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The annual “Marin Women in Business Conference” will be held on
Wednesday, February 27, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the Four Points
Sheraton Hotel in San Rafael. The theme of this year’s event is “Business
and the Economy: A Woman’s Challenge.”
NBMA members Laurie Vermont, Events Coordinator for the San Rafael
Chamber of Commerce, and Vicki Kung, principal at
KungDesign, are on the planning committee for this event. Cheryl
Downing, NBMA’s PR Director and principal of Downing and Associates,
is a featured speaker. Cheryl will cover “Effective Email Marketing: New
Communications Tactics for Small Businesses.” Pam Cook, a news anchor and
broadcast journalist who covers business and economic issues for “The
KTVU Morning News” and “Mornings on Two,” is the keynote speaker.
Conference sessions include “The Fun and Art of Networking,” Why Would
Anyone Want to Do Business With You? Secrets of Local Successful Business
Woman,” “Blowing Your Own Horn: Why Your Business Can’t Survive
without Promotion,” “Competing with the Big Guys: Creating a New Brand of
Expertise,” “Growing When It’s Slowing: Tips for Selling in a Slow
Economy,” and “Smart Hiring: Techniques for Selecting Employees.”
The registration deadline is Friday, February 22. Early Bird Registration
is $40 for Chamber members and $55 for non-chamber members who register
by February 8. For payments received after February 8, the
admission fees increase to $55 for Chamber members and $70 for
non-chamber members. A light lunch is included.
The conference is expected to sell out, so register early to avoid
disappointment. See full details and register online at the San Rafael
Chamber’s Web site,
www.sanrafael.org,
or call the Chamber at (415) 454-4163.
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Explore how film makers interpret our digital future at “2001: A
Digital Odyssey.” This day-long adventure (12:00 to 10:00 p.m.) will be
led by Karl Kracklauer, PhD, neuropsychologist, screen-writer, author,
and Friend of NBMA, at the College of Marin’s Kentfield Campus. The class
is for anyone who wonders how digital technology is affecting our
relationship to others and ourselves, and to work and play, as
interpreted by contemporary filmmakers. Clips from movies, ranging from
2001: A Space Odyssey to The Matrix, will provide a context to explore
the power of computers, the Internet, cyber-space, and virtual reality to
change our lives. A complete class description is at
www.marincommunityed.org
(look under “Film” for course no. 9338). Register by calling (415) 457-8811, ext. 7751.
Adobe’s Digital Video Tour — a free seminar that covers Adobe Premiere 6.0, Adobe After Effects 5.5, Adobe Photoshop 6.0, and Adobe Illustrator 10 — will be in Northern California on Wednesday, February 13, at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento. Complete details and registration form are at www.adobe.com/events/dvtour.html.
Just in case you missed it at last month’s Macworld — Discreet, a division of Autodesk Inc. announced cleaner™ 5.1 software for Mac OS X. The software is an industry standard for creating streaming video and audio for multimedia and the Web via high quality transcoding of content for all major digital media formats.
This release will include support for Sorenson Video® 3 Professional — for high quality Apple QuickTime content — and capabilities for transcoding digital content for DVD authoring, MP3 audio, and other popular streaming media formats. Discreet expects the software to be available for downloading (in North America) in early 2002.
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