Do you stress over getting a seat at the RIGHT table? Are you suffering from FOMO? This post was inspired by dinner on an overnight train to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We were seated with strangers just north of Baltimore but found ourselves celebrating dessert with these randomly created new friends in Washington DC, without […]
Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument
Happy 100th Birthday, National Park Service. How fitting that on the centennial of the National Park Service, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was declared official by the President of the United States. I was so pleased to have The Cryer select one of my images of Mt.Katahdin and the surrounding area for the September […]
Inspiration – reflections on Inspirefest Dublin Ireland
I had the pleasure of traveling to Ireland and participating in Inspirefest. Held in Dublin, Inspirefest is a unique international festival of technology, science, design and the arts. Founder Ann O’Dea puts diversity and inclusion at the festival’s heart, and the ratio of women to men is a refreshing change from the still massively male […]
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Validation
The Boston and Maine Connection – Validation Validation, the independent corroboration of your mission by one or more individuals who make you feel like you’re not out there all by your lonely self as you drive toward your business goals. It takes a lot to put yourself out there in the public eye to expose […]
The Platform, she said, was Chocolate
The platform, she said, was chocolate. And much of the marketing centered around fair trade cocoa and real chocolate chips. I was sold. I got the whole concept in the first presentation. The hot chocolate mix was OK. What chocoholic could find fault with a product that had melting chocolate chips at it’s core? Even […]
Magical Marketing of an Epic Eggplant
The Magical Marketing of an Eggplant of Mythical Proportion Yes, folks, this is truly an eggplant love story that started many decades ago when I first met my then future father in law. He was a meat and potatoes kind of man. When I first started dating his eldest daughter, I was quickly under suspicion […]
The Lessons of Challenger -30 years later
The Boston & Maine Connection – PR Disaster Planning The lessons of Challenger – Fast Forwarded Thirty Years January 28th a sad but also long ago memory brought back painfully fresh. It is the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. At the time, Outer Space, was the new frontier and frontiers are fraught […]
My 3 Words -Predictions 2016
My 3 words for 2016 are Community, Collaboration, and Commerce and the impact of 2.6 billion cellphones in use. […]
NextGen Community Impact
In conversations with the founder of Carii about how to build value in business in this fast changing digital age, I came up with the comment Next Generation platforms for social are needed that cater to the needs of Business & Community to deliver impact. There is just plain too much darn noise out here. […]
A Chance Meeting with author Walter Mosley
The best thing I did the other night was to decide to join Malia Lazu at Emerson’s Paramont theater for an intimate book reading and signing by Walter Mosley. Future Boston Alliance co-organized the event as well as Mosley’s eleven day “Obsessive Residency” with ArtsEmerson. I knew Malia as co-founder of Future Boston Alliance but […]