and presents:

What Not to Web

A Spring Website Makeover Event

Get ready to spring-clean your website! Join local web design experts and learn how to give your website a major makeover.
Submit your website for a makeover before the event!

Industry experts will reveal the best design techniques for enhancing your existing website.

What do you have to lose?

When: May 27th 2010
where: MIT Stata Center
Kirsch Auditorium Building 32 Room 123
32 Vassar Street
cambridge, MA 02139
cost: Members $25 Non $40
students with valid ID - Free

Submit a Website for a Makeover!

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Schedule of Events:

5:30 p.m.:
Networking mixer & Sandwiches
6:15-8:00 p.m.:
Program
8:00-9:00 p.m.:
Networking Reception upstairs at the R&D pub

Who's talking about WHAT NOT TO WEB

Meet the Judges!
Roy Rodenstein

Established entrepreneur Roy Rodenstein is the founder of Going.com, recently acquired by AOL. Roy has a demonstrated ability for making great ideas grow into profitable businesses; he is known for his mastery in helping start up companies blossom in early stages of growth. To say Roy knows a lot about marketing is an understatement; his expertise covers the gamut, from viral marketing online, to product branding, to analytics. Roy is currently the Director of Business Planning at AOL.

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David Hauser

David Hauser is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Grasshopper.com, “a virtual phone system designed for entrepreneurs.” David is all too familiar with the joys and pains of entrepreneurial business—although it’s fair to say he his success has led him to experience more joys than pains. His passion rests in the field of technology, which has been the driving force of his many successful business endeavors. Before Grasshopper, David co-founded Return Path, an e-mail performance management company, as well as Web Ads360, an ad-serving technology designed for growing entrepreneurial businesses.

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Richard Banfield

Richard is the CEO of Fresh Tilled Soil, a UI web design and internet marketing firm that he established in 2004. His most recent entrepreneurial endeavor is Web-o-Matic, an all-in-one web creation service designed for entrepreneurs and businesses with smaller budgets and bigger ambitions. Richard has delivered high-level business strategy, global marketing campaigns and materials to clients in the US, UK, Europe and Africa. Fresh Tilled Soil has worked with hundreds of clients including The Ritz-Carlton, Microsoft, GE, Babson, Harvard and MIT.

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Chris Merrill

Simply put, Chris loves Boston based start-ups and small businesses. As a seasoned entreprenuer (3-4 win loss record, but who is counting?) he has lived the full-life cycle of a business owner. In 2000 Chris founded Thrive Networks, a leading provider of managed IT services subequently acquired by Staples in 2006. With great intent, un-waivering passion and horrible time mananagement skills Chris sets out to build exceptional products and services for companies to either increase revenue, reduce expenses, or improve quality of life. If he isn't staring at a wall thinking of how to improve Web-o-matic, he is reading or snowboarding at Loon Mountain.

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Check Out the Gallery of Submitted Sites!

This gallery showcases the sites YOU think need a makeover! Take a look around, share your opinion about improvements you would make and give your feedback on our Facebook page!