The BizJam party on Thursday night will be emceed by Matt Smith, a long-time Biznik member who teaches improv, among other things. He’ll keep the evening flowing, and has a special collaborative event planned. Read on to learn more…
Q: Briefly describe what you do for a living.
I am a benefit auctioneer and a communications […]

As many of you who are Biznik members probably remember, Laura Messerschmitt is the person at Intuit who contributed a lot of articles to this community back in April. We’re thrilled that Intuit is continuing it’s sponsorship of this community by sponsoring BizJam. Laura will be attending, and there’s a good reason to drop by […]

At the BizJam evening soireé last year, Lara and I had the privilege of handing out half a dozen bottles of wine to members of the Biznik community who made extraordinary contributions during the previous year. All the the bottles were provided to us by Kestrel Wine, one of the very first companies to sponsor […]

We’re grateful to Being Media, which is a major sponsor of BizJam this year. Thanks to Being Media, we’ll have web video of each workshop at the conference. Being Media is a video production & new media company, which produces corporate, non-profit, narrative and documentary projects in Seattle and internationally. I spoke with Being Media’s […]

With BizJam barely two weeks away now, Lara and I and Amanda are in high gear with event planning and organizing. And every time we rent another table or hire another contractor to to handle the thousand and one tasks associated with producing an event of this size, we’re reminded how grateful we are to […]

When Textura Design partnered with BizJam Seattle to bring the Social Media Essentials day, we were excited about the Biznik speaking talent pool and also bringing in some names we know from the blogosphere: Matt Haughey and Keith Robinson. Besides both being Internet Famous, Matt and Keith are bringing expert opinions to the conference, straight-up […]

We’re thrilled to welcome Intuit as a leading sponsor of BizJam Seattle 08. Biznik’s Lara Feltin and Tracy Mulligan met with Intuit product manager Laura Messerschmitt today, and Laura had some exciting news for us: Intuit is planning to gift up to 500 Learning Accounting Essentials CDs, one for every person who attends BizJam… a […]

Looking over the speaker lists and prompted by this discussion on Biznik about women bloggers, I noticed that we’ve got more women speakers than men. I think that’s a first at a tech-related conference. There are
13 women and 12 men speaking. One male keynote and one female keynote.
And that was done without even trying. It […]

Conference Will Focus on the Essentials for Growing and Sustaining a Successful Small Business; More Than 400 Independent Business People in Seattle to Participate
Note from Dan: Here’s a copy of the press release announcing BizJam, which went out this morning:
SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwire - May 27, 2008) - Biznik, a business networking community that
connects independent business […]

Does your business have a social media marketing strategy? What is “social media,” anyway? And how does it affect your business?
These are questions we’ve been hearing a lot lately, and as we began planning the sessions for this year’s BizJam, we realized we simply couldn’t answer enough of them in one day. So we’ve […]