Join us this BBC Friday for part two of Cloud Security – Wa’s’up Wi’that? 

What’s safe to upload to Microsoft SkyDrive, or Google Drive, or Dropbox? Is one service provider more secure than another? How safe are your or your clients’ files in The Cloud? The cloud is not only great for off-site backup — as a supplement to all your other backup routines! — it conveniently syncs across platforms, computers, and other devices such as tablets, smart phones, and “non-invasive” brain implants (see killware.net for more details about how you too can get a brain implant).

This Friday, under the microcosmic guidance of our own tech-sensei BBC Regular Jason Omens, we’ll get at the fine print of Cloud Security, terms of service and privacy policies. For example, Google notes: “Some of you don’t like to read legal documents, but this stuff matters. Our Terms of Service cut through the jargon and provide you with clear details about our policies. Our Privacy Policy lays out our policies regarding your information in a simple and straightforward way” (google.com/intl/en/policies/).

One unofficial response on answers.microsoft.com forum to SkyDrive cloud security: “Using Groove or Dropbox or Live Mesh can work, but it’s not a great solution because it will create multiple copies of your host notebooks (in OneNote). That doesn’t guarantee problems, but it significantly increases the likelihood of problems. Using a single-source solution (like SkyDrive or SharePoint or Windows File Shares) is more reliable and elegant. SkyDrive SSL encrypts files in transit but does not impose any additional encryption on the files at rest.  …to encrypt a OneNote file at rest you have to password protect that section….  Microsoft encourages business users to use SharePoint.  SkyDrive is a consumer-grade solution. SkyDrive is not, and has never claimed to be, HIPAA-compliant….  [Instead  use] SharePoint or a secured Windows File Share over an encrypted VPN” (post d3ed5c9d-ea48-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5). Check out MS’s terms of service information page (microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/copyright/default.aspx) and you’ll get a feel for the potential complexity of the subject.

A useful place to get oriented is hongkiat’s “Gloud Storage Face-off: Dropbox Vs Google Drive Vs SkyDrive” (hongkiat.com/blog/dropbox-gdrive-skydrive/). Still confused? Let’s see if we can de-encrypt the jargon a little this BBC Friday.

Be there, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all businesswise!

So, invite your friends and associates to join us for this exciting event … and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC @ OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Avenue N, Bainbridge Island, Upstairs At the Pavilion

7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Cloud Security, Part 2”
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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BBC Regulars Upcoming Events

THANKS AGAIN To All Who Helped With The Joint OfficeXpats/BBC Booth at the 2013 Grand Old Fourth This Year! What a great time!

July OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshops: There are still two workshops left this month: July 23rd, Financial Impacts; July 30th, Analysis and Next Steps. “Whether you are starting a business or preparing to sell or struggling to survive some unexpected changes, get clarity by analyzing where you are and generate a plan for ways to better run your business. With five separate reality checks, learn to see your business from different perspectives (powerful checklist worksheets for each).” Excellent material presented by BBC Regular Bill Ruddick, and financial sensei & guides Karla Smith and Kelly Deis. More info and sign-up at officexpats.com/your-business-reality-check/

Friday 19 July – “Ready or Not Party” with Elle’s Optique – BBC Regular and OfficeXpats Member Elle Tatum is holding a Business Party celebrating the new Pleasant Beach Market Place and its many vendors at Pleasant Beach Village, Lynwood Center. The band “Paundy” (facebook.com/…PAUNDY) will perform starting at 6:00 PM. Please join in the festivities and meet our many merchants!
Elle Tatum LDO has practiced opticianry on the Island for over twenty years and is now starting up as an independent optician with the creation of Elle’s Island Spectacle Optique, in the Market Place. She is focused on cool, quality eyewear at prices that can’t be beat on the Island offering technical expertise and unsurpassed customer service! Elle would also like to credit the incredible experience she has had as part of OfficeXpats with giving her the mentorship, networking, business classes and encouragement to pursue her passion and dream of Elle’s Island Spectacle. OfficeXpats: where we work independently, together!

July Chamber After Hours, Thursday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 PM — Hosted by Guild Mortgage, Carolyn and Charlie Frame would like to invite you to see their new offices at 363 Tormey Lane, just off Hildebrand, across from Curves. Come by and say hello.

August OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshops: “Productize” What You Know, with Michael Fountain, michaelfountain.com. Turn what you know–and what your audience wants–into products and services that earn you income. This workshop series demystifies the process of designing, building, deploying, and marketing information products online and will get you started on a path to creating products of your own for sale. Each session builds on prior sessions and includes a workbook that you will use throughout all 4 sessions to keep you organized. Week 1 – How to create a set of products from your life’s work or passion. Week 2 – How to create your “Call-to-Action Marketing Plan.” Week 3 – How to create your first product. Week 4 – How to create your homepage ATM. Very Exciting! More info and sign-up at officexpats.com/productize-what-you-know/

Grounds For Change Coffee honored as “Best for the World” — Story at: officexpats.com/grounds-for-change-coffee-honored-as-best-for-the-world/

Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8): If you know of any new businesses, “start-ups” or businesses in a growth transition, for profit or non-profit, don’t forget to tell them about the Accelerate Kitsap Business Mentoring program. See acceleratekitsap.org for details. BBC, the Chamber, OfficeXpats, and Accelerate Kitsap are all local business support partners here in the West Sound. Contact Ken Sethney (ken.sethney@gmailcom) or Dave Kragen ([email protected]) if you have specific questions. Thank you.

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BBC Related Links

Join us this BBC Friday for our Post-4th “Business Tips Sharing Time”

Topic: What’s a great program, app, business trick or tip that you’ve found useful recently? User-friendly QR Code reader. Smart-phone portable scanner. Vistaprint. Some aspect of cloud computing that’s been helpful. This is BBC Show-&-Tell time! Bring your pet turtle or gila monster, if they’ve been a successful part of your branding or marketing and show the rest of us “how.”

Be there, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all businesswise!

So, invite your friends and associates to join us for this exciting event … and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC @ OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Avenue N, Bainbridge Island, Upstairs At the Pavilion

7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Business Tips Sharing Time” show-&-tell
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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BBC Regulars Upcoming Events

SPECIAL THANKS To All Who Helped With The Joint OfficeXpats/BBC Booth at the 2013 Grand Old Fourth This Year! What a great time.

July OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshops: There are still three workshops left this month. July 16th, External Factors; July 23rd, Financial Impacts; July 30th, Analysis and Next Steps. “Whether you are starting a business or preparing to sell or struggling to survive some unexpected changes, get clarity by analyzing where you are and generate a plan for ways to better run your business. With five separate reality checks, learn to see your business from different perspectives (powerful checklist worksheets for each).” Excellent material presented by BBC Regular Bill Ruddick, and financial sensei & guides Karla Smith and Kelly Deis. More info and sign-up at officexpats.com/your-business-reality-check/

July Chamber After Hours, Thursday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 PM — Hosted by Guild Mortgage, Carolyn and Charlie Frame would like to invite you to see their new offices at 363 Tormey Lane, just off Hildebrand, across from Curves. Come by and say hello.

August OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshops: “Productize” What You Know, with Michael Fountain, michaelfountain.com.  Turn what you know–and what your audience wants–into products and services that earn you income. This workshop series demystifies the process of designing, building, deploying, and marketing information products online and will get you started on a path to creating products of your own for sale. Each session builds on prior sessions and includes a workbook that you will use throughout all 4 sessions to keep you organized. Week 1 – How to create a set of products from your life’s work or passion. Week 2 – How to create your “Call-to-Action Marketing Plan.” Week 3 – How to create your first product. Week 4 – How to create your homepage ATM. Very Exciting! More info and sign-up at officexpats.com/productize-what-you-know/

Friday 19 July – “Ready or Not Party” with Elle’s Optique – BBC Regular and OfficeXpats Member Elle Tatum is holding a Business Party celebrating the new Pleasant Beach Market Place and its many vendors at Pleasant Beach Village, Lynwood Center. The band “Paundy” will perform starting at 6:00 PM. Please join in the festivities and meet our many merchants!
Elle Tatum, LDO has practiced opticianry on the Island for over twenty years and is now starting up as an independent optician with the creation of Elle’s Island Spectacle Optique, in the Market Place. She is focused on cool, quality eyewear at prices that can’t be beat on the Island offering technical expertise and unsurpassed customer service! Elle would also like to credit the incredible experience she has had as part of OfficeXpats with giving her the mentorship, networking, business classes and encouragement to pursue her passion and dream of Elle’s Island Spectacle. OfficeXpats: where we work independently, together!

Grounds For Change Coffee honored as “Best for the World” — Story at: officexpats.com/grounds-for-change-coffee-honored-as-best-for-the-world/

Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8): If you know of any new businesses, “start-ups” or businesses in a growth transition, for profit or non-profit, don’t forget to tell them about the Accelerate Kitsap Business Mentoring program. See acceleratekitsap.org for details. BBC, the Chamber, OfficeXpats, and Accelerate Kitsap are all local business support partners here in the West Sound. Contact Ken Sethney (ken.sethney@gmailcom) or Dave Kragen ([email protected]) if you have specific questions. Thank you.

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BBC Related Links

No BBC this coming Friday July 5th

The next BBC Friday meeting will be on July 12th. Join us then, and have a great, and safe, 4th Of July Holiday!

No BBC2 – The Evening Edition for July

The next BBC2 will be on August 1st. Join us then, and have a great, and safe, 4th Of July Holiday!

NOTICE: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR OUR JOINT OfficeXpats/BBC 4th-Of-July BOOTH!

ANYONE who enjoys talking, chatting, visiting, talking, and sharing their BBCness and/or OfficeXpatsness — and touting their own exciting entrepreneurial endeavors — here is an opportunity to sit at a B.I. 4th Of July Booth and do all of those things!

MOSTLY, it would be putting in an hour or two (or however long you are having fun) personing the booth to answer any questions passersby might have about BBC or OfficeXpats. There be fliers to hand out also, arg, avast ye, where’s the grog. That’s about it.

If you’re available to help, just reply to Dave Kragen at [email protected] — and if you have an idea of when you’d like to be at the booth, just include that in your email.

Also, we will be setting up the booth around 8:30 on the morning of the 4th, so if that sounds like barrels of fun, let Dave know that too.

Also, we’ll be taking the booth down sometime at the end of the day’s festivities, around 5:00 I think, so help there will likewise be appreciated.

Sincerely,
The BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & Other Entrepreneurial Sentients From Planet BBC

Join us this BBC Friday for a sneak peak into the July OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshops with our own BBC Regular Bill Ruddick, and financial sensei & guides Karla Smith and Kelly Deis.

Topic: “Whether you are starting a business or preparing to sell or struggling to survive some unexpected changes, get clarity by analyzing where you are and generate a plan for ways to better run your business. With five separate reality checks, learn to see your business from different perspectives (powerful checklist worksheets for each).”

Week To Week: July 2nd, Gathering Data; July 9th, Internal Factors; July 16th, External Factors; July 23rd, Financial Impacts; July 30th, Analysis and Next Steps.

Be there, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all businesswise!

So, invite your friends and associates to join us for this exciting event … and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC @ OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Avenue N, Bainbridge Island, Upstairs At the Pavilion

7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Your Business Reality Check” w/ Bill Ruddick
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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BBC Regulars Upcoming Events

Bainbridge Chamber 2013 Grand Old Fourth coming soon to a local street new you (if you live near Winslow Way that is). Booths still available but going fast. Volunteers still needed. Parade space still available. See  bainbridgechamber.com/default.aspx?ID=47  for more info and updates.

Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8): If you know of any new businesses, “start-ups” or businesses in a growth transition, for profit or non-profit, don’t forget to tell them about the Accelerate Kitsap Business Mentoring program. See acceleratekitsap.org for details. BBC, the Chamber, OfficeXpats, and Accelerate Kitsap are all local business support partners here in the West Sound. Contact Ken Sethney (ken.sethney@gmailcom) or Dave Kragen ([email protected]) if you have specific questions. Thank you.

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BBC Related Links

Join us this BBC Friday for “Your Bullet Point Marketing Plan” – 30 minutes of growing your business with marketing magician and sensei Ken Sethney, XLR8 Kitsap.

In 30 minutes you will learn five easy steps for growing your business. You will learn how to focus your efforts on finding, engaging, and working with ideal customers — the ones who want and need your products and services, and are ready, willing and able to pay a reasonable price.

Be there, be free, be businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all businesswise!

So, invite your friends and associates to join us for this exciting event … and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC @ OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Avenue N, Bainbridge Island, Upstairs At the Pavilion

7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Your Bullet Point Marketing Plan” w/Ken Sethney
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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BBC Regulars Upcoming Events

June – OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshop – “The Self Publishing workshop returns!“ (noon-1:00)
Still one great session left! Now more than ever, it’s within anyone’s reach to write, produce, and publish a book, and it turns out to be a great way to build your business and your credibility as an independent professional. You may already have the content for an inexpensive or free 100-page book, and it just needs some strategic morphing. With self-publishing (also called “alternative” or “independent” publishing), the author is responsible for the entire process, including design (cover/interior), formats, price, distribution, marketing and PR. Authors can do it all themselves or outsource all or part of the process. In this workshop series, Randy Kuckuck, founder of PublishNext, along with some of the company’s editorial and design experts return to help us explore how small businesses can navigate some of the choices and issues. Xpat regulars Dave Kragen, Izzy Sanchez, and Annette Walker will also contribute. Session IV, June 25, 12-1 pm: The submission process, and marketing your book. (officexpats.com/self-publishing-for-revenue-and-business-building/)

June – NEW OfficeXpats Tuesday Afternoon Workshops – “Learn social media marketing in a collaborative hands-on and actions-based class.” Classes run from 1:30-2:45. Cost: $95 ($80 for OfficeXpats members). June 4 – Create a simple social media plan for the month. June  11 – Platform rules about branding. June 18 – Create a framework for an engagement “voice” or personality. June 25 – Measurement tools. (officexpats.com/hands-on-social-media-marketing/) If you missed this one, there will be more like it offered at OXp soon. Stay posted.

20 June, Thursday 5:30-7:00 PM, “Microsoft, Wi-Fi and the Future” @ OfficeXpats
Join us for this free event to discuss, under the delightful guidance of OXp’s own Jason Omens, Microsoft Windows 8 and Office 365. We will also outline plans for the upcoming Wi-Fi to be available on Winslow Way and Madison. This is a free event, however seating is limited. Please click here to reserve your seat (bainbridgeislandwacoc.wliinc1.com). There will be $300 in Microsoft software given out as door prizes.

June Chamber After Hours – Thurssday 27 June, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Hosted by Shirvan Rug Gallery at 424 Winslow Way E. Adem and Birgul Solak will treat us to another fabulous Turkish barbeque. Nosh and network. Free event, no reservations necessary. The public is welcome. (http://www.bainbridgechamber.com/default.aspx?ID=126)

Bainbridge Chamber 2013 Grand Old Fourth coming soon to a local street new you (if you live near Winslow Way that is). Booths still available but going fast. Volunteers still needed. Parade space still available. See  bainbridgechamber.com/default.aspx?ID=47  for more info and updates.

Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8): If you know of any new businesses, “start-ups” or businesses in a growth transition, for profit or non-profit, don’t forget to tell them about the Accelerate Kitsap Business Mentoring program. See acceleratekitsap.org for details. BBC, the Chamber, OfficeXpats, and Accelerate Kitsap are all local business support partners here in the West Sound. Contact Ken Sethney (ken.sethney@gmailcom) or Dave Kragen ([email protected]) if you have specific questions. Thank you.

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BBC Related Links

Join us this BBC Friday for Another Story Telling Time

Greetings lovely BBC People! Hasn’t summer been just … well, just … you know … like ….

So, here we are, in the thick of June and the lazy days of summer! Therefore this BBC Friday we will honor once more the forth founding principle of BBC: The BBC offers its members the opportunity to build connections of trust between each others’ companies and services, sharing skills and specialties, and critiquing professional copy. Part of the way we started out building trust in one another’s businesses was to share our stories, who we are as business owners and entrepreneurs. Story telling.

Four or five minutes each: for whoever feels the narrative muse to tell a story, here’s the opportunity to talk about your journey into your present business out of some previous business incarnation, or your story of journeying from the old country to the Puget Sound, or your story about moving from large corporation, government agency, or novelist-in-a-cave, to network administrator or office ergonomics resource or personal trainer and business consultant. Or you can make up a story about what you’d like to be — businesswise. For, in a sense, as serial entrepreneurs, we’re all businesswise!

So, invite your friends and associates to join us for this exciting event … and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC @ OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Avenue N, Bainbridge Island, Upstairs At the Pavilion

7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Telling Your Story”
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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BBC Regulars Upcoming Events

June – OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshop – “The Self Publishing workshop returns!“ (noon-1:00)
Still Two Sessions to go! Now more than ever, it’s within anyone’s reach to write, produce, and publish a book, and it turns out to be a great way to build your business and your credibility as an independent professional. You may already have the content for an inexpensive or free 100-page book, and it just needs some strategic morphing. With self-publishing (also called “alternative” or “independent” publishing), the author is responsible for the entire process, including design (cover/interior), formats, price, distribution, marketing and PR. Authors can do it all themselves or outsource all or part of the process. In this workshop series, Randy Kuckuck, founder of PublishNext, along with some of the company’s editorial and design experts return to help us explore how small businesses can navigate some of the choices and issues. Xpat regulars Dave Kragen, Izzy Sanchez, and Annette Walker will also contribute. Session III, June 18, 12-1 pm: Designing a book to be your best advertising piece. Session IV, June 25, 12-1 pm: The submission process, and marketing your book. (officexpats.com/self-publishing-for-revenue-and-business-building/)

June – NEW OfficeXpats Tuesday Afternoon Workshops – “Learn social media marketing in a collaborative hands-on and actions-based class.” Classes run from 1:30-2:45. Cost: $95 ($80 for OfficeXpats members). June 4: Create a simple social media plan for the month. June  11: Platform rules about branding. June 18: Create a framework for an engagement “voice” or personality. June 25: Measurement tools. (officexpats.com/hands-on-social-media-marketing/)

 June Chamber Breakfast, 14 June, Friday Morning (7:30-9:00)
“Town & Country Market 2013 Expansion” with Bill Wymer and Rick Pedersen of T&C Market. Find out what’s in store for the store (bainbridgechamber.com).

20 June, Thursday 5:30-7:00 PM, “Microsoft, Wi-Fi and the Future” @ OfficeXpats
Join us for this free event to discuss, under the delightful guidance of OXp’s own Jason Omens, Microsoft Windows 8 and Office 365. We will also outline plans for the upcoming Wi-Fi to be available on Winslow Way and Madison. This is a free event, however seating is limited. Please click here to reserve your seat (bainbridgeislandwacoc.wliinc1.com). There will be $300 in Microsoft software given out as door prizes.

June Chamber After Hours – Thurssday 27 June, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Hosted by Shirvan Rug Gallery at 424 Winslow Way E. Adem and Birgul Solak will treat us to another fabulous Turkish barbeque. Nosh and network. Free event, no reservations necessary. The public is welcome. (http://www.bainbridgechamber.com/default.aspx?ID=126)

Bainbridge Chamber 2013 Grand Old Fourth coming soon to a local street new you (if you live near Winslow Way that is). Booths still available but going fast. Volunteers still needed. Parade space still available. See  bainbridgechamber.com/default.aspx?ID=47  for more info and updates.

Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8): If you know of any new businesses, “start-ups” or businesses in a growth transition, for profit or non-profit, don’t forget to tell them about the Accelerate Kitsap Business Mentoring program. See acceleratekitsap.org for details. BBC, the Chamber, OfficeXpats, and Accelerate Kitsap are all local business support partners here in the West Sound. Contact Ken Sethney (ken.sethney@gmailcom) or Dave Kragen ([email protected]) if you have specific questions. Thank you.

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BBC Related Links

Join us this BBC Friday where David Franklin leads us in PART II of “Creating the Business You Want”

Last time David introduced some practical business building skills for generating good questions to catalyze growth and stay focused on the “big picture.”

In this hands-on session, David will continue the discussion on the experiential components of being a successful entrepreneur:

• Buidling on your business’ strengths through asking the right questions
• Moving towards your potential instead of staying stuck in problem-solving mode
• Setting clear goals to ensure accountability and success

You’ll leave the session with:

• Clarity around how to take your business to the next level
• Tools for engaging your employees and customers in helping your business thrive
• Strategies for creating more collaboration and teamwork in your business

With 20 years in the field, David Franklin has vast experience in teaching, facilitating, and coaching hundreds of people in seminars, groups, and private sessions. David holds a Masters Degree from LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University in Organizational Systems: Leadership and Organizational Development and brings twenty-five years of combined experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, manager, administrator, and employee to lead from experience in his work with clients (DavidFranklin.org).

So, invite your friends and associates to join us for this exciting time … and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC @ OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Avenue N, Bainbridge Island, Upstairs At the Pavilion

7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Creating The Business You Want- PART II” w/David Franklin
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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BBC2 The Evening Edition! This Thursday, June 6th, 6:00-7:30. What happens after the elevator speech? Mary Anne Moorman, aka Auntmama, professional storyteller and seasoned management consultant, will take you to the second level of telling the story: “The Appointment.” Join the denizens of BBC2 this Thursday for a nocturnal journey into the outer limits of business “edutainment” and fun. (Questions? Contact BBC2 Host Brian Creamer at [email protected])

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BBC Regulars Upcoming Events

June – OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshop – “The Self Publishing workshop returns!“ (noon-1:00)
Still Three Sessions to go! Now more than ever, it’s within anyone’s reach to write, produce, and publish a book, and it turns out to be a great way to build your business and your credibility as an independent professional. You may already have the content for an inexpensive or free 100-page book, and it just needs some strategic morphing. With self-publishing (also called “alternative” or “independent” publishing), the author is responsible for the entire process, including design (cover/interior), formats, price, distribution, marketing and PR. Authors can do it all themselves or outsource all or part of the process. In this workshop series, Randy Kuckuck, founder of PublishNext, along with some of the company’s editorial and design experts return to help us explore how small businesses can navigate some of the choices and issues. Xpat regulars Dave Kragen, Izzy Sanchez, and Annette Walker will also contribute. Session II, June 11, 12-1 pm: The economics of publishing your book. Session III, June 18, 12-1 pm: Designing a book to be your best advertising piece. Session IV, June 25, 12-1 pm: The submission process, and marketing your book. (officexpats.com/self-publishing-for-revenue-and-business-building/)

June – NEW OfficeXpats Tuesday Afternoon Workshops – “Learn social media marketing in a collaborative hands-on and actions-based class.” Classes run from 1:30-2:45. Cost: $95 ($80 for OfficeXpats members). June 4: Create a simple social media plan for the month. June  11: Platform rules about branding. June 18: Create a framework for an engagement “voice” or personality. June 25: Measurement tools. (officexpats.com/hands-on-social-media-marketing/)

Bainbridge Chamber 2013 Grand Old Fourth coming soon to a local street new you (if you live near Winslow Way that is). Booths still available but going fast. Volunteers still needed. Parade space still available. See  bainbridgechamber.com/default.aspx?ID=47  for more info and updates.

Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8): If you know of any new businesses, “start-ups” or businesses in a growth transition, for profit or non-profit, don’t forget to tell them about the Accelerate Kitsap Business Mentoring program. See acceleratekitsap.org for details. BBC, the Chamber, OfficeXpats, and Accelerate Kitsap are all local business support partners here in the West Sound. Contact Ken Sethney (ken.sethney@gmailcom) or Dave Kragen ([email protected]) if you have specific questions. Thank you.

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BBC Related Links

This BBC Friday, Kate Sharafanowich and Kalani Deacon introduce Kitsap Office Supply – “A new kid is coming to town!”

Kitsap Office Supply – a division of Bainbridge Island’s venerable senior Winslow Way business Paper Products – will open its doors July 1^st 2013. Sales Director Kate Sharafanowich and Sales Manager Kalani Deacon invite you to learn how Kitsap Office Supply (KOS) can make your business life easier and more comfortable.

Kate brings to KOS a wealth of experience in new business development, business analysis, creating business plans, and strategic planning globally.

Kalani, with 20 years in retail and business-to-business sales, brings to KOS a depth of experience in meeting customer needs. His sales philosophy has a firm grounding in the principals of “Service Beyond Expectations” and “Delivering On A promise.”

So invite your friends and associates to join us for this exciting event — and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC @ OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Avenue N, Bainbridge Island, Upstairs At the Pavilion

7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking

8:00-8:45 – “Kitsap Business Supply” w/ Kate & Kalani

8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely,
The BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & Other Entrepreneurial Sentients From Planet BBC

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BBC Regulars Upcoming Events

June – OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshop – “The Self Publishing workshop returns!“ (noon-1:00)
Now more than ever, it’s within anyone’s reach to write, produce, and publish a book, and it turns out to be a great way to build your business and your credibility as an independent professional. You may already have the content for an inexpensive or free 100-page book, and it just needs some strategic morphing. With self-publishing (also called “alternative” or “independent” publishing), the author is responsible for the entire process, including design (cover/interior), formats, price, distribution, marketing and PR. Authors can do it all themselves or outsource all or part of the process. In this workshop series, Randy Kuckuck, founder of PublishNext, along with some of the company’s editorial and design experts return to help us explore how small businesses can navigate some of the choices and issues. Xpat regulars Dave Kragen, Izzy Sanchez, and Annette Walker will also contribute. Session I, June 4, 12-1 pm: How self-publishing builds your business. Session II, June 11, 12-1 pm: The economics of publishing your book. Session III, June 18, 12-1 pm: Designing a book to be your best advertising piece. Session IV, June 25, 12-1 pm: The submission process, and marketing your book. (officexpats.com/self-publishing-for-revenue-and-business-building/)

June – NEW OfficeXpats Tuesday Afternoon Workshops – “Learn social media marketing in a collaborative hands-on and actions-based class.” Classes run from 1:30-2:45. Cost: $95 ($80 for OfficeXpats members). June 4: Create a simple social media plan for the month. June  11: Platform rules about branding. June 18: Create a framework for an engagement “voice” or personality. June 25: Measurement tools. (officexpats.com/hands-on-social-media-marketing/)

Bainbridge Chamber 2013 Grand Old Fourth coming soon to a local street new you (if you live near Winslow Way that is). Booths still available but going fast. Volunteers still needed. Parade space still available. See  bainbridgechamber.com/default.aspx?ID=47  for more info and updates.

Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8): If you know of any new businesses, “start-ups” or businesses in a growth transition, for profit or non-profit, don’t forget to tell them about the Accelerate Kitsap Business Mentoring program. See acceleratekitsap.org for details. BBC, the Chamber, OfficeXpats, and Accelerate Kitsap are all local business support partners here in the West Sound. Contact Ken Sethney (ken.sethney@gmailcom) or Dave Kragen ([email protected]) if you have specific questions. Thank you.

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BBC Related Links

OfficeXpats http://www.officexpats.com/

Chamber Of Commerce http://www.bainbridgechamber.com/

Bainbridge Island Downtown Association http://www.bainbridgedowntown.org/

Accelerate Kitsap – Business Mentoring http://acceleratekitsap.org/

This BBC Friday Bill Ruddick will lead our first “Think Club” Strategy Roundtable.

This BBC Friday Bill will lead us in another “Think Club” Strategy Roundtable — with a few new twists! So bring your head, brains, and creative intuitions with you. Thinking caps will be supplied.

We will look at some “defeaters” to critical thinking and thoughtful perceiving … such as how not to be “critical” while thinking critically. Afterwards there will be a chance to debrief — critically or otherwise — on how the process worked for everyone.

Think Club Resources useful to get back into the thinking mode: Thinking Hats (google docs pdf). Think Club Bibliography (google docs pdf). And for those who missed it, here’s Bill Ruddick’s original “Think Club” presentation from BBC Friday 15 February 2013 Think Club Presentation (google docs pdf). Logic & thinking from KaveDragen Ink (google docs pdf): informal fallacies & formal deductive reasoning.

Think About It.

So invite your friends and associates to join us for this thoughtful, if not just slightly critical, and yet very exciting BBC event — and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC @ OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Avenue N, Bainbridge Island, Upstairs At the Pavilion

Join us this BBC Friday for a very special event: BBC Regular & OXp Technology Sensei Jason Omens will lead the long-awaited discussion on “Cloud Security.”

Cloud Security: Is there such a thing? What is it? How much does it weigh? How much does it cost? Was it really ancient technology discovered in prehistoric caverns deep beneath the Mid-Atlantic islands of the Azores, from where, as some cosmogonists believe, the fabled Lost Atlantis ruled Pangaea for a million years before the Acadians and Ugarits first starting planting the Hanging Garden Of Babylon?

Jason Omens will unravel these eldritch mysteries for those who dare this Friday’s BBC secret session. (It’s not really secret…like, anyone may attend, really.)

Even as we all utilize various computer security measures and protections — login passwords, file encryption, anti-virus and anti-malware programs such as Windows Defender (once called MS Security Essentials), AVAST!, AVG, Malwarebytes — even so should we not be aware of what happens and what vulnerabilities may accrue to our data once it leaves the safety of our own hard drives and takes wings into the cloud?

TheCloud, offsite Shangri-La, the final frontier, Data-Heaven. But is your data really in heaven when floating about in TheCloud? Are the gravity angels protecting your data as advertised? Or are the eAngels really cyberpunk hacker-werewolves, eSpace Vampires waiting to lunch upon your intellectual property…or worse the property of your clients which you have intrusted to TheCloud.

Jason will discuss Microsoft Office365 and SkyDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox, as the primary examples of Cloud Computing.

So, invite your friends and associates to join us for this daring journey into the unknown astral realm of TheCloud … and another delicious cup of BBC!

BBC @ OfficeXpats – 403 Madison Avenue N, Bainbridge Island, Upstairs At the Pavilion

7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Cloud Security” w/Jason Omens
8:30-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

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PS. From last weeks presentation with David Franklin (DavidFranklin.org), David closed with the following great questions with which to start one’s day:
– What could happen today that would make it the perfect day?
– What am I most excited about doing today?
– What accomplishment today would completely energize me?
– What inspired me to start my business?
– What is my business’ greatest strength?
– If I could wave a magic wand (and time and money weren’t a problem), what would be my greatest wish for my business? What step could I take within the next week to support that wish?

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BBC Regulars – Upcoming Events

May OfficeXpats Tuesday@Noon Workshops – “Social Media Strategy” (noon-1:00)
May is social media strategy month for our Tuesday@noon business skills seminars. Before investing in any new marketing venture, it’s helpful to know where you want to go. Such as understanding WHY you would use WHICH channels of social media and WHAT you want to get out of them. And of course you will want to know whether you are reaching your objectives over time. This month, we will break it down into 4 weekly workshops to help you develop your own goals and build a process for reaching them. (officexpats.com/social-media-strategy/) — There Are Still Three Great Sessions!
May 14: Building a content marketing strategy, with Lena Scott.
May 21: Creating a social media dashboard, with Tobias Eigen.
May 28: Creative ideas in action, with Karen Klein.

Accelerate Kitsap (XLR8): If you know of any new businesses, “start-ups” or businesses in a growth transition, for profit or non-profit, don’t forget to tell them about the Accelerate Kitsap Business Mentoring program. See acceleratekitsap.org for details. BBC, the Chamber, OfficeXpats, and Accelerate Kitsap are all local business support partners here in the West Sound. Contact Ken Sethney (ken.sethney@gmailcom) or Dave Kragen ([email protected]) if you have specific questions. Thank you.

17 May, Friday: Bainbridge Lecture Series – “The Future Of Water” (5:30-7:00 PM). Reception to follow. Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 (Madison Av & High School Rd). Free admission. (Details: bainbridgechamber.com/default.aspx?ID=209)

Welcome to Kombi Corp, New Full-time OfficeXpats Member! Read about the KombiCorp-OXp Connection: officexpats.com/kombi-corp-of-bainbridge-island-to-co-locate-with-officexpats