We are all so incredibly connected these days. It is a digital world. Go on-line, and just throw out a topic. You know what I mean even before I finish a message in 140 characters.
Here are three examples I’ve noticed just in the past 48 hours.

Scott (the nametag guy) Ginsberg likes to challenge his Facebook [...]

                       
                                Pat Ripley, presenter from e-commerce VT
Recently, I attended an advanced social media workshop presented by Pat Ripley, State Broadband Adviser and e-commerce liason to the VtSBDC. He provides workshops like this around the state to large and small communities helping Vermont businesses with their web presence, social media and media marketing efforts.
Pat shared both basics and best [...]

Necessity is the mother of invention.  It’s true.  The world is slowly emerging from the Great Recession and we’re seeing a paradigm shift.  How business will be done in the future has changed.  The business world is wiping the slate clean and developing new rules of play.
In this new marketplace is great opportunity.  Individuals in [...]

I missed the VT Energy Plan June 1st workshop and information gathering session held at National Life, so I thought I’d contribute a mind map or visual brainstorm of my thoughts about the planning effort and areas of focus I see as important to ensuring a sustainable and bright future for generations to come. Check out [...]

Residential Architect Magazine editor, S. Claire Conroy, wrote in the November/December 2010 issue on architects and social media. The following response to that article has broader implications to the need for architects and the industry to see the positive potential that social media offers society.
Ms. Conroy,
Your observations in your piece “Publish or Perish” are well taken, [...]

Recently, I saw a link to this video from the New York Times site showcasing an unusual super insulated and hyper efficient home requiring no heating systems in the lovely hills of central Vermont where I live. The Landau family engaged a local architectural, engineering and building team to design, produce and install their home to levels of [...]

Let’s put this NetGivingthing to the test. Let’s support and engage our secret beneficiary online and see what good may come.

The former paradigm of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” is simply not of the highest order. It’s better to scratch the other guys back, or lift a burden from his back or simply pat him on the back - first.

If you’re like me, you might still be trying to get a handle on social media. It isn’t easy getting work done when you have tweets rolling in every minute and comments clogging up your Facebook wall begging for attention. Okay, so maybe I’m not that popular, but I’m sure many of you are feeling [...]

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