Tuesday Ta5 returns to BlackFinn (Yes, on Valentine’s Day) with great Charlotte companies; DukeNet Communications, Alcatel-Lucent, JCMR Technology, Time Warner Cable Business Class. If you love networking as much as we do, we know you’ll join us.

Wednesday we will be at the Carolina Ale House with Greenville companies; Logic Concepts, TSAChoice, IBM, Samsung (just to name a few) and a notable list of people ready to connect in both cities.

If you’re waiting for someone or some company to sign up, check out Charlotte’s registration list and Greenville’s registration list to review the list of names registered and create that list of the people you would like to meet.

Don’t wait till it’s too late! Register now!

February 14, 2011 BlackFinn

February 15, 2011 Carolina Ale House

If you’re waiting for someone or some company to sign up, check out Columbia’s registration list to review the list of names registered and create that list of the people you would like to meet.

A few of the companies already signed up:
CorLogix
Blue Cross Blue Shield of SC
TechStructures, LLC
Teradata Corporation

Don’t wait till it’s too late. Register now. You may be the reason someone else decides to come.

Online registration has closed for tonight’s Ta5 in Columbia. Registration at the door opens at 5:15pm.

Register for Columbia: Ta5 Columbia, February 8
Register for Charlotte: Ta5 Charlotte, February 14
Register for Greenville: Ta5 Greenville, February 15
Register for Charleston: Ta5 Charleston, February 21

Take a sneak peek and review the rest of tonight’s registration list.

Sign up now before someone misses you!
The January Greenville event has ended. To see what’s going on at the next event: Ta5 Greenville

Tuesday and Wednesday, Ta5 returns to Southend Brewery and the Carolina Ale House with great Charleston companies; Sustainable Energy Solutions, Spirit Communications, Enterprise Technologies Inc., MUSC and Greenville companies; Sharp Business Systems, Zipit Wireless, Foreign Translations, Inc, InnoVenture LLC (just to name a few) and a notable list of people ready to connect in both cities.

If you’re waiting for someone or some company to sign up, check out Charleston’s registration list and Greenville’s registration list to review the list of names registered and create that list of the people you would like to meet.

Don’t wait till it’s too late! Register now!

January 17, 2011 Southend Brewery

January 18, 2011 Carolina Ale House

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer

As I am crafting my goals for the year, I stopped to reflect on the people that have inspired me and helped keep the flame burning for me both personally and for my various work enterprises. We are all born into our kin group and we certainly know who they are and how they influence us. Kith might best be described as that much larger group of people we come into contact with professionally, but there is a third group that we draw to ourselves or are otherwise lucky enough to connect with and draw inspiration from. They help us remember why we do what we do. They put us back on the path when we lose it. Our Kindlers are like muses bringing us good ideas when we are open to them.

A good Connectorati knows to cherish and nurture those connections. Make a list of the people who are on your Kindler list. Next to their names list how they have helped you. Now don’t forget to thank them. A handwritten note telling them you appreciate their effect on your thinking would be entirely appropriate. Next, find out how you can rekindle a flame for them or others. Who would have you on their list of Kindlers?

What’s the Connectorati? Click at your own risk.

Phil Yanov is founder of Tech After Five, president of the GSA Technology Council, tech columnist for Greenville and Columbia Business Magazine, guest host on ETV Radio program Your Day and blogger at Thinkhammer.

We encourage you to join us not only for the great networking this month but for the shiny prizes we will have available exclusively at these events.

Register for Charlotte: #100 Ta5 Charlotte, January 10
Register for Columbia: #100 Ta5 Columbia, January 11
Register for Charleston: #100 Ta5 Charleston, January 17
Register for Greenville: #100 Ta5 Greenville, January 18

Tuesday and Wednesday, Ta5 returns to Southend Brewery and the Carolina Ale House with great Charleston companies; CM3 Media, eGroup, Blue Ion, Scientific Research Corp. and Greenville companies; Greencloud Technologies, PECULIAR, ShredDisk, Cryovac (just to name a few) and a notable list of people ready to connect in both cities.

If you’re waiting for someone or some company to sign up, check out Charleston’s registration list and Greenville’s registration list to review the list of names registered and create that list of the people you would like to meet.

Don’t wait till it’s too late! Register now!

December 20, 2011 Southend Brewery

December 21, 2011 Carolina Ale House

If you're waiting for someone or some company sign up, check out Charlotte’s registration list and Columbia’s registration list to review the list of names registered and create that list of the people you would like to meet.

Don’t wait till it’s too late. Register now. You may be the reason someone else decides to come.

December 13, 2011 BlackFinn

December 14, 2011 Carolina Ale House

A little bit of publicity with the right crowd can be a real help. It’s a lot more fun to meet someone new who already knows you because they have seen your name in a public place.

Want to know how to get your name or picture in the paper? Or get your story on the news or be heard on the radio? I know the secret. I learned it from a very popular radio personality years ago.

It was my job to host a panel of media professionals appearing before a group of small business owners to talk on the topic of publicity. In setting up the panel, I met with talk show host Ralph Bristol. I asked him, “Ralph, many small business owners would like to get some free publicity. They’d like to get the boost they think that might give them. Simply put, how can they get their name on the radio?” He looked at me and said, “Shoot somebody.”

What’s the Connectorati? Click at your own risk.

Phil Yanov is founder of Tech After Five, president of the GSA Technology Council, tech columnist for Greenville and Columbia Business Magazine, guest host on ETV Radio program Your Day and blogger at Thinkhammer.