We finally got Yachtwhere onto a live URL today at 9:39 AM EST. Yachtwhere is a new social networking site for the yachting community around the globe.  The site will integrate  GPS positioning and mapping technology with state-of-the-art social media tools to give members to option of creating a free personal profile page and a profile page for their boat. Available tools will include blogs, albums, messaging, a marketplace and more. This is just the first stage of the "front end "of the site, the heavy lifitng which means pulling GPS signals from boats at sea is being handled by the 'backend team." Yachtwhere is an early stage development company being incubated by an alliance between Shark Communications, Frank Canovatchel (senior web professor at Champlain College) and Gary Savard -head of KGS software development company. Hats off to lead web developer Caroline Harris who has spent many a night and weekend building the site, Mike Porrata and Tony for their research, counsel and programming support. Pete, out.

We just started to work with the team at the Woodstock Inn, in Woodstock, VT. I forgot how beautiful it was down there  (we don't get out of Burlington enough) and now with the Inn becoming a true resort with a beautiful fitness center, golf, tennis, new contemporary dining and a state-of-the-art spa to open, it's a first-class luxury resort. Here's our first work for the Heritage Golf Package.

We just completed initial work on a new design system and identity for Northern Power - which is going though it's own reorganization. Spearheaded by Maureen McCraken and Eve Frankel, the first work on a brochure for the company's Northwind 100 product will set the stage for further development of an organized graphics system across traditional media and the web.

Rebecca is planning an open house for GMP's new LEED-certified facility, Dotty decided it would show up in local media, I wrote a headline, Bob wrote some copy, Thomas made a chile pepper, Rick put it together and that's a day in the life at Shark..

In french, the word for being "plugged in" is Branché. Well now you can be très branché into Vermont's business landscape with Leigh Cole's Vermont Business Blog. As a lawyer at one of Burlington's leading law firms, Dinse, Knapp, and McAndrew, Leigh's blog "focuses on business growth and opportunity in Vermont."  with as  Leigh say's " ...an optimistic eye toward the future." You can visit Leigh's blog at: http://cole.dinse.com Leigh's blog is a first dip of the toe into new media for the law firm which has, over the past two years taken major steps forward with the launch of a new web site, new branding, and an overall more sophisticated approach to its marketing. All with a little help from Shark, of course.

Shark is still putting the finishing touches on a new web site and communications for Mountain Lake PBS, based in Plattsburgh, New York. The station reaches listeners across the upper reaches of Northern New York state, Vermont and Quebec - especially Montreal. We've created a "Widen Your World" flash ad that will probably start showing up on the station itself.

Peter Jacobs/Creative Director