Oakland Digital’s (ODALC) first annual “Social Media for Small Business: Online Marketing Symposium” held at Oakland City Hall, Council Chambers was an overwhelming success. The event was open to the public with a purpose of displaying how to use social media tools effectively to help increase their Return on Investment (ROI), reach untapped and potential customers, how to stay connected with customers and boost their online brand presence. Nearly 200...

INSPIRE PROGRAM:   Oakland Digital’s Inspire Program is a workforce development curriculum that encourages interest in graphic design and information technologies through creative expression. The program seeks to incubate overlooked young talent and enable tomorrow’s leaders by giving them tools and strategies to overcome economic barriers to personal achievement and success.     The ultimate goal of Inspire is to promote a positive image...

INSPIRATION AWARDS 2011: Oakland Digital brought the Hammer down on Oakland, wrapping a successful year with educational classes and capping it off with its second annual Inspiration Awards, honoring MC Hammer, singer/artist Goapele and technology leader Alex Bernstein of North Social. With the City of Oakland often in the news this year, Oakland Digital worked quietly in the background to achieve progress for many of the city’s economically disadvantaged...

EDUCATE, INSPIRE, EMPOWER: Oakland Digital is committed to empowering citizens with digital literacy, professional skills and mentoring services while nurturing community building and volunteerism. We make education more relevant and provide participants with the tools they need to be effective 21st-century citizens and productive members of the digital...

DIGITAL EQUITY FOR SMALL BUSINESSES:   Digital Equity is Oakland Digital’s small business development program that educates business owners with tech-specific marketing tools. The ultimate goal of Digital Equity is to provide low-income small business owners with a new set of resources to tackle its socio-economic problems on the digital front, potentially serving as a prototype for other metropolitan areas to emulate. By supplying underserved small...

INSPIRE CHINATOWN: Oakland, CA – Oakland Digital (ODALC) collaborated with Stanford University’s Volunteers in Asia (VIA) Program to facilitate a volunteer project in Oakland Chinatown conducted by university students from Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. This student group conducted surveys of small businesses and restaurant owners in the Oakland Chinatown area as well as the neighboring areas in August 2011. The purpose of these surveys was to gauge the...

FOR STARTUPS: OAKLAND BOOSTER   Oakland Digital (ODALC) is proud to announce “Oakland Booster,” a 4-week incubator program dedicated to foster and support Oakland-based start-ups that assist local small business.     Start-up #1 – RateCred.com: Oakland Digital first worked with RateCred Inc., as part of a program to help Oakland residents become more aware of the great locally owned small businesses, Oakland themed digital content...

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