February's Boston Media Makers event with Steve Garfield
We got to talking at our “Secret Event” on Friday night about the ever-growing and often overwhelming event scene in Boston. People want to meet and connect with each other and we’re down with that, but there are better places to do that than others. Take a look at Boston TweetUp’s event calendar and on any given day you’ll see three or more events listed. Bostonians are a social bunch of people, but we can’t be at ten places at once. How do you prioritize? We have the three events you must attend in Boston. Trust us, it’s manageable and you’re going to have fun.
WebInno is the biggest and most well known technology networking event around. About every three months WebInno puts on an event at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge. The event has two opportunities for startups to demo their products: The “Main Dish” is for approximately three companies to present their product to the entire audience. The “Side Dish” startups demo throughout the evening in a side room.
Why is it important to attend WebInno? The wide variety of people in attendance make getting your name out there easier. Webinno provides the perfect setting to meet like-minded individuals and mentors. It draws in hundreds of people and is a great place to hand out business cards and hopefully make some beneficial connections.
“What are you doing?” That’s the question you’ll be asked when you arrive at this once-a-month event in Jamaica Plain. This is an event for everyone from video podcasters to PR people to share the projects they are working on in the video realm. In order to flesh out your ideas you need to vocalize them; it’s no use staying in “stealth mode.” The “roundtable discussion” Boston Media Makers provides is a safe environment to share your projects and hopefully connect with other individuals who can help.
Steve Garfield, the organizer of Boston Media Makers is the author of Get Seen, a book about using online video to get your business found by customers. He’s a pioneer video-blogger and lectures at Boston University and Emerson College. You’ll get the chance to pick Garfield’s brain at Boston Media Makers and talk to some other cool video hounds.
Mass Innovation Nights lets you get a preview of the up and coming startup companies in Boston and they’re not just your average startup websites. MassInnovation Nights has had companies like Holistic Technologies, who invented something called the Sleep Guard, a headband-like device that you wear on to prevent you from grinding your teeth. MassInnovation Nights really gives you a peek into the innovative minds of Boston and the surrounding area.
For all of you who are looking to enter Boston’s networking scene; or as our photographer, Elizabeth McIntire, calls it “netfun,” these are the must-see events. We linked you to all of their homepages and can’t wait to see all of you networking cats hitting up the scene.
What are your favorite tech networking events in the Boston area? Let us know in the comments.
