Digital Capital Week

About:
Market Connectors is designed to accelerate adoption of social, mobile and gps tools with small businesses in a localized, community-based setting to increase business. This workshop will equip micro-entrepreneurs who have Internet access, with a simple method for earning money by delivering a valuable local service to businesses. This event will take place in Anacostia over two afternoons and is free and open to anyone from the neighborhood or who has a general interest in this work.

Sign Up Here. http://marketconnectorsdc2011.eventbrite.com/

Over two days we will train local entrepreneurs (Street Team) with methods to equip local businesses with online profiles for their business. Outreach to at least 12 local business owners. Develop replicable curriculum for quick street team deployment in diverse communities.

When:

5:00 Introductions. One Economy, history of the idea and outline for the workshop.
5:30 Sharing social tools. Google Place pages, Yelp, Foursquare, Facebook
5:45 Panel speakers and Community live discussion (web developer, business owner, client/young person, prospective business owners Speakers: TBA)
6:30 The value and business of being an network builder
7:00 Participant technology survey. Get a baseline for the technology capacity of the working group
7:15 Closing

Wednesday, November 9th 2011

3:30 Review and regroup. Planning the street outreach
4:00 Street teams small business education activities
5:00 Review reports and findings from local businesses
5:30 Closing

Week of November 14. Follow-up with next steps and feedback.

How you can get involved:
Students or adults who want a method to earn money by helping local businesses
Business owners who want to expand their presence online
Community members interested in helping the neighborhood

What we need:
Any tech savvy trainers are welcomed. Loaning of 3-G enabled tablets or smart phones are welcomed.

About the organizer/s:
Presented by: One Economy and the Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative as part of DC Week 2011 and supported by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Get in touch for more details Arthur Grau: agrau@one-economy.com