Any member wishing to have a voice in the chapter is welcome to attend our monthly board of director meetings.  If you are a current AMA member and either want to participate or have an agenda item you would like the board to consider, then please write to president@amaboston.org.

-Steven Halling, President of AMA Boston 

AMA Boston is offering the opportunity to make your mark.  To be a part of something larger than your day job and become part of the marketing community.  

The Boston Chapter is searching for a few more candidates to fill out our 08/09 board of directors, and for candidates to serve in elect positions for 09/10.   This is your chance to get involved with a growing number of top marketing professionals to shape the chapter and grow your career!   Here is the one statistic you need to know - over the past two years, 7 out of 10 chapter board members have either:

1. Seen a significant advancement in their careers.
2. Found great new opportunities for their businesses.

It’s not hard to figure out.  In this connected world of personal branding and Google searches, it looks darn good to see your name attached to a brand like AMA’s.   

Boston is one of the largest single concentration of AMA members in the country. We have it all - higher ed., market research, branding, strategy, marcom, events, and on and on. AMA Boston envelops every discipline of marketing under one organization.  Don’t miss this opportunity!  

- Steven Halling, President of AMA Boston 

We are now seeking great candidates for board of director positions. If you are a rock star in marketing (or want to be one), then click here to learn more.

Each year, the AMA nominating committee identifies and selects candidates with stature in the marketing profession and the ability to provide the volunteer leadership that is essential to the AMA. Nominations are carefully considered by the nominating committee, and a final slate is submitted for approval to the board of directors. If you would like to be considered as a nominee, raise your hand and let us know.

If you think getting involved is a good idea, but you want to start with something simple, then click here.

Last Saturday, the Boston Chapter of the American Marketing Association hosted an “all volunteer Mid-Year Retreat” at the Molecular office in Watertown, MA. After a brief board meeting, our day began with a team building iprov exercise lead by Andrew Aylesworth, Associate Professor of Marketing and Director MS in Marketing Analytics of Bentley College.

Dr. Aylesworth began the session by teaching us the 5 rules of improv and led us through a series of warm-up exercises, which I’m sure that if you were anywhere near the building, you would have probably heard us shouting. It was terrific for team building and quite a lot of fun.

After a lunch catered by Panera, the entire body of AMA Boston volunteers came together to review our progress and discuss our goals for the remainder of the fiscal year. The idea behind our annual Mid-Year Retreat is a check-in point designed to refresh the goals we set at the annual weekend Planning Retreat, which is held at the Inn at East Hill Farm, located at the foot of Mt. Monadnock in Troy, NH. Our planning session in NH is a weekend get away full of brainstorming, team building, mountain climbing and… karaoke.
As always, it was great to get together in the same room with dozens of energetic marketing professionals and to hear so many new ideas flowing up through our chapter !

We are already planning our annual weekend retreat in NH. If you have good ideas and would like to get involved in the AMA Boston marketing community, please contact the volunteer committee.

Myles Bristowe
President-elect, AMA Boston