.WHO Playsmint Coaching

.WHERE Caroline Collective 4820 Caroline St., Houston, TX 77004

.WHEN Saturday, June 12^th, Tuesday, June 15^th, Saturday, June 26^th, Tuesday, June 29^th

Come join us at 4820 Caroline St. beginning on Saturday, June 12^th for a new Playsmint Coaching series of workshops.

Saturday, June 12^th ,10am – 2pm: Powerful Resume Writing

Tuesday, June 15^th ,6:30pm – 9:30pm: Productive Interviewing

Saturday, June 26^th ,10am – 2pm: Powerful Resume Writing

Tuesday, June 29^th ,6:30pm – 9:30pm:   Effective Networking

Join us on Saturday, June 12^th for the first of many Playsmint Coaching Workshops being held at Caroline Collective.  Playsmint Coaching is based on three core principles:

• Powerful Resumes
• Effective Networks
• Productive Interviews

During the month of June, we will offer a series of workshops covering our core principles of P.E.P.

The combination of Powerful Resumes, Effective Networks and Productive Interviews (P.E.P.) are the tools you need in today’s volatile job market.  We call it “Playsmint Coaching”.

Our techniques for writing Powerful Resumes, building Effective Networks and executing Productive Interviews are modeled after the teachings at top business schools around the world and were developed in conjunction with Fortune 500 recruiters.

Using Playsmint Coaching, you too can learn to write resumes, network and interview like an MBA!

People trained with the Playsmint Plan & Coaching System have received employment offers from some of the world’s most respected organizations and Fortune 500 companies, like:

The United Nations | General Electric | Shell Oil Company | Intel | Proctor & Gamble | General Electric | Bank of Montreal | Halliburton | Raytheon | Coors Brewery |Target Corporation | GMAC Bank | American Greetings | Del Monte | Wal-Mart

Limited seating is available; please click the PayPal button to register.

Playsmint Coaching Workshops

Resumes – 6/12 @10am $30.00 Interviews – 6/15 @6:30pm $30.00 Resumes – 6/26 @10am $30.00 Networking – 6/29 @6:30pm $30.00

.WHO Solutions for Better Living and Valerie Jackson

.WHAT Premiere of SBL documentary The Power of One

.WHEN Friday June 11, 6:30pm-10pm

.WHERE Caroline Collective, 4820 Caroline St., Houston, TX 77004

Solutions for Better Living (SBL) is a non-profit organization, whose mission is to galvanize individuals to take strategic action toware the improvment of the health, well being, and qualityof life of those living in communities in and around the city of HOUSTON.

PLEASE COME AND JOIN US….

Solutions for Better Living – Houston Presents the premiere of………
THE POWER OF ONE:  A DOCUMENTARY
FEATURING:  KATHRYN GRIFFIN TOWNSEND,
WE’VE BEEN THERE, DONE THAT

The Power of One, is a short documentary, which tells the poignant and moving stories of several SBL program participants, whose life experiences led them to work in their community to make a difference.

ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE. THE PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE HOUSTON COMMUNITY PROJECTS.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.

From SBL:

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE

The Power of One, A Documentary, Featuring Kathryn Griffin Townsend (“We’ve Been There, Done That”) - Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

Accepting in-kind donations of any amount. All donations are tax-deductible. All proceeds benefit Solutions for Better Living – Houston Community Projects.

If you would like to join us in our ongoing efforts to improve the health and well-being of communities in Houston, please make a donation by a check or money order to: Solutions for Better Living, 4820 Caroline Street, Houston, TX 77004. If you would like to contribute using a credit card, please visit our website: www.sblhouston.com and click the PayPal Donate button.

Friday, June 11, 2010, 6:30 – 10:00pm – Casual Attire at Caroline Collective (4820 Caroline Street; 77004).

Please join us for a premiere of a documentary, which tells the stories of poignant, yet triumphant community heroes in Houston

Cocktails, delicious hors d’oeuvres and of course, hot buttery popcorn will be served!!!

Karen Aptekar produced the project with the very talented creative contributions of the community members:

• Culture Pilot (link)
• Wayside Drive – music mixed with English voice-over
• Szabo Sound and Music – music mixed with Spanish voice-over
• Matthew Wettergreen – voice over for male English
• Javier Fadul – voice over for male Spanish
• Karen Aptekar – voice over for female English
• Karina Junker – voice over for female Spanish
• Brian Block
• Twitter task force (20 people) tweeting to educate

The campaign includes a multimedia embedded landing page and radio spots that are being aired in Houston in English and Spanish for the month of April. This is a community collaborative effort to raise awareness about sexual assault. To learn more, please go to http://www.KAPInform.com.

One of the best things you can do for yourself as a band is to start touring as early as possible. As Mike King puts it on Artist House Musics blog, Tour Early and Tour Often. He also mentions that in order to do this effectively, be sure that your live show is awesome. And again he is correct. But too many bands get caught up on the latter advice without realizing that the former is really what creates that engaging performance. Playing too many times to the same people burns yourself out from gauging the crowds reaction and puts the audience too close to the music to objectively evaluate your live shows.

Thats why on January 31st well be holding a Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY for Houston bands. Well provide the tables, chairs and the internet. Well also be giving you a venue list for Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Victoria/Corpus Christi as well as a mad-libs style email contact form and a mad-libs style phone contact form and review the process of contacting (and following up with) a venue to book your band.

We held a similar Booking Party in July and the results were exciting: One band, Liquid Kitchen, was able to book two shows within 72 hours of Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY. Another band, Insert Name Here, booked one show for themselves that week and continue to use the scripts to book themselves shows.

Come to Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY and make it easier for your band to start finding new audiences to play in front of.
For information on events, working space, going in’s, and going on’s…visit http://carolinecollective.cc/about/

For all things in the world of video, visit http://www.PaynterMedia.com

Great job Tom!

Funding Opportunity!

Mission

The mission of Solutions for Better Living (SBL) is to serve as a catalyst to galvanize and support individuals in taking strategic action to improve the health and well being of those living in their communities. SBL is committed to building upon and strengthening the multisectoral, collaborative partnerships between the corporations, government agencies, public sector organizations, and other not-for-profit organizations throughout Houston.

SBL Services

The SBL project management team assists community project leaders with:

*Initial funding
*Identifying available resources
*Executing goals/deadlines
*Participate in community projects fundraisers and events,
*Conduct educational workshops (e.g. financial planning, grant writing, planning and developing, social entrepreneurship, etc.)
*Marketing and public relation strategies, and
*Securing additional funding

SBL utilizes the knowledge and talents of local, national, and international consultants, educators and community leaders who have multifaceted expertise.

As part of the PSBH network, these leaders are committed to improving the quality of life by fostering creative problem solving and project sustainability at the local and national levels by promoting cooperative partnerships. The SBL project management team is cross trained and works collectively to perform such task as fundraising, grant writing, community workshops/seminars, specialized client support, etc. They are required to have ongoing direct and indirect interaction with donors, project coordinators, community partners, and other entities that have an interest in SBL. The concept is to offer an array of services that will assist in project development, implementation, and sustainability. Community project coordinators receive guided assistance through the resource center, community project workshops, and special services tailored to each particular project. Our services are designed to meet the needs of small community projecats while often impacting the populations about its perimeter.

The Problem Solving for Better Health (PSBH®) methodology is utilized during SBL’s workshops for the development of its community projects. PSBH® is based on the knowledge that health is both a product of, and a vital factor in, community development. The PSBH model was developed in 1988, to be used as a tool to enable individuals in a community to identify solutions to local problems. It is the centerpiece of the Dreyfus Health Foundation mission, the SBL affiliate organization.

SBL Workshop

Our next workshop will be held on September 4 – 5, 2009. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please go to the link and complete the questionnaire. All questionnaires must be completed by August 8, 2009, 11:59 p.m. CST. Workshop participants will be selected on the basis of a specific set of criteria. Projects that are developed during the workshop will be identified and chosen for support based on their probability in becoming fiscally sustainable programs. Selected projects will receive funding as well as additional services that will assist in the development of a viable programs for the community.

Complete the questionnaire at www.sblhouston.com

Anyone can apply. All you need is a great community project idea. For further information you can contact Valerie D. Jackson at (281) 236-3989. You can also visit the website to view previously awarded projects.

Denise Lee & Roberto Minervini are cofounders of two Houston/NYC-based companies, Pulpa Entertainment and Urban Trees Developers, both currently doing projects in Texas. Denise is a former lawyer turned multi-faceted artist/writer/developer who studied fashion design at Parsons and is currently working with David Henry Hwang to adapt his Pulitzer-prize nominated play “The Dance and the Railroad” into a film. Roberto is an Italian-born award-winning writer, director and lecturer who recently won the Grand Remi Award “Best of Houston” at the 2009 Houston Worldfest film festival. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema History from the Universidad Aut√≥noma of Madrid.

Pulpa Entertainment is a media/entertainment company hard at work on the feature film “Marfa Red,” a contemplative indie film about a road trip through West Texas, to be shot in July of 2009.

Urban Trees Developers is a real estate development company, currently building 2 single-family LEED-certified homes in Montrose. Done in collaboration with award-winning architect Jim Evans from Collaborative Designworks, these homes feature sustainable modern design with a boutique attention to detail.

Founded in 1986, Gensym Corporation is a leading provider of rule engine software and services for mission-critical solutions that automate decisions in real time. Gensym’s flagship G2 software applies real-time rule technology for decisions that optimize operations and that detect, diagnose, and resolve costly problems. With G2, the world’s largest organizations in manufacturing, utilities, communications, transportation, aerospace, finance, and government maximize the agility of their business and achieve greater levels of performance.

Major users include ABB, Alcan, BP, Dow Chemical, DuPont, El Paso Energy, Eli Lilly, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Ford, Hitachi, HP, JEA, Lafarge, Motorola, Nokia, Panama Canal, Tokyo Electric and Power, Toyota, the U.S. government and many others.

Gensym and its numerous partners deliver a range of services throughout the world, including training, software support, application consulting, and complete solutions.

Wellstorm has built a software platform that collects, analyzes, and distributes “enterprise drilling information.”

Drilling is one of the most capital intensive activities in oil and gas production. As a key aspect of optimizing drilling operations, oil companies are demanding that drilling contractors and service companies deliver drilling information to them electronically. A new family of standards have emerged — WITSML (pronounced “wits emm ell”) — which stands for “Well Information Transfer Standard Markup Language”; and Wellstorm has been a leader in the definition and implementation of those standards.

So now there are all these new data types describing all kinds of activity on the rig. Some data are used for real time decision making about geosteering or drilling. Some data are used more retrospectively. Some data enables developing new analytical techniques along with new ways of incorporating operational data into back office business processes.

Wellstorm software serves as an aggregation point for all this data. Oil company engineers and geologists connect third party applications to a Wellstorm server to receive real time data, to query historical data and to make operational decisions.

Beyond supporting daily operations, Wellstorm offers business intelligence analysis based on that data so that oil companies can optimize their drilling performance. Getting the most value for their drilling dollar is a major concern for North American land operators, who are drilling more more than half the wells in the world at any given time. Wellstorm analytics help an oil company compare drilling operations across their contractors, rigs, crews, and regions to identify and remove inefficiencies in order to drill more wells more effectively.

Erdos Miller is an engineering firm based in Houston, TX that designs and builds custom electronic devices. Their services include design engineering, PCB layout, software development, automation, and more. The company has extensive experience in various industries, including automotive and oilfield down-hole.

EM is planning on collaborating with the Houston Technology Collective, another Caroline Collective member, to teach hands on technology classes. Send an email to info@erdosmiller for ideas on any classes that you would like to see. Stay tuned for topics and dates.

SBL’s project management team works directly with community coordinators with providing seed funding, management, development, organizational structuring, financial projections and budgeting, public relations, marketing concepts, project efficacy assessment, and expansion planning. Community project coordinators receive guided assistance through the resource center, community project workshops, and other program educational services.

Learn more at http://www.sblhouston.com/