Web 2.0 Solutions in An Economic Storm

Let’s face it, we’re all being affected by the current economic storm whether through lay offs, stock losses or churned up emotions about the bailout news. As a parent and partner, I’m concerned and a bit more burdened than I was before, but as an entrepreneur I’ve never been more on fire!

As part of their business educational series, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii will be hosting, “‘Building Relationships and Thrive in the Economic Storm” on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. at the Honolulu Design Center. The three member panel is Pono Shim, CEO of Hawaii Concierge; Evan Leong, CEO of Greater Good Radio/TV featured on the Hawaii shelf of Alltop; and our local social media expert, Ryan Ozawa.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Evan at the Social Media Club Workshop during Hawaii Geek Week. He is very passsionate about his business and just being around him is energizing. He is the co-author of The Greater Good: Life Lessons from Hawaii’s Leaders and the man who brought us Bubble Tea! What’s a blog post without me mentioning Twitter? Follow @evanleong!

Despite raising three young children; working as a fulltime webmaster; co-hosting Hawaii’s popular tech radio show Bytemarks Cafe; leader of probably the largest local tech social group, Manoa Geeks; manages HawaiiThreads, a forum that boasts over 9,000 members; serving up a weekly podcast, LOST Podcast: The Transmission for a modest audience of 20,000 that he co-hosts with his wife, Jen; (did I leave anything out?) — he still manages to stay on the pulse of all things social media and networking. Every moment that I spend with Ryan I learn something new.

I am bringing my gear with me, and if allowed I will be streaming the session live. If not, I will do my best to live tweet. I look forward to this session fueling the entrepreneurial fire within me, in hopes of stamping out the storm so that the rainbow can emerge. Will you be in the audience as well?