We’re huge fans, and really encourage you checking out the site any day of the week. We especially encourage you to take a peek in the next day or so though. They’re currently offering an online Masters Class called “Bridging the Gap Between Technique and Technology.” The series includes a number of podcasts for dance instructors, with tips focused on helping dance studios grow their businesses. Susan Blake Gerety (Founder of DanceStudioOwner) has organized a great line up of folks to interview, and this week, they interviewed your’s truly on the topic of “Technology For Teachers.”
Early Birds… Doors open at 10am and there’s extra shwag for first 30 customers! Get there early and get a FREE shwag bag filled with goodies from EtsyRAIN members.
And don’t forget, the craft show is free, but please bring a donation to the Cherry Street Food Bank.
There are two ways to be entered to win: (1) Contact Sur La Table about taking one of their upcoming classes or (2) Write an article on TeachStreet which includes the subject “cooking”. The article can be on anything: a favorite food you learned to cook while traveling, which spices you think are “must haves” in any kitchen, a favorite recipe to satisfy your sweet tooth, a story of a kitchen disaster.
Articles and contacts must be completed by May 4th.
Prizes: Winner will receive a free cooking class for any of Sur La Table’s cooking classes in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco or New York during 2009.
Write an essay on the topic “How I remember my mother’s cooking”. It could be about a favorite dish, a special occasion or maybe a meal that didn’t go quite right. Write about how your mom, or another special person you raised you, left an indelible memory for you via their cooking.
Essay must be 250 words or less and be entered by May 4th. (*Check out the Bon Vivant website for details about how to email in essay. For bonus points, include your essay as a cooking article on TeachStreet!)
Prizes: 1st Prize – Two gift certificates to a hands-on cooking class at Bon Vivant before June 2010. 2nd Prize – A Sabatier tomato knife. 3rd Priza – A Stainless Steel Sabatier Spatula
They’re our current interns (Amanda, Annie and Gracie), and they just LOVE working for us.
If you’d like to join our team this spring and/or summer, check out our job posting for full details about what we’re looking for and how to apply.
To whet your appetite, here’s the basic overview:
Job Type: Internship. 10 hour/week (minimum), 15-20+ hours desired with 3-6 months commitment (with a two-week “trial” period for us to make sure we love each other). College credit available if school approves. Internships are paid; amount based on experience. All candidates should have their own laptop computer.
Intern Descriptions: Basically we’re looking for super smart, outgoing, Jacks-and-Jills-of-all-trades. All candidates should be optimistic, incredibly flexible and have a just-do-it attitude! (We have a strong “no sniveling” policy here at TeachStreet and we want proven “self-starters”.) Oh, you should also love learning new things.
We’re looking for undergrads of senior standing (outstanding juniors may also apply) as well as graduate school candidates (MBA’s etc.). Focus areas for internship will depend on intern’s background, expertise and the needs of the company. Four main focus areas for internships are: (1) Data & Quantitative analysis, (2) Customer Services/Community/Sales, (3) Engineering and (4) Product marketing, research and business development.
If you’re a parent of young ‘uns, you’re in luck because Penny’s Puppets are back in town!
Penny is one of the best puppeteers in the West and is coming to Seattle for shows at the Seattle Children’s Museum Feb 19th and 20th. Her shows are evoke the kids’ imagination, and are a fun mix of children’s music, theater and art! Even more fun is that the Friday show is going to be in congunction with the museum’s Baby Sign Language class that day.
You may have heard that recently (just last week), we had our UGC launch.
For those of us in geek land, UGC stands for User Generated Content. This means that all of our great instructors and learners can now write articles to show off their expertise or things they’d like to learn. Plus, for those seeking fame and glory, writing articles will help folks rank higher on TeachStreet search results, appear on our homepage and get their writing indexed by the Powers That Be (Google).
We were happy to learn however, that UGC also stands for something else…
Unusually Great Cupcakes!
Thanks Kim and the folks at Trophy Cupcakes (best cupcakes in Seattle, if you ask me), for giving us the sugar high to push through to the finish line.
Sam & Natala (our fearless and tireless Product Team)
Phil & Daryn (The dudes who wrote the code and got it D-O-N-E!)
Dak & Jim (The guys who made it pretty)
Our ever-cheerful Community Team — Katie, Joseph, Gracie, and Harold
(With special guest & team mascot Jim)
Sick of Cosmo’s? Ready for something a little more sophisticated than that same old Lemon Drop? Want to be able to belly up the bar and sound like you actually know what you’re talking about? I recently became acquainted with Jeffrey Shilling of Epic Odyssey, and thought I’d share with you this great upcoming event that is just in time for an awesome pre-Valentine’s Day date night.
Here’s the concept:
Passport 2 Cocktails: Meet up at a hip bar with a great bunch of folks and learn everything you ever wanted to know about cocktails and premium spirit by hanging with the pro’s — Seattle’s best bartenders (and Jeffrey, one of Seattle’s best entertainment event planners).
This Tuesday (Feb 3rd) marks the first in a series of fun classes on libations. Check-in starts at 5:30pm at Rob Roy on 2nd Ave in Seattle. Pre-registration for this event is required. Because this is Passport 2 Cocktails’ first event, Epic Odyssey is offering a pretty fab launch special:
Sign up to be a Passport 2 Cocktails member by February 3rd ($40) & receive free admission to your first event PLUS 50% off your second event ($30 savings). (You pick and chose which events you attend, so even if you can’t make this event, sign up now and get your first event for free!)
That means that if you were one of the ~200 folks in the last eight days to send us great feedback, welcome constructive criticism, site bugs, and questions about how to use TeachStreet, you probably felt like you’d sent an e-mail into The Great Void.
First, our apologies. We’re moving fast in the wake of our biggest launch yet, but our customers and members come first. Please know that we think you’re fabulous — we’re not ignoring you!
Second, we’re back up and running. This bug was fixed within about 2 hours of finding it.
Third, we’re working like mad to get back to all of you who wrote us notes and sent us questions. Our normal response time is 24 hours (one biz day). Due to the volume of catch-up we need to do, we hope to have all of our responses out by Monday (Dec 1).
For the record, here’s how you can get in touch with TeachStreet if you’ve got questions, feedback or if you have a problem with the site.
Call us: (206) 381-0652 or toll free at (877) 832-2470
E-mail us directly at customer-service@teachstreet.com
Use our (now fully functioning) Contact Us form on the site
And fear not! You’ll be hearing back from us soon.
