B&M The Power of Outreach. Regardless of whether you are launching a new product, a new business or a new organizational initiative, you need a team around you to be successful. But what do you do in these times, if you or your craft make you a single practitioner or a solo-entrepreneur? Now, more than […]
Today’s Keith Spiro Communicast post in the Manchester Ink Link talks about a pedestrian crosswalk transformed by an artsy repeating image of cats. The stencil was created by the creative team at Orbit Group and David Hedy was my key contact to all the excitement.I remembered the old children’s song THE CAT CAME BACK that […]
Who defines breaking news? And what dictates what a newspaper prints to be important enough to present to the reader? Shouldn’t the community take hold of the narrative of what is important to community and what matters to us most? […]
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Boston & Maine Connection: Celebrating Valentine’s Day All Month Long Valentine’s Day has become a day of exchanging positive greetings at every level including family and friends and grade school, children exchanging cards if they are physically in classrooms these days. The origin of Valentine’s Day was a Roman festival celebrating spring which has […]
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My three words for 2021. Guiding words rather than New Year Resolutions. My three words for 2021: Directness – Flexibility – Action Guiding words rather than New Year Resolutions. After a year filled with all kinds of surprises, I’ve learned to pace myself, accept that I can’t predict today, let alone anything in the future, […]
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Thank you, Notorious RBG. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, best known to young folks as Notorious RBG, has left an indelible mark on our country. She was a woman of valor, a woman of strength and compassion. Fierce in the face of injustice, she has been and her legacy will continue to be a role model for […]
Times of adversity stretch you. Topsham Public Library’s Executive Director Susan Preece and I explored the question, “How do you get a community together when you are not physically in the building?” […]
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The Boston & Maine Connection – One Room Schoolhouse Covid19 edition So, how are you? How are you really doing? For many of us, this is no longer just trite throwaway greeting but a rather serious question in a time of a globe-trotting pandemic. I find it heartening to see the number of people and […]
Exploring the synergy between art & business. We all need communication vehicles that share the great things happening in our communities. Some are digital. Some are print. All need to build relationships and trust in the partnership between readers and those who desire to earn the right to reach them. […]
We can learn from children as easily as they learn by observing us. […]