March 27th, 2008
This cross-industry and cross-cultural group is BOTH the springboard and the bridge to INTERNATIONAL business.
Its events cater to global executives, international entrepreneurs, members of international not-for-profit organizations, members of foreign chambers of commerce, international business students and faculties, expatriates, managers of people from other cultures.
Topic of the March event:
SOCIAL INTELLIGANCE - a Pivotal Asset in International Business Success .
The speaker, CHARLES FAULKNER, is a world renown performance modeler and a globally bestselling author. He specializes in the language-based modeling of expertise including: top traders, senior executives, entrepreneurs, educators and inventors. He works internationally with major corporations, iconoclastic high wealth individuals and training organizations.
Charles will demonstrate how our most important and impactful communications are largely intuitive - unnoticed and unplanned until they go wrong, and it is too late. He will show how to easily develop more deliberate and effective expressions of our intentions in order to increase our results with whomever we encounter.
He is a principle in several companies including Influential Communications, Inc., the Director of Programs for NLP Comprehensive, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Surrey School of Management, UK.
Questions? Contact: BNChicago@Live.com
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March 27th, 2008
Understand the varous ways you might finance your business and how to approach friends and family, angel investors, banks and venture capitalists. Learn to prepare the documents you need to submit for each.
Questions? Contact: workshops@scorechicago.com
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March 25th, 2008
This workshop covers the essential elements of business plan development. Topics include: setting goals and objectives, preparing marketing and financial plans and defining action steps to attain appropriate goals.
Questions? Contact: workshops@scorechicago.com
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March 21st, 2008
To everyone interested,
The University of Illinois at Chicago Linux Users Group (UIC-LUG) and the University of Illinois at Chicago Association for Computing
Machinery (UIC-ACM) are hosting their second annual Flourish Conference promoting the adoption and use of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). The UIC-LUG and UIC-ACM would like to invite you to attend this glorious event. The entire conference is free
with registration (or $ 5 at the door), but please do register if you plant to
attend please lets us know how many people we should expect. http://www.flourishconf.com/register.php.
Some of our featured speakers will include: Bruce Perens from Source Labs, Jon “maddog” Hall from Linux International, Brian Fitzpatrick (and Ben Collins-Sussman) from Google, Dru Lavigne from Open Source Business Resource and BSD Certification Group Inc., among many others.
We will be hosting a variety of events which include but are not limited to: BarCamp Mini, Flourish Mini-expo, WAFD (Web Application Framework Development) Rumble, Networking Events, and Hack-a-Thon, BSDA Examination. For more information please visit: http://www.flourishconf.com/flourish2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=30
Flourish 2008 will be held on Friday, April 4th and Saturday, April 5th. We expect the conference attendance to be between 300 and 400 people. Please reply and let me know whether or not you will be attending Flourish 2008.
Organizations/Developers: We still have open tables in the expo space, if you’d like to use one of the tables to advertise your said organization or promote an event. We are also still looking for developers to represent the various Web frameworks. If anyone is interested in participating, please feel free to contact me.
Thank you,
Samir Faci
Flourish Public Relations
Questions? Contact: samir at esamir dot com
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March 18th, 2008
This workshop covers:how accounting statements can help you understand and manage your business; the basics of taxes and importance of good record keeping; and an introduction to evaluating business risks and insuring against them.
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March 15th, 2008
- Sat. Mar 15th, 2008 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- ChicagoRuby.org
- Elmhurst, IL
- Address: Elmhurst, IL
- Fee: 0.00
ChicagoRuby.org is a group of Chicago area Ruby and Ruby on Rails enthusiasts. When smart people challenge each other to grow, great things happen!
Next meeting: Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3pm. ChicagoRuby.org meets on the 3rd Saturday of every month at 3pm. Visit http://chicagoruby.org for details and to RSVP.
Questions? Contact: ChicagoRuby.org
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March 14th, 2008
Improve business results by effective use of financial tools for forward planning and analysis. This workshop covers cash flow and break even analysis to help you achieve financial success in your business.
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March 14th, 2008
PyCon is the world\’s largest conference of Python programmers. A rich schedule is being planned, including presentations, keynotes, Lightning Talks, an exhibition hall, and the hands-on Python Lab. Plentiful Open Space has been set aside for Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and other unscheduled unconference-style activity.
Questions? Contact: pycon at python.org
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March 12th, 2008
Meeting Agenda: After brief introductions by all attendees, the presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. There will be informal networking at the end of the meeting.
BNC Entrepreneur Luncheon: Where are my customers?
You have got a fabulous idea, a logical business plan, the necessary funding, so you are ready to go. Does anybody care?
Marketing is the key to success in business today. Guest Entrepreneur, Susan Singer, founder of Field Trip Factory, will provide insights into marketing for the entrepreneur. Susan spent over 25 years in marketing with some of the largest agencies in the U.S. prior to creating her own successful business.
With a national presence, Chicago based Field Trip Factory creates educational opportunities for children and adults in the real world. They have turned the community into a classroom. What started with 3 employees has now grown to 25 in just 10 years.
Susan Singer has put her beliefs about marketing into her business. At Field Trip Factory we have employed guerilla marketing tactics, buzz and viral marketing and other creative, non-traditional tactics to succeed. Susan will discuss alternative and traditional media, its uses and benefits during this luncheon.
To Register or for more information
For questions or more information, contact Susan Barahia email: entrepreneur_group at bnchicago dot org.
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March 11th, 2008
This workshop covers marketing plans, pricing, promotion and distribution strategies, and methods for finding and keeping your customers.
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