WORKer-in-Residence – Pet A Luma! Aug 6th, 2013

WORKer-in-Residence – Pet A Luma! Aug 6th, 2013

It’s not a new idea – everyone in Petaluma wants to know how to pet a luma.  First off you have to find one!  Or perhaps, first you have to create one… Down at the shared workspace aptly named WORK, we are always bouncing around ideas.  One of our core members happens to be Jeffrey […]

Working Alone Together – Why People Matter – Aug 3rd, 2013

Working Alone Together – Why People Matter – Aug 3rd, 2013

When your cat has become your chief advisor, you know it’s time to branch out of your home office.  That’s exactly why Chris Frothinger joined WORK four months ago.  Despite his sweet set-up in his house, progress on his new venture had begun to stagnate.  And look what’s happened since! Now, instead of a cat, […]

coWORKer of the Week: Jeffrey Ventrella

coWORKer of the Week: Jeffrey Ventrella

by Maggie Hohle www.maggietext.com “An artist who writes software. A visual language evangelist. Someone on a quest to change software development from the inside by bringing in right-brain thinking.” It wasn’t very nice, but I asked coWORKer Jeff Ventrella to describe himself, because I was bamboozled by the variety and subject matters of the books […]

coWORKer of the week – Dale Wannen

coWORKer of the week – Dale Wannen

by Maggie Hohle – www.maggietext.com Just in time for the further greening of Petaluma: An accomplished investment advisor who decided that if he was going to stay in the brokerage business he would leave a positive mark, for his kids and grandkids one day, and right now, for his clients. For a time, coWORKer Dale […]

coWORKer of the Week – Bryce Young

coWORKer of the Week – Bryce Young

By Maggie Hohle – www.maggietext.con B Line Schools, coWORKer Bryce Young’s relatively new family business, grew the way all successful businesses do; they identified a need (engaging, interactive, convenient online training programs) and created the solution (online traffic school, online security training certification programs). Young’s dad and he started with the traffic school model, with […]

coWORKer of the week – Nancy Sands Johnson

By Maggie Hohle – maggietext.com Nancy Sands Johnson’s family accounts for one percent of the population of Marshall, CA. No wonder, as her first child turned 11 and her second, nine, she was feeling a little alone. She’d originally arranged for a career in the classroom, but when the economy tanked, she’d been working as […]

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® […]

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 […]