Your brand is a clear expression in words and stories about the value you uniquely bring in knowledge, experience and character traits. It keeps you from wandering off when discussing your background. A personal brand gives you a framework to answer the question, “Why should we hire you?” It provides a consistent thread to use for all the times you will need to talk or write about yourself in a resume, cover letter, performance review, interview or professional networking site profile.

In this program, Career Coach K.C. Anderson will share her expertise to help you structure a lucid, resonating personal brand tailored from your best personal traits. The effort you invest in identifying this unique value proposition will be well rewarded, as a well crafted brand will help you be remembered
long after that interview or networking meeting.

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Pow.wow peer reviews are all of this and more. Present your ideas, issues, or challenges and get honest feedback from your business peers. Weather presenting, or on the review panel, someone is asking a questions and getting feedback that everyone needs to hear. Come to present or come to participate.

If you’d like to present, please submit your name, business, and what you need feedback on to dava@powwownetwork.org by March 5th. You will receive an answer on your presentation space by March 7th. Only 4 spaces available.

Networking from 6-6:30.
Presentations begin promptly at 6:30 and are 30 min each including Q&A and feedback.

Pow.wow Members $10
Guests $20
TICKETS: http://powwow031010.eventbrite.com/

I travel a lot and so do my partners and employees. We often find ourselves working very far away from each other and we need tools to work just like if we were in the same room. These are my 10 favorite free (or almost free) collaboration tools.

Skype - http://www.skype.com/
Skype allows you to talk to people all over the world for free. It also offers chat, video chat and you can also share your screen with other people.

BaseCamp - http://basecamphq.com/
If you’re looking for a tool to manage your projects, BaseCamp is by far the best option. Create to-do lists, milestones, projects, upload files, assign tasks to people, control the progress of your project and communicate with other team members.

Twiddla - http://www.twiddla.com/
Think of Twiddla as a whiteboard that several people can see at the same time. It’s great to explain ideas, draw arrows, call-outs, etc.

Google Docs - http://docs.google.com/
This Google tool allows you to share documents with your team. Just put them in a folder everybody can access and you can all edit the same documents.

Mint - http://www.mint.com/
This is a great money-management tool and it’s free.

LogMeIn - https://secure.logmein.com/
Do you need to remotely control a computer? This is a great tool for it. You can use your partner’s computer from Seattle if you’re in New York. You can leave your computer at home and access it from any other computer in the world.

Google Calendar - https://www.google.com/calendar
Keep all your events and meetings organized with this tool from Google. The best part is that you and your team can share the same calendar so you can all see what everyone else is up to and when they all have some free time to meet.

BlueTie - http://bluetie.com/
This application isn’t free, but it’s only $5/month, so it’s almost free. BlueTie is a great tool to manage emails and keep your contacts organized. You can share email messages and contacts with your team. BlueTie has a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) engine built-in that I really like.

PamFax - http://www.pamfax.biz/
Send and receive faxes for very cheap from your own computer. You can send documents (PDF, DOC, etc.). When you receive a fax, you’ll get the pages as email attachments that you can print if you want. Having fax has never been so cheap.

EchoSign - http://www.echosign.com/
Isn’t it annoying when you have to print out an agreement, sign it, fax it, have the other person sign it and fax it back to you? There’s a better option: EchoSign. This cool tool allows you to sign documents online in just a few seconds.

Zeke Camusio
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Date: February 13th, 9-5pm
Location: Claremont Hotel Club and Spa, Berkeley, CA
Cost: $119 per person

Join 200 other women and today’s top transformational teachers and performers as we take a stand to do more than survive our lives… as you take this day of self-love to thrive!!

This isn’t just another workshop or conference with break out sessions. This is an experience that you and 200 women will have together… the entire day at the beautiful Claremont Resort where you will play, shift, be inspired and best of all leave more in love with yourself than you could ever imagine!

Women like Marci Shimoff (best-selling author of Happy For No Reason and featured in the movie The Secret), SARK (best-selling author of 15 books who still finds time for 6 sabbaticals a year!), Christine Arylo (founder of the Madly in Love with ME Movement), and others will share the new feminine super powers every 21st century woman needs… super powers they use in their own lives to take care of themselves as well as they do of everyone and everything else:

- Transform your inner mean girl into your inner superheroine - stop negative thinking from running you
- Meet your new best friend, intuition - tap into an underutilized power source at your fingertips
- Stop chasing balance and start feeling balanced - reconnect with what really makes you happy
- Create more time and energy vs. to dos - trade in multi-tasking for micro-movement

It’s going to be a grand day of self-love! There will only be 200 tickets sold, so get your ticket early. And, consider upgrading yourself to a VIP Package, which among many other benefits includes 1 of 8 seats at the personal table of one of the transformational teachers.

For more information on the event and the Madly in Love with ME movement go to http://www.madlyinlovewithme.com/events

Details: We are in the mist of planning our the next few months of events but wanted to start off the year with some much needed networking. So many email have come in about people starting new careers, looking for new clients and partners, and just generally looking to connect and gain support. Bring your ideas and your 2010 goals and meet the ladies for a glass of wine and get connected.

Ticket price covers admission and appetizers will be provided for the first hour. No-host bar.

Please be sure to bring your business cards and be ready to mingle.

When: January 12th, 2010
Where: TBD, San Francisco
Cost: $20 per person, $15 for members
Tickets

You worked hard this year!

As a strong, powerful woman who achieves a lot in a year’s time, chances are that you worked really hard this past year to make your dreams realities. Don’t you deserve to take a moment to reflect on all you’ve done, learned and experienced before going full steam ahead into 2010 and a new set of goals and desires?

Not only do you deserve it, taking a pause to reflect on your past year is smart. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author, says that the wisdom is in the Pause. And she’s right. If you want to spend your time, resources and energy in 2010 on what is truly most important to you, without exhausting yourself to ‘get it done’, you have to slow down long enough to let your wisdom shine through.

Attend an interactive, year-launching workshop led by Christine Arylo, recovering doing addict and inspirational catalyst for women, which will help you to properly close out 2009 and kick-off this New Year differently. Activate your feminine super power of Pause!

Christine will take us through a process called the Wheel of Reflection and teach about the Power of Pause so that 2010 will be the year we:
- Start the new year (and every year from now on) with intentions that stick and that matter vs. resolutions that get forgotten or goals that create stress
- Use all the hard work we did in ‘09 to fuel our dreams into reality in 2010
- Get more done every day by doing less, just by refocusing 10 minutes of our day

You can learn more about the Feminine Super Power of Pause and Christine Arylo at www.daretoliveyou.com

Where: Roe Restaurant & Lounge, 651 Howard St.
(near 3rd St., on corner of Hawthorne St.)

Tickets: USE CODE “EBprice” to get the Early Bird Price no matter when you sign up!

We have a great group of women (mostly between ages 25-50) who are all planning to come out for two hours this Thursday for drinks and the most comfortable and fun night of meeting people you’ve ever experienced! No awkward one-on-ones or working the big crowds– just some fast-paced connecting in small groups with other awesome women in the Bay Area! Hope you can join us!

Founded in 1950, Redwood Credit Union is a full-service financial institution with 15 branch locations throughout San Francisco and the Greater Bay Area. RCU offers a full array of value-added financial products and services for individuals and small businesses, including checking accounts, comprehensive savings and investment products, consumer and real estate loans, free home banking, financial management services, retirement planning, and a variety of electronic services including online loan applications and bill pay. The Credit Union serves 146,000 Members with $1.8 billion in assets. Membership is available to anyone living or working in the eight counties of Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco, Mendocino, Lake, Napa, Contra Costa and Solano.

Amber Treshnell oversees general operations and community involvement efforts for RCU’s San Francisco area, and has an extensive background in financial services with over 9 years in management. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Finance from San Francisco State University, and holds a Registered Representative Securities License. Ms. Treshnell has lived/worked in Marin and San Francisco for 19 years and also actively volunteers for community non-profits.

Tips from Amber for business owners:
1) Ensure you have a close relationship with your financial institution- pick one that truly cares about your business and it’s success and is willing to help you along the way.
2) There is no such thing as standing still- you are either striving to get better or allowing yourself to get worse

Press and mentions:
6-28-09 SF Chronicle “Movers and Shakers”
7-06-09 Santa Rosa Press Democrat “On the Move”
7-13-09 Northbay Biz Journal “People Pages”

Contact Amber at:
www.redwoodcu.org
atreshnell@redwoodcu.org

Date: Friday, Dec. 4th
Time: 7-11pm
Location: Hotel Frank, 386 Geary Street, SF, Penthouse Suites
Tickets: http://swank09.eventbrite.com
(discount for Pow.wow and Hatch members)
Event Site: http://swankbypowwow.org

Join Pow.wow once again to celebrate their holiday party “Swank”. Enjoy sweeping views from the two penthouse suites of Hotel Frank, and indulge in the hosted bar, djs, and silent auction. A glamorous way to spend the evening and celebrate the season.

Funds from this event benefit Oasis for Girls. Pow.wow Network and Oasis for Girls share the mission to build community around, support, and foster women (and girls) in business.

Co-Hosts: Hatch Network | IPE Productions | SF Entrepreneur

Thank you to our generous sponsors…
Swanky Level:
- Beauty Company & Salon
- Noise 13 Design
- Paragon Real Estate
- Personalty Hotels
- Symyx Technologies, Inc.
- Artesa Winery
- Magnanimus Wine Group

Swell Level:
- TABLEonethree
- Staged4More
- Big Picture PR
- Liz Wu, LPL Financial
- EcoJoe
- Hatch Network
- Laurel Designs/Laurel Ann Winzler
- La Maschera Prosecco