1. Promote business networking with other business professionals in the city of Redding and Shasta county.

2. Encourage best practices for business development and use of technology for local businesses.

3. Be a key advocate in support of key strategic technology planning and key technology initiatives to encourage business growth for Redding and Shasta county.

4. Build awareness of and leverage of local technological/business expertise.

Student Job Internship Program at Simpson College
Presented by Gary Schmidt, Chair the Business Department at Simpson. This is an ongoing program available to qualified students, typically at junior or senior level. It provides for students to gain real time job experience while making a genuine contribution to the operations of a business entity. Doing work that tracks to their area of academic focus, these opportunities can be paid or unpaid positions and result in grade credit when successfully completed with approved sign off. These internships have turned out to be real win-win situations for all involved. If you would like to fine out more about the Student Job Internship Program contact Gary Schmidt at gschmidt@simpsonu.edu.

SMART Business Resource Center Internship and Worksite Training Programs
Presented by Becky Renfer, Program Adviser at the SMART Business Resource Center. This Internship Program is dedicated to helping businesses in the Redding area by aligning qualified job seekers for paid internship positions.

Lunch of pizza and refreshment provided

Gary Schmidt, Chair of the Business Department at Simpson University and representatives from Shasta College will discuss opportunities for businesses to have students as interns.

Greg Clark is an assistant to the Redding City Manager. He coordinated and ultimately submitted Redding’s response to the Google RFI through their web site (the only way they would accept it.) It was about 13 pages of actual questions that ranged from City demographics and broadband usage to technical issues like miles of conduit and cost for pole connections. There also were a couple of "essay questions" allowing us to expound on why we thought our City would be a good choice.

Cathy Emerson the Project Manager of the Broadband Deployment Center for Economic Development California State University, Chico will be speaking on Broadband.

Speakers

February 26th - Cathy Emerson
Project Manager, Broadband Deployment
Center for Economic Development
California State University, Chico

March 26th - Erin M. Dervin
Deputy District Attorney
Financial Crimes and Consumer Fraud

Our Speaker: Donnie Pauling

Up until 3 years ago, making money on the Internet was easy for Donny. As a prolific porn producer for the top names in the game as well as operating his own porn websites, he made embarrassing amounts of money. Then he got to the point where he couldn't do it any more . and he gave it all up with the prospect of financial disaster.

But three years later, he is doing very well, thank you. And he is doing it via the internet but he is 'selling' something quite different. Come hear all about it.

Date
4th Friday of Every Month

Time
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Dan Morrow from Optest will be speaking at our September 25th brown bag lunch. Dan's subject will be "3 Big Ideas For Improving Profit?"

Dan is currently the CEO/President of Op-Test. In this capacity, he oversees the design and manufacture of automated test equipment hardware and software for the semiconductor industry. He co-founded Op-Test in 2000 in response to the exploding need for device testing by semiconductor manufacturers and engineers.