Kids in the Hills is an online community for parents, grandparents and caregivers living in the Headwaters region. Read Bethany Lee’s introduction to the website here, and her first column for In the Hills magazine here.

Through the Kids in the Hills website, our community will be able to

• Stay up to date on local activities for children and parents,
• Enjoy web-exclusive content, commentary from moms and dads, child-themed features, audio and video extras, healthy eating ideas
• Learn how other parents cope with the work/family balance
• Connect through Facebook and Twitter
• Find local goods, services and events for kids in our categorized listings.

Bethany Lee and the Kids in the Hills team will be adding fresh content every week, including events listings, tweets on kids’ happenings, contests and writing from local moms and dads. The Shopping & Services will continue to grow. Keep your eye on www.kidsinthehills.ca and watch it grow!

We’d like to thank you all for attending this morning’s seminar. We hope you found it helpful and informative.

You can access all of the links used in the presentations and noted services and software at Derrick’s delicious bookmark accout http://delicious.com/dypenburg/social-media-presentation

Below is a link to the PowerPoint presentation:

SBEC Seminar 2 – Social Networking – Mar 24 2010

We wish you all the best with this new-found knowledge. It takes time to filter through all of it but it will all come-together to create a great, and successful, social networking strategy for your business / organization.

Warm regards.

Bethany & Derrick

Location:
The Temple Building
126 Hurontario Street, Collingwood
To register, call or email the Collingwood SBEC office:
705.446.3355

CNA has been in business for eighteen years with Al and Lin’s paddling experience spanning a combined 25,000 miles in Canada’s far north. Their expertise spans rivers and hikes in Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon with Al’s first trip occurring in 1977 on the Coppermine River. After several years paddling rivers in Nunavut, Al and Lin started paddling in the Yukon and in the last ten years have been very focussed on the Northwest Territories. Their latest project will see an air services and hospitality base being built to increase access to outdoor adventure in the Greater Sahtu region of the NWT. Watch the website over the next six months as we record progress.

Al and Lin demand the best of themselves and inspired us to do the same. We launched their site this week. Check it out at: www.canoenorthadventures.com

Affordable and fun, join us to educate yourself or your small business. The following events will be run through the Orangeville Small Business Enterprise Centre (SBEC) and Collingwood Small Business Enterprise Centre (SBEC) in the coming weeks.

Orangeville

Website Planning/Selling on the Internet
May 13, 6-9 pm
Targeted toward small business owners, this interactive workshop will take you through the process of planning your business website step-by-step. Everything from getting your domain name to incorporating online sales will be explained. Attendees will walk away prepared to plan their site, with checklists and information on working with web designers.

E-Marketing & Web 2.0
May 27, 6-9 pm
An interactive workshop designed to guide you through the many opportunities awaiting those in the online market. Learn what makes an effective marketing website and the planning process involved. Attendees will learn about what the term “Web 2.0″, and how it applies to their business communications and marketing model. Walk away with a greater understanding of how to make your website work for you. 

Location:
Alder Street Recreation Centre (TD Canada Trust Room)
To register, call or email the Orangeville SBEC office:
519.941.0440, ext 286
sbec@orangeville.ca

Collingwood

Introduction to Internet Marketing for Small Business
June 25, 2009, 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
This is a presentation built on our experience in Orangeville in 2008. Catharine Frith from the Collingwood SBEC office saw us then and knew she had to bring our team to Collingwood to work with the businesses north of Highway 89! Bethany and Derrick will present the essentials of professional web design, industry terms, when to call in the experts (and how to work with them), pricing, and an introduction to E-commerce.

Location:
The Temple Building
126 Hurontario Street, Collingwood
To register, call or email the Collingwood SBEC office:
705.446.3355
sbec@collingwood.ca