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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Thursdays,Jan.14,21,28,2010; 1–4pm. Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham.
Learn how to operate your digital camera with its various functions and menus. This class will cover all of your digital camera operations including how to control your ISO settings and white balance, loading, editing, and organizing them on computer. In addition we will cover basic photography techniques like composition, framing and angle.
Cost: $80, $65 for Garden Friends. 668-1707.… [more]
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FLORAL DESIGN FOR FUN
Fridays,Jan.15,22,29,Feb.5,12,19,Mar.5,12,19,2010; 9–11am. Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham.
Learn the basics of floral design while you create various types of beautiful flower arrangements. Instruction will cover the use of fresh, silk, dried flowers, and matching flowers to container. Each week students will be asked to bring a particular style of container and flowers with which they can work, all other supplies are provided. Each week you will complete a new arragement to enjoy at home.
Cost: $80, $65 for Garden Friends. 668-1707.… [more]
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ITALIAN GARDENS
Jan. 17, 2010; 2– 4pm. Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham.
Spend an afternoon in armchair travel as we visit gardens across Italy. Greg Pierceall has been making a special study of Italian gardens; touring each summer for many years with students of landscape architecture. This year he is focusing on the contrasts between classical historic gardens and contemporary new gardens. Join us for a review of how classical techniques and design strategies are re–interpreted to serve contemporary garden goals. Take home a refreshed view of strategies to use in your own garden.
Cost: $15, $10 for Garden Friends. 668-1707.… [more]
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LINKEDIN SUPPORT SALES
Linking Into Sales – Using LinkedIn.com to support the sales cycle with Martin Brossman and Greg Hyer
Time: November 11, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: BNC of Cary
Street: 649 Walnut St Cary, NC 27511
Cost: $49.00
If you sell a product or service and rely on professional relationships to get the deal then you need to look into taking this course.
LinkedIn.com is a highly valuable resource that you should be using to support the sales cycle and even speed it up. But are you using this tool to the best of your ability?
Come and enjoy a buffet style dinner with professional networkers and trainers Martin Brossman and Greg Hyer. They will show you how LinkedIn will support your sales cycle by teaching you the following:
* Dress your profile for sales success
o Profile content
o Optomize your profile with keywords by using the “zones”
o More
* Targeting customers and who they trust
o Make connections with people that will lead you to the right connection
o More
* Building networking equity
o Utilize recommendations
o Form alliances on and offline
o More
* Making connections come full circle
o Criteria for connecting
o Using network “nodes”
o More
* Dealing with the Compition
o Learn about them
o Are they shopping your connections?
o More
* Using Introductions Effectivly
o Interupting approporately
o Writing a memorable intorduction
o More
* Leveraging Groups
o Effective uses
o A discussion is a discussion not a sales pitch
o More
* Answers that lead to contacts to sales
o Learn about pain points and provide solutions
o New perspectives on providing answers
o More
Portable computers are welcomed. A wireless network is available.
link for registration.
http://linkingintosales.eventbrite.com/
Martin Brossman’s profile on Linkedin:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinbrossman
Greg Hyer’s profile on Linkedin:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/greghyer… [more]
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PLANT PROPAGATION
Thursdays,Jan.14,21,28,Feb.4,11,18, Mar.4,11,18, 2010;9–10:30am. Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham.
Select your favorite plants and learn a step-by-step process to raise these plants from seed or cuttings, and then plant in your own garden. Here is your chance to learn some propagation techniques through hands–on experience with expert guidance.
Cost: $95, $75 for Garden Friends. 668-1707.… [more]
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THE SOCIAL MEDIA COURSE
THE Social Media Mastery Course: Raleigh, NC
Monday, November 02, 2009 at 6:00 PM (ET)
You’ve been to training sessions, you’ve seen the presentations. Now you want to get started using social media and you have more questions than you started with. The Social Media Mastery course was designed with you in mind. An intensive 10-week workshop takes you beyond the basics and gives you the skills you need to build your business with social media.
Since each course is tailored to the audience, each participant will be asked to complete a simple survey prior to the first session.
Get the unique perspectives of two diverse trainers, Rob Laughter and Martin Brossman.
Topics include:
1. What's a Tweeter anyway? Covering the basics.
2. THE Walk of Fame: Your Facebook Fan Page and You
3. Twitter Time! Learning the culture.
4. Bliggity Blogging and LinkedIn
5. Important Stuff: Revisiting transparency, tone, consistency and personality.
6. Attracting an Audience: integrating your social media presence.
7. Advanced Tools, or "How to Manage Your Social Media Presence Without Wasting Your Time."
8. Seeing is Believing: Youtube and Podcasting.
9. An open realm of possibilities: expand your social presence.
10. Putting it all together: Becoming a Social Media Rockstar
Additional areas of exploration include: Facebook (business and personal profiles), Twitter, LinkedIn, InSide919, YouTube, Blogging, Flickr, tracking success using Analytics, reputation management, productivity tools, time management, monitoring, personal branding, integration with a marketing program, using local directories, SlideShare, podcasting, BrightKite, understanding news aggregators and RSS Feeds.
Support you'll receive:
20 hours of classroom training tailored to your goals
2 hours of individual coaching on your own time (one hour from each instructor - a $300 value)
Signed, printed copy of Martin Brossman's Guide to Social Media (a $15 value)
Unlimited access to step-by-step instructional videos guiding you through key areas
Worksheets and homework for each week's class, delivered in PDF format
Meet Your Trainers:
Rob Laughter runs Connective Insights, a Raleigh-based social media consultancy company. Working with companies, small business owners, and individuals, Rob helps them understand, plan for, and execute strategies in social media and marketing. To learn more about social media and discuss if social media is even right for you, contact Rob at 919-833-3446, his twitter (@roblaughter), or his website (http://www.connectiveinsights.com).
Martin Brossman is a success coach, speaker, trainer and author based in Raleigh, NC with an office in Washington DC. He specializes in helping small businesses integrate social media in their marketing and networking strategies (www.pronetworkingonline.com) Martin has originated numerous successful in-person and on-line networking groups which have facilitated meaningful business connections among members. His computer skills have powered his keen ability to create and teach crucial new Internet communications, such as blogging, podcasting and on-line networking. His own podcast show can be heard at www.InquireOnLine.info . Martin offers consulting on how to generate profitable alliances by maximizing face-to-face and on-line presence and managing “the conversation of you” on the Web.
Cost:
Early Bird by Oct 26, 2009 $349.00
Regular Price Nov 2, 2009 $399
RSVP http://mysocialmastery.eventbrite.com/
The Social Mastery:
My Social Mastery
THE Social Media Mastery Course is brought to you by My Social Mastery, a partnership between social media trainer and strategist Rob Laughter and business coach Martin Brossman.
Team Nimbus Center
3801 Computer Drive
Suite 101
Raleigh, NC 27609
Website:
http://mysocialmastery.eventbrite.com/… [more]
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THE SOCIAL MEDIA MASTERY #2
Coaching and Training for Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.
Begins Tuesday, Dec 2 6-8pm (ET) 10 weeks
You’ve been to training sessions, you’ve seen the presentations. Now you want to get started using social media and you have more questions than you started with. The Social Media Mastery course was designed with you in mind. An intensive 10-week workshop takes you beyond the basics and gives you the skills you need to build your business with social media.
Since each course is tailored to the audience, each participant will be asked to complete a simple survey prior to the first session.
Topics include:
1. What's a Tweeter anyway? Covering the basics.
2. THE Walk of Fame: Your Facebook Fan Page and You
3. Twitter Time! Learning the culture.
4. Bliggity Blogging and LinkedIn
5. Important Stuff: Revisiting transparency, tone, consistency and personality.
6. Attracting an Audience: integrating your social media presence.
7. Advanced Tools, or "How to Manage Your Social Media Presence Without Wasting Your Time."
8. Seeing is Believing: Youtube and Podcasting.
9. An open realm of possibilities: expand your social presence.
10. Putting it all together: Becoming a Social Media Rockstar
Additional areas of exploration include: Facebook (business and personal profiles), Twitter, LinkedIn, InSide919, YouTube, Blogging, Flickr, tracking success using Analytics, reputation management, productivity tools, time management, monitoring, personal branding, integration with a marketing program, using local directories, SlideShare, podcasting, BrightKite, understanding news aggregators and RSS Feeds.
Support you'll receive:
20 hours of classroom training tailored to your goals
2 hours of individual coaching on your own time (one hour from each instructor - a $300 value)
Signed, printed copy of Martin Brossman's Guide to Social Media (a $15 value)
Unlimited access to step-by-step instructional videos guiding you through key areas
Worksheets and homework for each week's class, delivered in PDF format
Meeting Dates:
All dates meet from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Cost $347 Early Bird until 12/2 - $347 Regular Price: http://tteb1.eventbrite.com/
Dec. 2, 9, 16.
Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27.
Feb. 3, 10, 17.
Can't make a date? Send a friend or colleague in your place!
Meet Your Trainers:
Rob Laughter runs Connective Insights, a Raleigh-based social media consultancy company. Working with companies, small business owners, and individuals, Rob helps them understand, plan for, and execute strategies in social media and marketing. To learn more about social media and discuss if social media is even right for you, contact Rob at 919-833-3446, his twitter (@roblaughter), or his website (http://www.connectiveinsights.com).
Martin Brossman is a success coach, speaker, trainer and author based in Raleigh, NC with an office in Washington DC. He specializes in helping small businesses integrate social media in their marketing and networking strategies (www.pronetworkingonline.com) Martin has originated numerous successful in-person and on-line networking groups which have facilitated meaningful business connections among members. His computer skills have powered his keen ability to create and teach crucial new Internet communications, such as blogging, podcasting and on-line networking. His own podcast show can be heard at www.InquireOnLine.info . Martin offers consulting on how to generate profitable alliances by maximizing face-to-face and on-line presence and managing “the conversation of you” on the Web.
Where
Team Nimbus Center
3801 Computer Drive
Suite 101
Raleigh, NC 27609
Team Nimbus of North Carolina is a small business advisory firm providing a multitude of real-world tools, informational resources and personal attention to help small business owners and sales professionals bring a sense of urgency to the business success they desire.
Team Nimbus clients become part of a team of business owners and sales professionals committed to achieving success in their businesses and their life.
The essence of Team Nimbus is we surround our clients with the people that will help them figure out what they want and how you get there.
More information about Team Nimbus of North Carolina can be obtained by calling (919) 926-9810.… [more]
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USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO GROW
Using Social Media to Grow Your Business
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Raleigh, NC
Led by Martin Brossman
This workshop presents a powerful overview of Social Media and Reputation Management on the Web. Martin will emphasize skills for managing the transparent conversation that exists for every business and business owner on the Web, taking into account real world time limitations.
You’ll learn smart business applications of these online tools that will enable your business to successfully compete and grow, even on a limited budget. By building your solid reputation on the Web now, it will be hard for your competition to catch up with you in the future.
This customized training will include:
?understanding and tracking your web presence
?using the web to stay closer to your clients and enhance customer loyalty
?using web transparency that builds a positive, earned reputation with your target clients
?understanding the effective use of Social Media for your business and how to manage it with finite resources
Basics of Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Blogging and YouTube for business are included.
All participants will receive a valuable eBook resource guide with direct links to a large number of useful free sites.
About Martin Brossman:
Martin is a success coach, speaker, trainer and author (www.coachingsupport.com) specializing in teaching new social media skills to accelerate growth for entrepreneurs and small businesses. He has been offering LinkedIn training in the Triangle community since 2006 and building a meaningful LinkedIn network (www.linkedin.com/in/martinbrossman). He has originated in-person and on-line networking groups which have facilitated valuable business connections among members. Martin’s IBM background and computer skills have powered his keen ability to create and teach crucial new Internet communications, such as blogging, podcasting and on-line networking. His own podcast show can be heard at www.lnquireOnLine.info . He offers consulting on how to generate profitable alliances by maximizing face-to-face and on-line presence and managing “the conversation of you” on the Web (www.ProNetworkingOnLine.com)
Cost $49 Site: http://usmg1.eventbrite.com/
Team Nimbus Center
3801 Computer Dr.
Suite 101
Raleigh, NC 27609
Team Nimbus of North Carolina
Team Nimbus of North Carolina is a small business advisory firm providing a multitude of real-world tools, informational resources and personal attention to help small business owners and sales professionals bring a sense of urgency to the business success they desire.
Team Nimbus clients become part of a team of business owners and sales professionals committed to achieving success in their businesses and their life.
The essence of Team Nimbus is we surround our clients with the people that will help them figure out what they want and how you get there.
More information about Team Nimbus of North Carolina can be obtained by calling (919) 926-9810.… [more]
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INTRODUCTION TO HAND TOOLS:
Create and finish projects faster by building on the knowledge of basic hand tools you already have. Learn how to get more out of your everyday tools by using them effectively. In this two-part class, participants will learn to use tools like the Japanese hand saw, combination square, chalk line, and more to design and build a customized toolbox out of materials at The Scrap Exchange.
Date: Tuesday and Thursday, December 8 and 10
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $40
David Rogers has been creating eye-catching art and custom wood works for the past fifteen years. During his career, he has been involved in projects with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, the Durham Arts Initiative, the Pin Project for Troika Music Festival, Bull City Headquarters, Habitat for Humanity, Common Ground in New Orleans, and The Scrap Exchange.… [more]
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SUSTAIN WORKSHOP BY YIKES!
A workshops series by YIKES!
Holton Parks & Rec Center, N. Driver St.
Winter-Spring 2010
Kwanzaa
Sunday December 27, 2009
12pm - 6pm
“Ancient Wisdom: What our Ancestors Knew that We Forgot”
January 9: “WATTS UP!! Cutting your utility bill down to size!"
February 6: “Solar solutions for your house: hot water and air heating”
March 6: “Out of Gas: The Bad News about Fossil Fuels"
April 3: “Making Fuel from Waste Vegetable Oil: Biodiesel Power!”
May 1: "Water Wise: Saving Money and Surviving the next Drought"
Workshops at Special Events celebrations at Holton:
MLK Celebration
Saturday January 16, 2010
2pm-5pm
“Eco-Economics: Getting from Price to Value”
Black History Month
Sunday February 7, 2010
2pm-5pm
”Green Jobs: Finding Opportunity in Crisis”
Women's History Month
Sunday March 13, 2010
2pm-5pm
"Closing the Loop: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”
Special thanks to the Durham Parks and Recreation Dept.
for sponsorship of this series.… [more]
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TURKISH COOKING CLASS
Sunday, November 22nd, in Cary, NC **
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm , Cost: $25 **
RSVP: 919-219-2516 **
If you are interested in expanding your culinary repertoire with select vegetarian dishes from the Turkish cuisine, join us for a cooking class followed by a social hour. As we roll some vegetarian kofte, a healthy and delicious dish, you will also learn the nutritional values of the ingredients.
We take a practical approach and use widely available ingredients.
Menu: Tomato soup with orzo, Crisp tortillas, Zucchini Dip, Cheese filled pastry, Lentil Kofte, Baklava.
** After dinner, Turkish tea and coffee will be served! **
Location: ATA-NC Turk Evi (Turkish House), 303 E. Durham Rd. Suite F Cary, NC 27511… [more]
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