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5/17/08: How *We* Are Smarter Than *Me*:
6/21/08: Financial Strategies for the Business Owner
7/19/08: to be announced
8/16/08: Windows Maintenance and Computer Troubleshooting
9/20/08: The Lightglove Virtual Controller
10/18/08: Choosing the Legal Structure for Your Business
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Capital PC User Group (CPCUG)
Entrepreneurs and Consultants SIG (E&C SIG)
Saturday, May 17, 2008, 12:45-3:15 pm
o 12:45 pm Check-in Begins
o 1:00 pm Welcome & Announcements
o 1:05 pm TechBrief: Securing Your E-Mail Access on a Web Page
Speaker: Neal Grotenstein
o 1:15 pm TechTalk: How *We* Are Smarter Than *Me*
Speaker: Julia Loughran
o 2:55 pm Closing Announcements
o 3:00 pm Informal Queries & Networking
Cleveland Park Library, 1st Floor, Large Meeting Room
3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
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TechBrief:
SECURING YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS ON A WEB PAGE
Speaker: Neal Grotenstein, CPCUG Member, Electrical Engineer
The HTML .mailto:. command works well, but it is readable by anyone with a Web
page reader--including spammers who want to add your e-mail address to their
address lists--lists to which they send spam and malware.
During this TechBrief, two mailto: equivalents will be demonstrated. Neither is
difficult to use. After you implement either, e-mail addresses on your Web site
will not be abused.
A handout will include a link to a Web page showing similar content.
Speaker: Neal Grotenstein is an electrical engineer who has been active in
CPCUG since the '80s.
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TechTalk:
HOW *WE* ARE SMARTER THAN *ME*:
An In-Depth Look Into Mass Collaboration and a
Review of Don Tapscott's Book _Wikinomics_
Speaker: Julia Loughran, President, ThoughtLink, Inc.
Whether you have contributed to a definition on Wikipedia or placed a phone
call to help select the next "American Idol" contest winner, you are a member
of a distributed team of people--a team that most likely numbers in the
thousands or even millions.
Mass collaboration is changing how we work and process information. It will
play a major role in how we compete in the global marketplace and how we will
determine the world's next rising stars.
In this interactive discussion, Julia Loughran will highlight some of the key
points from Don Tapscott's book _Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes
Everything_ and provide additional examples of how this phenomenon is cropping
up in all varieties of domains.
The title of her talk comes from an innovative project on the Internet in which
a collection of people (including professors, students, publishers, and
business people) is using the power of mass collaboration to write books. The
books contain best practices for business. (By the way, the first book, _We Are
Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business_, is
completed and participants are working on the second, focusing on sales and
marketing.) The secret to their success is letting the world at large help
write these books. For more information on this interesting initiative, see
http://www.wearesmarter.org
Speaker: Julia Loughran is a co-founder and president of ThoughtLink, Inc., a
business specializing in research related to team understanding, and in
enhancing individual and organizational effectiveness via technologies,
including games and simulations.
Ms. Loughran is a contributor to the Training Transformation (T2) strategic and
implementation plans of the Department of Defense and is an active member of a
senior advisory group assisting the Department of Homeland Security in the
development and implementation of a national training and exercise strategy for
domestic preparedness. Julia Loughran holds a Master's degree in Artificial
Intelligence and has extensive experience in distributed simulations, virtual
environments, and games.
ThoughtLink, Inc., a woman-owned small business, helps organizations use
technology to increase team productivity, particularly teams whose members are
separated geographically. To do this, ThoughtLink uses innovative applications
of existing Web-based tools, collaboration technologies, wireless solutions,
and games, allowing organizations to overcome the physical and organizational
separation of distributed/virtual teams. ThoughtLink teams, with a breadth and
depth of experience in technical consulting, software integration, and
experiment design, execution, and analysis, help organizations streamline the
technology selection process.
ThoughtLink's areas of expertise include leveraging Internet technologies for
education and training, using games for research and analysis, increasing
collaboration among virtual teams, and maximizing shared situational awareness.
ThoughtLink has evaluated training/exercise solutions and conducted research
for a variety of government, international, and nongovernmental organizations,
including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security,
individual military services, Canada's Lester Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, and
the Center for Humanitarian Cooperation.
For more information on Julia Loughran and ThoughtLink's work on virtual teams,
see http://www.thoughtlink.com.
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Cleveland Park Library, 1st Floor, Large Meeting Room
3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
(west side, between Macomb and Newark Streets)
Metrorail: Cleveland Park Subway Station, Red Line
Connecticut Avenue, NW
Just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site
Parking: Street
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Please register and check e-mail "reminder" note
and/or Web page the day before event in case of last-minute venue
or other change <http://entrepreneur.cpcug.org/508meet.html>
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For additional Information about the CPCUG E&C SIG and its TechTalks
and other events (including any updates on topics, speakers, dates,
times, and locations; agenda; area map; related Web links; and more),
visit on the CPCUG Entrepreneurs and Consultants SIG Web pages--
http://entrepreneur.cpcug.org/
Registration: via e-mail to Barbara Conn, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This event is FREE and open to all, but advance registration is
needed for event planning.
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Future FREE CPCUG E&C SIG Events:
Saturday, June 21, 2008, 1:00-3:15 pm FINANCIAL STRATEGIES FOR THE BUSINESS
OWNER
Brian Thoms, CFP, Financial Advisor,
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Saturday, July 19, 2008, 1:00-3:15 pm
Topic and Speaker: To Be Announced
Saturday, August 16, 2008, 1:00-3:15 pm
WINDOWS MAINTENANCE AND COMPUTER TROUBLESHOOTING
Speaker: Dennis Courtney, President, CPCUG
Saturday, September 20, 2008, 1:00-3:15 pm
THE LIGHTGLOVE VIRTUAL CONTROLLER:
On the Journey From Inventor's Dream to Market
Speaker: MG Howard, CEO, Lightglove
Saturday, October 18, 2008, 1:00-3:15 pm
CHOOSING THE LEGAL STRUCTURE FOR YOUR BUSINESS
Panelists: Jina Etienne, CPA (and others)
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Barbara Conn, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Capital PC User Group (CPCUG) "Users Helping Users"
Chair, CPCUG Entrepreneurs and Consultants SIG
http://entrepreneur.cpcug.org/
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