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NMC Prepares to Lace Up & March to Upcoming Social Media Boot Camp
NMC prepares to march to the Senator Inn & Spa where we will host our Social Media Boot Camp on April 4.
Today’s Fab Foto is in celebration of NMC’s upcoming Social Media Boot Camp being held on Wednesday, April 4.
Registration for both the beginner and advanced sessions will close today, so be sure to sign up now if you’d like to join us! Visit http://bootcamp.marshallpr.com/ to learn more.
As we prepare to march up to the Senator Inn & Spa where we will host the sessions, we want to remind you we will be kicking off each Boot Camp with a giveaway — a pair of these handsome L.L. Bean boots.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Structural Steel, Social Media, and Giving Back
Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend. Our Maven today is native Mainer Mary Howes, owner of Howie’s Welding, a structural steel fabrication company in Jay, Maine.
Mary started Howie’s Welding with her first husband, Normand “Howie” Howes, in 1983. Sadly, in 1996, Howie passed away. Widowed with two small boys, Mary had a business to run. With a great support system in her family, Mary knew she could and would continue the business.
Howie’s Welding has prospered and Mary has remarried to a wonderful man, Tim DeMillo. Mary and Tim recently purchased the former Wausau Paper Mill in Jay and, as partners, are redeveloping the site into a multi-use business park.
Mary continues to operate Howie’s Welding, along with a small apple orchard, Howes Orchard, in Jay. Mary and Tim also started a non-profit called The North Jay White Granite Park Association. They have established hiking trails and picnic areas near the old granite quarry in North Jay and are working towards the preservation of that history.
In her “spare” time, Mary is active in Town politics – Tim is a selectman and Mary is vice chair of the Planning Board. Mary and Tim truly believe in “giving back” and try to instill that in their four children.
1.) Mary, even in the 21st century, not many people associate women with the welding and structural steel industry. How have you positioned yourself as a serious business woman in such a male dominated field?
I seriously don’t give much thought to being a female in a male dominated field. It obviously has changed tremendously over the last 28 years. I have built a very good relationship with our clients over the years. They trust me to be fair, but they also know I am tough and I will fight for my business…so they can’t walk all over me! In every aspect of this industry, there are more and more women in top level positions, which is great to see.
A Frosty Christmas After All
Happy Holidays! It looks like it will be a white Christmas here in Central Maine, after all.
When we peaked out the window this morning at our office in Augusta, we found one of the most beautiful and picturesque winter scenes imaginable – two little children building a snowman in the still-falling snow. The children didn’t cut any corners on this Frosty either—from the corncob pipe to the carrot nose, you can see why this snowman was worthy as our Friday Fab Foto.
Best wishes for a fun and safe holiday to you and yours!
Wednesday Witty Wisdom: Giving Thanks with a Note
Happy Thanksgiving! In keeping with the Thanksgiving theme, today’s Witty Wisdom is about the power of a thank you note. I believe in hand-written thank you notes. E-mails are okay for minor thank you’s, but for significant thank you’s, a note card with your own hand writing is much more memorable and appropriate.
I learned about the power of a thank you note from Warren Cook, who was president of Sugarloaf starting in 1986, then he became general manager of Saddleback. He has always had flat cards printed with his name or his company’s name on them, along with a matching envelope printed with the return address.
With all of today's technological advancements, the power of a hand-written thank you still impresses me.
Warren has always made it a practice to write several of these notes a day. I remember receiving notes from Warren back in the ’80s, and it always made an impact on me. I saved them in my desk drawer and looked at them when I needed a little boost in my day.
Even to this day, Dana Bullen, who then worked for Warren and Sugarloaf and is now managing director at Sunday River, writes similar thank you notes because he learned this habit from Warren.
I have NMC note cards and I use them to thank people for gifts, for special efforts at work, for inviting me over to their homes for dinner, or for any other act of kindness or generosity.
Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I want to remind you that it’s important to give thanks every day to people who do special things for you. It’s an art that is getting lost, unfortunately.
When you write a thank you note, the person receiving it will remember you and remember the note you wrote especially for them because you took the time and made the effort to recognize them.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Monday Maine Maven: Tami Kennedy
Happy Halloween! Today’s Maine Maven is Tami Kennedy, director of communications for Shipyard Brewing Company, where beer never takes a holiday. Tami manages public relations, marketing and communication programs for Shipyard and its related brew pubs in Maine and Florida.
Tami began her career in television and was a project manager and director of cultural programming at Maine Public Broadcasting before joining Shipyard in 2002. She’s the secretary and publicist for the Maine Brewers’ Guild, immediate past president of the Maine Public Relations Council, on the board of Mad Horse Theatre Company, and a member of the national Brewers Association’s government affairs committee.
When she’s not working, Tami can be found attending a play, swimming, hiking, cross country skiing, or enjoying a freshly brewed Maine beer. She recently discovered that Shipyard’s Chamberlain Pale Ale pairs particularly well with walnuts. You can Facebook Tami at www.facebook.com/tami.kennedy or follow her on Twitter @Tami_Kennedy.
Wednesday Witty Wisdom: The Power Of Social Media
Happy Wednesday! At Nancy Marshall Communications, we enjoy sharing our passion for marketing communications with professional and civic groups all over the state of Maine! On Monday, I spoke at the Waterville Rotary about developing a strategic marketing communications plan for your organization, and yesterday, our own account executive Greg Glynn discussed “The Power Of Social Media” to members of the Combined Benefits United conference at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell.
Friday Fab Foto: Bridges Down in Carrabassett
Happy Friday! On Sunday, August 28, around 5 p.m., this bridge to the north of the Sugarloaf access road caved into the Carrabassett River. Nancy shot this photo of the bridge and the raging river. Another bridge over the Carrabassett River by Carrabassett Valley Academy also caved in. Nancy and her family were stranded up on Sugarloaf Mountain overnight, but thanks to some quick action by emergency management officials, they were able to get off the mountain on Monday in time for Nancy’s oldest son Craig to start his freshman year at Colby College!
Monday Maine Maven: Janice Kassman
Happy Monday! This week’s Maine Maven is Janice Kassman of Colby College, my alma mater. In 1974, Janice began her career at Colby as Acting Assistant Dean of Students. She was soon hired for the full time position in 1975. A few years later, Janice was promoted to Associate Dean, and then became Dean of Students in 1981 (she was Dean of Students when I was a student at Colby from 1978 to 1982!). Janice was named the first female Vice President in Colby’s history in 2002!
In 2006, Janice began her new role for Colby as Special Assistant to the President for External Affairs. In this capacity Janice works with Alumni Affairs, Admissions, College Relations and helps President William “Bro” Adams with special projects. One of her special projects involves working with the Wabanaki/Bates/Bowdoin/Colby Collaborative which seeks to increase enrollment of Native Americans and knowledge of their culture and presence in Maine on all three campuses. Janice also serves as Chair of the Board of the Mid Maine United Way.
Janice is photographed below with her husband, Dr. Lawrence Kassman, Emergency Department Physician at Maine General in Waterville.
Friday Fab Fotos:
Happy Friday! Our amazing intern Emily Deane went to Greenville with her camera last week and captured these shots. Isn’t this deer beautiful? And the second shot is the sunset over the Blair Hill Inn on Moosehead Lake. It’s no wonder we call Maine “Vacationland.” Who would want to go anywhere else? Thanks Emily for your artistry. We are going to miss you when you go back to college.
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