Happy New Year from PCBC!

A little Happy New Year video from me and my six year old daughter. So long 2008... looking forward to meeting 2009.

Mike Sturdivant
12/31/08

Sneak Peek at PCBC 2009

I'm finding time during the holidays to enjoy my favorite seasonal beers (Sierra Nevada Celebration, Alaskan Winter Ale and Widmer Brrr) and build the new PCBC web site (not at the same time). Here's a sneak peek at the new site.

Happy Holidays from PCBC

I recently read "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens to my six year old daughter. She laid very quiet and still each night as I did my best to read 8-10 pages. It's a great book, but 1850's English writing is a little tricky to read. After I had finished she told me her favorite part was Tiny Tim's family getting the prize turkey.

It's been about a week since we finished the book. I have been comparing the book to about a half dozen movie versions. All the films have little twists or interpretations that make them all unique. One thing does seem to be consistent and I think it's my favorite part.

It's the final words of Ebenezer Scrooge to The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come...

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!"

Have a very wonderful holiday and may the spirit of the season be with you throughout the year!

Seth Godin: Keynote Speaker at PCBC 2009

Best-selling author Seth Godin will be the Closing Keynote Speaker at PCBC 2009. His best-selling books include "Permission Marketing", "The Big Moo", "Free Prize Inside", "All Marketers Are Liars", "The Dip", and his latest book "Tribes - We Need You to Lead Us". He is also the founder and CEO of Squidoo.com and his blog http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/ is one of the most popular in the world.

Seth will be speaking at PCBC on Friday, June 19 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

$9 Billion Housing Project

Interesting article from Fast Company (Issue 131) about Enterprise Community Builders and how they plan to take on the credit crunch with innovative financing and a green-building initiative.
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PCBC 2009 Registration UPDATE

We have decided to open registration and general housing on Wednesday, January 28 at http://www.pcbc.com. Formally I said registration would open on Thursday, January 15.

"Tribes" - Are You a Leader?

One of our favorite speakers at PCBC through the years is Seth Godin. "Permission Marketing", "The Big Moo", "Free Prize Inside" and "All Marketers Are Liars" have basically become required reading materials for our staff. His newest bestseller is called "Tribes - We Need You to Lead Us".

The book is about tribes - any group of people who are connected to another, a leader and an idea. We have had tribes forever, but now with the internet the barriers of geography, cost and time have been eliminated. Blogs and social networking sites are enabling new tribes to created daily. Who are going to lead all these tribes? Seth builds the argument that anyone passionate about an idea can become a leader. You could become a tribe leader.

Good book. It's been added to our in-house required reading. Keep them coming Seth.