Join us this blustery winter Friday for a cozy Think Club and OPEN MIC Business Sharing and Problem-solving Roundtable.

We’ll start off with some Think Club problem solving strategies and discussion. Then we’ll open up the table for sharing time.

Play, share, tell tall tales. Bring a business story to share — who you are, why you love doing what you do, what you’ve learned along the way. Have a business problem? BBC can be “your board of directors.”

Play, share, learn, dream … fall asleep. A total BBC-OXp adventure!  Remember, at the BBC, “It’s who we are first, then the business we do.”

So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me hearties, as serial entrepreneurials, we all be business wise!

BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – BBC Open MIC Friday Business Support Roundtable
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC

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Saturday, 3 March 2018 – 6th Annual Chamber Awards Banquet!  Venue: Wing Point Golf & Country Club, 811 Cherry Ave. NE. Info & registration: bainbridgeislandwacoc.wliinc1.com//events/.

Creating Community Resilience. “Map Your Neighborhood”:  bifd.org/map-your-neighborhood.aspx. Bainbridge Prepares:  bainbridgeprepares.org. Scott James guidebook, “Prepared Neighborhoods” preparedneighborhoods.com.

 We’re updating our BBC Regular Members directory. Watch this space for more information on how the BBC Regular Members Directory will work. Thank you.

Help your BBC!  We Started our BBC Website Member Directory a couple years ago, but we’re not sure how to make it better serve our members (i.e. BBC Regulars). 

BBC Member Directory: Is it useful? What’s its value as a public online referral information directory? Should we offer a print version? Do folks even know there is a member directory?

The BBC Website: How user-friendly is the “Subscribe to our Weekly Newsletter” (right side widget)? How about the “Resources” page? And the “Book Recommendations” page? Help us update our website and maybe make it more useful. Oh, and anyone have an idea for a BBC logo – that wouldn’t get us in trouble with the real BBC,  Trademark infringement?

So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me hearties, as serial entrepreneurials, we all be business wise!

BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – BBC Website Support Roundtable
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC

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20 February, Tues@Noon, 12:00-1:30, OfficeXpats & Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8) Presents: “How will Bitcoin and Blockchain impact your world in the next 1-5 years?” You’ve probably heard the terms “Bitcoin” or “Blockchain” in the news, but what will these technologies mean to your life (very soon)? Come to this historic OfficeXpats-XLR8 Tues@Noon and find out. Open to the public, free, but limited seating, so RSVP at officexpats.com/en/events/.

23 February, 4:00-7:00 PM: First Federal, Bainbridge Island Branch, Grand Opening, 323 NE High School Rd. Appetizers, beverages, giveaways, a fantastic door prize. Former Seattle Seahawks Marcus Trufant and his special guest will be here at 3:00 for a meet and greet! The company first opened in 1923 in Port Angeles, and has 10 locations throughout Clallam, Kitsap, Jefferson, and Whatcom counties, bainbridgereview.com.)

Creating Community Resilience. “Map Your Neighborhood”:  bifd.org/map-your-neighborhood.aspx. Bainbridge Prepares:  bainbridgeprepares.org. Scott James guidebook, “Prepared Neighborhoods” preparedneighborhoods.com.

 We’re updating our BBC Regular Members directory. Make your business/contact info available for the BBC community. Fill out the BBC Member List info here: http://bit.ly/1mZGKfR.

Join us for another delightful winter Friday discussion, this time about growing your business through Business Masterminding, with BBC’s own remarkable Volunteer Business Mentor Ken Sethney, KitsapSCORE (kitsapscore.org). 

Experience tells us that business owners who participate in monthly roundtable discussions with their peers are more successful than those who don’t. Why? Because working together helps each group member grow personally and professionally. Join us to learn how joining a “mastermind group” can help you grow.

So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!

*And don’t forget to check News & Events below!*

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me hearties, as serial entrepreneurials, we all be business wise!

BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Business Masterminding” w/ Ken Sethney
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC

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20 February, Tues@Noon, 12:00-1:30, OfficeXpats & Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8) Presents: “How will Bitcoin and Blockchain impact your world in the next 1-5 years?” You’ve probably heard the terms “Bitcoin” or “Blockchain” in the news, but what will these technologies mean to your life (very soon)? Come to this historic OfficeXpats-XLR8 Tues@Noon and find out. Open to the public, free, limited seating. RSVP at officexpats.com/en/events/.

Creating Community Resilience. “Map Your Neighborhood”:  bifd.org/map-your-neighborhood.aspx. Bainbridge Prepares:  bainbridgeprepares.org. Scott James guidebook, “Prepared Neighborhoods” preparedneighborhoods.com.

We’re updating our BBC Regular Members directory. Make your business/contact info available for the BBC community. Fill out the BBC Member List info here: http://bit.ly/1mZGKfR.

Join us this happy winter Friday for an exciting Adventure Playground Update. BBC’s own Kevin Mills, and guest Bob Ross (B.A.R.N.’s Media Arts & BCB Producer), will share what’s happening with Bainbridge Island’s Adventure Playground … adventure!

How can BBC help? By what we do best! Hold a strategy roundtable brain-storming session to consider what’s the next phase for an Island Adventure Playground. Some key questions to be considered, crowdfunding vs. private funding, 501(c)(3) vs. for-profit, Pop-up venues, the M & E property, goals, markers, and milestones.

So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me hearties, as serial entrepreneurials, we all be business wise!

BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – Adventure Playgrounds w/ Kevin Mills
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC

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Join us this rainy wet winter Friday for special guest Peter Raffa, Director of Major Gifts, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Peter will give us an update of BIMA happenings, share some BIMA history and stories – and maybe tell a few BIMA jokes.

Peter has been a fundraising professional for over 30 years. He has held leadership positions with the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind, Northwest Kidney Centers Foundation, and the Seattle Public Library Foundation to name a few. Living on the island for over 20 years, he and his wife Christie have an adult daughter.

So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me hearties, as serial entrepreneurials, we all be business wise!

BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – BIMA Update w/ Peter Raffa
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC

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Join us this Friday for a cozy winter OPEN MIC business sharing, storytelling, and problem solving roundtable.

Play, share, tell tall tales. Bring a business story to share — who you are, why you love doing what you do, what you’ve learned along the way, where you’re going, your business dreams (dream interpretation/analysis not guaranteed). Have a business problem? BBC can be “your board of directors.”

Play, share, learn, dream … fall asleep. A total BBC-OXp adventure!  Remember, at the BBC, “It’s who we are first, then the business we do.”

So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me hearties, as serial entrepreneurials, we all be business wise!

BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – Open Mic Friday Business Roundtable
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC

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Join us this curious, first January BBC Friday for our annual Looking Forward, Looking Back – with the amazing and incomparable Alyse McConnell, beloved BBC Founding Regular & Board Member Emeritus.

“Want to navigate 2018 with clarity, power, and ease? And without fear? And with a smile? Imagine if you set yourself up for a year full of wins, satisfaction, and success!” 

Executive Coach Alyse McConnell will walk us through celebrating what worked and gleaning the lessons from what didn’t in 2017.  Considering lessons learned over the past year can help lay the foundation for the creation of a 2018 worth celebrating a year from now.

Entrepreneurial agility and creativity with corporate rigor and systems knowledge is just part of what makes Alyse a great coach and strategy consultant. Besides being a small business entrepreneur, Alyse’s broad career experience includes: Human Resources & Training Director with a leading book company in Dayton, OH; Change Management Consultant for Accenture; Global Scheduling Project Manager for Avenade Inc. Alyse is a communications graduate of Wright State University, Dayton, and a graduate of the ICF-certified Accomplishment Coaching training program. 

W O R K  –  J O Y  –  I M A G I N E

So, be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me scurvy seadogs, as serial entrepreneurials, we all be business wise!

So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is., Upstairs At the Pavilion

7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Creating 2018” w/ Alyse McConnell
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC

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Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, a Peaceful Kwanzaa (officialkwanzaawebsite.org), and a beautiful New Year to all you BBC Regulars and friends.

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC (Candle Courtesy of Lucille Fox)

Join us for our last BBC Friday of 2017
for OPEN MIC Part-2
business sharing, storytelling roundtable.

So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me hearties, as serial entrepreneurials, we all be business wise!

BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – Open Mic Friday Business Roundtable
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC

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Join us this Friday for a cozy winter OPEN MIC business sharing, storytelling, and problem solving roundtable.

Play, share, tell tall tales. Bring a business story to share — who you are, why you love doing what you do, what you’ve learned along the way, where you’re going, your business dreams (dream interpretation/analysis not guaranteed). Have a business problem? BBC can be “your board of directors.”

Play, share, learn, dream … fall asleep. A total BBC-OXp adventure!  Remember, at the BBC, “It’s who we are first, then the business we do.”

Notes From Last Week: J.D.Chang article in Bainbridge Is Magazine mydigitalpublication.com. Bainbridge Prepares: bainbridgeprepares.org.
“As Jay Walljasper proposes in his essay Changing the World One Block at a Time “the neighborhood is the basic building block of human society, and practical efforts to save the planet starts right there…. By going one step beyond the individual and family level planning, and one step back from city, state and federal planning, we arrive at the neighborhood, where preparedness meets the sustainability movement.” (Scott James, Prepared Neighborhoods, 2017, pp.4+7.)

So invite your friends and associates to come join us for this exciting non-virtual non-cloud event in real time and real space…and another delicious cup of BBC!

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me hearties, as serial entrepreneurials, we all be business wise!

BBC@OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – Open Mic Friday Business Roundtable
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC

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