I was at Blazing Bagels in Redmond just a few minutes ago and saw these Obama cookies on the counter. I didn’t see any McCain cookies and then Dennis, the owner of Blazing Bagels, tells me that McCain cookies are sold out. “No way!”, I said. Amazing, I thought… until he told me he had [...]
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Andrea Becker, Yellowbook & Mary Benz, thinkspace
We had a successful event last night and had nearly 70 people inside our space. I want to say thank you to everyone that attended. Great tasting food was provided by Grand Peking and splendid wine provided by Hollywood Hill Vineyards. We had all kinds of tasty Chinese food [...]
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I just picked up another gallon of paint today for the coworking space. I decided to compare the VOC content of Sherwin Williams Duration paint versus Sherwin Williams Super Paint.
Paint Type g/l lb/gal
Duration 48 0.40
Super Paint 145 [...]
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Last night we had the Blog Bling Mixer. We had a good mix of beginner bloggers as well as some expert bloggers.
We wrote down topics on the whiteboard and everyone had a chance to vote for what they wanted to hear and learn about. The first topic was about “Widgets - What are [...]
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Companies are making USB Flash drive and housing them in odd materials. In the span of 24 hours I’m seeing the USB Flash Drives in compressed recycled paper and the strangest is inside sticks.
The one’s pictured here are made from silver birch which are grown in Berkshire, England. I haven’t read anything about this being [...]
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Back during the Green Festival Seattle, I found a company called the Sustainable Group. They sell really cool looking office supplies like the Repocket (shown here in the picture). All of their stuff is made of recycled cardboard! It really makes quite a statement when you put your marketing collateral inside one of these folders.
I [...]
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I’ve had a few very interesting conversations in the last two weeks. One is with Christine Blumer, CEO of CRB Consulting and the other is with Lisa Hufford, President of Simplicity Consulting. Both of these women are extremely successful people and have had great work experience at Microsoft. Both Christine and Lisa [...]
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Ron Sims is using Twitter and I’ve been following him for about one month. I think it’s really cool that he’s embracing technology as way to communicate with people. Back when Governor Locke was King County Executive, I volunteered in his campaign office while he ran Governor. I never really had that close a look [...]
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Don’t throw your batteries in the trash, recycle them at thinkspace! We are now offering our clients battery recycling. We will accept rechargeable and non-rechargeable, such as D-cell, C-cell, AA, AAA, 9-volt, and button cells.
King County offers local communities Recycling Collection Events for businesses and residents where you can drop off reusable and recyclable materials including batteries, [...]
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David Sitlani, from the Law offices of David Ravi Sitlani, initially toured thinkspace in the midst of the build out, dodging construction workers, looking at blueprints and listening to details of this new sustainable/creative office space in Redmond. Having just started his law practice with the main office in Seattle, he was looking for executive office [...]
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Event: October 14, 2008 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm.
Register: The Writing Doctors are In.
In a world of Web sites, blogs, e-mail, electronic records and written proposals, the written word has become just as important as prototype design, contract negotiations or the first handshake. But how do you know your writing is snappy, substantive and spotless?
Enter the [...]
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Meet Drew Stone with AGS Custom Interiors and Amy Woidtke with EcoKind Design. Drew will explain how he creates earth-friendly art using an environmentally friendly process of reducing the amount of waste, reusing materials typically regarded as useless and recycling by continuing the process into further generations of conservation. Amy will discuss affordable green decorating ideas and concepts. Wine is provided [...]
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Your business goes through different stages and depending on your stage, your need for office space can have very different requirements. Shared office space can help provide a business’s a place to go from seed to stem to branch and leaves.
Seed: Your business could be a concept that you’re trying to get started. You might [...]
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We believe that because we have a dynamic mix of space, we also have a dynamic mix of companies that use our space. There are many of types of industries and users that recognize the value of shared office space and mix of coworking space. We are seeing our space work great for:
Industries and types [...]
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Today, I’ve been having conversations about how unique thinkspace is compared with Bellevue shared office space companies. I would say the things that make it different is that our space really is the next version of what is known as the “executive office suite & business center industry plus the concept of hot desking”. In [...]
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