ANNOUNCING OUR NEXT NETWORKING/SEMINAR IN NASHUA!
SAVE THE
DATE - THURS EVENING, OCTOBER 16TH
"Creating
a Secure and Satisfying Retirement"
- 2 talented member speakers have offered to share their expertise -
this will be an informative session
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Retirement Investment Options
- Nancy
Kilty, Legacy Financial Advisors
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Long-term Care Insurance: Reading the Fine Print - Mary Murphy,
UBS Financial Services
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Retirement Lifestyle Planning - Roberta Taylor
More info
coming as we firm up the details.
Thursday evening, JUNE 5, 2008
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Our 1st Speaker/Networking Event focused on Small Business Planning
and
Development, and featured our member experts Bob Farquhar and Glenn
Boston. We had an audience of 18 for the seminar and another 6
members joined us for the networking party.
Bob
Farquhar, who has experience rich in planning, marketing, writing
(from the newspaper business), and building high-tech business
relationships, discussed how he, as a consultant, helps his small
business clients with their business and marketing plans. Glenn
Boston, another DEC marketing manager with a wealth of knowledge he
is happy to share, discussed how he advises his clients in his
volunteer role as a SCORE (Advisors to America's Small Businesses)
counselor. For several post-DEC years now, both men have
helped dozens of clients improve the parts of their businesses that
need more focus. We appreciated their willingness to share
their experience with us.
Here is
contact information should you wish to speak with either of them:
CALL FOR SPEAKERS! If you would be willing to speak at an
upcoming event - please contact Barbara Langdon at
blangdon@marketmomentumllc.com or 603-493-1331. Please submit a
short description of your topic and your bio, and which evenings or
time Sat. (morning or afternoon) you would be available, and she'll
be in touch to chat. Please note: we are looking for volunteer
speakers, and your obvious expertise will serve as its own sales
pitch.
Here are some themes and topics originally suggested by our survey,
or propose your own!
Themes:
1. Small Business Development
2. Application of New or Emerging Technologies
3. Investing & Personal Finance
4. Networking & Job-Searching Advice
Sample Topics:
1. Email marketing: A strategic and tactical tool for building
strong customer relationships
2. Web-enabled PR
3. What are Content Management Systems and how are they
impacting websites
4. To blog or not to blog: Can blogs play a role in your
business?
5. Social media and the 21st century business person:
Leveraging uTube, Face Book, blogs, etc.
6. SEO and the small business owner: What you need to know to
look big on the web
7. Pulling it all together: Integrating traditional and
Internet marketing
8. Selling over the Internet
9. Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
10. Do technology
stocks make good retirement investments?
Article from Nashua
Telegraph - 12/12/07 - HP to Close NH sites
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NH
Event: "Navigating
the Job Market for the over-50 Professional"
Many thanks to Bob Farquhar
for his compelling transcript of this evening's panel
discussion/audience Q&A. It is posted in the Member Forum -
you must be an event attendee or a paid DECconnection member to
access this, so join now!
Attendees: see special limited-time offer from Mino Sullivan!
Hot Topic Draws a Crowd
Nearly 40 people – twice
the number expected – jammed into the Essex room of the Crowne Plaza
Hotel in Nashua Thursday night (11/8/07) to get tips on how to
navigate the job market for the over-50 crowd.
The first in a series of
events planned by the newly-formed New Hampshire chapter of DEC
Connection was dubbed a huge success. DEC Connection is an
organization for anyone and everyone who ever was connected to
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
For those of you who
attended “Navigating the Job Market for the Over-50 Professional,”
or who registered but were unable to attend, as well as for those
who couldn’t make it, please read on... and watch this web site for
future events from the New Hampshire chapter!
Final Thoughts from Our
Experts…
*Click here
for Panel Bios.
Q. (Moderator): What
thought would each of you leave with the audience?
Pellerin: I know there’s age discrimination, but it’s all in
your attitude, how you think about yourself. If you think “I’m an
old person and I’m not going to get this job,” you won’t. Keep your
image positive.
Sullivan: You can make any transition you want. The gentleman
who is interested in non-profit, for example. Move transferable
skills under different titles. I’ll give you a complementary hour
over the phone if you’re looking to transition from your job.
Hamel: I want to
reinforce what Kevin (Pellerin) and Mino (Sullivan) said. And, for
those of you interested in non-profit world, there’s a lot of
information out there.
www.civicventures.org
was mentioned earlier.
Daniel: You have a
rich networking group right here – your corporate alumni group. This
is your first public function. Next time you get together, everyone
of you should spend time saying to each other what you’re looking
for.
Here are
some photos, courtesy of Diana Watts:
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Moderator (standing) Barbara Langdon; seated,
Panelists, from left: Kevin Pellerin, Mino Sullivan, Reo Hamel,
and Stephanie Daniel. |
Part of the attentive audience |
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What: A Panel Discussion on strategies for career
advancement and professional satisfaction for the over-50 crowd.
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| More
of the attentive audience |
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Where: Crowne Plaza Nashua, 2 Somerset
Parkway, Nashua, NH 03063
When:
Thursday, November 8, 2007
6 - 7 PM Networking
7 - 8:30 PM Panel discussion with lots of opportunity for
audience participation
8:30 PM - ? Additional networking
Cost:
$10 charge paid in advance; $12 at the door
Holiday
Pops