Fairfield County Communications Association November Event (Re-scheduled from October) Join Multi-preneur and LinkedIn Expert, Marc Halpern and learn: “Top 10 Things You Need to Know to Improve Your Brand Using LinkedIn”  Communicators need to know how to better optimize this predominant social networking platform to find and cultivate their personal learning network: your peers and colleagues who can add to the mix of expertise that we all need to tap into whenever needed.  This session is designed for those seeking pragmatic techniques, though perhaps at varying experience levels and is focused on the marketing capabilities of using LinkedIn. Numerous examples and anecdotes of how others have been successful are interspersed throughout. In a fun, entertaining and interactive presentation, you will:•   Gain a much deeper understanding of ways to re-work your personal profile page •   Learn how to locate and network with valued experts and others to further your knowledge, training and professional goals. •   Get insights on the marketing capabilities at your disposal by using LinkedIn•   Learn from the numerous LinkedIn success stories and more!Walk-ins welcome! $55 ($20 students) at the door.   Marc W. HalpertMarc is a self-described “multi-preneur.”Since leaving the corporate world in 2001, Marc W. Halpert has started diverse companies. Two offer specialized, paperless electronic payment services to optimize the cash flow of, and increase the speed of payments, to:retailers, small- and medium-sized businesses (Your Best Interest LLC) professional and membership groups, and not-for-profit organizations (e-giving). And his third company, connect2collaborate, spreads his LinkedIn and networking evangelism to train and coach others. Using the concepts presented in his coaching and speaking engagements, he offers professionals the opportunity to fully tell WHO they really are on their LinkedIn pages.   He has been recognized as a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences and local association meetings for small businesses and nonprofits to teach more about the importance of cash flow techniques and the best ways to use LinkedIn to improve business opportunities. He has also authored numerous articles on innovations in cash flow technologies and social media techniques for self-branding, and he serves as a source for the press.  He is a frequent instructor at UJA-Federation of New York’s Connect To Care in White Plains, NY teaching displaced job seekers how to use LinkedIn to enhance their employment opportunities. He volunteers as a SCORE counselor at the award-winning Norwalk, CT chapter where he offers expertise in e-commerce and social media to start-ups, growing businesses, and nonprofits.Contact Information:                                                             Marc W. Halpert, Managing PartnerYour Best Interest LLC and its divisions e-giving and connect2collaborate P.O. Box 320048Fairfield, CT 06825-0048 Phone: 203.373.0875eFax 203.549.0406Email: marchalpert@connect2collaborate.comwww.linkedin.com/in/marchalpert www.connect2collaborate.comwww.yourbestinterestonline.comwww.e-givingonline.com Visit EventBrite.com for pricing.