October 2006 Agenda - Friday [10/27]


	October 26-27, 2006 The Grand Hotel 2100 Baltimore Avenue Ocean City, Maryland 21842 Phone: 800-447-6779 \| 410-289-6191 \| Fax: 410-289-7591
"Congratulations MidAtlantic Region on Our 25 Year Anniversary!"
	Agenda
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Friday, October 27th
Time
8:00 - 10:00	Registration - [Grand Terrace]
8:00 - 9:00	Continental breakfast - [Grand Terrace]
9:00 - 9:15	Announcements, & Election results - [Grand I] Diana Hillman, President, MidAtlantic Region Chapter Announcements, & Election results
9:15 - 10:30	Presentation Peter Muir, President, Bizucate, Inc. Growing Your Business Through Business Development Initiatives Business Development has many meanings. We will define Business Development as a commitment to develop and grow your customer's business with them and at the same time it can help you grow your business too! Peter Muir, President of Bizucate, Inc., will review business development strategies and methods in practice by companies in the graphic communications industry. You will walk away from this session with a broader perspective of opportunities for personal and professional growth. Bio: Peter Muir, President of Bizucate, Inc. provides education, consulting, research and business development services to the graphic communications industry and is deeply committed to people, education and technology and linking them together to form continually successful businesses. Peter is internationally recognized as a speaker on a variety of topics including business development selling strategies and speaks regularly at industry events including Graph Expo, On Demand and PolyGraphinter. Peter has an M.S. in Printing Technology from RIT and is the author of the Preflight Pocket Primer and co-author of the Business Development Selling Strategies series. He sums up his philosophy of business opportunity through Bizucate's tagline, "Helping our customers grow their customers' business."
10:30 - 11:00	Presentation - [Grand I] Tom Bridge, City Captain, Metroblogging DC, Metroblogging Blogging: Great Communication, Simple Process Blogging is the new hot topic in industry, with giants like Walmart and GM talking to customers on their weblogs. How can you adapt a blog to your business? What does it take to start a blog? How do you make a blog good? That's what we're here to talk about. Bio: Tom Bridge is the City Captain for Metroblogging DC and a founding partner of local technology firm Technolutionary. Since the founding of Metroblogging DC, he's taken the site from a small audience, to over 200,000 pageviews a month and been part of the network growth from just six cities to 50 cities on five continents.
11:00 - 11:15	Morning Break
11:15 - 12:15	Presentation - [Grand I] Open forum Discussion of industry topics, future Xplor planning, etc.
12:15 - 12:30	Conference Wrap-Up - [Grand I] tbd,
12:30 - 1:00	Door Prizes - [Grand I]

[updated: 10/22/2006]