It's been awhile since I embarked on boring our readers, and with some of the major issues of the day affecting your career, let's focus on an issue you need to be following: insurance. Specifically, health insurance.
Steven Savage
Convention Idea: Career Tracks
My original column on how conventions could invite more "career" guests (legal reps, marketers, special effects teams) along with their "name" guests generated a good deal of feedback from various people. After some though, I've decided to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and flesh out other ideas on how conventions and similar fan/geek events can encourage professional development as well as fun. There's no real endpoint to the series – and I'm always looking for new ideas.
For this column, I want to focus on another way to make conventions skill-and-career building as well as social and fun – a career track at a convention. I've seen a few ideas like this implemented from con to con, and wanted to discuss my ideal version of how they could be done.
Thoughts on future media models, and freeness.
Right now on the internet there's a lot of discussion on the book "Free", a book exploring, well, the impact of freeness (and the internet's way of delivering it) on business models. I've not read it yet, I probably should, if only to know where I'm going to fall on what appears to be a lot of inevitable arguments.
The discussions have made me speculate on the future of media – because media is a repository of geeky jobs. Comics, books, reviews, games, etc. What does free mean to us in such industries – or those of us who want to go into them. I will attempt to keep my thoughts somewhat above the level of "ramble".
So imagine you're going online to provide some media – a game, a comic, an online novel delivered in snippets, etc. You're going to do free because Free gets attention and there's a lot of competition. Here's what I think it means for you, the professional geek