Chris Brogan and Julien Smith gave some great advice during their lunchtime keynote at the recent Microsoft/Seattle Chamber Conference, including: Everything you do online stays on Google forever. Watch your online reputation. Establish a good relationship with your clients/viewers/readers. Use cause marketing to benefit causes and gain more customer connections. Take all the tools available to you and use them to your benefit like video, digital photos, and blogging to drive traffic to your site.
Monthly Archive
for: ‘September, 2009’
Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce – Emmy Jordan
Aaron Booker from Varvid has a chat with Emmy Jordan, the Senior Vice President of Membership and Business Development at the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. She works with small business members that are about 82% of their membership by setting up meetings like The Smart and Simple Solutions Conference for Small Business. They partnered with Microsoft to present to conference. She talks about the various panels on financing, branding, solutions and more that are presented at the event.
Photos from the Smart & Simple Strategies for Small Business Conference
We took some photos at the 2nd Annual Smart & Simple Strategies for Small Business Conference. It was held at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond but was a joint venture of the Seattle Chamber and Microsoft. Great event! The Eastside Business Journal did a very nice summary of the event.
Jane Boulware from Microsoft talks about Windows 7
Aaron Booker from Varvid speaks with Jane Boulware who is the General Manager of Windows for the United States. She deals with bringing Windows to small and medium sized businesses around the US. Windows 7 features include making your work more productive, the operating system is more secure, its even easy and fun to use. There are better tools for connecting externally, finding what you are looking for, and backing up your data. Speed and battery life are also improved with Windows 7.
Microsoft Local Engagement Team – Jessica Smith
Varvid’s Aaron Booker speaks with Jessica Smith, the head of the Northwest territory of the Local Engagement team at Microsoft which engages local chambers of commerce and business owners to come together and talk to small businesses about how to become successful. She helps Microsoft Partners get more engaged in the local community. She discusses advantages of joining the local engagement team as a Microsoft Partner.
WPC09 Wrapup with Aaron Booker and Pat Dolan
Varvid’s Aaron Booker and Pat Dolan wrap up the coverage of WPC09 by highlighting some key tends of the Worldwide Partner Conference. Microsoft has increased company openness and decided to become more engaged with small business owners. The company is concerned with becoming more humble and helpful to their partners. New exciting features are coming from Microsoft Office 2010 and many more new products are coming this year including Windows 7.
