Networking Night - free to members and nonmembers
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
6-8 pm at Atlantic Restaurant, Main Street, Edgartown
Cash bar and dinner menu will be available for purchase
Welcome back! It is that time of year where we regroup, step back and breathe again. Join us as we kick off the MVWN season with a social event at the back bar at Atlantic Restaurant in Edgartown. Bring your business cards and enjoy Atlantic's great bar, dinner menu and harbor view. Bring a friend and reconnect with the group. This is a free event open to all members and nonmembers. No registration required
Cash bar and dinner menu will be available for purchase.
Networking Night - free to members and nonmembers
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
6-8 pm at Atlantic Restaurant, Main Street, Edgartown
Cash bar and dinner menu will be available for purchase
Welcome back! It is that time of year where we regroup, step back and breathe again. Join us as we kick off the MVWN season with a social event at the back bar at Atlantic Restaurant in Edgartown. Bring your business cards and enjoy Atlantic's great bar, dinner menu and harbor view. Bring a friend and reconnect with the group. This is a free event open to all members and nonmembers. No registration required
Cash bar and dinner menu will be available for purchase.
Branding - What does your company's 'look' say to your customers?
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
12 pm at the Harbor View Hotel, Edgartown
Registration at 11:30 am
Light Lunch will be served
Good branding is as essential as a good product in developing customer loyalty. Carol Kolodny of Kolodny Dorr Media Design, who since 1978 has helped businesses and non-profits develop strong identities, will lead a panel discussion on branding that includes:
This program is generously sponsored by Vineyard Stories .
Special Program - From Farm to Market: Meeting the Local Demand
Monday, November 1, 2010
6:30-8 pm at Grange Hall, West Tisbury
Registration begins at 6 pm
Lights local foods will be served.
For food entrepreneurs, from farmers to eaters, men and women. Locally grown food has become big business on Martha's Vineyard. Join us for a panel discussion led by Ali Berlow, founder of Island Grown Initiative and Edible Vineyard, on business planning and market opportunities for locally grown food. Panel members will include:
This program is offered in cooperation with the Island Grown Initiative.
Special Program: $10
Business Forecasting, Trends and Opportunities
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
8 am at Baylies Room, Old Whaling Church, Edgartown
Light breakfast will be served
Nancy Gardella, executive director of the Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce and a MVWN member, will offer a bird's eye view of the 2010 Martha's Vineyard economy and what to look for in the 2011 season.
This program is generously sponsored by Ameriprise Financial of Edgartown, MA.
The pre-registration period for this program has expired. You may register at the door. Program fee is $25 for all walk ins.
Goal Setting - GPS Your Life and Career
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
11:30-1:30 pm at the Mansion House, Vineyard Haven
Light lunch will be served
Bonnie Marcus, certified executive coach, founder of Women's Success Coaching, and co-founder of MVWN, will lead participants through exercises using their own unique "navigation" system to identify and reach personal and career goals. A "must" for every business person at any stage in their work life.
This program is generously sponsored by the Mansion House.
Tours of the Fitness Center and Spa available from 11 am.
February 9, 2011 5-9 pm
Kitchen Porch Catering, 14 A Street, Edgartown
(Airport Industrial Center, across from Registry of Motor Vehicles)
Class includes dinner
Too busy to cook? Eating out of a box?
Popular caterer Jan Buhrman will teach you how to cook simple, delicious meals that are nutritious, easy, and use ingredients that are thoughtfully sourced. Learn to read labels and what all those terms - organic versus conventional; pasture, grass fed, and free range; all natural - actually mean. Find out about oils and fats and what temperature is appropriate as well as best for the meal. Learn about herbs that are easy to incorporate and make big blasts of flavor.
This program is limited to 25 people and is $15 for members, $40 for non members
The Power of Email Marketing:
Getting Started with Constant Contact - Canceled due to extreme weather (again). Stay tuned for further information.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
6:30-8 pm
$15 pre-registration
Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Library
In this live demonstration you will learn how to best use Constant Contact. You'll learn how to modify an email template with your branding, upload your list and add a sign-up box to your website and social sites, use social media features to reach a broader audience, use additional tools to enhance your design experience, explore best practices and strategies for email marketing, valuable content, how to vary your offerings, and how to read metrics and create targeted follow up campaigns.
Co-Sponsored by ACE MV, MV Chamber of Commerce and MVWN
Market-Art
Monday, April 11, 2011
6-8 pm
Featherstone Center for the Arts, Oak Bluffs
Program Fee: $10 Pre-Registration is Requested to Reserve Seating
Light Refreshments will be Served
You're more of an artist, than a business person. Yet today's world demands that artists use all the same tools other businesses utilize to be successful - social media, advertising, and careful business planning. Four panelists will share their experiences and knowledge related to the business and marketing of art. Come prepared to hear about the business of web, print and social media marketing and to ask insightful questions. This practical, panel discussion will provide key market-art knowledge and will help you better engage in the business of art. It will be useful for anyone engaged in creative work.
Featured Panelists and their Speciality are:
Nancy Shaw Cramer, owner of Shaw Cramer Gallery,
Elizabeth Whelan, artist, businesswoman and designer of brands and marketing campaigns
Jennifer McCurdy, world-renowned ceramicist
Patrick Phillips, online and video-based art-community builder
This program is offered in cooperation with Featherstone Center for the Arts and Vineyard Voice.
Liz Murray: From Homeless to Harvard
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Whaling Church, Edgartown
6-6:30 pm Check In
6:30-8 pm Program
8 pm Book Signing and Dessert Reception
Formerly homeless, Liz Murray transformed her life of despair into an inspiring journey. Liz was born to loving but drug-addicted parents. Neglected and raised in squalor, she was often so hungry that she resorted to eating ChapStick and toothpaste. She was taunted by schoolmates for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. When her family finally unraveled, Liz dropped out of high school.
Determined not to be defined by her circumstances, she recognized that education was the key to a new beginning and a new way of living. Liz went back to school,completing her assignments in the hallways and subway cars where she slept, squeezing four years of high school into two. Liz ultimately won a scholarship to Harvard. Even then, she had to rely on her inner strength and the support of her friends. After reconciling with her father, who was dying of AIDS, Liz took him into her home so she could care for him during the last years of his life.
The subject of Lifetime Television's Emmy-nominated original film Homeless to Harvard, Murray completed her degree at Harvard in 2009 and recently released her memoir Breaking Night, which became a Ney York Times bestseller the firstmade The New York Times Best-seller List in it's first week of release.
With humor and grace, Liz will take us on her inspirational journey from street smarts to classroom triumphs and will motivate students and business audiences alike to overcome their own obstacles.
This program is co-sponsored by Bunch of Grapes Bookstore Breaking Light will be available for purchase at the event.
The pre-registration period for this program has expired. Seating will be available at the door with a walk in price of $20 for adults and $5 for students. Please arrive early to register.
