lead exchange and appointment setting
For general information on the B2B Power Exchange, please visit http://www.b2bpowerexchange.com
Questions? Contact: Chris Pareja, info@b2bpowerexchange.com
This group is for new as well as seasoned entrepreneurs looking to expand their network for resources, information, and ideas for growing their business.
Agenda: Speed networking session — SO bring plenty of business cards, brochures etc.
Deadline to register is October 9, 12 noon. Cost is $ 15 prepaid which includes Lunch, Tax and Gratuity. ALL attendees must be preregistered in order to attend and will receive a final confirmation Tuesday evening on the email provided when registering through Paypal.
To Register: http://www.bnchicago.org/showEvent2.php?schedDate=200710&id=2
If you have any questions please email Susan Barahia at entrepreneuer_group@bnchicago.org or call 312-506-5320
In order for some businesses to grow, they need an infusion of capital. The type of capital depends on the entrepreneurs situation and the business needs. For some entrepreneurs, bank financing is the way to go. For other entrepreneurs, raising outside equity is the only way to go. Either way, it can be a challenge for most entrepreneurs to raise capital. Equity financing is often needed for a company to accelerate its growth and to get to the next level.
Learn from a panel of well-known Chicago investors what it takes to raise investor equity.
Topics discussed include:
Panelists:
Moderator will be David Weinstein, President, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center
Questions? Contact: Event Hotline, 312-494-6709
An industry analysis of mobile financial services as they are today and a vision for the future. With mobile payment systems all advancing fairly quickly what does that mean for the consumer as well as the providers - do the carriers have a stake in this vision (as everywhere else in the mobile spectrum?
The two persons on our panel providing us insight into this exciting new area in mobile commerce are:
George Fasching, Product Leader at the Mobile/Wireless Centre of Excellence in Master-Card. Georg is based in London and drives the innovation and development of payment elated services via mobile/wireless means. Products like MasterCard PayPass and Master-Card RePower are some of the results. He has almost a decade of in-depth experience in the mobile telephony services industry.
Kevin Bailey, is a member of Motorola�s Corporate Technology Office CTO) Incubator Group. For the past few years, he has been focused on defining and delivering -commerce solutions. The technology incubator is a team of multi-disciplined, experienced professionals directed towards recognizing opportunities for growth from ideas and technologies generated within Motorola. Each project run out of the incubator group is much like a start up company and is provided with the leadership, resources, and capital to advance the technology and its connected eco-system to a position that can be graduated into a new or existing business.
Where: ThoughtWorks Inc,
200 E Randolph, 25th Floor,
Chicago, IL 60601
When: October 8th, Monday @
5:30pm
RSVP Required!
Email:
chapin@momochicago.com
kiran@momochicago.com,
How secure is your organization? Are you sure? Explore the latest security technologies, infrastructure and policies designed to protect the 24-7, zero-perimeter enterprise:
Local IT executives will review top security concerns and strategies facing their companies: Keynote Panel
Enabling business through IT security
Steps to building a comprehensive Information Security Management System
Managing identity and access
Strategies for securing the network
Questions? Contact: Celine Seback 847-837-3900 x4
