Preface: I’ve been living and working in the Boston region for 30 years now. A native upstate New Yorker, I’ve now spent far more time in Boston than in the place I think of as my hometown. Even though I spent the first decade renting, and hopping around the region, I have now lived in my home here longer than the house I grew up in. Recently, our partners from Washington, 1776 (we worked with them on the Boston Challenge […]
Innovation Leaders Forum
Ugh. I’m at another event/conference today: the Innovation Leaders Forum (#ILF2012) presented by Imaginatik and hosted by Fidelity. (Note: Imaginatik is also blogging today — check out their blog.) And late at night, last night, I was horrified at the thought of another day not being able to focus on getting work done. My to do list is monstrous. I owe a dozen people phone calls and deadlines are looming. I thought about cancelling. I’ve been working far into the […]
Mass Innovation Nights – NERD style
Last night marked Mass Innovation Night’s 35th event (one more and it turns 3!) and this one, like the many before, was an evening full of networking and creating buzz about local innovation! The Microsoft NERD Center hosted last night’s event and gave guests a direct view of Boston’s shimmering skyline. There was a great turnout and a lot of excitement generated about the ten companies featured! People were continuing to file in as the presentation began. The top four […]
Just a game? The Quest for Innovation
On Friday I was part of a team involved in The Quest for Innovation — a unique initiative bringing together the New England innovation economy to celebrate entrepreneurship and innovative advances in Boston. The MassInno team — brought together under the flag of the innovation-focused event I run monthly in Waltham, was evenly divided between entrepreneurs and marketers — and we were able to do this with our team of 7 because some of the marketers are in the midst […]
Where Did All the Staff Reporters Go?
Reading the physical paper is a vastly different experience than reading the same stories online. Not saying it is better — just different. And that difference told a very interesting story at the Boston Globe recently. One way reading a physical paper is different from reading online is being able to see at a glance all the stories on a page — and not just the headlines and the links, but the whole story, bylines and all. In this case, […]