Satellite Telework Center opens in downtown Felton
Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 12, 2009
FELTON — Boulder Creek contractor Eric Hammer wanted an office that was not so expensive and not so far from San Lorenzo Valley. Software architect Dave Davies wanted a faster Internet connection than what he had at home but didn’t want to drive 30 miles to his office in Sunnyvale.
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Protecting your business and client information against identity theft
A free seminar Thursday, July 29, at Satellite Telework Centers in Felton
Felton, Calif., July 21, 2010 – Identity theft rings are increasingly targeting small businesses and owners could be on the hook for thousands of dollars in fines, not to mention lawsuits from customers. Certified Information Security Advisor Tracy Lund will host a free seminar on Thursday, July 29, discussing what steps business owners can take to protect themselves.
Businesses called to step up role in ID theft protection
Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 18, 2010
In the past year, confidential client data has been stolen or illegally accessed at several Santa Cruz County businesses and health care provider offices, highlighting the need for businesses to play a heightened role in protecting data, according to data security specialists and local law enforcement officers.
CRUZIO INTERNET PARTNERS WITH SATELLITE TELEWORK CENTERS TO OPEN NEW COWORKING / TELEWORK FACILITY IN DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ
SANTA CRUZ, CALIF., July 6, 2010 – Satellite Telework Centers and Cruzio Internet announced today that they are partnering to open a new coworking/telework center in the former Sentinel Building in downtown Santa Cruz.
IDENTITY THEFT – PROTECTING YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR BUSINESS SEMINAR AT SATELLITE TELEWORK CENTERS JULY 8
FELTON, CALIF., July 1, 2010 – Risk management specialist Alan Smith with host a free seminar on protecting your family and business from identity theft on Thursday, July 8 at 7 p.m. at Satellite Telework Centers in Felton.
Identity theft is called the fastest growing white collar crime, affected between 10 million and 15 million consumers in 2009 and cost businesses and the economy upward of $50 billion annually. The Federal Trade Commission issued a study whose findings indicated that it takes an individual upward of 600 hours to repair damage done by identity thieves and estimated individual losses of $40,000 to $92,000.
Satellite wins top tech award: Magazine names Felton company in top 100 startups
Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 25, 2010
FELTON – Satellite Telework Centers on Thursday was been named one of North America’s top 100 most promising technology ventures by Red Herring Magazine.
SATELLITE TELEWORK CENTERS WINS RED HERRING 100 NORTH AMERICA AWARD
Builder of community telework centers joins prestigious list of innovative, industry-disrupting companies
Press release, June 25, 2010
Felton, Calif. – Satellite Telework Centers announced today that it has been named a winner of the Red Herring 100 North America awards for 2010. The award, whose past winners include Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce.com, is given to companies demonstrating the ability to disrupt an industry or create an entirely new industry via an innovative business model.
Nine to Five? Not for Long – Santa Cruzans are changing the way people work
Good Times, June 22, 2010
What does the future of work look like? For those struggling to find a job in this downturned economy, it may be difficult to look beyond the present to what the future may hold. But the silver lining to the terrible job market is that it shows us that the current way we work doesn’t, well, work for all of us. Many people are realizing that there are alternatives to the nine to five grind. And thanks to some Santa Cruz innovators, it’s now easier than ever to choose where, when, and how we want to work. According to them, the way we work in the future will be more flexible, under our control, and maybe even friendlier.
Jim Graham – Racing, tele-working, & battling multinationals
BoingBoing, June 18, 2010
Guestblogger Chris Arkenberg is co-founder of Augmented Reality Development Camp, strategic adviser to Hukilau, and a visiting researcher at Institute for the Future. Elsewhere: URBEINGRECORDED.
Jim Graham, AKA Ronjon, is Director of Marketing at The Satellite Telework Centers in Santa Cruz County, an avid Burning Man attendee who ran Media Mecca for several years, and Stock Bug class rally racer. He was one of the founders of the Felton Friends of Locally Owned Water (FLOW) movement that successfully re-claimed Felton water rights from the German multinational, RWE.
A New Take on Teleworking – Privately-Run Telework Centers
TDM Review, Spring 2010
Government agencies and corporations have experimented for decades with various strategies to modify commuting behavior and reduce traffic congestion. One strategy that has been revisited over the years has been the use of telework centers: professional shared workspace closer to knowledge workers’ homes.
Satellite finalist for award
Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 17, 2010
Satellite Telework Center in Felton is a finalist for Red Herring’s North America 100 award, a list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures. The Satellite co-working space offers cubicles, high-speed Internet and air conditioning in downtown Felton.
Satellite Telework Centers is a Finalist for the 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award
FELTON, CALIFORNIA, June 15, 2010 – Satellite Telework Centers announced today it has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring’s North America 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region.
Think Local First growing despite recession
Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 1, 2010
The recession has been bad for business, but Think Local First Santa Cruz County has seen membership grow nonetheless.
Felton work center expands to downtown Santa Cruz; Satellite brings competition to popular business
San Jose Mercury News, April 29, 2010
SANTA CRUZ – Out of the coffee shop and into the cubicle. That’s the trend in downtown Santa Cruz, anyway, as Felton’s Satellite Teleworking Center opens its second work space for telecommuters, independent consultants and the self-employed in the New Sentinel building on Church Street, next to Internet provider Cruzio and nonprofit Ecology Action.
Bucking the “Over the Hill” Drive
Pamelab, February 12, 2010
I dropped by the Satellite Telework Center today, a co-working space in downtown Felton, California. Founding partner Jim Graham poured a cup of coffee and sat down with me to report on this growing business’ progress.
Artwalk debuts Saturday
Santa Cruz Sentinel, December 11, 2009
Felton plans its first Artwalk and Sidewalk sale 1-4 p.m. Saturday at 6205-6265 Highway 9 across from New Leaf Market. Shoppers can follow the red balloon trail to participating businesses featuring artists and art receptions.
December 9, 2009, Felton, Calif. – Satellite Telework Centers will showcase four San Lorenzo Valley artists in support of the inaugural Felton Art Walk set for this Saturday, December 12 from 1-4 p.m. The artists at The Satellite include Felton painter Glenn Lyons, Felton photographer and author Marc Shargel, Boulder Creek jewelry maker John Shipp, and Felton photographer Larry Darnell.
The Free Marketplace: Freelancers Need Habitat, Too
Metro Santa Cruz, September 2, 2009
You’d think the easiest way to find out about the effectiveness of “co-working”–the phenomenon whereby work-at-homers, freelancers and other indie business strangers elect to set up shop in a building and find out what happens–is to ask the co-workers (not to be confused with the tradition-bound drones known as “co-workers”) themselves.
Fire evacuees get help from surprising source – common in the future?
Tuscon Citizen, August 19, 2009
Their latest Twitter message as I write this post is: “Satellite Telework Center in Felton open for free to lockheedfire evacuees who need a place to work or get wifi.” Further down another tweet says: “We’re offering free videoconferencing for Santa Cruz County military families.”
Community Rallies to Save Homes, Help Evacuees
KION, August 18, 2009
SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, Calif.- Nearly five days after the Lockheed Fire broke out in the hills above Daveport, some people are still out of their homes. Several hundred people living along Swanton Road and in the Last Chance neighborhoods, were directed to leave their homes behind when the fire broke out last Wednesday night.
Fire Briefs
Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 15, 2009
The Satellite Telework Center is offering families affected by the Lockheed fire a place to do work, get Internet access or fill out paperwork. The center, which has cubicles and open space, is at 6265 Highway 9 in Felton next to Don Quixote’s. Hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Face-to-face with your overseas soldier
SLV Press Banner, August 7, 2009
Free high-end videoconferences for military families with loved ones in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan are now available, thanks to a partnership between Felton-based Satellite Telework Center and an organization named Freedom Calls.
Satellite Telework Centers Teams with Freedom Calls Foundation to Offer Free Videoconferencing to Santa Cruz County Military Families
Press release, July 30, 2009
Satellite Telework Centers has teamed with the Freedom Calls Foundation to offer local military families free use of the Satellite’s videoconferencing system to speak with loved ones serving in Iraq and Kuwait.
Telework Center hosts luncheon
Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 26, 2009
The Satellite Telework Center will host a luncheon noon to 2 p.m. Friday at 6265 Highway 9 for the Monterey Bay International Trade Association. Presenters will include Barbara Sprenger and Jim Graham of Satellite Telework Centers, Dan Licata of WebEx Communications, Nick Dawson of Go Electronic and Christopher Lucas of IntoWorld.
RFID Lets Telework Center Get Down to Business
RFID Journal, May 19, 2009
Most entrepreneurs launch businesses by spreading out their research materials and laptops on dining room tables, or in home offices, then meeting with clients or business partners at, for instance, a corner coffee shop. Recognizing this to be true, Barbara Sprenger decided to start up a business of her own: the Satellite Telework Center. The facility—located in Felton, Calif., at the southern edge of Silicon Valley—opened this month, offering members a place for small businesses or other organizations to conduct meetings or just work in a quiet space, away from the distractions of home.
Satellite CEO Barbara Sprenger on Talk of the Bay
KUSP, May 3, 2009
Satellite Telework Centers CEO Barbara Sprenger joined NextSpace founder Jeremy Neuner and Los Gatos City Manager Greg Larson on KUSP’s “Talk of the Bay” to discuss the future of work in Santa Cruz County. Listen to the broadcast here (MP3).
“Be Global, Work Local” luncheon/seminar hosted May 29 by MBITA Santa Cruz Chapter
Press release, May 4, 2009
Virtual offices, online collaboration, remote working and social media marketing – once the domain of big companies – are revolutionizing how small businesses can compete in global markets.
LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS OPEN SATELLITE TELEWORK CENTERS IN FELTON
Press release, April 23, 2009
Three San Lorenzo Valley entrepreneurs have opened Satellite Telework Centers, offering high tech office and workspace in downtown Felton designed to appeal to Highway 17 commuters, home-based business owners and local entrepreneurs.
Lease Financing Makes Strong Tech Vendors Even Stronger
IT Business Edge, March 23, 2009
Barbara Sprenger, CEO of Satellite Telework Centers, wasn’t thinking much about obtaining financing while putting together the business plan for her startup, which is building and renting office space in suburbs of large cities. She is now, however.