Creating opportunities for collaboration and facilitating knowledge sharing and co-creation are at the heart of what Matchbox does. We are excited to share news about a new partnership with the Endocrine Society that strengthens our capacity to help membership organizations design and deliver online experiences that will drive innovation in the medical, healthcare and scientific industries.
PRESS RELEASE: Endocrine Society and Matchbox Announce Joint Venture
WASHINGTON— July 31, 2023— The Endocrine Society and Matchbox Virtual Media, trading as Matchbox, are pleased to announce today that the organizations formed a joint venture that will bring exciting new opportunities for medical, healthcare, and scientific associations to elevate the experiences of their customers relative to producing meetings, organizing communities, and disseminating educational products.
The new joint venture will benefit from the Endocrine Society’s initial financial investments and its robust networking within the medical and scientific fields. Matchbox brings its proven platform, technologies, and expertise in designing and delivering engaging online experiences.
The joint venture will not only expand Matchbox’s services in the medical, healthcare, and scientific association sectors but it will also evolve current technologies to provide customers an enhanced platform, expanded event template resources, and access to the Matchbox Network knowledge community.
“Providing state-of-the-art virtual meetings and educational products is core to the mission of many associations, but it can be a tremendous challenge,” says Endocrine Society Chief Executive Officer Kate Fryer. “We’re excited for this new joint venture because it will equip organizations with the best tools to automate time-consuming processes and develop learning programs that will wow their members.”
“We have worked with hundreds of organizations to elevate virtual and hybrid event design, planning, and execution. We have purpose-built our platform and distilled our learnings and experience into templates for online experiences we know work to engage, captivate, and facilitate problem-solving and learning.,” says Matchbox Chief Executive Officer, Arianna Rehak. “We are excited that this joint venture will create digital products and services specifically designed to help medical, healthcare, and scientific organizations to engage more of their members in conversations and learning to drive innovation in the sector.”
Read the full press release on The Endocrine Society website
What does this news mean for Matchbox Virtual Media?
Establishing this joint venture with the Endocrine Society will increase the speed with which Matchbox can enhance and extend our experience design platform. Our goal is to automate many of the most time-consuming processes and offer an expanding library of templates and guides to leverage online experiences. Utilizing the shared knowledge and expertise that has been distilled into experience templates will enable our clients to increase engagement, deepen learning, and generate more non-dues revenue for their organizations.
The joint venture will also help us grow our client community of experience design enthusiasts and create a shared space for exchanging ideas, collaboration, and co-creation of new and inspiring online experiences for engagement, collaborative problem-solving, volunteer training, new member onboarding, and more! We are excited to be the home of a knowledge community for experience design, sharing our best-practice guides and leveraging the experience of other community members to save your meeting planners, education department, and marketing teams dozens of hours when creating and delivering new online experiences and digital products.
Our first joint activity with Endocrine Society will be to launch a research study exploring and benchmarking the use of virtual events and online experiences by medical, healthcare and scientific organizations. We want to understand what is working and what is not, which online experiences are creating value or generating revenue, and the areas in which medical, healthcare and scientific organizations see potential for online experiences to increase meaningful engagement with their members and community. The first phase of the research study is open to membership organizations from all industries and will be launched at the ASAE Annual Meeting and Exposition, August 5-8, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia, where Matchbox will be exhibiting at booth 551.
Co-creating the future of online experiences
Though this partnership is focusing on helping medical, healthcare and scientific organizations develop state-of-the-art virtual meetings and education experiences, Matchbox continues to partner with associations and membership organizations across all industries. The investment by the Endocrine Society increases our capacity to work with all organizations interested in sparking authentic engagement through intentional experience design – creating conversations that matter and connections that last.
We look forward to sharing our learnings and innovations from this new venture with our entire client community and the broader association community, just as we have with previous initiatives. A rising tide lifts all boats – we all benefit when we collaborate to make online experiences more engaging, inclusive, and inspiring for our members, clients, and partners!
Matchbox enables membership organizations to easily produce and deliver online experiences using co-created templates and tools that ignite engagement and generate revenue. If you would like to learn more about working with Matchbox, or have a comment or question about our exciting news – Get in touch!
