Meanwhile, Larson Shores in Oakland, Calif., is working on its first “inspired in-law unit.” Carrie Shores, an architect and a principal in the firm, said that she and her partner wanted to make the cost of building their units competitive with the annual cost of a stay in a nursing home. The architectural plans for the one-bedroom cottages, which are approximately 500 square feet, start at $2,500. The homeowner can then hire a local builder to complete the project, or work with the firm to obtain a prefab structure.

Read the full article at nytimes.com.

Angela Warren of Warren Law Firm will be speaking as part of a panel on international law. Details below.

Date: Monday November 1, 2010
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Where: 198 McAllister St, Room K

Hi friends!

Some of you, I haven’t talked to in awhile. Others, it’s been more recently. But either way, I’d love to see you at my Open House!

If you didn’t already know, as of August 1st I’ve moved to a new healing center. Come help me celebrate!

Festivities are from 5PM – 8PM

I’ll be offering…

50% off any 1 session

booked with me at open house!

6 Drawings for FREE Massage!

A “SHARE THE LOVE” SPECIAL!

Bring a friend who books a session

(not already a client)

and get one of equal length free

We’ll have drinks and organic wine plus catering by Cook SF, Que SeRaw SeRaw, and Delish Dish!

Plus other special offers and giveaways from…

Marnie Reasor, Classical Homeopathy

DeeAnn Bruno, Dee’s Whole Nutrition

Meakim & Stern Spinal Care

Dr. Tamra Sattler, Integral Psychotherapy

Avra Organic Spa

I hope to see you there!

www.WendyParkerMassage.com

This Thursday, August 12, 2010

NextSpace
http://nextspace.us
28 2nd Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-513-0456

BNI will be providing some Refreshments and Light snacks. We are asking that everyone bring a dish and maybe a bottle to share. Potlucks have been successful and fun in the past and I am sure that this one can be too.

Come and enjoy some relaxed Summer Networking.

Carlos

Topic: Social Media 101 – Learn all about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and how you can use them to attract more customers and increase sales

Date: Thursday, June 17^th 2010

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

Location: Goethe-Institut, 530 Bush Street, San Francisco, 94108

Social Media 101 – Learn all about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and how you can use them to attract more customers and increase sales

Do you feel confused when it comes to using social media? Do terms like “Tweets”, “Tagging” and “Social networking” sound like a foreign language to you? You are not alone! A large number of small business owners feel overwhelmed when navigating their way through the social media landscape looking for ways to promote their business. We will demystify the buzzwords – Let this workshop empower you!

At the end of the session, you will understand the key social media tools out there, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. You will learn how you can use them to market your business at little or no cost. In addition, you will learn how these social media tools fit into your overall marketing efforts. And finally, you will have a plan for developing your own social media strategy that will help you increase your bottom line.

Please see below for a detailed outline of the workshop:

• Social media explained - what are all the major social media tools out there? How are they used?
• Marketing planning and social media – how does social media integrate with your other marketing activities?
• Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Basics - what are these social media tools and how do they actually work?
• Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for Business - how can you use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to promote your business, increase sales and get more customers?
• Productivity Tools – what tools should you use to manage your ongoing social media efforts and save time?
• Measure & Manage – how to measure your social media success?

Sign up today for our early bird special – limited tickets available. Go to http://socialmediasf.eventbrite.com/ and use discount code “BNI” to get 20% off.

For more information about Nuvota LLC, please go to www.nuvota.com or call us at 510 817 4239.

The other day, I saw a post from another website designer in the WordPress LinkedIn group asking for website hosting recommendations. Everybody and their cousin has a hosting recommendation, but I thought my answer was a little more helpful than many of the others, so I posted a comment. I didn’t just say, “I like hosting company XYZ.” but I took an extra 10 minutes and wrote up what I thought was a more insightful suggestion, complete with links and examples of companies I liked and had worked with. Because this isn’t the first time I’ve had this question (or this answer), I had already written up a How To post (complete with tutorial video) on my own website (Using Google Apps email for you@yourdomain.com) on how to do what I was recommending.

So later in the comments, Rob writes some thank you’s to people who commented. Here they are. I’ve bolded his response to me.

@Lucian, thank you for your vote for JustHost

@David, thank you for your input

@Stephane, thanks for your thoughts on shared hosting

@Bradley, yes, I’ve never bumped into anyone else on Surpass either. I’ve found them to be getting a little worse in the last few months – packing their shared servers with accounts in order to maximise profits.

Thank you for clarifying this whole Google Apps for mail issue. I didn’t realise you could use Google’s vast resources for your own personal you@your-domain.com mail address. That’s awesome! This actually slightly negates my need to move as mail was the #1 gripe with Surpass and literally took me hours to sort out. I watched your entertaining movie a couple of times.

@Paul thanks for your UK based recommendation

@Justin, thank you, you may well have saved me a few dollars there. You’re a star!

@Kevin, thanks, another one for Hostgator

People, I may well write a blog post on the back of this discussion as I think I’ve got some really good opinions and recommendations from some seasoned WordPress pros. Would that be OK?

You’ll see he carefully read through the comments and even went to my site and watched the video. Great, sounds like I helped him out. Of course, he is also helping me out by mentioning my helpful post and video on my site so others might come and see it.

So you ask, “That’s all delightful, but how does it help your business?”

For one, I see the website design business as cooperative rather than competitive. So this helps someone in my industry, my industry is stronger for it. But how it directly helps me are the hits/clicks to my site and the traffic that might follow. Maybe someone else reads this same post and thinks that my post is worth linking to from their site, maybe they Digg it or Tweet it or just mention it elsewhere on the web. These are all links to my site, they’re called backlinks. Backlinks are good. Backlinks are very important. But I’m getting a little technical. The bottom line is that I helped someone using my expertise and didn’t go unnoticed.

Jack Sparrow won’t be there. Neither will Captain Hook, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan or Roberto Clemente.

But at BNI Embarcadero on Wednesday, May 12th, we’ll be celebrating Pirate Day by giving our infomercials with memory hooks!

A few examples of the better ones in our group:

1. Whenever you need a writer, remember you say Zeemer and I say Zeimer.
2. Business big, business small, Bob Gates helps them all.
3. I’m Wayne Allen Cameron CPA, I’m the one who keeps the IRS away.
4. For residential real estate, call Tom Redmond. It’s the only investment you can call home.
5. To be able to update your own Website, you say Likoma, I say Likoma.

So dust off your memory hooks, maties, or you’ll walk the plank!
See you tomorrow morning!
Captain Gil
Your BNI Embarcadero President

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1. Bookkeeper
2. Commercial contractor
3. Electrician
4. Plumber
5. Real Estate appraiser
6. Florist
7. Event Marketing
8. Landscape design
9. Hair salon owner
10. Handy person

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