PLUS Enter the door prize drawing to win tickets to the NY Ice Wine Festival on February 18.

AND Play the Break The Ice Media QR code scavenger hunt to win a gift certificate to some of their coolest clients:

º [...]]]> Meet us at Casa Larga Vineyards on Tuesday for networking, wine tastings, complimentary hors d’oeuvres and tours of Rochester’s winery.

PLUS
Enter the door prize drawing to win tickets to the NY Ice Wine Festival on February 18.

AND
Play the Break The Ice Media QR code scavenger hunt to win a gift certificate to some of their coolest clients:

º Simply Crepes
º PetSaver Healthy Pet Superstore
º Warfield’s High Point
º New York Wine & Culinary Center
º Incognito Menswear

When: Tuesday, February 7
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Where: Casa Larga Vineyards (map)
2287 Turk Hill Road, Fairport
Admission: Free for DR Supporting Members, $5 for Non Members

Event Sponsor: Break The Ice Media

CLUE is a program designed to bring out your unique voice, personality, and ideas in a workplace that often focuses on standardization and more standardization.

The goal of CLUE is to help you nurture your creativity and uniqueness in the [...]]]> Part I: CLUE (Creative, Leadership, Unique, Entrepreneurial)

Learn about CLUE and its impact on personal, professional, and organizational well-being.

CLUE is a program designed to bring out your unique voice, personality, and ideas in a workplace that often focuses on standardization and more standardization.

The goal of CLUE is to help you nurture your creativity and uniqueness in the workplace, while contributing and aligning with the overall vision and goals of your organization.

This highly interactive workshop is designed to address your unique challenges and aspirations.
There will be both individual and group exercises. The workshop will cover:

1. What is CLUE?
2. Assess your potential along the CLUE scale.
3. Myths about creativity
4. How organizations, superiors, peers, and subordinates can benefit from CLUE
5. When your boss doesn’t have a CLUE!
6. Impact of CLUE on bottom line and careers

When: Thursday, March 1
Time: 7:30am Registration
8:00am-11:00am Program
Where: Locust Hill Country Club
2000 Jefferson Road, Pittsford
Admission: $20 for DR Supporting Members, $25 for Non Members

Still, both struggle with bringing this integrity to everyday verbal and written communications. In fact, some of our widely-accepted communications make it [...]]]> Part II: Individual Integrity, Collective Integrity, and the Art of Communications

Many people believe that saying what you mean and doing what you say are the hallmarks of integrity. This applies to both individuals and corporations.

Still, both struggle with bringing this integrity to everyday verbal and written communications. In fact, some of our widely-accepted communications make it difficult for individuals to practice their core beliefs
on integrity.

This interactive workshop highlights the issues and challenges we face as individuals and organizations in America and offers suggestions and recommendations for building integrity into all communications.

Topics include:
1. Building a framework for communications and integrity
2. Assessing one’s own communication style
3. Understanding the impact of one’s communication style on superiors, peers, and subordinates
4. Why saying what you mean is not always easy!
5. Strengthening the integrity factor in all communications
6. How to handle sabotage and betrayal in the workplace

When: Thursday, March 15
Time: 7:00am Registration
8:00am-11:00am Program
Where: Locust Hill Country Club
2000 Jefferson Road, Pittsford
Admission: $20 for DR Supporting Members, $25 for Non Members

Summary As the complexities of our technologies, products, services, and markets increase, so do the complexities of our problems. Nowhere is this more evident than in Sales & Marketing. Whether we are a high tech start-up or an established [...]]]> Strategy Science Inc. Presents
How to Better Integrate Sales and Marketing into your Overall Business Process

Summary
As the complexities of our technologies, products, services, and markets increase, so do the complexities of our problems. Nowhere is this more evident than in Sales & Marketing. Whether we are a high tech start-up or an established high volume manufacturing business, we all face the need to better integrate Sales & Marketing activities into our other business processes, while constantly solving the related problems that impact overall business efficiency and effectiveness. This hands-on workshop is designed to help organizations explore their own specific needs for integrating and aligning Sales & Marketing processes into Strategy, R&D, New Product Development, and Operations, as well as providing a framework for identifying and solving the unique Sales & Marketing problems they face.

When: April 5, 2012
Time: 8:30am-1:00pm
8:30-9:00am Registration
9:00-11:30am Formal Presentation
11:30am-1:00pm Working Lunch and Q&A

Where: HTR’s Lennox Tech Enterprise Center (map)
150 Lucius Gordon Drive, West Henrietta
Admission: $25 per seminar Register Now!
Continental breakfast and light lunch is included.
$20 per seminar for DR Supporting Members. Members-Only Registration.

Download the full seminar description

About the Seminars
These seminars are sponsored by HTR in conjunction with professionals in the Greater Rochester community for the benefit of all technology start-up entrepreneurs. The topics will focus on “typical” challenges entrepreneurs face in starting and growing a high tech start-up.

Summary The Women Entrepreneurs Leadership Series seminar is designed to engage, inform, and connect women entrepreneurs in science, technology and engineering, and other emerging high-tech disciplines with proven business leaders and successful entrepreneurs. Women leaders in [...]]]> PlanetGPA, Presents
Dr. Uma Gupta, CEO
Women Entrepreneurs – Addressing Challenges Faced by Woman Entrepreneurs in Science, Technology & Engineering

Summary
The Women Entrepreneurs Leadership Series seminar is designed to engage, inform, and connect women entrepreneurs in science, technology and engineering, and other emerging high-tech disciplines with proven business leaders and successful entrepreneurs. Women leaders in the region will present on a wide range of complex issues, including leading and managing organizations, growing a successful business, thinking strategically, and leveraging business relationships. This workshop will strengthen the foundation for long-term success for women entrepreneurs and provide a powerful toolkit to take on the inevitable challenges that women entrepreneurs face.

When: June 7, 2012
Time: 8:30am-1:00pm
8:30-9:00am Registration
9:00-11:30am Formal Presentation
11:30am-1:00pm Working Lunch and Q&A

Where: HTR’s Lennox Tech Enterprise Center (map)
150 Lucius Gordon Drive, West Henrietta
Admission: $25 per seminar Register Now!
Continental breakfast and light lunch is included.
$20 per seminar for DR Supporting Members. Members-Only Registration.

Download the full seminar description

About the Seminars
These seminars are sponsored by HTR in conjunction with professionals in the Greater Rochester community for the benefit of all technology start-up entrepreneurs. The topics will focus on “typical” challenges entrepreneurs face in starting and growing a high tech start-up.

DR will be collaborating in 2012 with High Tech Rochester to bring DR’s entrepreneurial special interest group the information they need to face the challenges in starting and growing a high tech start-up.

February 2, 2012

Innovative Solutions Presents Information Technology – the Biggest and Most Common Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

Summary Innovative Solutions [...]]]> Attention Digital Rochester Tech Start-Up Entrepreneurs

DR will be collaborating in 2012 with High Tech Rochester to bring DR’s entrepreneurial special interest group the information they need to face the challenges in starting and growing a high tech start-up.

February 2, 2012

Innovative Solutions Presents
Information Technology – the Biggest and Most Common Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

Summary
Innovative Solutions will address IT strategies dealing with the challenges that growing businesses are facing today. Topics will include Staffing, Infrastructure, Software, Web Presence, Mobile Workforce, Security, Messaging/Collaboration, Disaster Prevention vs Disaster Recovery, Hardware Acquisition/PCs/Laptops, and Phone Systems. Innovative Solutions has been providing professional services to high technology small to medium size businesses since 1989. With over 60 employees including consultants, MBAs, web marketing, software and infrastructure specialists, Innovative Solutions is uniquely qualified to provide the assistance that growing businesses need to thrive in today’s marketplace.

When: February 2, 2012
Time: 8:30am-1:00pm
8:30-9:00am Registration
9:00-11:30am Formal Presentation
11:30am-1:00pm Working Lunch and Q&A

Where: HTR’s Lennox Tech Enterprise Center (map)
150 Lucius Gordon Drive, West Henrietta
Admission: $25 per seminar Register Now!
Continental breakfast and light lunch is included.
$20 per seminar for DR Supporting Members. Members-Only Registration.

About the Seminars
These seminars are sponsored by HTR in conjunction with professionals in the Greater Rochester community for the benefit of all technology start-up entrepreneurs. The topics will focus on “typical” challenges entrepreneurs face in starting and growing a high tech start-up.

When: Wednesday, January 25 Time: 7:30am-9:30am Where: Artisan Works (map) 565 [...]]]> Learn new and innovative sales strategies and more in this high-impact seminar lead by Michael Krause, President and Founder of Sales Sense Solutions.

• New & innovative sales strategies
• A road map for future growth and sustainability
• Cutting-edge techniques to capture new business
• Answers to all of your business & sales questions

When: Wednesday, January 25
Time: 7:30am-9:30am
Where: Artisan Works (map)
565 Blossom Road #L
Admission: $20 for DR Supporting Members, $25 for Non Members
Register Here