
What is a Community Manager?
The Community Manager is a big part of what sets coworking spaces apart from traditional office space, but it’s not always clear to people what Community Managers do. Short answer: they do it all. Hi, I’m Alice, the Community Manager at our Surge South Tacoma location, and here is a little insight into why our …

Member Spotlight: Gary Burkhart, Craft Beer Source
Tell us about your business! We are Craft Beer Source. We represent local breweries in a sales capacity. We have a passion for beer and educating people on our industry and what we have to offer. It was the frustration of others controlling our destiny and not allowing us the creativity and freedom to bring beer out …
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South Tacoma Points of Interest
We have started putting together a map of all the local restaurants and shops in South Tacoma, Lakewood and the surrounding area to inspire our Surge South Tacoma members to try new places! Check out the map here and if you have any suggestions for places to add, let us know! Post updated 2/5/2020. Please …

Member Spotlight: Tim Jaasko-Fisher, TJF Consulting LLC
TJF Consulting, LLC provides expert facilitation, training, and mentoring to help people and organizations thrive in complexity. My work ranges from doing short presentations and individual executive coaching to designing large scale strategic planning and change initiatives on the national level. Currently, I am working on a wide range of issues, such as preventing and improving …
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Member Spotlight: Donna Thompson
Tell us about yourself! I help small businesses and nonprofit organizations share their stories with the world. My projects are tailored to specific needs and include creative services like marketing campaigns, brochures and catalogs, print and electronic newsletters, WordPress websites, writing and editing, communications training, social media and graphics of all kinds. Throughout my career …

Member Spotlight: Stacey Romero
Stacey Romero owns Words Para Todos and is a fluent Spanish/English interpreter and translator. Her journey into the field is interesting! Like many of us, I work in a couple of different fields, and over the course of my life, several different fields. For the purposes of a coherent spotlight, I’m focusing on the one …

Member Spotlight: Purple Cow Publishing
I am Catherine L. Grider, the creator of the Yum and Yam books and Purple Cow Publishing. I’ve taught hundreds of beginning readers for the last 29 years in either Kindergarten or Junior Kindergarten in both the public and independent settings. For years I’d searched for a phonics series of only emergent books for my …

Member Spotlight: Seasoned Innovations LLC
Richard Moore builds websites and custom web apps. After years as a consultant, he’s ready to build his own business where he can help other businesses to make informed and smart decisions to grow their business and cut costs. Tell us about your business! My company name is Seasoned Innovations LLC. We build and maintain …