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Tips from the Trenches: 3 Outside-the-Box Engagement Strategies for Your Next Event 

EventMobi: Association Events

There are a few tried and true strategies: book top-level speakers, invest in an event app to increase engagement onsite, and provide them with plenty of networking opportunities. Karen recently helped plan the annual conference for the Association of Academic Surgical Administrators , which was held in Boston. You’re in luck!

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Blue Sky eLearn: 2017 Year in Review

Blue Sky eLearn

We hired Ryan Graham as our new Senior Sales Director – providing us with 12+ years of experience in the SaaS learning technology space with companies such as Boston Conferencing, Peach New Media, and Abila. We developed an integration with Fonteva , allowing us to now integrate Path LMS with Salesforce.

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Arena to supply Boston Red Sox v New York Yankees game at London stadium

Event Industry News

The Boston Red Sox will play famed rival, the New York Yankees, at London Stadium on 29 th and 30 th June 2019. Announced in May 2018, the Mitel & MLB Present London Series is part of a long-term strategy to grow Major League Baseball in Europe spanning two years: 2019 and 2020.

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You’ve Got to Read This: December 6, 2011

Reid All About it

Back in August, Ed Rodley, an exhibits professional at the Museum of Science in Boston, wrote about Dealing with Your Cognitive Load. I must share something he said in Part 4 – it’s what drew me into the rest of these posts because it’s so spot on about personal growth: “All of the strategies listed above have one thing in common.

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Monday Buzz: Why Boston Doesn’t Have Cheap Rooms

Associations Now

An array of economic and geographic pressures have boosted Boston’s hotel rooms to extremely high rates. Case in point: the current situation in the Boston metro area. Those are the going rates now in Boston,” Paul Sacco, executive director at the Massachusetts Lodging Association, told the newspaper.

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Centering communities: Leaning into participatory grantmaking to increase equity 

Candid

Two days after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the Boston Foundation set up a special fund to provide rapid-response support to local nonprofits serving communities disproportionately affected by the outbreak. The success proved we could shift our grantmaking strategy quickly and find new ways to help our community.

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Nonprofit: Just a Tax Status

Virtual

If there’s one thing I’d like to change about working with nonprofits of all kinds, it’s the belief that nonprofits are somehow the “minor leagues” of organizations—that it’s ok for them to have deficits in leadership, operations or strategy that you wouldn’t see in a for profit corporation. That’s a load of hooey.

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