Archive for the ‘blogs’ Category

L.L.Bean should hire this guy.

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Foster Huntington's photos.

Foster Huntington, sounds a bit like a law firm, but is actually a student at Colby. (These are all his fantastic photos!)

Foster Huntington's photos.

He’s a young man from the Northwest, who studys in Maine, and publishes a very stylish blog called “The Restless Transplant.”

Foster Huntington's photos.

Foster Huntington's photos.Which seems to indicate that he’s not going to be in Maine too much longer.

Foster Huntington's photos.

But it’s pretty clear that Maine will accompany him wherever else he goes.

Foster Huntington's photos.

His blog reveals the life of a college student discovering himself, honing his new skills (great photos!) and absorbing the world around him. And he naturally understands how to build a ‘brand.’

Foster Huntington photos.

He loves the stories behind what he perceives as the Maine ‘lifestyle.’ He loves clothing. Especially old clothing. He has great style. And he’s very fond of the color red.

Foster Huntington's photos.

Go take a look, and discover the Maine you know is there, but sometimes you don’t see.

Foster Huntington's photos.

And remember his name — Foster Huntington. Have a feeling it’ll be popping up somewhere fancy, if not on a label, in the not too distant future.

Foster Huntington's photos.Maybe even at L.L.Bean.

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Saving Maine’s tax dollars, one web site at a time.

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Save tax dollars in Maine.

Most small towns in Maine don’t need a web site to fill their downtowns with tourists, or to promote their industries. If they do, the Chamber of Commerce can do that job. And most are operating on tiny budgets.

They need a very simple site that citizens can use to get essential and timely information from the town offices. Things such as permits, meeting schedules, transfer station hours, names of the selectmen, office hours, etc.

Why not use Google for both a web site and a blog, and keep it very simple? And free! (Actually you could just use  just a blog to keep it really simple.)

The web site can contain all the documents — permit rules, meeting notes, history, etc. And the blog can provide all the current information. They should be linked.

Plus, it could even be monetized to actually earn money for the town.

Google offers these advantages:

1. It’s free!

2. It will always be up, no worry about a hosting service.

3. There will be no maintenance or updating the software. It will always be up to date.

4. Sufficient storage for large documents.

5. It’s easy to use.

6. The basic look is more attractive than most sites.

7. Search may be improved because they’re already within the Google world.

Google has these disadvantages:

1. The url or address isn’t a pure ‘TownOfMaine.com.’ But does that matter?

2. It’s not clear if they place ads. But they do offer a premium version so that may be their business model instead of advertising.

Here are examples of a blog, and a web site. And here are links to Blogger and Google Sites.

What else could beat the power of Google and the words — ‘easy’ and ‘free?’

These days, tax dollars need to be stretched as far as they can go.

Update – check out Weebly. They offer a very nice package — all free!

Good idea? Bad idea? What do you think?

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This blog is now for the birds.

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Twitter2bnMaine has joined Twitter. A very popular new form of social media, Twitter is a microblog that allows it’s users to post very short posts, up to 140 characters. They’re called Tweets.

So it’s an easy way to get current updates on what’s happening at 2bnMaine. You can find the tweets in the sidebar or go to the 2bnMaine Twitter page and start following. Still searching for a better Twitter widget.

If there’s something specific you’d like to know, let us know.

Here’s a video that explains it a bit further.

So what are you doing?


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Martha Stewart at the Pot and Kettle.

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Sounds like it might be the perfect venue for a former caterer, and one smart cookie, and it was — The Pot and Kettle Club is a private men’s club in Bar Harbor. 

On her blog, Martha Stewart posted the speech that she recently gave at the exclusive Pot and Kettle Club. Her blog posting includes the photos she showed and the very thoughtful speech contained lots of tasty bits of information about Maine. For instance, did you know that it takes 20 years for a piece of sea glass to become fully polished?

It’s interesting that someone with such a large publishing and broadcasting business would take the time to post on a blog. She most likely doesn’t do it totally herself but is interested in this new medium. Can cookies get smarter?

The Pot and Kettle Club is also mentioned in the wonderful book Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert, by John M. Bryan (Author), Richard Cheek (Photographer.) Fred Savage is a whole other interesting subject.

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Another college drop-out success story.

Friday, July 18th, 2008

This post has nothing to do with the subject of this blog, but the software that runs it. WordPress is getting more mentions in the press. Today’s  San Francisco Chronicle has an article on Matt Mullenweg, the founder.

Why is it that so much success seems to come from dropping out of college? Might be an advantage not to know all the rules.

Following are some interesting numbers on blogs from the Chronicle.

175,000 – Blogs created daily

113 million – Number of blogs

7.5 million – Active blogs

184 million – Bloggers

570,000 – Posts every 24 hours

Sources: Technorati, Universal McCann

Thank you for reading this one.

 

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