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
We're kicking off the 2012 season of Refresh events in February with designer, instructor and speaker Patrick Haney, who will discuss topics such as organization, process and GTD in his presentation titled Getting Shit Done.
- What
- Getting Shit Done
- When
- Thursday, February 2nd at 6:30PM
- Where
- Microsoft NERD Center
- Who
- Patrick Haney
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Getting Shit Done
Design and development is a lifestyle choice for many of us, but that doesn't mean we don't want to get out and enjoy the other things in life. When most of your day is spent on trivial tasks rather than productive work, it's time to evaluate your process and improve it. In this talk, Patrick Haney will show you how to focus your work day, reduce time spent on the crap you don't enjoy, and help you Get Shit Done. He'll talk about the tools and resources you can use to speed up your process, how to find the right routine for you, and when to unplug and get away from your computer.
About the Speaker
Patrick Haney is not a sausage. He's the Lead Designer at Litmus, a small company based in Cambridge that helps make your email campaigns more successful by making sure they look good and get results. In his spare time he designs and builds things at Hanerino, teaches at the CDIA, and organizes events for Refresh Boston.
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'll also have pizza for attendees and a few other surprises thanks to Litmus, also based in Kendall Square.
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
- The NERD Center is Microsoft's research & innovation campus in Cambridge, and host to many groups & events, including Refresh Boston.
- Litmus tests your email in 30+ devices and mobile clients and helps you keep track of your campaign.
- TaskRabbit makes it easy for you to get just about anything done by reliable, awesome people. Sign up for free today.
- 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.