What's Happening?Upcoming Chamber Events
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What's the Chamber working on?Connection, Advantage, Influence
Small Business Expo - Each year the businesses of the Okanagan get a chance to get together and highlight their services. This year it will be hosted at Okanagan College. Only 4 booths still available at only $110. Deadline for booths, 4pm Nov. 20th. Preparing for 2013 - Dicky has been hard at work organizing all of the events for 2013. Be sure to check out the Events page to see what is upcoming. Sponsorship is a great way to promote your business and increase your referrals, contact Caroline Miller for details before you plan your budgets. New Members - Each month our membership is growing, to find out who has recently joined go to our New Member section of the website.
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UBCO's Management Students AssociationThe future leaders of business in Okanagan.
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The Management Student Association (MSA) is a student run society in the Faculty of Management at UBC-Okanagan. Our primary purpose is to serve our student body with networking and business application opportunities by creating partnerships between the association and our local business community. Through our various social/academic events, we strive to create long lasting benefits for both our partners and our student body. 
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Your Customers Are Talking On Social Media
Are You Listening?
 A couple weeks ago I posted a blog called Why Twitter Is Still A Powerful Marketing Tool and discussed the importance of monitoring relevant as part of your overall social media strategy. Since then, I've had the great pleasure of connecting with Tanya Thompson from Discovery Honda in Duncan, BC and heard about their social media strategy and Twitter success stories.
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In the newsBusiness, Technology, Economy
Employer Innovation Fund (EIF) - a unique funding opportunity to help develop new ways to attract, hire and retain skilled immigrants into BC workforces.
Bernard Sidewalks More Than Just Concrete - The new sidewalks taking shape on Bernard Avenue offer the first visible clues to how the street is changing to become a more attractive and exciting "people place."
Free Parking - Downtown Kelowna has returned. For the month of December. |
Fit Wellness into Your Workplace BC HRMA People Focused
From the time they drive off in the morning until they set their feet back in their homes, Canadians spend on average 10.5 hours of their day at work or commuting. So the workplace has become a critical setting for health promotion. Learn how you can help this, and your bottom line, in this month's people-focused article from BC HRMA
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