Members Helping Members - Working, Sharing, Contributing
EOK (Entrepreneurs of Knoxville) is a collection of Entrepreneurs/Inventors/Investors/Business Owners who meet regularly to share ideas and provide support to each other. If you go from one idea or concept to the next at the speed of light; if people stare at you blankly when you're explaining your new idea or gadget and say, "that'll never work" or "someone else is probably working on that right now"; if you feel alone and frustrated because you know the answers but no one will listen; then this is the place for you. We welcome you and your ideas. We can help you turn your idea into a business. We have small group meetings, larger social times, speaker series, fund raising events, etc. Please consider joining us and participating.
Here we help each other become more successful. We don't sell to each other; this is not a business card trading group. Your skills and experience can be used to make every other member as successful as possible.
Our general policy is if Knox County schools are closed, EOK will not hold any official events. If schools are opening later, then we will still meet.
E.O.K. members meet at different times throughout the month. Our events page is updated frequently. Most EOK events are podcast on the EOK Ustream site http://www.ustream.tv/channel/E-O-K-Weekly
EOK Meeting Guidelines for Members
Participation
Member participation is heavily encouraged at weekly EOK meetings and special events. EOK is all about the interaction between members. Members contribute to the success of other members by sharing their experience, knowledge and insight.
Business Relationship Building
EOK is not a networking organization. However, participating in EOK by sharing your expertise and insight with the group other members learn about you and your business. Many joint ventures, partnerships and other types of working business relationships have been established between EOK members. It is natural by-product of participation rather than the primary focus.
Promotion
Weekly meetings are not a place to distribute promotional material of any kind. Members who disregard this policy will be approached by a board member asking them to cease. On rare occasion the member may be asked to leave the organization for not following the guidelines.
EOK Content Guidelines
EOK is a place to collaborate and contribute to each other’s success through sharing knowledge, experience and ideas. We allow self-promotion, sales pitches, etc. only in designated content areas. On many EOK sites content submission is strongly encouraged. Submitted content will go into a queue and, if approved by the EOK Board, will be published.
EOK Member Site (eokhq.com)
The Blog section is reserved for members to provide helpful information, insights and experience to their fellow EOK members. We encourage every EOK member to maintain a blog for this purpose. As of October 20, 2011 submitted posts will no longer automatically appear on the home page. The blog section is moderated and each blog must be approved by the EOK Board.
The Forum discussion section is more open to promotion of products/services, requests for input, classifieds, etc. As of October 20, 2011 submitted posts will no longer automatically appear on the home page. The forum section is moderated and each forum must be approved by the EOK Board.
If a member publishes content that does not meet the EOK content guidelines the following procedure will be followed:
Member Profiles – member profiles must be that of an individual, not a company. Further, the name of a profile must also be an individual. Company names are not permitted.
EOK LinkedIn Group
The discussion section on LinkedIn follows the same guidelines as on the EOK Member site. It is reserved for members to provide helpful information, insights and experience with their fellow EOK members. That said, we truly encourage frequent involvement by our EOK members. This will help make the group a true destination spot for entrepreneurs.
The promotions section on LinkedIn is reserved for promoting products, services and events.
Members of the EOK LinkedIn group can freely post promotions, jobs and comments.
Discussions are moderated to ensure posts meet the EOK content guidelines. Submitted discussions may be moved to the promotions section or deleted at the discretion of the group manager.
EOK Facebook Group
Posts on Facebook follow the general guidelines for the member site and LinkedIn.
A group administrator may, at their discretion, remove a post; remove a member or ban a member from the group if the guidelines are not followed.
Other
EOK Social Media Platforms
All other EOK social media platforms adhere to the same content guidelines described in this document. Administrators on each platform have the authority to remove content or members if the guidelines are not followed.
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Members may add events to the calendar. The events section is moderated and each event must be approved by an EOK admin. We do have some criteria for adding events to the EOK calendar.
This does not apply to official EOK programming. These events are scheduled by the board. If you have a speaker or topic suggestion for please contact a board member.
1. Event must be FREE for EOK members
2. Event must be Educational/Informative
3. Event must be selfless...NO Sales Pitches!
Create an account. If you have a twitter account, follow eoktown; if you don't have a twitter account, get one. Add the EOK badge to your website, facebook, blog, etc. linking back to EOK. Start posting blog entries about cool, new, exciting ideas, products, concepts, etc. Tell your story in the form of a blog entry. Share articles. Start a group. Tell us about your latest project. Suggest a speaker or venue for our next meeting. Schedule an event and invite other members to join you for dinner, drinks, brainstorming, etc. Donate time to working on the site. We need a logo, some graphics, advertising, etc. Just jump in and start doing. For more things to do, check out this page.
EOK Membership dues are $100.00/year.
Please visitor our EOK Memberships page for detailed information about membership. As a member of EOK, you receive discounts to events and priority seating. In addition to the large venue meetings, we have small group meetings for members to have a more intimate relationship and work on projects together. These smaller groups are encouraged to brainstorm together and even form partnerships or joint ventures. We would love to hear success and not-so-success stories.
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1. Members of E.O.K. are featured based on their time and content contributions to the EOK organization.
More information about featuring memebers will be added as this benefit is further defined.
At the first meeting of this month, like always, EoK will hold a meet and greet where members can each tell the group a little about themselves. At this meet and greet in particular, members will present their websites to the group fro critiquing.
Cast: Entrepreneurs of Knoxville
Tags: meet, greet, eok, entrepreneur, knoxville, podcast and 173
EoK interviews the founders of Two Roads about their rise to success.
Cast: Entrepreneurs of Knoxville
Tags: two, roads, chad, ridner, adam, slack, eok, entrepreneur, knoxville, interview, 172 and podcast
This week, like the first week of every month, EoK will hold a meet and greet. Members will give short presentations to the group about who they are and what they do.
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