SiteCrafting attended the 32nd Annual LeMay Car Show & Auction at Marymount Academy in Tacoma, WA on Saturday, August 29th. As the Official Website Provider for LeMay- AMERICA'S CAR MUSEUMŽ, SiteCrafting set up an informational booth at the event where we showcased sites we developed and made ourselves available to talk about our partnership with LeMay and other community initiatives we take part in.
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It's About Time
Today, SiteCrafting teammates were given a tour of
YWCA facilities in downtown Tacoma. We had the pleasure of having our tour led by Executive Director Miriam Barnett and Marketing Manager Kelly McDonald.
Miriam provided some great education on history, purpose and even shared stories of current and past clients. This organization has an amazing history. YWCA of Pierce County was started in 1905 and in 1976 opened the state's first shelter for battered women. It was the largest shelter in western states at the time.
We toured this shelter and learned a lot about the building utilization, client services and the organization's plans for the future. The YWCA of Pierce County is in desperate need of additional shelter space and recently purchased a nearby building that we also toured. This new building provides a lot of potential for the organization as, in the least, it will provide more apartment style shelter space for women and children.
They are currently in the midst of a campaign to raise the funds to fully convert this new building into shelter space, and SiteCrafting is a proud partner in this campaign.
Thanks very much to Miriam and Kelly for this thoughtful and thorough tour of YWCA facilities. You both make it very easy to be inspired and excited to support YWCA initiatives.
Additional pictures of the tour are available at SiteCrafting's Flickr photostream.
SiteCrafting's Common Sense Approach
There's an
interesting article in Business Week about how employers are scrambling to develop policies to manage employees, especially those in leadership roles, in the development of their social reputation through social media tools like Twitter and Facebook.
We're often asked by clients and partners to advise on the development of their own social media policies, and we find, more often than not, that most first runs at a social media policy are created from very paranoid perspectives. Unfortunately in this realm, micro-managing often back-fires, which is why we encourage development of policies that stay simple and respect common sense.
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On April 29th, Brian was awarded Small Business Leader of the Year by the UW Tacoma Milgard School of Business. The Annual Business Leadership Awards is in its 8th year, and is considered one of the premiere events for businesses in the area.
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No One's Missing the Trust Falls & Human Pyramids
The SiteCrafting team spent the first weekend in October enjoying the Hood Canal area as part of this year's company retreat. Being as we suffer from a distinct lack of petty office politics and other Dilbert-esque characteristics, "company retreat" is not synonymous with "endless torture" for us here.
The getaway was designed to allow the team to take a break from the office routine and gain capacity to review and offer input on company strategy, successes and our roadmap for sustaining growth. As usual, our collective wit, insight and sarcastic humor made these discussions interesting, informative, motivating and memorable.
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