IMC Southern California — Monthly Meeting

In this month's meeting we will have two speakers provide valuable information about how consultants should and can use technology to make their consulting practice and their clients more productive.

Afternoon Workshop, 4.30 - 5.30 PM:

The afternoon subject is an interactive technology roundtable, “Technology Choices for Your Practice.” Attend this workshop with Prem Sundaram to learn about the technologies that are right for your consulting practice.

Evening Presentation, 6.00 - 8.30 PM:

In the evening presentation, Dr. Tony Karrer presents “Web 2.0 for Service Professionals: How to Reach Prospects and Better Serve Clients through Blogging, Social Networking, MicroBlogging, RSS and Social Bookmarking”

Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen an explosion of information sources, greatly increased accessibility of experts and expertise, and constantly emerging tools. Together this has transformed the landscape for consultants and service professionals. Many of us don’t understand the modern technology tools under the “Web 2.0” label, let alone know how to use them.

In this talk, Dr. Tony Karrer will describe this radical, technological transformation and his experience with the changes and benefits it has brought to his services business. He will give you an “over-the-shoulder” look at a how and why a modern services professional uses web 2.0 tools such as blogging, social networking (LinkedIn), RSS, microblogging (Twitter), social bookmarking (delicious) and others. Tony will be able to provide you with specific actions you can take to better reach prospects and serve clients.

For more information and to register please click HERE.

About Prem Sundaram

Prem Sundaram is President of TSG Consulting, an Information Management and Process Improvement consulting firm, based in Santa Monica. Prem is an advocate of the practical use of information technology in businesses to help improve internal processes, communicate information, and develop more customer opportunities.

Prem holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and a Masters Degree in Natural Sciences, from the University of Cambridge, England, specializing in Materials Science.

Prem is a graduate of and a certified Facilitator for the award winning FastTrac™ entrepreneurial training programs offered through the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Prem has also acted as a mentor for the Caltech Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program, guiding PhD scientists through the process of converting their research into practical business plans.

About Tony Karrer

Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web and eLearning development firm based in Los Angeles, and is considered one of the top technologists in eLearning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science. He founded Work Literacy, created eLearning Learning; and is known for his blog eLearning Technology. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.