The Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce is offering an evening presentation June 20 on “Microsoft, Winslow Way Wi-Fi & the Future.”
This event, with its technology theme, will focus on the new Microsoft Windows 8 and Office 2013, on Microsoft 365 and the free Wi-Fi coming to Bainbridge this summer.
Jason Omens of Office Xpats will discuss this new way of bringing your office into the 21st century.
There also will be discussion of the upcoming Wi-Fi that will be available on Winslow Way and on Madison Avenue up to the Pavilion. read more »
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Seattle-area entrepreneurs will get tips on how to use technology to stay competitive, useful international trade strategies, and best practices from successful local business leaders on June 17 at the U.S. Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Week event.
The informational sessions and workshops will be held at the Microsoft Campus, Building 37, in Redmond.
SBA Administrator Karen Mills, Cindy Bates, vice president of the U.S. Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMB) organization at Microsoft Corp., and Joe Koreis, president and CEO of Clarus Fluid Intelligence, LLC, will discuss how technology can help businesses break into private and public sector supply chains. read more »
If you were having lunch at the next table over from my 89-year old mother and me recently, you might have overheard this conversation:
This conversation about three years ago would have been unthinkable for us. My mom was fully capable and living on her own with my father. In the past two and a half years, my father developed bladder cancer; they moved to an assisted living facility; he died and she moved in with us for two years; and now we just moved her to a memory care facility as she has been battling dementia the past 24 months. Her life changed and so did ours in what seems the blink of an eye. We now make decisions with a whole new reality and time frame. This includes our own thinking around aging and mortality. read more »
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Small Business Administration and the W20 Group, a cluster of digital communications companies, will present Identifying and Connecting with Your Influencers, the fourth topic in the five-topic social media webinar series. The webinar will help small business owners learn how to engage with people who can influence their online reputation and gain value through social media tools.
Word-of-mouth is becoming increasingly more important in driving purchases. Consumers care about what other consumers think, so they spend more time researching products and services online. Influencers who have the widest reach have the potential to sway their community. Research has shown that 65 percent of top US brands reported participating in influencer marketing. read more »
The monthly Kitsap Business Forum will present “Social Media That Works — Enough Wasting Time” with author and speaker Tracy Warren of Seattle on June 11.
Author of “Six Word Lessons: Successful Social Media,” Warren will discuss some of the basic tricks to creating content that encourages engagement and increases sales.
The forum runs from 7:30-9 a.m. and will be held at the Morgan Stanley office in Silverdale at 2011 Myhre Road, Suite 301.
The Kitsap Business Forum is sponsored by the Silverdale Chamber of Commerce, Dave Mitchell, Morgan Stanley and the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce. Panera Bread will provide coffee and bagels at the event. read more »
The Kitsap Development Officers Group will meet June 4 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Poulsbo Library, 700 NE Lincoln Road.
The meeting will include a presentation by Beth Ann Locke on Social Media for Nonprofits. The presentation is free and all nonprofits are welcome.
Anyone who would like to attend is asked to RSVP to kitsapdevelopment [at] gmail [dot] com.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by its top national, regional and community lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to veterans by 5 percent per year for the next five years.
Oftentimes, veterans face challenges in raising capital or have trouble receiving a conventional loan. With the support of SBA’s top 20 national lending partners, and approximately 100 additional regional and community lending partners across the United States, SBA expects to assist an additional 2,000 veterans in obtaining loans to start or expand small businesses by increasing lending by $475 million over the next five years. This equals a 5 percent increase above historic veteran lending activity by the SBA. read more »
The Kitsap Regional Coordinating Council, along with Kit-Net Broadband Group and NoaNet (Northwest Open Access Network), will present the Kit-Net TechFest, a free daylong event for public agency IT staff, on May 31 in Bremerton.
Topics on the agenda include:
The event will run from 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Olympic Educational Service District Training Facility, 105 National Ave. North in Bremerton.
For more information, call 360-479-0993. Anyone planning to attend is asked to RSVP by email to myrna [at] kitsapregionalcouncil [dot] org or by calling 360-377-4900.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Small Business Administration and the W20 Group, a cluster of digital communications companies, will present Creating Content and Engaging for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, the third topic in the five-topic social media webinar series. The webinar will help small business owners create content to broaden their reach and market their products using some of the most popular social media tools.
A survey conducted by CompTIA in 2012 found that that benefits of using social networking tools include:
It is beneficial for small businesses to create content on social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to establish a presence online, to drive the conversation about their companies and products and to build credibility and trust with clients and potential customers. read more »
