Does your business engender trust with your customers and your vendors? I’ve been thinking a lot about this word trust lately. It was a pivotal word influencing the outcome of the national election. It also played prominently across all the presentations at Xconomy’s recent conference, What’s hot in Boston Health Tech. Boston contains a high […]
Handing off the Torch in Boston
On 1-11 (2017) At 1:11 (pm) In 111 Dartmouth Street (Boston) We empowered our friend and Open Hub Co-founder To help take Epicenter Community to the next level Open Hub Boston was formed in April of 2013 to continue the good work of Boston’s longest serving mayor, Mr. Tom Menino. Where Boston World Partnerships ended, […]
My Three Words: 2017 Focus Filtered Fluid #my3words
Focus, Filtered & Fluid. My Three Words for 2017 Way back in 2006, when I was struggling to hold it all together in a corporate world heading off the rails, a guy by the name of Chris Brogan quit making New Year’s resolutions. Instead, he chose three words he would use as a guiding principle […]
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Evelyn Dunphy – First Lady of Katahdin
Evelyn Dunphy is the real Frist Lady of Katahdin. Long time watercolor artist and champion of the beauty of this region of Maine. […]
A Seat at the Table
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 […]