I’m not a native New Englander. I purposefully chose to settle here after going to college in the area, and have grown to love just about everything (OK, fighting the traffic on 128 every day ain’t so fun) about living here. I take a lot of pride in being a Bostonian and New Englander. So I was particularly proud yesterday…
One of the fun parts of the agency model is that you get to work with all types and sizes of companies. Working with larger, publicly traded clients definitely has its perks and advantages, as does helping companies who are at that threshold grow into those companies. Earlier this week I was reminded of the fun that comes from helping…
At CHEN PR we’ve learned to look forward to Xconomy events, and yesterday’s XSITE 2010 event (attended and blogged on today by my colleague Juli Greenwood as well) was no exception. I was there to hear the CEOs of two CHEN PR clients present (see photos): Chris Randles, President and CEO of SpaceClaim, and Tom Pincince, President and CEO of…
What a week last week was for CHEN PR client Phase Forward. Phase Forward provides software solutions that help pharmaceutical, medical device and other companies automate the clinical trials at the heart of their new drug/therapy/device development processes. Many of these companies convened in Boston last week for Phase Forward’s 8th annual user conference in downtown Boston. The tone was…
What a week last week was for CHEN PR client Phase Forward. Phase Forward provides software solutions that help pharmaceutical, medical device and other companies automate the clinical trials at the heart of their new drug/therapy/device development processes. Many of these companies convened in Boston last week for Phase Forward’s 8th annual user conference. The tone was set with a…
Up until the relatively recent clean tech boom, I’d heard little day-to-day, rank-and-file talk of “doing good” in the 15 years of my professional career in high tech. For sure the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been around for a while, and lots of companies have CSR statements and programs. And of course there were a lot of…
We hear so much these days about conventional newspapers losing marketshare to new and social media that one might expect the journalists at the former are simply sitting back and accepting their inevitable fate. So it is refreshing to encounter a conventional newspaper journalist who is energetic and enthusiastic about the role her profession and employer will continue to play…
Maybe it’s something in the Boston water. No sooner had a weekend ended in which the Sox swept the Brew Crew to get back on track, and the Celtics clinched a regional championship berth in an exciting game seven, than Phase Forward opened the work week singled out in a Wall Street Journal article (subscription required) as a top stock…
One reason we enjoy our work with MIT: we find their enthusiasm for innovation infectious. That enthusiasm was very much on display at an event yesterday, the MIT Enterprise Forum’s ICE (Ignite Clean Energy) competition. Capping the day’s events was a captivating keynote address by Chelsea Sexton, executive director of Plugin America. With an intriguingly varied background that includes a…
As you know if you live in New England, or probably saw on the news even if you live outside of the region, last Thursday a brief but formidable snowstorm created epic traffic snarls in and around Boston. Commutes of 6+ hours were common. After leaving the office at 2:00 pm, only for it to become apparent I wasn’t going…