Next Time — May Event Thoughts

Do you find yourself having second thoughts after you do something?  I do.  It would have been better if … (fill in the blank.)

Now that the first Mass Innovation Nights is behind us, I’m reviewing my list of “it would have been better if’s.”

I’ll forgo the trekking all over Waltham and Lexington to bring in additional rectangular tables, make do with the circular tables the museum has already and spend my time instead depositing a trail of breadcrumbs (signs) for people to follow to the hidden parking lots.  (I have a huge amount of sympathy on this as I spent one Boston Media Makers Sunday wandering all over Boston and JP looking for Doyle’s.  The next time I caught a ride with Rich Sands and his GPS unit and I doubt I could make it back there on my own.)

For the second Mass Innovation Nights event I think we are going to move all the innovators into the ballroom so they will be all together (no upstairs/downstairs — all upstairs, thru the door.) I think we’ll have more than the 160 attendees we had this time.  We’ll open the ballroom doors at 6:30 and have registration, name tags and mingling among the exhibits starting at 6:00.  Also means no hold up at the door.

One reason for the shift into the ballroom is that the amphitheater is going to contain the Cyber Arts Festival starting on April 24, through May 1 (but tear down might make the amphitheater unusuable for us — just not sure.)  BTW, if you are interested in such things, I highly recommend the Boston CyberArts Festival — looks very cool.  The ballroom has a big screen on a wall that we can use for demos but I want to do a survey to see what people thought about the demo portion.  I got very strong reactions both ways.  People seemed to love or hate it.  Tell me what you think.

Other ideas I should add to the list?