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_Dear Friends,_
It’s Halloween and I’m getting tired of wearing my WWF costume, but FanTail is looking good as my corner girl with her hoodie and water bottle. Hammerhead came as a snowshoer but I had a hard time keeping the shoes on him. Everyone had great costumes – be sure to check them out on our website.
I drove down to Brattleboro, Vermont for the annual fall conference of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. It was great to network with like-minded business folks and the drive down was spectacular (once the sun came up!). The foliage is still in full peak down in the southern part of the state while we are fully into stick season here in the Green Mountains. The keynote speaker, Mary Powell, is the CEO of Green Mountain Power, the second largest utility in our state. She gave a great presentation on how she changed the culture at GMP from typical corporate excess to a socially responsible business. While Mary and I disagree on the role of nuclear energy, it is clear that she understands that socially responsible business practices can lead to a much stronger triple bottom line: economic, social and environmental. I was having a friendly chat with Mary when she got really serious and said she had a complaint about our store. I was worried at first, but then she told me that her husband had come into the store and left with one of the new MacBooks and was a very happy customer.
I want to give a shout-out to Hannah Parfitt who is leaving Small Dog Electronics to pursue other interests. Hannah has been our S. Burlington store manager for the past two years and with only an idea in her head, took an empty space, hired the most awesome retail team in the business and created an award-winning retail store in Burlington. We are going to miss Hannah, and I know that I will be forever grateful for her contributions to Small Dog Electronics and for her unfailing commitment to the best customer service while always striving to maintain the company’s social mission. Thank you Hannah.
The Chill Pill is here! The Chill Pill is a pocket-sized, self-contained capsule that transforms into two powered speakers. For a limited time, buy the Chill Pill and AC adapter at the same time and save $10.00. The AC adapter will also charge iPods with a dock connector or any iPod when used with an iPod USB cable “(click here to see this cable)”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/34045.
Can’t wait until the election is over? Well, me either. All the excitement and intensity is starting to take its toll!
I’m very excited for Election Day to come, and I am planning to volunteer at Montpelier’s City Clerk’s office on Tuesday as part of Small Dog’s Volunteerism Initiative. Each employee is encouraged to take a paid day off to work to volunteer and perform community service. I figured that the election is the biggest national event this year, and it would be a great day to help out and be part of the process!
Count down these last couple days with the Election 2008 Countdown Widget. See you on the other side! __Note: Requires 10.4+__
“Download here!”:http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/justforfun/election2008countdown.html
Want to know more about Small Dog’s programs and initiatives? Click here:
“Smalldog.com/about”:http://www.smalldog.com/about
This week, Mac OS X v.10.5 “Leopard” turned a year old. It was a slightly rocky launch, but Leopard introduced us to 300+ new features from its predecessor, 10.4, Tiger.
“See all 300 new features here.”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
In honor of Leopard’s birthday, we’ve been posting some of our favorite Leopard-specific tips and tricks on “our blog”:http://blog.smalldog.com. There are way too many to list here, so if you’re interested, check them out. We’ll be posting our Leopard faves through next week.
It’s time again for Small Dog’s Annual Halloween Costume Contest. This is where we dress up in ridiculous and creative costumes, and you vote on your favorite. We’ll pick a voter at random to win a $50 Small Dog gift certificate! Voting continues until Sunday night at midnight.
You can see our costumes on the blog “by clicking here”:http://blog.smalldog.com/article/1396/halloween-contest-view-costumes-and-vote/ Follow the link from the blog to vote on “Smalldog.com”:http://www.smalldog.com/
Visit our Flickr page to see lots of behind the scenes photos “by clicking here.”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/smalldog/sets/72157608534711170/
It’s the last weekend for Grace’s extended trip. I’m getting really tired of dining alone and talking to myself. I think I’d be totally stir-crazy if it wasn’t for the pups who have been taking good care of me while Grace is cruising with our friend, Yvette. That makes for a great time for the first poker and football of the season as the regulars gather at my house on Sunday. We have had some snow and it has been cold enough so the ground is still covered. Grace is in for a rude awakening coming from the Pacific to the tundra here in Vermont.
Thank you for reading this Halloween issue of Kibbles & Bytes! Have a great weekend and please get out and vote!
Your Kibbles & Bytes Team,
_Don, Kali & Ed_