MBCC Pillar Reception August 29th at Gemma

The MBCC Pillar Trustees presents The Pillar Reception, Wednesday, August 29th, 2007. The reception will take place at Gemma, located at 525 Lincoln road, Miami Beach, 33139. The reception will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.THIS EVENT IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR PILLAR MEMBERS

 

rsvp@miamibeachchamber.com or call 305.695.6834

Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink is quickly becoming one of the hottest and most talked about resturants in the Miami. Michael Schwartz, an accomplished and talented chef, has been hard at work in the kitchen since he was 14, evolving into the nationally renowned chef he is today. Best known for homemade, delectable, and affordable dishes, Michael’s Genuine has been featured in Ocean Drive Magazine, The Miami New Times, and the Best of Miami. The Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce is now giving you a chance to learn some of Michael’s cooking secrets in an exclusive cooking class. The class will take place Augst 25th at 2:00 pm at a cost of $25 per person at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, located at 130 N.E. 40th Street, Atlas Plaza in the Miami Design District. Seating is limited, so payment must be made in advance to reserve your spot today. RSVP at rsvp@miamibeachchamber.com or call (305) 695 – 6834.

 WEB 2.0 HAS EVERY BUSINESS BUZZING ABOUT NEW INTERNET STRATEGIES.
What every entrepreneur needs to know about the array of new tools that foster online collaboration — and currently revolutioning small businesses — should join us AUGUST 21st to attend our workshop on how to create a BLOG.

You will learn:

The basics of business blogging tools, trends and techniques; RSS feeds and how to use them.

We’ll develop your blogging muscles so you’ll be able to synchronize your time rather than add another task to an already busy schedule.

Business Blog Strategy, Blog design and build-out, a blogging editorial schedule and how to use tools like Technorati and Del.icio.us.

When:
August 21, 2007 – 5:30pm. – 7:00 p.m.

Location:
4000 Ponce de Leon Ste 470
Coral Gables, FL 33146
*Between Village of Merrick Park and The Collection Dealership
Price:
$35 (Cash or checks only. No credit cards)

Invite a friend and your admittance is free! Space is VERY limited. One on One blog coaching is also available. Call us to find out more or Click here to get started on flexing those blogging muscles!

OUT THINK YOUR COMPETITION with Kaihan Krippendorff June 29th
in the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce Conference Room

MBCC Pillar Trustees cordially invites you to Session Two of the Elite Executive Education series to exchange ideas and converse with Kaihan Krippendorff, author of The Art of the Advantage June 29th, 2007. Hosted by the Business Development Council Chaired by Kaya Wittenburg, of Majestic Properties and Co-Chair Valeska I. Jacques of Uvium.

Discussion Topics: The Art of the Advantage brings to life the centuries-old thirty-six Chinese stratagems and explains how they can be applied to corporate strategy. (I am taking these topics from the link found in the email attached)

The workshop will help you to tackle critical business challenges and opportunities. But unlike traditional consultancies, it will not feed you the answers. Instead, the workshop is to brief you on principles that will help understand how to unlock the innate strategic thinking capacity of your organization. The goal is to demystify strategy and build strategic thinking skills to produce bottom-line impact.

The program addresses the three stages of strategy development. To learn more, click here

A note to Pillar members, if you bring a new recruit attendance is FREE!

Few IT executives take the environment into account when making purchases, but their ranks are likely to swell, Forrester finds

The good news is that the vast majority of information technology executives say environmental concerns matter when it comes to planning. The bad news is far fewer are doing much about it. That’s the finding of a report released on May 14 by Forrester Research (FORR).

Of 124 executives surveyed by Forrester, 85% said environmental concerns are “important.” But only about one-fourth of companies have a formal procedure for considering green criteria when it comes to making purchases. “It’s a distinct minority of buyers that are really putting the vendors through their paces in terms of the greenness of the products they are buying,” says Christopher Mines, the Forrester analyst who wrote the report.

Green IT can mean anything from the way vendors design and manufacture products to how efficiently those products operate to the ease of recycling them. Currently, corporate buyers are most interested in green IT products that will help save energy and money. “This is largely, but not entirely, about cost savings,” Mines says.

Click here to read more

As a threat to operations and the bottom line, corporate computing’s fast-growing power consumption is forcing companies to adopt green energy practices

Engineers at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) made a startling realization about the servers running the company’s computing systems. Surging power consumption, along with rising energy costs, will soon make it more expensive to keep a server going for a year than to acquire one in the first place. Left unchecked, costs like these could interfere with HP’s goal of cutting energy consumption 15% by 2010.

Click here to read full article.

Energy Crisis in Data Centers

The CEO guide to energy-efficient computing

Rakesh Kumar, vice-president of consulting firm Gartner, talks about the data-center energy crisis and what companies can do to save energy

Click here to hear the pod cast.

 

WordPress.com requires everyone to create a blog in order to write articles for the Pillar Blog.

Thus, if wordpress is going to force people to create a blog, it is important you do so correctly from the onset. Therefore, the instructions provided below specify the importance in selecting an appropriate domain name that will help you to optimize your business. The value of having everyone create their own blog, immediately sets the foundation for all business to start building a comprehensive internet business model.

To help you quickly get started in setting up a blog, below are a set of instructions of what to look out for when creating a blog.

1. Register with wordpress.com for Free
2. When creating an account for your blog, you will be prompted to assign a domain name for your blog. The “blog domain name” should tie with your expertise. Important you use “keywords” users will use in google or yahoo in order to find you. For example, fashiontips, business loans, miamihistory, miamihappenings, etc. You can create multiple names under different accounts.
3. As soon as you created your blog, you will find a section that says “your blogs.” You need to click where it says “miamibeachpillars” in order to submit your article to the Pillar Blog. Refer to the thumbnail to catch a glimpse of how it will appear when you first login:
4. When you enter the Pillar blog, click on Write. To make sure you are on the correct blog the upper left side will say “Voice.Access.Building Relationships.” When you copy and paste your article into the blog, you need to create a “title,” embed the content inside where it says “post” and select a category from the right side under “categories” before “submitting your article for review.” Refer to the thumbnail where I circled all of the items I just mentioned to catch a glimpse of how it will appear when you are in this section:
5. After you paste the title of your article and the content of your article, you need to select which category your article falls under. The category section is located on the right side. The benefits of doing this is so other websites may auto populate your article with relevant blog articles on the internet. You will find yourself appearing in sites such as: http://www.technorati.com, http://www.feedster.com/ and many others. Again this will boost your search engine rankings, due to the “relevancy” of your topic associated with your website.How to find content if you don’t have time to create your own. Check out this blog for tips by clicking here.

It is assumed you will use your personal blog to provide insight on your expertise or use it as a personal journal. The blog acts as a catalyst to boost your website so if you are considering to use your blog for business purposes, it is very important to think of keywords, while writing your articles, that potential clients will use to find your services.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment so I may be of assistance as you venture out into the internet world!

To understand more on how a blog may increases web visibility, feel free to sign up for one of our workshops, so you may learn how to put together an internet strategy that fits your business, by clicking here.