Eleni Pallas (pallasco.com) is a business development coach who has 25 years of professional experience building businesses through partnerships and acquisitions around the world. Within the social capital paradigm, she is a bridge that creates links between people that would not necessarily occur without her global perspective and cross-industry experience.

Eleni plans to touch upon the following aspects, engaging the audience in an interactive discussion:

• The distinction between networking and social capital from an effectiveness perspective
• The benefits of social capital and the way it raises the bar on your success
    Exercise: assessing your current social capital
• Building social capital
    Exercise: identifying ways to build social capital
• Strategies for expanding social capital

Agenda
6:00–6:15 Board nominations/voting (current members only)
6:15–7:15 Program
7:15–7:30 Announcement of 2010 Scholarship Winner and election results
7:30–8:00 Social Capital building

Important Voting Information for Current Chapter Members
Attendance is free if we receive your annual chapter dues between June 10, 2009, and June 7, 2010, inclusive. Those from whom we received dues by May 31 will be sent an email via Zoomerang by June 2 with a registration link. You also may use the link to vote for officer candidates, irrespective of whether you will be present at the election.

If you believe that you meet the above criteria for current membership and do not receive the registration link, please email info@bgssf.org by midnight on Saturday, June 6.

The first 12 current members who attend the elections in person will receive a free hardbound copy of Judy Estrin’s book Closing the Innovation Gap.

Online Registration for nonmembers
(through 11:55pm June 7, 2010)
http://pallas.eventbrite.com
$10 + $1.54 EventBrite processing fee

At the Door for nonmembers
Space permitting
$15.00

Location
San Francisco State University
Downtown Campus
835 Market Street, Room 554
San Francisco, CA

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