Next BU EMI Alumni Committee call - April 12th, 2006, noon EDT

Thank you to those of you who were able to participate in our first BU EMI Alumni Committee.

A lot of great ideas were shared, see Beth's summary of items discussed in last call.

Next meeting : Wed., April12, 2006 at noon EDT
How to join: call 617.358.1248

BU Alums - How you can help/participate

1. We'd started with email format initially to receive your thoughts and feedback about these topics and to provide you with the ability to share your ideas aboutways we can expand the entrepreneurship community of BU alumni. Please use this blog to continue our exchange.

2. If there are other BU alumni who would like to have a voice in developing our community, please let Beth Goldstein know and she will add them to the list of invitees for future calls.

Summary of Mar 15th - first conf call of BU EMI Alumni Committee

Mar 15th: Summary of first conf call items discussed - compiled by Beth Goldstein

Thank you to those of you who were able to participate in our first BU EMI Alumni Committee. A lot of great ideas were shared, as Iwill summarize below. Our next meeting is scheduled for Wed., April12 at noon EDT. Please call 617.358.1248 to participate in the call.

1) To encourage and expand participation in the BU Business Plan Competition we should add a "poster section" that allows all students/alumni to feature their business and be judged by a variety ofseasoned entrepreneurs. This will allow participants to receive morefeedback before they actually submit their applications for the competition.

2) We are considering developing an Online EMI Community where alum can share ideas about issues that are important to them. This can be inthe form of a blog or other online community. Sections can be created soonline forums/discussion groups are available. We might also offer Webinars on this sight to enhance the educational value.

3) We should consider offering a program like BU's very successful Symposium.http://smgpublish.bu.edu/symposium/index.shtml. This could be focused on issues important to alumni with a lot of interactive tracks/sessions allowing alum to speak with each other about topics of importance such as: Corporate entrepreneurship, running famiy businesses and industry/sector specifictopics. We'd like to use the email format initially to receive your thoughts and feedback about these topics and to provide you with the ability to share your ideas about ways we can expand the entrepreneurship community of BU alumni. In the future we might develop an online forum to continue our exchange.