Cleveland Park Library 
1st Floor Large Meeting Room 
3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
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Description: What's a blog, a feed, RSS? What's a newsreader or aggregator? How do these things fit into your business plan? How are they different from Web sites, e-mail, and other online marketing techniques? We'll look at these questions and more and help you decide if these are opportunities for you or just more high-tech fluff. Attendees get examples, explanations, and more.

Speaker: A former software developer, marketing manager, and sales manager, Bob Bailey has the knowledge and experience to help executives and entrepreneurs reach their goals. His knowledge of technospeak enables him to help speakers translate jargon into language that is technically meaningful yet persuasively effective. Bob is outstanding at creating analogies and translating features into benefits.

Bob was the Presentation Coach for the Storyboard Project (cosponsored by Interboard, the Netpreneur Program, and the George Mason University Technology Resource Alliance). In 1978, after founding Washington Whitewater, he began presenting and coaching. He has been active in Toastmasters and in the National Capital Speakers Association (NCSA). In 1996 Bob was chosen to present at NCSA's Speakers School.

Bob Bailey's company, Message Builders, focuses on entrepreneurs, executives, systems engineers, and sales and marketing personnel. Through its consultation services in Web site text content and in presentation development, and through its workshops on the elevator speech and on communicating a core message, Message Builders helps clients develop and communicate compelling messages

Agenda 

12:45 pm	Check-In
1:00 pm	Welcome & Announcements
1:10 pm	"And You Can Quote Me on That . . . " Tax Updates & Accounting Tips, Jina Etienne, CPA
1:20 pm	RSS Feeds and Blogs for Business
2:40 pm	Q&A
3:00 pm	Closing announcements
3:05 pm	Informal queries, conversation, networking

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Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. (There are many restaurants suitable for pre- or post-meeting gathering/networking/refreshment in the block north of the library.) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 15) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the Cleveland Park Library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open 2 pm Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and  food.)  

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