Get to know the new Small Business Accelerator website by watching this brief introductory video that explains what information can be found on the SBA, and how best to navigate the site.
Business success depends on obtaining access to reliable information. The Small Business Accelerator is your gateway to freely available business information, education, and assistance that is both current and trustworthy.
Visit us as http:www.sba-bc.ca or follow @sba_bc on Twitter!
The Small Business Accelerator is an Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Initiative.
This is a full recording of the Small Business Accelerator event, Smart Business, Small Business which took place at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Okanagan Campus in Kelowna on Wednesday, October 19th, 2011. The lecture features three compelling speakers who gave short talks and answered audience questions:
• Laurel Douglas, CEO Women’s Enterprise Centre. Talk included an overview of the small business sector in BC, including some trends and issues.
• Norine E Webster, Adjunct Instructor, Faculty of Management – UBC Okanagan. Talk offered practical insights on “Services – 5 tips in effective marketing and delivery of customer services and service products.
• Scott Coleman, Co-Founder FunCore Strength and Conditioning. Scott shared practical tips and lessons-learned from his start-up experience.
The series was a celebratory event marking the Small Business Accelerators first year of service and was also held in conjunction with Small Business Week, organized by the Business Development Bank of Canada. For more information about the speakers and their talks go to the event page:http://www.sba-bc.ca/biztalkOkanagan
Speaker Biographies
Laurel Douglas is passionate about empowering women to their business success. Since 2004, Douglas has been CEO of Women’s Enterprise Centre. Under her leadership, Women’s Enterprise Centre has become the go-to place for women in BC who are starting, purchasing or growing their business. Women’s Enterprise Centre fills gaps to provide business loans, training, mentoring programs, business advice and resources to women business owners across the province.
Norine Webster has been an Adjunct Faculty member at UBC’s Okanagan campus since 2008, teaching marketing, management and business analysis courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. As an independent consultant with Webster Consulting, Norine assists small and large companies with business strategies, marketing plans, new product launches, and customer service.
Scott Coleman is a lifetime sport devotee and is a co-founder of FunCore Strength and Conditioning. Offering unique training concepts backed by extensive knowledge in the trait, the brand has seen steady growth throughout its first year and continues to expand throughout the Okanagan Valley. Presently, Coleman attends UBCO and is in his final year pursuing a Bachelor of Management degree.
UBC Reads Sustainability returns to IKBLC for 2012/2013! The lecture series is an exciting program that brings well-known sustainability authors to UBC campus to engage in a campus-wide discussion. It’s part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. Above all, it’s a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.
Each year UBC Sustainability selects leading sustainability books, work with instructors across campus to integrate the books into courses, and then we bring the authors to UBC for a public lecture series.
Ozzie Zehner author of Green Illusions: September 28, 2012, 12.00-1.00PM at the Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 182), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Ozzie Zehner is the author of Green Illusions and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent publications include public science pieces in Christian Science Monitor, The American Scholar, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Humanist, The Futurist, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. He has appeared on PBS, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and regularly guest lectures at universities. Zehner’s research and projects have been covered by The Sunday Times, USA Today, WIRED, The Washington Post, Business Weekand numerous other media outlets. He also serves on the editorial board of Critical Environmentalism.
Zehner primarily researches the social, political and economic conditions influencing energy policy priorities and project outcomes. His work also incorporates symbolic roles that energy technologies play within political and environmental movements. His other research interests include consumerism, urban policy, environmental governance, international human rights, and forgeries.
Green Illusions pioneers a critique of alternative energy from an environmental perspective, arguing that concerned citizens should instead focus on walkable communities, improved consumption, governance, and most notably, women’s rights. Get a Free Chapter Now by sharing GreenIllusions.org on Facebook.
For more information about the UBC Reads Sustainability Series, please find here.
In collaboration with the UBC Chinese Centre for Research, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is pleased to co-sponsor this film showing, the first in a series of classic Chinese films to be screened at UBC over the academic year.
The was first shown in 1947, the first major film after the end of the Resistance War in 1945. It is considered one of the greatest of pre-Communist films. It deals with family separation during the war, when a young husband has to flee to Chongqing, leaving his wife in Shanghai. After the war the reunion is very unhappy. The title refers to the eastward flow of refugees coming back down the Yangzi to the coast from Chongqing after the war.The film will be screened on Wednesday, September 19th at 5 PM in the Lilloet Room (301) of the I.K. Barber Learning Centre.
Place: Lilloet Room (301) of the I.K. Barber Learning Centre
Dates: Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00pm
For more details or questions, please contact Professor Diana Lary, lary@mail.ubc.ca
IKBLC visited Hamburg! Exhibited at the Learning Centre in 2011, this month-long exhibition, iFormations, continued its journey as it went on a travelling exhibition from Canada to Hamburg as part of an academic conference. As part of the Digital Humanities Conference in 2012, iFormations exhibition took place in the West Wing of the Main Building in front of room 221 (see venue maps) as part of the conference’s sessions, posters, panels and discussions!
Curated by Ksenia Cheinman, with artists: Nathan McNinch, Kevin Day, Yan Lou, the iFormations exhibition was Inspired by the article “The behaviour of the researcher of the future (the ‘Google generation’)” written by David Nicholas for the Art Libraries Journal1, iFormations are sets of studies exploring the subtle links between information, knowledge and meaning.
Over the past decade, as the letter “i” became interchangeably associated with information, individual and the internet technologies, the integration of the three components deepened and solidified. This new entity’s hybrid identity, while boasting blink-of-an-eye-speeds and access to an unimaginable density of informational nodes, is often ill-equipped when it comes to synthesizing the iContent, having no adequate information literacy skills.
Through the iFormations, each individual artist proposes different scenarios for reconsidering the ways we engage with and understand information. By excluding interactivity and by including pieces that take time to decode, differences between reading and viewing information are made evident.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Vancouver School of Theology. The H.R. MacMillan Library at the Vancouver School of Theology recently acquired four sections of the Church Missionary Archives microfilm, covering Anglican Missionary activities throughout British Columbia, North West Canada and the West Indies. On July 11, 2012, VST launched this new resource and held a celebration featuring presentations by members of the Indigenous community, VST faculty and UBC library staff on the background of this resource and its significance to Church and First Contact histories.
Speakers for this event include: Darrell Bailie, Pat Dutcher-Walls, Raymond Jones, Gene Joseph, Mark MacDonald, and Amelia McComber.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Hannon, E., Hobbs, G., & Vancouver School of Theology. (1984). The methodist heritage, 1784-1984: Catalogue of an exhibition held at Vancouver school of theology, November 5-23, 1984. Vancouver: The School.
Vessey, M. (2011). The calling of the nations: Exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Vanhoozer, K. J. (2010). Remythologizing theology: Divine action, passion, and authorship. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Webcast sponosred by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS). Topic: What good is open data if we don’t know how to find and use it? The digital age has ushered in new opportunities to better understand our communities and demand accountability from our governments. In an intensive two-day master class, digital publishing expert Phillip Smith introduced some of the “working with data” tricks he has learned in over 15 years working with advocacy organizations, publishers and groups such as Civic Access and the Electoral Data Consortium. He is currently working to advance the field of “news innovation” through Mozilla and The Tyee. SLAIS graduate students Josh Rose and Jonathan Kift present on how organizations make sense of data, and to use data to tell compelling stories. Introduction by Gordon Yusko, Assistant Director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Cushnier, S., Heaney, R., Price, B., & Zappala, J. (1999). Developing a transfer data consortium. Michigan Community College Journal: Research & Practice, 5(2), 43.
