Small Business Center Blog

Central Library, 400 Civic Center in Tulsa, OK on Thursday, May 24 from 9:30-noon. Doors open at 9:15 AM.

The Information Technology Disaster Resource Center would like to invite you to a FREE educational Disaster Preparedness program titled “Technology Continuity 101”.

Whether you have 1 computer or 100, this program will help you identify and protect data critical to your organization, and present options to recover your technology infrastructure following a disaster. The material is presented by IT experts in an easy to understand format, and is suitable for Non-Profit Community Organizations and Small & Medium Businesses, with or without an IT staff.

Attendees will learn to identify critical systems, and the data required to run your business; select the proper backup methodology, and develop sound disaster and business continuity plans. We will review actual cases where small businesses survived disaster, and some that didn’t.

Other topics include: Hazard mitigation, emergency plan development, communications (and lack thereof), identifying an alternate recovery site, available data backup methods, free planning resources, and what to expect following a disaster.

There will be an interactive audience discussion and QA session following the presentations.

The program will take place at the Central Library, 400 Civic Center in Tulsa, OK on Thursday, May 24 from 9:30-noon. Doors open at 9:15 AM. The event is FREE and open to the community, but seating is limited to registered attendees only. This is NOT a sales presentation; it is an informative disaster preparedness event presented as a public service of the technology community.

The Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC) is a 501©(3) public charity comprised of IT Professionals who assist communities and small businesses with continuity and recovery of information systems following a disaster.

Rudisill Regional Library
Saturday, May 19 • 10 a.m.-noon

Whether you are starting a new business or expanding an existing
company, a thorough business plan is important. Volunteers from
SCORE: Counselors to America’s Small Business, Tulsa Chapter 194, will take
you through the steps to develop your own business plan.

Learn why a business plan is important and what research is required.
You also will review an actual business plan and learn about helpful
library resources.

Preregistration is required. Call 918-549-7645 to register. For adults.

Hardesty Regional Library
Thursday, May 3 • 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Location: Computer Lab

Whether you are starting a new business or expanding an existing
company, a thorough business plan is important. Volunteers from SCORE:
Counselors to America’s Small Business will take you through the steps to
develop your own business plan.

Learn why a business plan is important and what research is required. You
also will review an actual business plan and learn about helpful library
resources.

For adults. Preregistration is required. Call 918-549-7550 to register.

Throughout the year, local tax firms, investment companies and customers alike contact the library to inquire about current stock prices and the value of stock purchased or sold years ago. Older historic stock prices are not as readily accessible as current ones on company websites.

Our new database, Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage, provides remote access to many print investing and business tools to which those outside Central Library have not had prior access. The database is available remotely. All you need is a current library card for access! The Daily Stock Price Record online includes daily prices for the three major exchanges, the New York, American and NASDAQ/OTC, back to 1982. The Research Center retains the Daily Stock Price Record print copies beginning in 1962 for those stock exchanges. As an alternative resource, the Wall Street Journal also includes stock prices in their daily edition. Mutual fund prices can be found from 1982 forward in the front of the Over the Counter volumes of the DSPR. NetAdvantage begins historic mutual funds in 1998.

Occasionally old stock certificates are found by family members when cleaning out attics or even files. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provides information on researching old stock and bond certificates. The certificate might be a collectable even if it has no investment value. Standard & Poor’s is a company recognized for its quality business information.

Let AskUs know if we can assist using our various stock price resources.

Small Business Forum focuses on avoiding biggest manager mistakes
April 24, 2012, 7:30 to 9 a.m.

Join the Tulsa Metro Chamber for April’s Small Business Forum, “Biggest Mistakes by Managers and Supervisors in Dealing with Employees and How to Avoid Them,” with Kirk Turner, director of Newton, O’Connor, Turner & Ketchum’s Labor and Employment Law Group. Come learn the biggest mistakes managers and supervisors make in dealing with employees that lead to expensive and time-consuming conflict and what employers can do to avoid these mistakes. Any person who is involved in human resources or manages or supervises employees will not want to miss this interactive, fast-paced presentation.

The forum is scheduled for 7:30 to 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 24, at the Hillcrest Oklahoma Heart Institute, 1120 S. Utica Ave. Check-in begins at 7:30 a.m., and the event will start promptly at 7:45 a.m. Click here for a detailed map. The event is free for Chamber members, and members are welcome to bring non-member guests and principal employees who can benefit from the event. (First-time guests of members are free.) Small Business Forums are for business owners or principals only. Non-member price is $20.
Register online or contact Jessica Chaffee at jessicachaffee@tulsachamber.com or 918-560-0294. Seating is limited, so attendees are encouraged to register by Friday, April 20.