Frank J. Kenny's Chamber of Commerce Industry Blog

Is it time to create your own Chamber TV “channel” and take advantage of our binge-watching culture? Gen Xers and Millennials may be the last generations who will remember eagerly waiting for the right day and time to watch their favorite show. Some of us might’ve even changed plans “back in the day” in order […]

Chamber committees are a strong way to organize, engage, and interest volunteers. It gives them specific work and leadership opportunities that are good for your chamber, the community, and even the volunteer’s resume. While forming a committee just for committee’s sake is an act of unrewarding bureaucracy, creating the right committees that serve your members […]

With unemployment so high during COVID, who would have thought that it would be followed by a worker shortage. This labor shortage has been a topic of conversation occurring on the Chamber Professionals Facebook group. The problem is employees. Not the ones they have now, but finding more. Businesses all over the country are finding […]

This has been an incredibly long year since the shutdowns started. It’s worn on all of us, from chamber professionals to our members. While we (mainstream tech users) have been connecting online for nearly two decades, this is the first year where we only had online connections to rely on. Our staff was forced online […]

Diversity, equity, inclusion. I am embarrassed to say that when I heard more and more communities striving to address issues with diversity, equity, and inclusion, I thought that was an individual decision and somewhat akin to implementing a marketing strategy–one that had best practices but not necessarily a right way or wrong way to implement […]

Do you use Twitter? Probably. How about Twitter Spaces? Never heard of it? It’s relatively new, but with anything social media, it’s best find out fast. Why it is taking off so fast? To begin with, it’s because so many people use Twitter. Athletes do. Professionals, kids, parents of those kids do. So do young […]

There’s been a terrible, hidden cost of this pandemic for women, particularly working moms. The most recent federal funding bill addressed the need to help women reenter the workforce because so many of their careers (or current positions) were hampered by women having to take on the role of teacher for their children. What else […]

Have you read the op-ed pieces recently? People on both coasts are clamoring for “Immunity Nights” as a way to help local businesses after Johns Hopkins professor Dorry Segev and Bloomberg School of Public Health professor Marty Makary published an opinion piece launching the idea in the Washington Post on February 25th . Will your […]