• Sat. Aug 30th, 2008 @ 9:00am - 12:30pm
• Score Chicago, Counselors to Americas Small Business
• Triton College
• Address: 2000 Fifth Ave, River Grove, IL 60171, Robert Collins Center
• Fee: $ 50 Pre-Paid online; $ 60 At the door
• click link to register

Taking Your Business Online is an opportunity to learn best practices for your business website. The first half will focus on the objectives, terms, technologies and tools to get a website up and running. Learn about terms like HTML, review web hosting, and understand alternative development approaches. Find out about shopping carts, shipping costs and fulfillment. The second half of the workshop will provide you with design techniques to evaluate and improve an existing website, including user interface optimizations and enhancements like blogging. If you are looking to take your website to the next level, or just get started with your first business website, this workshop is for you.

Questions? Contact: Dave Wopds, (312) 353-4540, www.scorechicago.org

• Thu. Aug 28th, 2008 @ 8:45am - 12:00pm
• SCORE Chicago, Counselors to Americas Small Business
• CITIGROUP CENTER
• Address: 500 W. Madison St, Suite 1250, Chicago,IL 60661
• Fee: $ 50 Pre-Paid online; $ 60 At the door
• click link to register

Taking Your Business Online is an opportunity to learn best practices for your business website. The first half will focus on the objectives, terms, technologies and tools to get a website up and running. Learn about terms like HTML, review web hosting, and understand alternative development approaches. Find out about shopping carts, shipping costs and fulfillment. The second half of the workshop will provide you with design techniques to evaluate and improve an existing website, including user interface optimizations and enhancements like blogging. If you are looking to take your website to the next level, or just get started with your first business website, this workshop is for you.

Questions? Contact: Dave Woods, (312) 353-4540, www.scorechicago.org

• Wed. Aug 20th, 2008 @ 10:00am - 4:00pm
• STC-Chicago and CISPI
• Roosevelt University, Gage Bldg
• Address: 18 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
• Fee: $ 25/$ 50 member/nonmember
• online registration or at door

Purpose of e-Learning Showcase:
This is a full day celebration of the best e-learning found in Chicago. The Showcase focuses on the topics of synchronous virtual presentation programs and supporting software, such as webinars, online seminars, virtual classroom, blended learning, and online business simulations. But you can also expect to find presenters demonstrating their work on these topics and more: Authoring tools, development companies, and knowledge management tools will all be discussed and explained.

Who Should Come: Mark your calendar for August 20 to pre-register at the astounding price of $ 25 ($ 50 nonmembers) to hear and see e-learning in all its shapes and forms. You will be able to network with instructional designers, instructional developers, technical writers, trainers, training managers, content managers, and media developers just like yourself to learn the newest and best. Registration will soon be available at the websites of the sponsoring organizations STC-Chicago www.stc-chicago.org and CISPI www.cispi.com

Questions? Contact: Mike Tillmans, 630-584-0134, eyedee@aol.com

• Tue. Aug 12th, 2008 @ 8:45am - 12:30pm
• Score Chicago, Counselors to Americas Small Business
• CITIGROUP CENTER
• Address: 500 W. Madison St, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60661
• Fee: $ 40 Pre-Paid online; $ 50 At the door
• click link to register

This workshop covers cash flow and break even analysis to help you achieve financial success in your business.

Questions? Contact: Dave Woods, (312) 353-4540, www.scorechicago.org

• Sat. Aug 9th, 2008 @ 8:30am - 6:00pm
• SocialDevCampChicago
• Illinois Institute of Technology McCormick Tribune Center
• Address: 3201 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60616
• Fee: Free
• Add Name to Wiki

SocialDevCamp Chicago is an unconference for individuals passionate about social networks, web applications, platform development, new media, and any of the exciting (but messy) topics between.

Join some of the brightest minds in the Midwest for a day of fun, learning, and coding. Discussions will surround topics including Google App Engine, Data Portability, Online Trust, and mobile application development.

Please sign up and contribute to the topics list on the official BarCamp Wiki.

To add your name and contact info to the wiki, use the password \\\”c4mp\\\”

Also feel free to help us SPREAD the word by blogging, tweeting, forced coercion, word-of-mouth marketing, fortune cookie inserts, etc. Link to either this event page or the official Wiki.

BLOG, BLOG, TWEET, POWNCE, BLOG, TUMBLE, SHARE THIS…enter your social media buzzword of choice and help spread the message!

Finally, thanks to Nik Rokop and the Illinois Institute of Technology staff for helping to secure the amazing McCormick Tribune Campus Center. Don\\\’t forget to look up from your computer to enjoy the Mies van der Rohe and Rem Koolhaas designs.

(A successful SocialDevCamp East already occurred in Baltimore on May 10. The next East installment is tentatively scheduled for Fall 08).

Questions? Contact: Tim Courtney - tim at timcourtney , net

• Thu. Aug 7th, 2008 @ 6:00pm - 8:30pm
• Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG at STC Chicago
• Illinois Institute of Technology, Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus
• Address: 201 East Loop Road, Wheaton, IL
• Fee: Before August 5: $ 30, afterwards $ 40.
• RSVP website

Join technical communication consultants and independent contractors on August 7 for a lively conversation about how to deal with difficult clients. Keeping with our goal of building a sense of “coopetition,” where independent consultants cooperate to better compete, this meeting will be in a discussion format, guided by Eric Schieler and Jill Spealman.

Topics will include:

• What makes clients difficult?
• Lessons learned by participants
• How to keep clients happy
• Strategies for handling difficult situations
• Strategies for handling late or missed payments
• When to leave the client vs. completing the project

Where

Illinois Institute of Technology
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus
201 East Loop Road
Wheaton, Illinois 60187-8489

Agenda

• 6:00 Registration, networking
• 6:15 Dinner
• 7:00 Program
• 8:30 Close

Registration

Register today at http://www.stc-chicago.org/portal/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=322.

Advance registration ($ 30) ends Tuesday, August 5, at 7:00 PM. After then, you must register at the door and pay $ 40 by cash or check (payable to Chicago STC CIC SIG).

Questions? Contact: cicsig@stc-chicago.org