After showing off our integrated phone system, announcing TalkersRadio at the TALKERS New York event and working with TalkersRadio at Radio Day at the UN we returned home to participate in a local high tech happening, Innovation Nights – Boston.
Innovation Nights – Boston is the home of the original Innovation Nights events. It all started in April 2009 as Mass Innovation Nights (MIN) with a website and a monthly event designed to help local innovators increase the buzz around new products and companies.
Every month ten companies bring new products to the event and the social media community turns out to blog, tweet, post pictures and video, add product mentions to LinkedIn and Facebook statuses, and otherwise help spread the word. In the last two years, the events have helped to:
- Launch more than 500 products
- Connect dozens of job seekers and hiring managers
- Profile dozens of local experts
- Launch a wave of Innovation Nights events around the world (coming soon)
Held once a month (usually the second Wednesday of the month, registration and networking at 6:00 p.m.), presentations start showing at 7:00 p.m., the live events allow companies to show off Massachusetts-based innovation.
While at Innovation Nights I gave a sneak preview of our new integrated phone service that works with Backbone Radio. Similar to Backbone Radio’s automation, the phone system will be in the cloud. Now your phone system can go on the road with you along with your automation so you can operate your station anywhere. Chris Day, the Director of Broadcast and Digital Media at Major League Lacrosse recently wrote an article for RadioWorld Magazine about what they were able to do last year with the Backbone Radio service. They found that what Backbone provides, compared to a traditional broadcast set up, saved them quite a bit of money and made broadcasting very simple.
Thanks to Innovation Nights – Boston for providing the opportunity to show a different audience our new Internet radio phone service. The connections we made their with the local innovation community are invaluable. Now we will be working to help our customers launch Talk Radio programs as part of their broadcasts!