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BOOM Launch: Branded Web Platform For Butler County Assistance Providers

| October 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Advertising, Design, Marketing, News, Public Relations, Technology, Web Design

Finding information about substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery options has been a problem for both those seeking help and help-providers, especially in times of crisis.

“You’ve got people in urgent situations that need immediate help, may not know professional terminology or may not be in a position to pursue normal assistance channels,” says Lori Vish-Stearns, Executive Director of the Community Health Challenge (CHC) in Butler, PA .  “We needed to eliminate the barriers that keep people from being able to reach out for help.”

Vish-Stearns and the CHC are part of the Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco Coalition (DATC) a volunteer organization that formed 11 years ago and now includes over 40 community, government, healthcare, faith-based organizations and individuals…

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BOOM Event: Singing Bowl Café Press Tasting Party

| October 20th, 2010 | No Comments | Advertising, Event Planning, Marketing, Public Relations

The Singing Bowl Vegetarian Café Redux. Excitement and anticipation were in full force at the relaunch press tasting party Wednesday night, October 20th at the new 103 Meadville St. location in Edinboro. BOOM was in the house, tasting some AMAZING food, managing questions from the local press, and assisting with the event.

It’s a scenario unique to the online social networking frontiers of modern life. Last spring, three young owners of  The Singing Bowl Café, a popular Erie vegetarian restaurant, found themselves suddenly without a place of business.

Chefs and co-owners Jessica Mueller, Ashley Sayre de Rivas and Erik Mueller weren’t sure what to do. “People really liked the food and the restaurant, but we were stretched pretty thin…

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BOOM Loves: Dropbox

| September 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Technology

I use great software every day.   Some for the desktop and some for the web.  But the one that I love most lives in both worlds.  It’s called Dropbox and it’s solved so many small office problems that it’s hard to know where to start the praise.

So what is it?

Dropbox is a tiny program that gets installed on your Windows/Linux/Mac computer.  It creates a folder on your system called “My Dropbox.” Anything that you put in this folder is immediately encrypted and synchronized via the Internet to a remote server for safe keeping.  Dropbox is meant to be installed on multiple systems ensuring that files are backed up and kept  in perfect sync across many…

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