Join us for another exciting mid-winter BBC Friday discussion, with our own BBC Regular and Chamber CEO/President Rex Oliver.

Rex will present the new community logo (not to be confused with the City corporate logo) and explain how to use it — and why it is advantageous for people to use it. (Rex on LinkedIn)

Formerly the President/CEO of the Murrieta California Chamber, a position he held for 10 years, Rex also served as the President of the Southern California Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (SCACCE) and sat on the board of the Western Association of Chamber Executives (W.A.C.E.). He assumed the helm of the HMS Bainbridge Chamber January 2012 — and a fine ship she be, arrr!

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, me scurvy maties, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all 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 –  New Community Logo w/ Rex Oliver
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 mid-winter BBC Friday for business social media update, Part II, with BBC Regular and OfficeXpats co-founder & owner, the incomparable Leslie Schneider.

Recently Leslie (Leslie On LinkedIn) has been working with her brother’s company FacilityQuest (linkedin.com/company/facilityquest).

Leslie will discuss some really cool things she’s been learning about LinkedIn related to her work with FacilityQuest, specifically addressing questions such as:

+ Why pay money to LinkedIn for promotion?
+ What are the options for sponsoring?
+ Organic vs. sponsored, what does it achieve?
+ How about sponsoring updates vs. buying ads?
+ How do you target your campaign?
+ What’s the difference between paying for impressions vs. click-throughs?

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all 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 –  LinkedIn Networking For Business w/ Leslie Schneider
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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

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Notice: Obituary for founding BBC Member, BBC Steering Committee Emeritus, and dear friend of us all, Carolyn Olberg: bainbridgereview.com.  For BBC members who knew Carolyn, there will be a Memorial Service at San Carlos Restaurant, Saturday January 30th,  from Noon – 3:00. (Digital candles donated by BBC Regular Lucille Fox)

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Join us this cozy BBC Friday for an exciting social media update led by BBC guest presenter and creative geek Jeffrey Hora: “LinkedIn, Facebook, & Social Media Secrets For Business – Tips, Strategies, & Tactics You Can Use Today Without Getting Swamped.”

Sometimes it’s not easy to distinguish social media for fun, family, and — sports frenzy? — from social media for business networking and savvy marketing. Some are now even using Wikipedia for business social networking. How does that work? Bring your questions, concerns, and crazy queries for a fascinating analysis from a creative geek!

Jeff’s passion concerning the humanity and authenticity of relationships on- and off-line drives his beliefs and career. A resident of the Puget Sound for over 20 years, he has worked for Microsoft, HTC, and SDL in numerous roles including consultant, product manager, and community manager.

Jeff helped create and teach the Social Media In Business course as part of the UW’s Certificate In Social Media Technologies & Implementation. He has taught Social Media workshops for job seekers, as well as coaching them in building a strong professional personal brand online. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Iowa State University and a Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) from the University of Washington.

Social Sapiens is dedicated to helping small and mid-size business owners get the best possible results from their social media marketing. Our philosophy is to focus on the goals for your business and how social media supports those goals making them even more achievable. Contact info: 360.930.0244 – [email protected] – socialsapiens.net – facebook.com/SocialSapiensNW.

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all 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 –  Social Networking For Business w/ Jeff Hora
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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

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Notice: Obituary for founding BBC Member, BBC Steering Committee Emeritus, and dear friend of us all, Carolyn Olberg: bainbridgereview.com.  For BBC members who knew Carolyn, there will be a Memorial Service at San Carlos Restaurant, Saturday January 30th,  from Noon – 3:00. (Digital candles donated by BBC Regular Lucille Fox)

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Join us on this 2nd BBC of 2016 for a fascinating presentation by BBC Regular Kevin Mills of Alchemy Industrial Arts.

Industrial Designer Kevin Mills will highlight the relationships between these two exciting social trends: Adventure Playgrounds and The Maker Movement. A devoted play activist, Mills is bound and determined to bring an adventure playground to Bainbridge Island as a means of better preparing youngsters for the creative rolls that await them.

A little history on these two movements: adventureplaygrounds.hampshire.edu, techopedia.com, time.com. Facebook: PlayCzar.

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all 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 –  Adventure Playgrounds & The Maker Movement
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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

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Notice: Obituary for founding BBC Member, BBC Steering Committee Emeritus, and dear friend of us all, Carolyn Olberg: bainbridgereview.com.  For BBC members who knew Carolyn, there will be a Memorial Service at San Carlos Restaurant, Saturday January 30th,  from Noon – 3:00. 

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Join us for the first BBC of 2016 – beginning our 8th year of entrepreneurial craziness and adventure – thinking about
you elevator speech, business tagline, and vision statement.

We’ll practice (play) with new ideas on how we each represent our businesses in that first impression context — as a great follow-up to Alyse McConnell’s marvelous celebration of 2016, gleaning the lessons from what worked and what didn’t in 2015.

Alyse eloquently closed the year 2015, on December 18th, with an encouraging call to entrepreneurial agility and creativity, to: 

W O R K  –  J O Y  –  I M A G I N E

Looking Back Looking Forward Presentation PDF

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all 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 2016” Part 2 – Roundtable Discussion
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 Blustery December BBC Friday for our annual Looking Forward, Looking Back — with special guest Alyse McConnell, BBC Founding Regular & Board Member Emeritus.

“Want to move into 2016 with clarity, power, and ease? 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 2015. Considering lessons learned over the past year can help lay the foundation for the creation of a 2016 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

Looking Back Looking Forward Presentation PDF

Be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all 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 2016” 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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Think Club Resources From November 13 BBC Meeting: BBC_What_If.pdf handout. And 3 recommended books: The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality, by Ruth M J. Byrne (2007); Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things, by Madeleine L. Van Hecke (2007); The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know, by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman (2014).

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Join us this Blustery December BBC FRIDAY for a reprise of special guest, OXp Ambassador, and BBC Regular Anita Bermann.

Want to fight illness with food? Registered dietitian Anita Bermann, Ideal Feast Nutrition Counseling (idealfeastnutrition.com), is returning to BBC this Friday for Winter Eating, Round Two: Immune Power Foods.

Anita will discuss the most important nutrients our immune system needs to be strong and what foods pack the biggest immune power punch! Drawing from both western scientific research and traditional Chinese medicine approaches to food, recipe and meal plan ideas will be provided.”

Food without fear! An excellent BBC Friday adventure!

Anita Bermann, Sensei Of Dining, Czarina Of Cuisine, Galactic Mistress Of The Gastronomical Sciences, MS, RDN, CD, Ideal Feast Nutrition Counseling: “I’m a nutritionist passionate about helping you create sustainable changes in your health through goal-focused nutrition counseling. I use a functional and integrative medicine approach and was trained at Bastyr University.” Contact Anita for more Information: idealfeastnutrition.com, [email protected], 206-913-8715.

So, be here, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all 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 –  Anita Bermann, Mindful Eating Part II
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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

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Think Club Resources From November 13 BBC Meeting: BBC_What_If.pdf handout. And 3 recommended books: The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality, by Ruth M J. Byrne (2007); Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things, by Madeleine L. Van Hecke (2007); The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know, by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman (2014).

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Join us this cheery near-winter BBC FRIDAY for a time of business storytelling & sharing learned wisdom.

We’ll start with “Mindfully Practicing Our Elevator Speeches.” (Which means ya gotta bring your brains, caffeinated, conscious … semi-conscious?)

Then we’ll gather around, light a fire in the virtual-reality hearth, and offer the MIC to anyone who would like to “Share Their Business Story.”

How’s That Work? When we began BBC in January of 2009 seven years ago, one of our hallmark goals was sharing each other’s stories together: as business folks, as homosapients. Where we come from. What we’ve learned along the way. Finding the lessons and wisdom in our stories.

If there’s time, we might put on the table for general discussion: “What things are changing from the way we used to work – in the general world of business, or specifically in your own business?”

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 –  OPEN MIC Business Storytelling
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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

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Think Club Resources From November 13 BBC Meeting: BBC_What_If.pdf handout. Recommended books: The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality, Ruth M J. Byrne (2007); Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things, Madeleine L. Van Hecke (2007); The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know, Katty Kay & Claire Shipman (2014).

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No BBC This Friday 27 November 2015
Stay Warm – Be Thankful

AND REMEMBER what we learned last week at BBC: 

Sincerely,

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

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Think Club Resources From November 13 BBC Meeting: BBC_What_If.pdf handout. And 3 recommended books: The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality, by Ruth M J. Byrne (2007); Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things, by Madeleine L. Van Hecke (2007); The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know, by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman (2014).

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OXp Ambassador & BBC Regular Anita Bermann will share tips for keeping your immune system strong this winter by using the powerful healing properties of food. Food without fear! Very cool.

Anita will also discuss mindful approaches for enjoying your holiday feasts without weight gain or guilt! Health without guilt! Sounds like an excellent BBC Friday Morning adventure.

Anita Bermann, Sensei Of Dining, Czarina Of Cuisine, Galactic Mistress Of The Gastronomical Sciences, MS, RDN, CD, Ideal Feast Nutrition Counseling: “I’m a nutritionist passionate about helping you create sustainable changes in your health through goal-focused nutrition counseling. I use a functional and integrative medicine approach and was trained at Bastyr University.” Contact Anita for more Information: idealfeastnutrition.com, [email protected], 206-913-8715.

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 –  Anita Bermann, “Mindful Eating”
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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

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Think Club Resources From November 13 BBC Meeting: BBC_What_If.pdf handout. And 3 recommended books: The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality, by Ruth M J. Byrne (2007); Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things, by Madeleine L. Van Hecke (2007); The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know, by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman (2014).

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