She is a former Board Member of the Bay Area Organization Development Network (BAodn), Admissions Chair for American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), and Chair for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Crime Prevention and Safety Committee. She is an adjunct professor, and has taught and presented at Lao American College, Laos, and the National Hispanic University, San Jose. in Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco, a M.S. MORE

Sandy even offers a link to a clip showing this (right-click and save the target) … Back to the props with Kathy Klotz of San Jose, California: My audience expects my speaking to be fun – by nature of what I do (my backgrounds are in improvisation and marketing). MORE

The third Pecha Kucha Night – San Jose is this Tuesday, June 29. Tags: Diary Event 20 images 20 seconds chit chat networking pecha kucha public speaking San Jose What are you doing this Tuesday, June 29th? Can you say PECHA KUCHA ? Yeah, neither can I. MORE

After months of planning, today we get to share our magical creations with our fellow co-workers as well as the broader San Jose, CA community. The Albertson Halloween House is created by the community (neighbors, co-workers, school friends and more) in the Northside neighborhood in San Jose, CA having been a regular Halloween favorite for 15 years. San Jose, Calif. MORE

All you local folks should come to tonight’s very first Pecha Kucha event at The Improv downtown San Jose. Tags: Event pecha kucha presentation San Jose Pecha Kucha is an community-run gathering and presentation environment where each presenter gets 20 slides that each last 20 seconds. The format constraint forces presenters to assemble their thoughts into concise and clear frameworks. It’s become a global phenomenon where creative ideas are shared. MORE

Rebecca Linquist helps Eugen Roman, lose his Romanian accent at her Campbell office as reporoted to Patrick Tehan of the San Jose Mercury News/MCT   SAN JOSE, Calif. — Native English-speakers found it too much work when conversation went beyond small talk, said the electrical engineer from San Jose. Not long ago, Helen Moore got lost in San Jose and asked for directions. "I grew up in San Jose, so you grow up with all that. MORE

The average rent in San Jose, according to Axiometrics is $2,500. The seduction of Silicon Valley is huge. We ghostwriters, even on the Other Coast, play with the idea of taking a crack at the market. MORE

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Watermark Conference for Women in San Jose. About 6,500 attendees, 95% of them women by my estimate, gathered for talks on diversity, inclusion, women’s issues, careers, and trailblazing/innovating/disrupting/leading change. MORE

16 – San Francisco Chronicle 312,118 354,752. 25 – The San Diego Union-Tribune 261,253 330,848. 31 – San Jose Mercury News 227,119 244,661. 40 – San Antonio Express News 192,930 303,737. MORE

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Watermark Conference for Women in San Jose. About 6,500 attendees, 95% of them women by my estimate, gathered for talks on diversity, inclusion, women’s issues, careers, and trailblazing/innovating/disrupting/leading change. I left the conference energized and inspired. MORE

The sixth Pecha Kucha Night – San Jose is just around the corner! If you’re interested in diving into a highly creative, low-risk presentation environment, Pecha Kucha is for you. Each speaker presents 20 slides, for 20 seconds each. MORE

He watched Orange County and the San Jose area go from agricultural land to what they are today, as urban growth multiplied land values. Jack Sramek is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former Marine Corps Fighter Pilot. He flew 125 combat missions in Vietnam as a member of the famous “Blacksheep Squadron” and served as the personal aide to Lt. General Lewis W. Walt, commander of all Marines in Vietnam. Upon leaving [.] MORE

The convocation speaker at the May 23, 2013 San Jose State University graduation ceremony for Communications, Journalism and PR students was René Shimada Siegel, the President and Founder of High Tech Connect. MORE

I also checked out San Jose, California. Leased Access TV Did you know that you can buy a half hour of air time on a cable station for as little as $15.00? This is not pie in the sky or hocus pocus. This is “leased access” TV. The government mandates rates for one channel on all cable stations in the USA. Of course, the cable companies hate this, but they really don’t have a choice in the matter. MORE

One grand prize contest winner will receive a FREE seat to DeFinis Communications’ Building Professional Presence program on either September 22 nd in Mill Valley, CA, or October 15 th in San Jose, CA. Tags: Presentation Skills Angela DeFinis Building Professional Presence contest DeFinis Communications Distinctive Language Encore free Mill Valley Physical Presence presentation professional public speaking public seminar Roadmap to Success San Jose Vocal Resonance MORE

38 mins ago « Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 30, 2008 Silicon Valley Sightings: San Jose Mercury News » 67 How to Successfully Moderate a Conference Panel, A Comprehensive Guide Categories: Conference Posted on January 30th, 2008 Yesterday, I moderated another panel, ( here’s a review ) and I’m told by the conference organizers it went well. MORE

After months of planning, today we get to share our magical creations with our fellow co-workers as well as the broader San Jose, CA community. San Jose, Calif. Special Guests: The South Bay Blazers (San Jose’s local Quidditch team) said they would make an appearance! MORE

The third Pecha Kucha Night – San Jose is this Tuesday, June 29. Tags: Diary Event 20 images 20 seconds chit chat networking pecha kucha public speaking San Jose What are you doing this Tuesday, June 29th? Can you say PECHA KUCHA ? Yeah, neither can I. MORE

Have you seen this week’s Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal? Tags: Business Event Strategy business jounral business profile San Jose silicon valley If so, you may have seen the Business Profile on Duarte Design! Exciting. MORE

Omid Kordestani at San Jose State University, 2007 : At the time of this speech, Omid Kordestani was still the Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations for Google. MORE

I wanted to find out if you are still accepting speaking proposals for the Business of Software conference happening in San Jose, California this October. Business of Software Blog The business of software. Building long term, sustainable and profitable software businesses. MORE

Earlier this week, a few of us Duartians went to my alma mater, San Jose State , to check out their Senior Designer BFA Show. Design Diary Event BFA exhibition Graphic Design Make Shift San Jose SJSU MORE

The Ragan Social Media Summit, hosted by Cisco Systems, was held in San Jose June 9-11, 2010. The event promised the latest Web 2.0 strategies for PR, marketing and corporate communications. Attendees generated over 2,700 tweets under the hashtag #ragancisco. Twitter is ephemeral. It only maintains 10-14 days of content, so this information will soon disappear. However, [.]. MORE

San Jose Mercury News. We are only three months into 2018. But, already, members of the liberal media have announced large layoffs. At conservative Breitbart , John Nolte gleefully lists the carnage. MORE

He watched Orange County and the San Jose area go from agricultural land to what they are today, as urban growth multiplied land values. Jack Sramek is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former Marine Corps Fighter Pilot. He flew 125 combat missions in Vietnam as a member of the famous “Blacksheep Squadron” and served as the personal aide to Lt. General Lewis W. Walt, commander of all Marines in Vietnam. Upon leaving [.] MORE

On Wednesday after Reboot, Nancy & Mark Duarte headed up to San Francisco to the fabulous Fairmont Hotel for the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s 2009 Women of Influence Awards. MORE

The San Jose Mercury-News offers an approach that nods to the trite nature of most commencement speeches : a fill-in-the-blanks "Mad Libs" style speech , with words you can choose from to fill in the blanks, leaving almost nothing to choice. MORE

He watched Orange County and the San Jose area go from agricultural land to what they are today, as urban growth multiplied land values. Jack Sramek is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former Marine Corps Fighter Pilot. He flew 125 combat missions in Vietnam as a member of the famous “Blacksheep Squadron” and served as the personal aide to Lt. General Lewis W. Walt, commander of all Marines in Vietnam. Upon leaving [.] MORE

This coming Tuesday, February 23rd, is Pecha Kucha Night San Jose: Round 2! Tags: Delivery 20x20 pecha kucha San Jose sonoma chicken coop The event will be held from 7-10pm at the Sonoma Chicken Coop in downtown Campbell. Photo Courtesy of Klein Dytham Architecture. MORE

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Meanwhile, the longer-term existence of once powerful brandnames in journalism, ranging from the San Jose Mercury News to the Orange County Register, is also in peril. Loyalists to the old-line print newspaper industry are fighting to keep them alive. The battle for the life of the Denver Post has gone high-profile. The business issue, though, is: Do those newspapers have a right to die - that is, after milking them for profit.  MORE

This is occurring when the Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, and Orange County Register are also in the fight for their lives. Yet another media outlet with a print legacy admits it's dancing on the rim of extinction. MORE

It's being called "The Miracle of the San Jose Mine." " Through becoming "a doggedly disciplined unit," as THE WALL STREET JOURNAL reporter Matthew Moffett describes it, 33 miners in Chile got lucky.    They survived.    Well, if we know the publishing industry and Hollywood they are bound to get lucky a second time.    There will be a book or books and one of those "Eat, Pray, Love" films.  MORE