Raising Voices USA To Hold Panel on Healthcare Raising Voices USA will be presenting New York State Assembly member Richard Gottfried, chair Assembly Committee on Health, to discuss his signature healthcare legislation, the New York Health Act, which provides for single-payer coverage in the State of New York. The presentation...
The First Google Glass Reality Show: Thoughts on Glasslandia
If you didn't get to watch episode 6, "Making Of Glasslandia" yet, take a look now! Here's our final take about the first ever Google Glass reality show! Glasslandia has come to a close. What did you think? Hilary "The CEO & Google Glass Explorer": It was a great run....
Delta Had Passenger Who Wouldn’t Help…
On a recent Delta flight from New York, JFK to San Juan, Puerto Rico, my family and I sat in the exit row. There were two rows of exit rows on the plane. An older couple sat in front of us. Their grown children and grandchildren sat in the row...
Wine Tips For Your New Year’s Eve Party
Italy is an amazing place to visit. The scenery is gorgeous, the food is fantastic and the wine is incredible. So when I received these tips from Debi Mazar, actress and wine connoisseur, I wanted to share with you, especially this time of year. P.S. This wine rocks and is...
Book Review: Jerry Kremer’s Winning Albany – Untold Stories About the Famous and Not So Famous
I remember Arthur “Jerry” Kremer when I was a little girl growing up in Long Beach in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Jerry Kremer was our legislator. I never met him. But my parents knew him. My parents were in awe of him. He was the savior who would help the...
My Top 10 Favorite Long Island Restaurants of 2013
I live in Nassau County and I work on the border of Nassau and Suffolk so I don't venture out much passed Melville on the weekends. I also don't tend to drive north so you may have some additions to this list. If you do, please add to the comments...
Book Review: Joanne S. Black’s Pick Up the Damn Phone! How People, Not Technology, Seal the Deal
With the prevalence of social media, you are finding less and less people relying on traditional ways to cultivate and close the sale. But, according to Joanne S. Black in her new book, Pick Up the Damn Phone! How People, Not Technology, Seal the Deal, the phone and in-person meetings...
Are You Prepared to Leave the Business You Built?
More and more small business owners are selling their companies, with sales hitting a four-year high earlier this year in the United States, and Canada predicting its largest small business turnover ever in the next five years. “Many of our CEOs are baby boomers approaching retirement age,” says Kathleen Richardson-Mauro,...
Going On A #GoogleGlass #FindYourIsland Challenge to #FtMeyerSanibel
As part of the #GoogleGlass Explorer program, I was put into a private explorer group (similar to a private Facebook group or Yammer group). Every day, I scour the group. Hey, you never know what someone posted that day. A couple of weeks ago, I came across a post that...
Time For The Next Adventure by Greg Sleter
So it’s happened. For the first time I have left a job not by choice. I’ve been downsized. Sure it stinks. Well, actually it sucks, but truth be told it was not a surprise. When I joined Patch.com three years ago as a Regional Editor covering the southwest/south central portion...