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Promoting Professional Geekery Roundup

December 3, 2011 by Steven Savage

Steve’s long-running (and perhaps long-winded) series on how people can promote professional geekery – both the idea of the fan-to-pro life, and how to encourage and help people seeking that lifestyle!

#1 – Share Your Mistakes
#2 – Contribute to a site
#3 – Help Out Recruiters
#4 – Start the Damn Blog!
#5 – Join A Professional Association
#6 – Write the Book!
#7 – Write a Guide
#8 – Mentor People
#9 – Build a Site
#10 – Present at a Convention
#11 – Do a career Track At A Convention
#12 – Do a Geek Networking Event
#13 – Involve Your Business
#14 – Start Triading
#15 – Pass on News
#16 – Pass on And Share Books
#17 – Evangelize to a Professional Association
#18 – Evangelize About A Professional Association
#19 – Flaunt It!
#20 – Help Out Reporters
#21 – Start a Geeky Group At Work
#22 – Involve The Parents
#23 – Put a Pro section at a convention
#24 – Start a meetup.
#25 – Do reviews.
#26 – Start a geeky side project at work.
#27 – Start a vLog.
#28 – Share your job search skills.
#29 – Be accessible.
#30 – Give feedback to authors and creators.
#31 – Revive and repurpose old sites and groups.
#32 – Create a newsletter.
#33 – Help out the HR Department.
#34 – Answer questions.
#35 – Connect Groups.
#36 – Have A Book List.
#37 – Be Con Event Support.
#38 – Raise The Children Well.
#39 – Help Out Parents.
#40 – Help A Professional Association With Communications.
#41 – Fansource All The Things!
#42 – Be Interviewed.
#43 – Cooperate On A Book.
#44 – Make Your Personal Page Progeeky.
#45 – Write About Progeeks And Progeekery.
#46 – Find Your Coaching Specialty.
#47 – Keep A Recruiter List.
#48 – Use Your Progeeky Viewpoint On Geeky Events.
#49 – Be A Role Model.
#50 – Get Others To Follow Your Lead.

– Steven Savage

Roundup: A Guide To Fansourcing

October 10, 2011 by Steven Savage

For your convenience, all of the "Guide To Fansourcing" articles in one spot:

Part 1: What is Fansourcing – What is fansourcing? Please note that, as per part 2, we're considering what's discussed a kind of "subset" of overall fansourcing.
Part 2: Why Fansource – So why look to fandom to find – or apply – talent?
Part 3: When to Fansource – Just when should you try fansourcing?
Part 4: How to Fansource – How to find talent – or promote yourself – via fansourcing.
Part 5: Using Fansourcing In Your Career – Just how to apply fansourcing – or reqeusting fansourcing – to your job!
Part 6: Wish List – Things we'd like to see to help fansourcing.

– Steven Savage

Survey Sunday Roundup: What Do You Want?

October 2, 2011 by Steven Savage

No, it's not related to Babylon 5, but we asked what people want to get out of Survey Sunday. The results gave us some direction:

33.3% – Insights into careers.
50.0% – Insights into trends.
33.3% – Insights into current news.
66.7% – Insights that really make me think.
50.0% – Humorous, weird, and unusual stuff.
66.7% – A better understanding into how progeeks think.
16.7% – Deep analysis.

This was helpful – it sounds like people want survey sunday to be thought provoking, help people see what others think, and maybe be a bit offbeat. Trends were more important than current news, and it seems like few people are looking for career info from Survey Sunday.

Thanks folks! Keep up the suggestions – and I'll be putting these to use!

– Steven Savage