Fw: NECINA Entrepreneur Club Meeting 8/16 - How to Grow Your Business Using Social Media

[Harry]

To all,

 

Please see below and let me know if you are interested to join us on 8/16 E club meeting. Limited seats are available. 1st come, 1st serve.

 

Thanks.

 

Harry Gao

for NECINA

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Subject: NECINA Entrepreneur Club Meeting 8/16 - How to Grow Your Business Using Social Media

 

NECINA Entrepreneurship Club Meeting

 "How to Growing Your Business using Social Media today"

– By Bobbie Carlton, Mass. InnovationNights.com

 

Venue:  Please note that this is an invitation only event. Detailed meeting information will be emailed to qualified attendants.  

All E club members are welcome but need to register online.   A few “sit-in” seats are available to NEW members and interested NECINA officers. “Sit-in” attendants will be free to ask questions after the meeting, but not during the meeting.

Time:  6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Thursday, August, 16, 2012

Cost:  Free to NECINA Entrepreneur members, VIP guests and invited NECINA members.

Online Registration: http://necina-e-club.eventdove.com

 

In today’s high tech world, social media is becoming more important to promote your business, and your brand. How can we use it effectively to reach your targeted customers? How to help you grow your business? How can we use social media and other tools available today to achieve our business goals. These are some of the questions that all business owners and executives have in their mind most of the time.

NECINA Entrepreneur Club has the honor of having Ms. Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR and Marketing, and co-founder of Innovation Nights, LLC which organize monthly networking events, to share with us as a keynote speaker her experience and her insight on how to use social media for small business, startup companies. Ms. Carlton will also introduce Mass Innovation Nights, a very popular and free networking event held monthly in MA for all innovators and entrepreneurs.

Before the talk, Host Harry Gao will introduce NECINA Entrepreneur programs (E-Club, NEW, YES 7.0) and IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program. Entrepreneur Club new coordinator John Wang will share his experience of how his company Dreamech benefited from participation in this IBM program.

After the talk, we will have a group discussion including each Entrepreneur Club member companies to introduce their products and services, and we will discuss our plan for this NECINA year 2012-2013.

 

Bios:

Ms. Bobbie Carlton: Keynote speaker,

 

Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing, is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional who is the co-founder of Innovation Nights LLC, a network of free monthly product launch parties and networking events powered entirely by social media.  Carlton also heads up marketing for Accounting Management Solutions, Inc., an accounting and financial services firm that provides part-time and interim finance consulting and accounting support for public, private and nonprofit organizations, and Tyler Place Family Resorts of Vermont. She teaches classes in social media marketing, consults with small businesses and individuals on social networking and social media marketing, and works with companies who are looking to access the Boston region entrepreneurial and innovation community.

 

Previously, in addition to working with a number of Boston-area PR and marketing firms, she headed global public relations at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) and Cognos (now IBM).  Until 2008, she led the marketing efforts for the Beacon Street Girls, a social network and book series for preteen girls.

 

In 2010 she was named one of the ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community, and 2011 she was a recipient of a Mass High Tech All-star award.  She is a popular speaker on a wide variety of topics.  She mentors at MassChallenge, a startup incubator and competition, and advises a number of startups in the Boston area.

 

Find out more information about Innovation Nights at http://mass.innovationnights.com or contact Bobbie for marketing and PR support at http://www.carltonprmarketing.com

 

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30 pm    Registration and networking, dinner will be served

6:30 - 6:50 pm     Welcome remark, introduce NECINA Entrepreneur Programs, IBM Global Entrepreneur Program – Harry Gao, Chair, NECINA Entrepreneur Programs (E-Club, NEW, YES 7.0)

6:50 – 7:10 pm    Share Experience of Participation in the IBM program – John Wang, NECINA E-Club coordinator

7:10 – 7:50 pm   Keynote speech: “How to Grow your business using Social Media today”. Bobbie Carlton, cofounder of mass.innovationights.com

7:50 - 8: 10pm   Q & A session – moderated by John Wang

8:10 – 8:40 pm   Member introduction, group discussion and 2012-2013 E-club plan – moderated by Harry Gao

8:40 - 9:00 pm    Networking after meeting.

Event Organizer:

 

NECINA (www.necina.org) is a premier hi-tech professional association founded in 1996 by some of New England's most successful IT industry entrepreneurs.  Its mission is to provide a platform to foster entrepreneurship and leadership by combining the leading edge technologies with best business practices.

 

 

Event contact: John...@necina.com

                Harr...@necina.com

 

 

 

NECINA Entrepreneur Club

---- where start-up founders and CEOs meet and help each other to grow together

 

Mission Statements

NECINA Entrepreneur Club is a community of technology company founders and CEOs.  The missions of the club are as following:

• To leverage NECINA resources to connect the club members to more senior and successful entrepreneurs, VC and service firms as well as business counterparts in China, seeking mentors, advices and business opportunities.
• To provide an environment for the entrepreneurs to do social and networking, to share their successful stories and lessons learned, to help each other

NECINA Entrepreneur Club organizes regular meetings/network events. We also have online platform to share information on Linked-in.

Membership Qualification

1. a NECINA member
2. a founder/co-founder or an executive of a technology company in any field

 

[Daijie Huang]

Harry,

I'm out of the states these days. Thanks for the invitation!

Daijie 

Sent from my iPhone

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