RTC announces new digital marketing seminars for 2008: Series Kicks off with Viral Marketing Springfield, MA - February 26, 2008 - The Regional Technology Corporation (RTC) is pleased to announce that its Technology Enterprise Council (TEC) network will be holding a series of five new seminars throughout 2008 focused on digital marketing. This series sold out quickly in 2007. The first seminar, "Viral Marketing" will be held on Friday, March 21st in the Tele-Classroom at Springfield Technical Community College's (STCC) Technology Park in Springfield 8:30 -10:30 a.m. Seminars in this educational series will include Viral Marketing, Using Social Networks as Marketing Tools, Business Blogging, Using Video to Enhance Marketing, and Web Trends. Web 2.0 based solutions are being used for training, all aspects of marketing including advertising, public relations and building brand equity as well as other types of corporate information transfer. "The best part of this series is that you do not have to be a technology-based company to leverage these cost effective technologies in order to gain a competitive advantage," explained Ellen Bemben, RTC President. "One of the missions of the RTC is to bring new technologies that can improve the way we do business to the attention of our members and the business community as a whole. This seminar series is an excellent example of doing just that," continued Bemben. The introductory Viral Marketing session will cover WHAT is viral marketing, and HOW to use it as a business tool. Guest presenters include Nathan Winstanley, President of Winstanley Associates and John Bidwell, President of Bidwell ID. The March 21st event is FREE to RTC members and $50 to non-members. These seminars sell out fast, we recommend you register early. Advanced registration is required. Contact April Cloutier at acloutier at rtccentral.com <mailto:acloutier at rtccentral.com> or 413-755-1314 to register. April Y. Cloutier Director of Operations Regional Technology Corporation (RTC) An Affiliate of the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council (EDC) 1441 Main Street, Suite 136 Springfield, MA 01103 (413) 755-1314 www.rtccentral.com <http://www.rtccentral.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20080310/9f234832/attachment-0005.html