VIII.

Technology training.

On Friday there was a technology workshop in the community room above the store. The training focused on ways the internet can be used as a tool for promoting and streamlining businesses. Fifteen members of the local community attended the event, many of whom already operated their own cottage-industry businesses and have items sold in TBAI’s store. In fact, Paynesville resident Geneva Steele, one of the store’s consignees, was upstairs attending the training while a visitor from Pennsylvania was purchasing her “coalminer quilt” (which incidentally, can be seen in a previous photo behind the store counter).

The event was sponsored by the Women’s Business Center of West Virginia and the training was conductd by Mission West Virginia. After the day-long training, all participants were given free brand-new desktop computers to take home and put their newly learned knowledge into practice!