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Event Recap: 4/30 Webinar: Rock Star Entrepreneurs and Your BusinessYesterday we had a great event and the first of its kind on our small business blog, GrowSmartBusiness.com This event was moderated by Network Solutions CEO, Roy Dunbar and included a stellar panel of small business owners and experts to discuss a range of topics covering current small business trends, the challenges and success stories of these entrepreneurs and some sage advice for those currently in business or thinking of starting one. Our panelists included: Kristina Bouweiri, CEO of Reston Limo, the largest independent limousine service in the Washington D.C. area Anita Campbell, Editor of Small Business Trends Kelly Muccio, Founder of Lost Boys, a fashionable clothing store recently featured on Good Morning America Surfy Rahman, Co-owner of Indique, a popular DC-area restaurant chain. Tom Heath, Columnist, The Washington Post's Value Added If you want to watch the event, you can watch below on-demand or see it on our Mogulus channel, http://www.mogulus.com/networksolutions ADDITIONAL COOL STUFF: To embed the player on your site: 1.) The video above has a cool little button next to the power button called “EMBED” - CLICK IT. 2.) Select the size of the player that works for your web page/blog page 3.) Click the copy button that applies to your site 4.) Paste it on your site 5.) Tell EVERYONE! Upcoming Event: 2009 Business Summit and Expo with Network Solutions CEO, Roy DunbarOn May 8th, 2009, Network Solutions CEO, Roy Dunbar will be delivering the Morning Address at the 2009 Business Summit and Expo entitled: “Small Businesses and How They Measure Success.” Mr. Dunbar’s discussion will focus on a newly released Small Business Success Index, jointly researched and prepared by Network Solutions and The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. This “report card” gives some very intriguing examples of how small businesses are faring during these uncertain times. The discussion will be followed by Q&A. About the Expo: Each year the DC Chamber of Commerce and the Washington Business Journal host a Business Summit that focuses on the unique advantages of doing business in the Nation’s Capital. This year’s Summit - “After the Storm: Emerging Stronger than Before,” will explore what you should be doing during this recession to position your business for economic recovery. Our keynote speaker is Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Dr. Jeffrey Lacker. The event includes extraordinary speakers, opportunities to exchange ideas, explore business partnerships and access to an advanced copy of the State of the Business Report prior to its release in the Washington Business Journal. The State of the Business Report, created annually by a local economist, highlights the challenges and opportunities we face in our city. After the morning address there will be educational seminars listed below and you can register here.
Accessing Capital Focusing on available sources of capital for companies, such as federal and local government grants, credit unions, traditional banks, and angel investors.
How Healthy is Your Business Providing general guidance on how to ensure the overall health of a business from financials to HR practices to operational standards.
Strategic Management Discussing how to utilize the down economy to prepare for the future, whether it is through employee skill improvement, workforce development, or savings policies that will allow businesses to be best prepared to seize the time when the economy rebounds
Construction Bonding Speaking to the growth in the capital area given the amount of stimulus money coming for shovel ready projects that will require companies to secure bonds prior to performance. Today Is #LocalDay: What Are You Where-ing?Here’s one of the better, simpler and more doable ideas from eDemocracy Camp 2, as captured in a much-retweeted post: On May 1 (which would be today), post the following two pieces of information to Twitter, Identi.ca, or the other microblogging/social linksharing site of your choice: * Your ZIP/Postal code Then, on Local Day, search for “localday” and your ZIP code, and you can see what other folks are near you. Simple, right? Sending your ZIP code allows you to identify yourself geographically, but is still imprecise enough to maintain your privacy (barring other things you’ve posted, or how findable you are in public databases and phone books, of course). Any followups, meetups, or other contacts afterwards are up to you. You can find more information on LocalDay on the E-Democracy Pages Wiki. Remember When Online Community Used to Be Local? Originally, online community was pretty much all locally-based, starting with dialup Bulletin Board Systems and then local Internet Service Providers. Unless you were a phone phreaker or otherwise had money to spend on toll calls, that meant you stayed close to your local exchange. As the Internet became more ubiquitious, it became easier and cheaper (and then, essentially free) to connect with people all around the world. Outside of the inconveniences of, say, time zones, geography didn’t matter so much as cultural or linguistic barriers. Still, as many pointed out (Howard Rheingold foremost among them), the strongest types of communities were still the ones based in local, physical presences — communities where people could meet, date, babysit each others’ kids, hang out, get into fights, on so on. Even in national and internationally-based communities, you still saw a lot of self-organization based on geography, especially around things like business reviews and recommendations, complaining about local politics, and of course, personals. Still, as time marched on and more social media and online community tools became available, and as online presence decentralized and compartmentalized, it’s sometimes hard to keep sight of those local connections, unless you’re specifically looking for them. With something like Twitter, there’s nothing inherently geographical in the profiles or content (unlike, say, Meetup or other local event-based planning tools), unless your friends / followers, by accident or choice, are all people geographically near you. It’s more about tribe, affinity, or whatever other in-group term you want to use. So taking a time out and having a day to specifically focus on local connections make sense. Having said that, I personally still haven’t jumped on location-based services like BrightKite or Google Latitude. That kind of geographic precision makes me a little uncomfortable. Interestingly, I wonder how much different of a response the #localday idea would have gotten if it had originated in a more marketing-based context, rather than an e-democracy one. “Like, you actually want me to give out my ZIP code so you can better follow me and market to me? Shyeah, right.” Anyway, I’m in the 20191 (with some connections to the 10010 and 07066); if you’ve got thoughts on Localday or local community in general, please leave a comment. More Recent Articles
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