What a great visit we had to Joovy warehouse in Irvine!  Joovy has been a Golden Comm client launching a new site within the past six months.  We have some big strategic plans for 2012 and can’t wait to be a part of such a great company’s growth.

Audra, Greg and Alexandra loving the new 4x4 Ride-On

Greg Gardner, Vice President Operations graciously showed us around the warehouse and showcased some new products and upcoming  ideas.  As you can see these toys are not just for Joovy kids!  For some great gift ideas check out Joovy Toys.

Audra, GC Sr. Project Manager, having too much fun on Bicycoo!

Last night I was invited to participate in Muzeo Bowl IV charity event for Muzeo’s ENIRO arts education program with the OC Fine Arts Storage Team, a company that specializes in the storage and installation of art installments,  and what a BLAST that was! Muzeo is one of the newest museums in Southern California, and hosts some of the coolest world-renowned exhibits. Right now they have a really neat Gold Exhibit featuring gold from the year 700 and 1100 AD  from now until May 29th with a really cool Chocolate Exhibit following that in June, so if you are an OC Choc-aholic, get your fix and make a day of visiting the museum in June.

The ENIRO progam is a program for at-risk youth and school children to allow them to visit the museum and expose them to wonders of art and history. Kids can always use our support, so if you would like to make a contribution to the museum and their arts education program, visit here.

The event was pretty amazing! The 300 Anaheim is a great bowling facility to host any party or event. The food and service was top notch, and the overall bowling experience was exceptional. In attendance were business and teams from all over Orange County including Pacific Enterprise Bank Corp, Anaheim Union High School District, the Anaheim Ducks POWER PLAY GIRLS, the Mayor of Anaheim Tom Tait, and more! Special thanks to the Muzeo Bowl IV Committee for all of their hard work, and especially Sandra Day for being such an amazing  and inviting host.

It was a great honor for Golden Comm to be in attendance with Got Scrap?/SA Recycling last night for the OC METRO Green Team Event.

It was held at Sole Technologies, which is “the world’s first and only skateboarding-focused biomechanics research organization that tests and invents new technologies in order to develop the highest performing action sports footwear in the world.” It was a terrific night filled with yummy food, desserts and friendly advocates of a greener world.

At the event, Got Scrap held two contests for the guests: who could guess how many cans were in this bale and how many they they thought the bale weighed. The winner of each contest will receive an iPad and will be announced on their Facebook Page!

Beach Pit BBQ has joined forces with Saddleback Church’s PEACE Relief Mission Program to help aid Japan. On Monday, March 28th 2011, 50% of sales from all 6 Beach Pit BBQ locations will be donated directly to locally operated charities to help aid the earthquake and tsunami victims in Sendai, Japan. Saddleback’s program has also agreed to match Beach Pit’s contributions by up to $30,000.

The tragedy in Japan hits close to home for owner and former Professional Baseball player, Tim DeCinces. As a youth, Tim lived in Japan while his father, also a Professional Baseball player, played for the Yakult Swallows. Currently, Tim is working with the Japanese professional baseball team, Rakuten Eagles who play in Sendai, Japan to give the money directly to their community to help aid their relief efforts.

Come on in and enjoy some California Style southern-smoke BBQ on Monday, March 28th and support Beach Pit’s effort to help the Japan victims! There are 6 locations in Orange County including: Costa Mesa, Tustin, Old Towne Orange, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, and Huntington Beach.

January 13th was a busy day for Golden Comm. We hosted the Vistage Group led by Philippe Cesson. Cesson came to talk to all of us about the benefits of incorporating Social Media into our businesses.

You can learn more about Philippe Cesson and his business at Cesson.com

Thank you to California State University of Fullerton (CSUF) for having a business course (currently being attended by Lauren, featured here) that challenges their students to write a consultant’s analytical report on corporate community outreach.

The business students recommended that Golden Communications team with The Big Green Box, a company that recycles office e-waste products.

GC has already ordered and received its first Big Green Box and proudly have it displayed in the lobby.

GC’s goal is to partner with The Big Green Box and to encourage proper e-waste disposal to our clients and social network community. GC is offering our clients (up to 50) at no cost to them, their own Big Green Box.

It is exciting to see our social awareness initiative implemented at GC and making a difference in our environment!

37Signals gives a great example of accentuating the positive when communicating with customers.

TechCrunch wonders if it’s time for Microsoft to change its culture. They have an interesting analysis:

The trouble, I feel, lies in the middle layer of the cake — as it does so often in real life (damn the jelly). The issue is that the best ideas often occur on the lowest levels, as much because those levels are highly populated as that they are the youngest and freshest, and these ideas must trickle up…. Unfortunately, when you factor in the inevitable corporate friction, you’re looking at years of development for a product which may or may not even be worthwhile. By the time the sausage is made, everyone has already moved on to quail…

Microsoft is simply too big and too inflexible to really push truly interesting products out the door as fast as they need to. This isn’t any sort of big revelation, but it’s a problem with a solution: turn the company upside-down…. The Microsoft method of slowly advancing employees’ responsibilities has created so many middle men that there is hardly any other kind of person working there any more.

Yes, people really do work at Google – and, we love them (especially when they work for our clients).

Pictured above: Audra Gussin (GC) and Beth Hardy (Google).

Beth heads up GoldenComm’s Account Team at Google. Basically, our advocate and advisor. We want to thank Beth, Chris and all our team members at Google who work hard for us (and our clients). You are so appreciated!

If you were lucky enough to catch this incredible event, Google owned, GMail was down for about 10 minutes  this afternoon just a little after 1pm PST.

Today September 1, 2009, Google's Gmail server is down.