TEA TALK @ WORK – April 16th 2013 – Dragonfruit and Roses
by Armand Ramirez See more photos here. “Dragonfruit and roses, anyone?” A green variety, it was the first of six in our flight of Teas for what is usually the “coffee social” at WORK Petaluma. The first of six tastes that inspired such discerning descriptions as “light,” “fruity,” and “girly” … which more or […]
Coffee Social – March 9, 2013 – Coffee & Communication
(Photo by Armand Ramirez) By coWORKer Nancy Sands Johnson At WORK Petaluma’s recent Tuesday coffee social, we welcomed several guests, lent a collective “shoulder to cry on” to a frustrated entrepreneur, and discussed whether winking is now more acceptable online than it is in real life. Think that last topic is trivial? Think again. Most […]
CoWORKer of the WEEK – Barry Stump
By Maggie Hohle – maggietext.com Barry Stump has done software engineering for more than a decade, and has been a data architect for the past five years. He’s worked for LiveNation, TicketMaster, and so forth, but for eight out of the nine months WORK Petaluma’s been open, he’s been here, perfecting his wildly successful SmartRide® […]
Coffee Social 4-2-13 – Lifespan, Healthspan, Sickspan
One of our coffee guests this week is writing a book on the art and science of extending the healthy years of your life, or “true longevity.” We jumped all over this topic with a million questions, tangents, and anecdotes. Eking out a few more years of lifespans (sickspan?) with fancy drugs and surgeries is […]
CoWORKer of the Week – Vanessa Bauch
By Maggie Hohle – www.maggietext.com Vanessa Bauch isn’t just a successful freelance advertising copywriter who writes copy for online ads, websites, print ads, packaging, collateral and ephemera for clients of all sizes [Red Lobster, Yahoo, NetShelter on the big side, local companies and individual consultants on the smaller side], she’s an innovator who knew the benefits […]
coWORKer of the week: Clementine Eco Events
February 25, 2013 – By Maggie Hohle – www.maggietext.com Clementine Eco Events is co-owned by Vanessa Hauswald, director of Nor-Cal High School Cycling League; Elizabeth Howland, executive director of Friends of the Petaluma River; and Kelin Castleberry Backman, event planner extraordinaire. WORK plays an important part in Clementine’s community-oriented (and green) event planning by acting as […]
coWORKer Maggie Hohle
by Maggie Hohle I spent my childhood trying to explain to classmates what my parents did for a living. In the late ‘70s, when most people’s parents worked with their hands, “teaching graphic design,” which my dad did at state colleges around the country, wasn’t as comprehensible to the majority of high schoolers as it […]
Coworker Tom Harrison – Cartographer
By Maggie Hohle Tom Harrison is the ultimate in a combination of old school low-tech reality and contemporary technology, a pioneer and leader in a niche market where attention to detail makes a difference in the real world: mapmaking. He makes accurate full-color shaded-relief topographic maps for hiking, mountain biking and backpacking in California’s parks, forests […]
Save Less, Share More?
Contrary to conventional wisdom, should we actually be saving less and sharing more? In preparation for our upcoming DRINKS+THINKS I sat down with Scott Collier of Slow Money and Trathen Heckman and Carolyne Stayton of Transition US to discuss their work in the movement to transform our relationship to money, community, and Earth. What started […]
Lifestyle versus Exit Strategy – Coffee 12/4/12
Are you a Lifestyle Company or an Exit Strategy Company? That is the question being asked of coWORKer Jeffrey Ventrella as he investigates possible funding strategies for his current venture. I must admit, I needed a quick definition before jumping into the conversation. Here’s Wikipedia’s: A lifestyle business is a business that is set up and run […]