January 10:  Applying Technology to Improve Your Cash Flow
This workshop explains how to use technology to enrich, stabilize, and increase cash flow. Many qualified professionals robustly believe that consistent cash flow is more crucial than paper profits. Those employees who have experienced layoffs or downsizing and small business owners who survived during a recession would probably agree.
Cash flow management techniques are critical for small business survival. Technology can amplify the three dimensions of cash flow: Timing, amount, and direction. This session will help you identify and manage these critical components of your company’s cash flow.

January 26:  Introduction to Information Security for Small Biz 
Presented by Greg Probst. Greg is a Mentor for SCORE® East Central Iowa. Greg's expertise includes general management, business planning, software development, systems design and integration and information security. Greg is Owner of IC Designs, LLC, a software development firm in Iowa City, and the consumer web site CookOfTheMonth.com. He has over 25 years of systems and software engineering and management experience at RCA, MCI, Primus and various local early-stage companies. Greg holds a BS in Computer Science (Purdue), an MS in Information Systems (Ball State) University and a graduate certificate in Information Assurance (Iowa State).

This workshop explains how hackers work and how to adopt security measures to avoid your business getting easily "hacked".  You will be given some recommendations on how to keep yourself a bit safer in the information world.  We will let you know:
•    Who hackers are
•    What hackers do
•    Simple first steps to keep yourself from getting hacked
•    Other anti-hack measures
A top-level overview followed by class involvement in exercises and examples is the cornerstone of these workshops.  Each workshop is taught by an expert on the topic.