Business Notes

Awards

Cedar Rapids' Hotel at Kirkwood Center earned the American Automobile Association's Four Diamond Award for lodging. It is now one of only two Four Diamond rated hotels in Iowa.

The Masonry Institute of Iowa singled out the best buildings in Iowa and the people who built them to honor with its Architectural Design Awards. Among the Eastern Iowa award winners were Student Center at Northeast Iowa Community College, Calmar, INVISION Architecture, Waterloo, Award of Merit; and AXO (Alpha Chi Omega Sorority House), Iowa City, Coralville Public Library, Neumann Monson Architects, Iowa City, Special Mention.

Seminars

Google-sponsored “Iowa Get Your Business Online” will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, in the Kirkwood Training and Outreach Services Center, Room 133, 3375 Armar Dr., Marion.

The free event will be hosted by Mind Your Small Business owner Sherry Bonelli. Participants should bring a laptop or notebook computer with wireless access. To register, go to www.meetup.com/mind-your-small-business or email sherry@mindyoursmallbusiness.com.

Networking

ABWA Networking Night will be held from 5:45 to 8 p.m., Nov. 2, at the Longbranch, 90 Twixt Town Rd. NE, Cedar Rapids. Wendy Gorton will speak on “How to Craft Your Elevator Speech.” Cost will be $15 for dinner and program. RSVP by Friday to hospitality@abwacr.org. For more information, visit www.abwacr.org.

Meetings

The Society for Technical Communication's Eastern Iowa chapter will meet at 5:30 p.m., Nov. 8, at the Longbranch Restaurant in Cedar Rapids. David Chung, a Rockwell Collins software engineer, will speak on “Collaboration in the Distributed Workplace: Tools, Techniques, Best Practices.” RSVP to Rebecca Beardsley at (319) 743-4548 or email at rebecca.beardsley@trapezeits.com by Nov. 4. Fee is $10 for non-STC members and $5 for members and students. More information is at www.stc-easterniowa.org/.

APICS (the Association for Operations Management) Cedar Valley chapter, will meet at 5:30 p.m., Nov. 8, at the Hotel at Kirkwood, 7725 Kirkwood Blvd. SW, Cedar Rapids. Gregory Schlegel will present “Supply Chain Risk Management; What Is It and Why Now?” For more information and registration, by Friday, go to www.cedarvalleyapics.org or contact Jerry Johnson at (319) 431-4351 or jerry.johnson@ipmx.com.