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Fun Friday: How’s Business?

Sometimes on Fridays, I write about what I feel like. Because I can. :^) "Hey, how's business?" people ask me. How I feel about this question is probably what every high school senior feels when they're asked "So what are you doing next year?" I get that the question...

How To Schmooze

I once got in trouble for using the word 'schmooze' in a work email. The person who saw it thought I meant it as derogatory. To the contrary, socializing with a purpose is something I actually like to do. I once talked to a French woman in a restaurant en français for...

Bar Harbor Flash Mob

I told a few people at Bar Harbor's Fourth of July parade that I'd get this video up when it was done. Here is the video of the flash mob, organized by Jeni Dwyer Young of Side Street Cafe. She organized the entire thing using Youtube to show the dance moves and...

Seven Tricks That Save Me Hours On The Computer

Seven Tricks That Save Me Hours On The Computer

Over the last few years of sitting my butt in an office chair day in and day out, I am often asking myself how I can do more while sitting here less. This post is a collection of little tools I've found over the years. The beauty is: You don't need a fancy...

Confessions of A New Twitter User

Confessions of A New Twitter User

Ty Green recently joined the staff of Breaking Even Communications. While an avid Facebook user and online reader, he didn’t use Twitter much.... until starting his Breaking Even gig. Below is his story where Ty found himself following the current presidental...

Darthia Farm: An Experiment In Social Giving

Darthia Farm: An Experiment In Social Giving

A couple years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Cynthia Thayer, a local author who hired me to train her on how to use her Wordpress blog and also happens to run an organic farm. (This is a very Maine thing: to have two seemingly completely separate careers going at...

Early to rise makes you technically wise

7:30 am, Wednesday April 25. You were probably still in your PJs enjoying your morning coffee while 30 MDI business owners were filling their bellies with eggs and their heads with knowledge at the mini-tech boot camp sponsored by the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce....

How Do I Control What Comes Up In A Google Search?

How Do I Control What Comes Up In A Google Search?

I got an excellent question via email from a friend of mine. She went through a divorce and has recently started dating again. One of her dates found her divorce details via a Google search. While she is not trying to hide anything, she also understandably doesn't...

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