Monday, October 19, 2009
Free Classes for Small Businesses/Entrepreneurs
Boston is replete with small business owners and entrepreneurs, and for those looking to learn more about free online and social media solutions to build and promote your business, come to a Hands On Small Business session. These FREE classes are sponsored by Kirtsy and Microsoft Office Live and are running in 20 cities across the US and Canada. I’m team teaching the Boston sessions with Angela from Mommy Bytes and there are 3 Boston dates left (October 20, November 5, November 11). Click here to register; look forward to meeting you there!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Growing Pains
Still trying to figure out if you'd also like to have daily events posted here.
Let me know in the comments. Otherwise, you know you can always go to the blog post that covers the entire week...or just click on the calendar at the bottom of the blog.
Going forward, we'll be adding some more functionality. Maybe even linking to each author's Eventbrite and/or Upcoming schedule.
Please share your comments about this site so we can make it better. Or if you have the name of a person who should be invited, the editorial board here at WithJeff will bring it up at our next meeting.
Have fun out there.
Let me know in the comments. Otherwise, you know you can always go to the blog post that covers the entire week...or just click on the calendar at the bottom of the blog.
Going forward, we'll be adding some more functionality. Maybe even linking to each author's Eventbrite and/or Upcoming schedule.
Please share your comments about this site so we can make it better. Or if you have the name of a person who should be invited, the editorial board here at WithJeff will bring it up at our next meeting.
Have fun out there.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Jeff's Week Ahead - October 18-24
While there are multiple authors on "With Jeff", this is just what I have planned for the upcoming week.
If you'd like to become an author here, drop me a line. We'd love to find out what you have planned for the week ahead!
SUNDAY, October 18
Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. The second of the two-day sporting event should be fun as the weather is supposed to break and make wandering around the Charles River a lot more bearable. Head of the Charles
MONDAY, October 19
Aside from this being Meg Fowler's last day in Boston - See her on Twitter - there are some other events on tap.
Mobile Monday and TCN: Making money through carrier and OEM app stores. A cool little event on Monday evening from 7-9PM at The Place on 2 Broad Street, Boston. Sign up here
TUESDAY, October 20
Solo PR Practitioner Coffee in Newton. From 9AM to whenever, Chuck and the gang host a PR chat at the Taste Coffee House, 311 Walnut Street in Newton. Sign up here - or just show up. Great coffee according to Roy Krantz and Chuck.
WEDNESDAY, October 21
Mid-morning each Wednesday is an event at Andala Coffee House in Central Square. Start time is around 8:30 but the meetup is a little free-form. It's essentially an open coffee hour where startups, investors and interested tech people join to chat about everything.
NomX3 taping at Ted's Montana Grill in Westborough at 2PM. Come join Mike Langford and me as we dine on beef! Setup at 1PM, taping at 2.
TOP CHEF SOUTHIE. This invite-only event will pair four chefs off in a Top-Chef-style cooking competition. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the cook-off will require each chef to use coffee in their dishes. May share a recap after the event. If they have coffee with each meal, I'm gonna be wired!
THURSDAY, October 22
Holland-Mark Digital is having a Launch Party on Thursday. The renowned digital agency is inviting marketing, advertising and other media professionals to come and enjoy drinks and polite conversation at Post 390 on Stuart Street. Sign-up is required, so go here to get on the list.
Blogtoberfest! I missed it. This is one event I want to attend but I was too focused on some of my own stuff to remember to sign up. Jenny will assuredly put on a FANTASTIC bash and some of the coolest people are already going. Maybe I can find a John Wall namebadge and sneak in. For more info, check out the site.
Thursdays at Berkman. Tech talk with some smarties at Baker House, 1587 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Runs from 7-9PM. For more info and to join the mailing list for all things related to this event and a few other great things happening in and around Harvard pertaining to tech, go here and join.
Pokin' Holes. A fun session from 6-9:30PM that involves an open exchange of opinions and ideas, all moderated and organized by my friend Cortlandt. More info is right here. Not to be missed if you can help it.
FRIDAY, October 23
All-Day Social Media for Business Seminar in Arlington. eBiz Symposium 2009 should be a blast. Use ebiz100 to get a free ticket - a multi-hundred-dollar value - to the event. I'll be on a panel talking about the tools people are using today to be successful. Sign up here, the event goes from 8:00-4:30.
The CR Live with Jim Storer and Rachel Happe. Join them - and often me - in Bedford this week, so don't be stuck in Harvard Square. Join us for lively discussions about community management, beer and fashion. OK, it's mostly about social media and community management. Details right here. Starts at 12PM.
Hubspot TV. The inbound marketing specialists put on a fabulous show each Friday from 4-4:30PM. Get there - Hubspot, One Broadway, 5th Fl, Cambridge, MA - at 3:40 or so for a seat in the front row. They talk marketing, take questions via Twitter, give great insights and generally put on a light show that entertains and informs. Stars Mike Volpe and Karen Rubin. *Did I mention they have free beverages (MALT BEVERAGES!!) in the studio for all audience members? But don't drink the Raspberry UFO, that belongs to Rubin and she'd knock you out if you bogart her beer.
That's all I've got for this week, I'm sure there's more. Please share your events in the comments or sign up to be a contributor.
Our mission is to share events so people can have fun and learn stuff. Just leave a comment and we all win.
If you'd like to become an author here, drop me a line. We'd love to find out what you have planned for the week ahead!
SUNDAY, October 18
Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. The second of the two-day sporting event should be fun as the weather is supposed to break and make wandering around the Charles River a lot more bearable. Head of the Charles
MONDAY, October 19
Aside from this being Meg Fowler's last day in Boston - See her on Twitter - there are some other events on tap.
Mobile Monday and TCN: Making money through carrier and OEM app stores. A cool little event on Monday evening from 7-9PM at The Place on 2 Broad Street, Boston. Sign up here
TUESDAY, October 20
Solo PR Practitioner Coffee in Newton. From 9AM to whenever, Chuck and the gang host a PR chat at the Taste Coffee House, 311 Walnut Street in Newton. Sign up here - or just show up. Great coffee according to Roy Krantz and Chuck.
WEDNESDAY, October 21
Mid-morning each Wednesday is an event at Andala Coffee House in Central Square. Start time is around 8:30 but the meetup is a little free-form. It's essentially an open coffee hour where startups, investors and interested tech people join to chat about everything.
NomX3 taping at Ted's Montana Grill in Westborough at 2PM. Come join Mike Langford and me as we dine on beef! Setup at 1PM, taping at 2.
TOP CHEF SOUTHIE. This invite-only event will pair four chefs off in a Top-Chef-style cooking competition. Sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the cook-off will require each chef to use coffee in their dishes. May share a recap after the event. If they have coffee with each meal, I'm gonna be wired!
THURSDAY, October 22
Holland-Mark Digital is having a Launch Party on Thursday. The renowned digital agency is inviting marketing, advertising and other media professionals to come and enjoy drinks and polite conversation at Post 390 on Stuart Street. Sign-up is required, so go here to get on the list.
Blogtoberfest! I missed it. This is one event I want to attend but I was too focused on some of my own stuff to remember to sign up. Jenny will assuredly put on a FANTASTIC bash and some of the coolest people are already going. Maybe I can find a John Wall namebadge and sneak in. For more info, check out the site.
Thursdays at Berkman. Tech talk with some smarties at Baker House, 1587 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Runs from 7-9PM. For more info and to join the mailing list for all things related to this event and a few other great things happening in and around Harvard pertaining to tech, go here and join.
Pokin' Holes. A fun session from 6-9:30PM that involves an open exchange of opinions and ideas, all moderated and organized by my friend Cortlandt. More info is right here. Not to be missed if you can help it.
FRIDAY, October 23
All-Day Social Media for Business Seminar in Arlington. eBiz Symposium 2009 should be a blast. Use ebiz100 to get a free ticket - a multi-hundred-dollar value - to the event. I'll be on a panel talking about the tools people are using today to be successful. Sign up here, the event goes from 8:00-4:30.
The CR Live with Jim Storer and Rachel Happe. Join them - and often me - in Bedford this week, so don't be stuck in Harvard Square. Join us for lively discussions about community management, beer and fashion. OK, it's mostly about social media and community management. Details right here. Starts at 12PM.
Hubspot TV. The inbound marketing specialists put on a fabulous show each Friday from 4-4:30PM. Get there - Hubspot, One Broadway, 5th Fl, Cambridge, MA - at 3:40 or so for a seat in the front row. They talk marketing, take questions via Twitter, give great insights and generally put on a light show that entertains and informs. Stars Mike Volpe and Karen Rubin. *Did I mention they have free beverages (MALT BEVERAGES!!) in the studio for all audience members? But don't drink the Raspberry UFO, that belongs to Rubin and she'd knock you out if you bogart her beer.
That's all I've got for this week, I'm sure there's more. Please share your events in the comments or sign up to be a contributor.
Our mission is to share events so people can have fun and learn stuff. Just leave a comment and we all win.
Bobbie Out and About in Boston
Back in March when we started Mass Innovation Nights, the MIN uber-intern, Jennie, must have spent countless hours pushing out our Mass Innovation Nights Listings to dozens of them: Gary's Guide, Boston. com, Events.com and more. (Even now, months later, I stumble across listings on sites I didn't know existed.) Family events, technology events, industry events, social media events, there are all kinds of sites devoted to them. (I'm even working with Accounting Management Solutions of Waltham to create a calendar in their online Resource Center for Finance professionals. But the thing is, they all require the hosting organization to submit the details, something that can take quite a bit of time if you try to do it in any kind of comprehensive manner.
Just this week I attended a Concept Clinic at MIT to learn more about a real-time search service, currently under construction,that will power a dynamic event calendar. This service will pull from Twitter streams and other social media, in order to create a Web site with a complete view of the events available. What a boon this will be for the event planners! The question is, will it draw in the viewers/visitors/event attendees or will they continue to go elsewhere for their info. The competitive advantage might not be as obvious to the casual viewer. It will be interesting to see what happens with this idea.
But until that option is available, how do we find out what's happening? And what event will make best use of our time? My own time for networking and "education" is somewhat limited as I have kids at home and a spouse who frequently works evenings. (He's a bassoonist with a couple different bands and orchestras, and practices and concerts happen in the evenings.)
I am on dozens of mailing lists from dozens of organizations. I input the options on my calendar. I watch where like-minded individuals (like Jeff) are going to be via their tweets and Facebook accounts. I review various calendars, including @Bostontweetup's. I also get forwarded various events from my clients, friends and co-workers. But the best options are always when I get a personal invite from one of the presenters and that presenter is someone I know (and obviously, someone who knows me.) When I find a good event, I usually tweet about it -- either as "me," @Bobbiec, or, if it is an event that I know the Mass Innovation Nights community would like, I tweet about it as @MassInno. (Lots of innovation-oriented groups send me their group information so I can share it with the MIN community.) From now on, I'll add them here too!
Just this week I attended a Concept Clinic at MIT to learn more about a real-time search service, currently under construction,that will power a dynamic event calendar. This service will pull from Twitter streams and other social media, in order to create a Web site with a complete view of the events available. What a boon this will be for the event planners! The question is, will it draw in the viewers/visitors/event attendees or will they continue to go elsewhere for their info. The competitive advantage might not be as obvious to the casual viewer. It will be interesting to see what happens with this idea.
But until that option is available, how do we find out what's happening? And what event will make best use of our time? My own time for networking and "education" is somewhat limited as I have kids at home and a spouse who frequently works evenings. (He's a bassoonist with a couple different bands and orchestras, and practices and concerts happen in the evenings.)
I am on dozens of mailing lists from dozens of organizations. I input the options on my calendar. I watch where like-minded individuals (like Jeff) are going to be via their tweets and Facebook accounts. I review various calendars, including @Bostontweetup's. I also get forwarded various events from my clients, friends and co-workers. But the best options are always when I get a personal invite from one of the presenters and that presenter is someone I know (and obviously, someone who knows me.) When I find a good event, I usually tweet about it -- either as "me," @Bobbiec, or, if it is an event that I know the Mass Innovation Nights community would like, I tweet about it as @MassInno. (Lots of innovation-oriented groups send me their group information so I can share it with the MIN community.) From now on, I'll add them here too!
What to do in Boston
Recently, I found that the services I had depended on for accurate information about Boston events were woefully inadequate and unreliable.
In fact, one of these services even neglected to list one of the largest social media events of the year - a book signing and show taping with Gary Vaynerchuk at the Estate in Boston.
So I've decided to crowdsource - partially - and create a more comprehensive collection of events. These events might interest you, or you might be ambivalent. But that's the name of the game. I want you to share your info too.
Please get in touch via the comments - and leave your email - so that if you want to contribute to the blog I can send you an invite.
Thanks so much for your help and support.
Have fun out there!
In fact, one of these services even neglected to list one of the largest social media events of the year - a book signing and show taping with Gary Vaynerchuk at the Estate in Boston.
So I've decided to crowdsource - partially - and create a more comprehensive collection of events. These events might interest you, or you might be ambivalent. But that's the name of the game. I want you to share your info too.
Please get in touch via the comments - and leave your email - so that if you want to contribute to the blog I can send you an invite.
Thanks so much for your help and support.
Have fun out there!
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