Small-business owners with a diversity background can learn how to make technology work for them in a series of free workshops next month sponsored by SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business" and Verizon Communications.
The goal of the workshops is to increase small-business owners' understanding of technology and how it can improve their business' competitive edge.
The workshops, entitled Building Your Small Business with Telecom
Innovations, will be held Nov. 14 in Huntington Beach, Nov. 15 in Santa
Monica and Nov. 16 in Ontario. The workshops are free but
pre-registration is required through SCORE chapter Web sites.
The half-day events will feature presentations on small-business technology use, including trends, strategies and implications for growth; demonstrations of computer-based phone systems, network security, data recovery and business continuity protection; and vendor and supplier diversity programs for small businesses.
In addition, there will be a question-and-answer session on small business and supplier diversity programs featuring representatives from local corporations and public entities. Each workshop will conclude with a roundtable discussion and an opportunity for one-on-one conversations with representatives from large businesses located in the communities where each workshop will be held.
Funded by a $250,000 grant from Verizon, these are the first of a series of workshops that SCORE plans to offer to local minority-owned small businesses.
