SMALL BUSINESS WEEK: ‘Building a Community around your business'

This is the week that small is big.

National Small Business Week begins Monday May 18, and the New Iowa Entrepreneurs’ Coalition will note the occasion with a series of education and networking events throughout Central Iowa. The Coalition's theme for the week is "Building a Community around your business".

The week will kickoff with two featured events on Monday. The first is a 'Lunch N Learn' titled 'Building Business Intelligence and managing reputation through social media'. The event will begin at 11;30 am at the The Des Moines Social Cub—1408 Locust in the Western Gateway.

What are your customers saying about you online? This workshop teaches you and your team how to harness listening and monitoring technology (Google Reader, Technorati, Twitter Search, etc.) for the purpose of scanning conversations in blogs, social networks, user forums, message boards and online communities for mentions of your business, competitors and other relevant topics. You'll also learn how to effectively engage your online audience on their own turf with honest, human-to-human discourse, as well as how to deal with detractors.

This session is conducted by Nathan T. Wright and Hillary Brown of Lava Row, a Des Moines-based social media education, consulting and strategy firm.

Register through the New Iowa Entrepreneurs' Coalition web site or through a hot link from the New Iowa Group web page. Tickets are $25/person. You may want to arrive at 11:30 for conversation and casual networking. Bring your own lunch…

Small Business Week Events continues at 5:30 PM with a second featured event —'Personally Powerful Presentations: Two-Minute Make-Over Moments.'

Our featured presenter is James Sandin of Dynamications, LLC who will explain how to present yourself and your business with power in "making over" your prospect's impressions and interests in you and what you are offering. It's the two-minute commercial approach supersized.

This meeting will be held at the RDG Offices at 301 Grand Avenue in downtown Des Moines. Register through the New Iowa Entrepreneurs' Coalition web site or through a hot link from the New Iowa Group web page.

You can download a complete listing of the Coalition's Small Business Week events from the 'FILES' section in the New Iowa Entrepreneurs’ Coalition web site. Visit the Calendar page for mote networking and education events.

Co-Working Townhall Meeting at Impromptu Studios

Impromptu Studio is hosting a "Townhall" meeting Wednesday March 25th at 7pm.

The Townhall meeting is aimed at three types of people and part of the meeting will address each:

• Those who want to learn more about coworking and Impromptu Studio.


• Those who interested in finding out what big announcements, including upcoming events, and changes Impromptu Studio has in store for it’s community.


• Those who are interested in lending a helping hand to make Impromptu Studio better than they found it.

The Townhall is a meeting where you can bring your questions and suggestions about coworking or Impromptu Studio. This is an open invitation to shape the way Des Moines works!

For those that are curious about who you might see at the Townhall…. some of the speakers that will be either talking about coworking, Impromptu Studio, or making an announcement include:
Brian Anderson of CoLab in Ames
Member, Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web
Scott Kubie of Market Street Media Foundry
Member, Doug Mitchell of CreateWowMedia
Nathan T. Wright of Lava Row

We hope to see you there! During the Townhall meeting we will also be collecting video testimonials in our green screen room.

For more information contact Abbie Shipton aeshipton@gmail.com
(515) 868 - 0060 - Located at 300 Southwest Fifth StreetSuite 220 - Des Moines, Iowa 50309