the power of collaboration!

Dear friends,
My first update is coming to you a few weeks later than I had wished, and I will work on increasing my communication. This has been an exciting couple weeks! We have done several collaborations since I last wrote, and are finding our place in the Anchorage community. As recent members of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, we have worked with the Anchorage Chamber and Art Services North on their Clean Sweep Celebration, part of the Anchorage Clean Up Week, providing creative solutions and our creative team for the event. We were also asked to provide a workshop for UAA's Small Business Development Center Business Women's Breakfast on 5/27/09 on the power of collaboration, using improvisation and brainstorming to increase ideas, connections and collaboration options. We taught the approximately 50 women (and a few men) how to communicate, network and be more creative as a group. It was well received, and we were able to watch the fruits of our labor when several of those same women and men attended the Anchorage Chamber/ACVB/BNI Business Blender later that day at the Dimond Center. It was a great event, our workshop was well received that day, and we are looking forward to more great events! We have found that the more we work on creating relationships with the people we connect with, the more options there are out there for collaboration, for work, for recognition. We appreciate our contacts and have found wonderful people in the process! Keep on connecting with one another; you will find that it WORKS!