Posted by Amy Kardel on Tue, Jun 30, 2009 @ 05:05 PM
Congrats to Bob Hather for a successful year at the helm of the Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo. For more info see www.slorotary.org Our focus this year was clean water to the Third World. I hope Bob forgives me for squirting him with a mega squirt gun at the demotion! He was all geared up for it after all!
Julie Aguilar is our incoming president and just back from the international meeting in Birmingham, England.
Posted by Amy Kardel on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 @ 03:29 PM
On Saturday, May 30th, the San Luis Obispo County Bicycle Coalition honored Clever Ducks Computer Network Services with a Livable Community Award to celebrate the company’s dedication to promoting bicycle transportation. For the last two years, Clever Ducks has generously donated office space to the Bicycle Coalition, which has made it possible for the organization to achieve enormous success in advocating for better bikeways. “We are enormously grateful for the support of Clever Ducks” said Adam Fukushima, executive director of the Bicycle Coalition. “Without them, we simply wouldn’t be able to do the work that we do.” One other organization and an individual also received the award this year: the San Luis Obispo Bike Club and volunteer Gary Havas.
Clever Ducks is in good company. Past recipients of the award include the City of San Luis Obispo, Congresswoman Lois Capps, bicycle educators Kevin Christian and Rod Hoadley, and SLO City Planner Peggy Mandeville.
The awards is presented annually during May’s Bike Month to individuals and organizations which have made significant contributions to bicycling and walking in San Luis Obispo County.
Posted by Amy Kardel on Mon, Jun 15, 2009 @ 06:13 PM
It is Clever Ducks pleasure to donate office space to our friends, the Bicycle Coallition. They have made us proud over with lots of accomplishments. We love how they make cycling safer for kids, easier for commuters and appreciated by everyone.
Kudos to Adam and Dan for a job well done! You can feel proud of your many accomplishments. We are glad to play a small part in your success.
Over the last five years, the Bicycle Coalition has had so many triumphs. They include:
- working with Sacramento, Congress, and local agencies to secure $3 million for the railroad safety trail, $500,000 for the Bob Jones Trail and over $6 million for other bicycle and pedestrian projects
- The county's first bicycle only traffic signal--one of only five in the country!
- The county's first bicycle boulevard
- The county's first sharrows
- More bike lanes and wider bike lanes all over the county
- Improved sweeping of bike lanes
- Passage of new laws such as Complete Streets, the Bicycle Commuter Act, and Safe Routes to School
- Over 13,000 bikes parked with our bike valet service
- Expansion of our Bicycle Confidence Workshops
- Bicycling improvements put in the top budget goals for the City of SLO for the last four years
Posted by Amy Kardel on Mon, Jun 15, 2009 @ 04:48 PM
Jessica likes it when boxes show up. Here she is posing with a delivery of HP workstations.
Posted by Amy Kardel on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 @ 09:15 AM
Amy Kardel, of Clever Ducks, will help busy professionals optimize productivity when using the tools most at hand every day: Microsoft Outlook and mobile devices, with a focus on Blackberry. By gaining control of both tools, you will get better business results while reducing stress and staying in sync with the flood of emails that come your way.
Although these devices serve as your primary access to calendar events, emails and other tasks, they often become a distraction because of the amount of information that is often thrown at you. By effectively leveraging both tools, you will find it is possible to stay on task and sort through the clutter. Amy can help make life simpler by setting up some systems, using some tricks and understanding some advanced functions of your technology.
Friday, June 26 12-1 pm at Collaborations Office at 3196 S. Higuera Street, Suite D, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
RSVP for your free lunch at
http://www.collaboration-llc.com/upcoming-programs/educational-business-lunch/
Amy Kardel Bio
Amy Kardel brings over fifteen years of proven results and professional experience in the operations of international and high tech business to the job. She is the COO of Clever Ducks – Computer Network Services, a San Luis Obispo-based IT solution provider. A serial entrepreneur, she grew and then recently sold Global Accent Translation Services, a translation agency that provides technology, business and government with foreign language services. Amy loves to speak with other business leaders and share tips to help others grow their businesses.
Ms. Kardel completed degrees in UC Berkeley and Washington University, as well as graduate course work in at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Ms. Kardel returned to her native San Luis Obispo, California from Europe in 1993. She is active in the SLO Chamber of Commerce and Rotary. She enjoys living locally on the Central Coast while working globally with her husband Peter and four children.