Refresh Boston
another refreshing city
What is Refresh?
Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, & professional culture of New Media endeavors in the Boston area while promoting design, technology, usability, and standards.
Our Next Event
A huge thanks to everyone that came out for our April event, What's Next for Responsive Web Design with Mat Marquis. It was our largest audience of all time. If you attended, take a minute and leave Mat some feedback on SpeakerRate. We'll have his presentation slides available soon.
- What
- Taking the Plunge
- When
- Thursday, May 17th at 6:30PM
- Where
- Microsoft NERD Center
- Who
- Mike Kivikoski of Atedrake
Taking the Plunge
Congrats on taking the initiative; working for yourself can be a scary adventure. Before you quit your job, establish and prepare a plan. Confront your fears of taxes, insurance, invoicing and saving money. Planning for day to day life, retirement, and vacations doesn't have to be difficult. I'll walk you through the plan I used, give you tips and tricks I've learned along the way, and discuss methods I'm currently still using.
Free High Fives will be provided at the end of the talk.
About the Speaker
Mike Kivikoski is a UI Designer & Developer who runs the boutique design studio Atedrake, located in Somerville, MA and, is a part of the business collective Fringe. Since going out on his own, he has had the opportunity to work with clients such as AstraZeneca, BMC Software, Cuppow, Democratic National Convention, Fidelity, Island Creek Oysters, and Pretty Things Beer & Ale.
Sponsorship
We'd like to thank Microsoft for providing us with a wonderful space yet again, and for allowing us access to numerous beverages in the coolers on the 10th floor of the NERD Center.
We're currently looking for sponsors for all 2012 events. If you'd like to help with a monetary donation or by providing food and/or giveaways for attendees, please get in touch or take a look at our Support page for more information on how you can help Refresh Boston and what you and your company will get in return.
Send us an email if you'd like to support Refresh Boston.
Call for Speakers
Interested in speaking at a Refresh Boston event, or know someone who is? Fill out our presentation submission form and we'll get in touch about future events.
Refresh Boston Elsewhere
Keep up to date with Refresh Boston and collaborate with other fellow Bostonians through our multiple channels, including:
- Frequent updates from Twitter
- Photos of events on Flickr
- Share news, photos, videos & more on Mixx
- Provide speaker feedback with SpeakerRate
- Check us out on Facebook
Other Local Groups
There are plenty of other great web & tech communities in the Boston area, including:
- Build Guild
- A monthly event in Salem, MA for geeks of all kinds to meet, drink and show off their mustaches.
- North Shore Web Geeks
- For those North Shore folks who can't make it to Boston, this monthly group meets in Newburyport, MA.
- UX Book Club Boston
- Local club focusing on books about user experience design & development.
- BostonCHI
- The Boston area chapter of ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction that holds monthly meetings open to everyone.
Sponsors
- Sponsor a Refresh Boston event and get your logo in front of the web & tech community. Interested?.
- Microsoft's NERD Center is an innovation campus in Cambridge, and host to Refresh Boston.
- Wufoo makes it easy to create forms on the web and start collecting data in minutes.
- Refresh Boston is organized by Hanerino, a design studio that specializes in attractive, accessible interfaces for web & mobile.
To see all our sponsors, past & present, or to offer some help of your own, check out our support page.