HCCC and Juniata College to Hold a Cloud Computing Seminar

The Huntingdon County Chamber of Commerce invites business representatives and members of the community to attend the Cloud Computing Seminar that will be held on Tuesday, September 25 from 9:00 to 11:00 AM in Brumbaugh Academic Center room A100 on the Juniata College Campus. David Fusco, Juniata College Associate VP and CIO will cover the history of cloud computing, foundations of cloud computing, virtual storage, virtual servers/applications, backup to the cloud, thin clients (vs fat clients), iPad model and cloud computing at Juniata College.

Dave has been in Higher Education for the majority of his professional career. He has worked at Saint Francis University, Penn State University, and now works at Juniata College. Dave joined Juniata in 1996 and has taken on roles including both teaching and administrative responsibilities. In his current role, Dave is responsible for overseeing the college’s technology operations and encouraging the pedagogical implementation of technology. Dave also holds the faculty rank of Assistant Professor of Information Technology at Juniata, where he teaches courses innetwork design and management in the IT department and assists with the educational technology course in the Education department. In addition, Dave also teaches courses for Penn State and Saint Francis in their Information Technology and Computer Science departments.

To register for this seminar by September 20, call the Chamber at 814-643-1110, email mail@huntingdonchamber.com or click here.

The Huntingdon County Chamber of Commerce is offering the seminar “Creating a Marketing Driven Website” on Thursday, June 7 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. The seminar is presented by Janet Chambers, owner of Beacon Marketing Solutions and will be held in Good Hall Room 202 on the Juniata College campus.

Whether your business needs a website, or has a website, this seminar will help you. Attendees will learn how to make their company website content rich so viewers will feel the website provides valuable information and gives them reasons to visit it again and again. Attendees will also learn how to determine marketing goals for their website and learn about appropriate page content and site maps. Chambers will help attendees determine what types of graphics are best to support their site and their company image and inform them of ways to drive traffic to their website. Attendees will also learn tips for increasing website pick up in the search engines like Google.

Click here to register for this event. The cost to attend is $15.00 for members of the Chamber, Huntingdon County Business and Industry and the Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau. The non-member fee is $25.00.  Registration
is required by Monday, June 4.

Join us on Tuesday, May 15, from 9:00-11:00 a.m. at the Comfort Inn Huntingdon, 100 South 4th Street, Huntingdon, as we present a workshop on Electronic Marketing: De-Mystified & Supercharging Your Social Media featuring David Yunghans – Constant Contact Regional Development Director, Philadelphia Metro.

In this workshop, David will be custom-tailoring the session to the attendees and focusing on the needs of the group. The topics to be covered in discussion will be:

· Why Doesn’t My Email Get Opened …And what can I do about it?

· Social Media Marketing Made Simple – My small business or non-profit is doing just fine, thank you!

· Engagement Rules – How do you engage your customers in this economy and inspire their loyalty?

· Supercharging Your Facebook Marketing

· What is Social Campaigns?

About David Yunghans:

With more than 25 years of experience in Fortune 100 corporations and as a small business owner, David brings a wealth of knowledge in the areas of business development, professional training, and corporate communications planning to help small businesses and nonprofits achieve success. He has served as a training and development resource for a major casino, and has built customized team building programs for hundreds of businesses across the US, and created and delivered a two day sales training program for a global automotive paint manufacturer. Dave is DiSC certified, and has presented to more than 10,000 people across North America.  As Constant Contact’s Regional Development Director, David leverages his training and business development expertise to help local businesses maximize the power of relationship marketing through the
use of online communication tools like email marketing, social media, Event Marketing and online surveys.

Click here to register.