Join us this last-of-summer BBC Friday for a COBI & Community Business update and roundtable discussion, with our own mistress of entrepreneurial mischief Leslie Schneider. 

Leslie on City Council: “I have been an active advocate for sustainability and local economy since 1992 when I started volunteering for Sustainable Seattle and later for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economy. I love how the design of physical space can encourage the growth of relationships in a community. To live in deeper community with neighbors, I was a founding member of Jackson Place Cohousing (JPC). I had many leadership roles in the development and construction of JPC’s 27 condominium units and common spaces, located just southeast of downtown Seattle. I lived there for eight years until moving to Bainbridge Island. I also volunteered for the Pomegranate Center (“Strengthening Communities Through Creative Collaboration”). I even went all the way to New York City to take a workshop on “How to turn a place around,” from one of my favorite organizations, the Project For Public Spaces. I visited City Repair projects in Portland, Oregon, and have participated recently in that organization’s annual Village Building Convergence.” 

Leslie moved to Bainbridge Island in 2009, where her son graduated from BHS in 2015. She started a coworking business in 2011 called OfficeXpats with partner Jason Omens. OfficeXpats is a shared office space and collaborative hub for independent professionals, and it won the Chamber Of Commerce small business of the year award for 2014 for its support of local business and the community. Leslie has also served on the boards of Sustainable Bainbridge and the Kitsap Regional Library Foundation.

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!

[email protected] – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – Community Business Roundtable w/ Leslie Schneider
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

5 September, 5:24-8:03, Silverdale GreenDrinks. At Kitsap Golf & Country Club, 3885 NW Golf Club Hill Rd, Bremerton. Networking, door prize drawings, open to the public. Info at: facebook.com/SilverdaleGD/.

7 September, 6-8 PM – First Friday Art Walk! Over 30 businesses and galleries participating on Winslow Way and environs. Live music, wine, small bites (bainbridgedowntown.org). Donna Dowdney fabric art showing (donnaleedowdney.com) at The Art Project (TAP) as part of Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) juried Exhibit. The First Friday Opening Reception happens during First Friday Art Walk. Exhibition will be open the entire month of September, Mon–Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5, Bainbridge Arts And Crafts (theartproject.org).

13 September, 7:30-9:00, Chamber Breakfast: A Farewell to Doug Schulze. “Enjoy a continental breakfast, hear from some of our newest Chamber members, and help us give City Manager Doug Schulze a warm and well-earned sendoff as he prepares to start a new chapter in his career!” More Info at bainbridgechamber.com.

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

BBC is canceled this Friday for Labor Day Holiday Weekend.

Remember, this BBC Friday we will not meet – for the Labor Day holiday weekend! There is no BBC this Friday, August 31st.

BBC will be back on schedule next week, Friday the 7th.

Everyone have a fun and safe Labor Day Weekend. This announcement has been brought to you by the BBC management and serendipitous homosapient staff.

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Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet bbc
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

5 September, 5:24-8:03, Silverdale GreenDrinks. At Kitsap Golf & Country Club, 3885 NW Golf Club Hill Rd, Bremerton. Networking, door prize drawings, open to the public. Info at: facebook.com/SilverdaleGD/

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

Join us this sunny BBC Friday for OPEN MIC Part 2, featuring Marketing Improv Mistress Michele Jewett, owner  FameHouse Smart Marketing Solutions (famehouse.org). Michele will answer the question “What do ChatBots and PsyVamps have in common for business marketing?” Or something like that. Michele on LinkedIn.com.

If time permits, we’ll open up the table for one or two others to share.  Bring your brains, creativity, curiosity, and ….

BBC "Elevator Speech Workshop" Notes - Elevator Speech Notes

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!

[email protected] – 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, w/ Michele Jewett
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

23 August, Chamber After Hours, 5:30-7:00. Hosted by Cavu Networks, a leader in technology (owner John Benjamin), Coppertop Business Park. Drinks & refreshments. No reservations necessary. Public welcome. More info: bainbridgechamber.com.

5 September, 5:24-8:03, Silverdale GreenDrinks. At Kitsap Golf & Country Club, 3885 NW Golf Club Hill Rd, Bremerton. Networking, door prize drawings, open to the public. Info at: facebook.com/SilverdaleGD/

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

Join us this sunny BBC Friday for an OPEN MIC Business Support and Sharing Roundtable. 

Bring a business idea or problem to discuss. Let BBC be “your board of directors.” 

Play, share, learn, dream. Be creative, think sideways, wear a hat.

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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!

[email protected] – 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
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

21 August, XL8-Kitsap [email protected]Noon Workshop: Unleash Your Inner Entrepreneur! Free, open to everyone, but you must register & get a ticket (may cancel if not enough registrants).

23 August, Chamber After Hours, 5:30-7:00. Hosted by Cavu Networks, a leader in technology (owner John Benjamin), Coppertop Business Park. Drinks & refreshments. No reservations necessary. Public welcome. More info: bainbridgechamber.com.

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

This Friday BBC, we’ll go classic with an Elevator Speech [ES] workshop. What makes not just a good [ES], but an amazing [ES]? We’ll roundtable what constitutes a good [ES], what are the key elements to include in your [ES] — and conversely what should not be in your [ES]?

At BBC, we’ve often distinguished between a typical [ES], at 30 seconds tops, and an Extended Elevator Speech [eES], between one and two minutes (but no longer than that — heaven forbid!). The [eES] tends to flesh out that hook/tag line and vision statement that makes your [ES] shine, and it can also allow for a broader and more detailed development of your business’s products/services, typical clientele, and a little of your business philosophy. 

Workshop Goals: 1) Go around the table, hear each one’s [ES], then drawing from what you hear from each other, discuss the key elements of what goes into a really great [ES]. 2) As time permits, distinguish out what could go into a longer [eES], and how to avoid conflating the two — er, how to avoid spinning your [ES] into an [eES].

Special thanks to hosts Steve Kersten, bbc acting chair, and Bill Ruddick, bbc thinkologist, who will be graciously moderating and skillfully navigating this exciting classic BBC session. Beauty, eh [BE].

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!

[email protected] – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – BBC Elevator Speech Workshop, w/ Steve Kersten 
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

7 August, [email protected] Workshop: Will Cryptocurrency Nudge Local Currencies To Finally Take Off? Free, open to everyone, but you must register & get your ticket; workshop may be canceled if not enough registrants.

9 August, Thursday, World Coworking Day celebration at OfficeXpats, with free coworking, BBQ lunch out on the deck (IN THE SUN!), and special “happy hour”! Info: officexpats.spaces.nexudus.com.

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

This Friday BBC, we’ll hear an exciting report from Wynne & Frank Jacobson who recently attended the Clifton Strengths Summit in Omaha, NE, 16-18 July. (gallupstrengthscenter.com)

We went there, explains Wynne, “to learn more about Strengths by being with those who practice them as a way of life, and to learn if one or both of us is called to be a coach.”

The CliftonStrengths Summit provides “the education, inspiration and connections you need to transform your workplace. It’s where managers, coaches, innovators and leaders from around the world gather to shape the future of human development through strengths” (10times.com/clifton-strengths-summit). Wynne on LinkedIn: linkedin.com.

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!

[email protected] – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “CliftonStrengths Summit” w/ Wynne & Frank
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

7 August, [email protected] Workshop: Will Cryptocurrency Nudge Local Currencies To Finally Take Off? Free, open to everyone, but you must register & get your ticket; workshop may be canceled if not enough registrants.

3 August, 6:00-8:00 PM – First Friday Art Walk! Over 30 businesses and galleries will be participating in the August 3Art Walk – a record number! A wide range of creativity on display on Winslow Way and surroundings in Downtown Bainbridge Island. Live music, wine, and small bites are part of the fun. bainbridgedowntown.org.

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

No BBC this Friday. It is one of those rare events when the OfficeXpats Event Room — which has been so graciously granted to us for free these many years by our lovely hosts Leslie & Jason — when the Event Room is unavailable. 

See you all next Friday, August 3rd! Goodnight.

Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

Don’t forget! Through the rest of July, Donna Dowdney Art Show continues at Paula Weissinger State Farm Insurance, 175 Parfitt Way, #180 (next to Pegasus coffee). And maybe on your way grab a coffee/tea at [the new!] Pegasus, w/ new host Paul Lance. donnaleedowdney.com

This coming Saturday, July 28th, 1:30PM, at the Bainbridge Public Library: “Does your child have Autism Spectrum Disorder or social communication issues?” Presented by Robin Miller, Miller Speech-Language Pathology, Inc. For more info call or email Robin at: 206-317-6437, millerslp.com. 

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

This BBC Friday we hear from local Island business woman Robin Miller, who will tell her story and share some business wisdom learned along the way. Robin has 18+ years of experience as a speech/language pathologist, working for Group Health Cooperative for six of those years and for Swedish Medical Center for seven. She earned her Master of Arts in Speech/ Hearing Sciences, Speech-Language Pathology  from  WSU.  Robin is also a certified instructor for the It Takes Two to Talk and the More Than Words parent training programs through the Hanen Centre. Robin on LinkedIn.com.

Miller Speech-Language Pathology offers the latest technologies to assist people of all ages with speech and language challenges. Robin also has an event coming up on July 28th at the Bainbridge Library,  “More Than Words: Does your child have autism spectrum disorder or social communication issues?” So she may hit us up for a little critique, ideas sharing, and strategy roundtable discussion. BBC at its best, right?

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!

[email protected] – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – Business Story Telling w/ Robin Miller
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

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

This BBC Friday: “Human Trafficking And Exploitation In Kitsap County,” w/ Rosie Ludlow, exec. director, Scarlet Road. Learn about local trends and hot spots for exploitation, prevention, and how we can keep our community safer. Consider the barriers to working with this population, and how one can better impact their community.

With an MA in International Relations from Regent’s University London (2007), Rosie focused on international development and policy, worked for the US State Department, the British Red Cross, and the UN in the realm of refugee populations and policy change for migrant community (in the UK and Lebanon). After serving in refugee women and youth programs, Rosie traveled to Thailand for non-profit work in the red light districts in Bangkok and Patpong. During her time in Thailand, Rosie helped women exiting prostitution at two local Thai organizations, Rahab Ministries and OpenAid International. Upon her return to the US she founded Scarlet Road. (linkedin.com/in/rosemary-ludlow-3584838/)

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!

[email protected] – 403 Madison Ave N, Bainbridge Is, Upstairs at the Pavilion
7:30-8:00 – coffee/tea, visiting, informal networking
8:00-8:45 – “Scarlet Road” w/ Rosie Ludlow
8:45-9:00 – more networking, sharing, visiting

Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

10 July [email protected]Noon Workshop, presented by XLR8-Kitsap & OfficeXpats:“Understand Data Privacy! and how to use it to Strengthen your brand” w/ Antonio Garcia. Free, open to the public. Limited space. Register: officexpats.com.

11 July, Wednesday, 5:24-8:05 PM – July Green Drinks. Hosted by: Nature Works, 17791 Fjord Dr NE, Poulsbo. Event info: facebook.com/events/462912870816417/.

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

BBC is canceled the Friday July 6th, for the week’s cool festivities, fireworks, food, and fun! Parade starts at 1:00. Schedule: grandold4th.com/schedule/

Have a safe and happy Grand Old 4th holiday week.

Don’t Miss This Grand Old 4th Of July 51st Year Extravaganza! Sponsor, volunteer, donate, have fun! For info on sponsorships and volunteer opportunities: grandold4th.com.

And wasn’t the Rotary Auction amazing this year! Thanks to all who volunteered!

Sincerely, BBC Management, KaveDragen Ink, & other entrepreneurial sentients from planet BBC
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BBC Regulars Upcoming News & Events!

6 July, 6:00-8:00 PM– First Friday Art Walk! Donna Dowdney Art Show at Paula Weissinger State Farm Insurance, 175 Parfitt Way, #180 (next to Pegasus). Music by Chawla. More info at BIDA: bainbridgedowntown.org.  Great BI Review article: bainbridgereview.com. (donnaleedowdney.com)

MORITANI PRESERVE — Community Picnic, Sunday, 8 July 2018, Noon–2:00 PM. Free, open to the public. Info at: biparksfoundation.org/project-highlights/moritani-preserve/. Flyer: Moritani Reserve. PDF doc: MoritaniPreserve2018  In the Kitsap SUN:  kitsapsun.com/story/news/local/communities/bainbridge-islander/2017/09/10/refuge-amidst-bustle-moritani-preserve-bainbridges-newest-park/646750001/

10 July [email protected]Noon Workshop, presented by XLR8-Kitsap & OfficeXpats:“Understand Data Privacy! and how to use it to Strengthen your brand” w/ Antonio Garcia. Free, open to the public. Limited space. Register: officexpats.com.

11 July, Wednesday, 5:24-8:05 PM – July Green Drinks. Hosted by: Nature Works, 17791 Fjord Dr NE, Poulsbo. Event info: facebook.com/events/462912870816417/.

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