Seminar: Business Law 101

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While entrepreneurs can find answers to many of their questions for free at Nolo.com, some prefer more personal interaction. If you’re in Houston, the Mayor’s Office of Affirmative Action and Contract Compliance and Houston Business Development, Inc., are sponsoring a “Business Law 101″ seminar for business owners who want to learn more about basic legal issues affecting small businesses.

February 2, 2010
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Business and Technology Center (Palm Center)
5330 Griggs
Houston, TX 77021

For more information, to register for the class, or if you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation, please call the City of Houston’s Mayor’s Office of Affirmative Action and Contract Compliance at 713.837.9043 (Relay Texas 1.800.735.2989 or 711). You may e-mail your registration by sending your name, company name, address, telephone number, and the name of the class to Juan Padilla at juan.padilla@cityofhouston.net.

Join AYN Brand at Information Superhighway: December 5 @ Caroline Collective

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AYN Brand will be joining Culture Pilot, Caroline Collective, CoLab, Marc Nathan and ROFLCON to proudly present… INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY!

December 5th, 2009
7:00PM - 11:00PM
Caroline Collective: 4820 Caroline St., Houston, TX 77004

RSVP at the Facebook event page >

Come out and meet movers and shakers in the Houston community… Learn some DIY Brewing tips from Houston home brewers, take part in live silk screening, learn about upcoming Sustainable Projects, witness live graffiti, participate in live video and interactive demos, and watch for more surprises to come.

As always, there will be plenty of refreshments provided by our wonderful sponsors and our local hackerspace - TX/RX Labs - will be on the scene.

Guests & Organizations:

Online Marketing & Fundraising Workshop for Nonprofit Organizations

Published by AYN Brand | Filed under Branding, How To, Marketing, NonProfits, Social Media, Workshops

Solid online marketing strategies can help nonprofit organizations enhance visibility, raise awareness for campaigns, rally advocates and supporters, and recruit volunteers and members…opening opportunities to recruit donors online. The key to making your organization’s overall marketing and fundraising effort successful is to integrate your offline and online activities into a holistic interactive strategy, so they complement and support one another.

Grace Rodriguez of AYN Brand presented the following workshop for the Houston Arts Alliance “National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP)” education and training series, to help nonprofit boards, staff and volunteers explore online tactics they can immediately implement:

In addition to presenting 40 things you can do this week to start connecting with audiences, members, volunteers and potential donors, this workshop features five fundamental steps to developing a successful online strategy:

1. Clearly define your goal, objectives, and how you’ll measure success.
2. Research potential allies, target audience demographics, and resources.
3. Develop and structure your team, systems and procedures, and tools.
4. Engage: Join the conversation. Listen, respond, and call people to act.
5. Evaluate your results against your metrics and refine your strategy.