Technology

Fannish Skills On The Job Search – Webmastery

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(Last week it was art.  This week I turn my attention to another fan skill people can use on their job search).

Are you a webmaster for a fan group, cosplay team, convention, or other
geeky endeavor?  Do you assist webmasters?  Do you help your art friends
withy our online porfolios?  In short, are you one of the people that
may actually know how to work HTML and CSS, or at least some design
tools, and use it in your hobbies?

Then you have one hell of an advantage on your job search and career planning that you ought to be using.

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It’s All Media

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I was looking over the news of the day, thinking over our podcasts as of late, and noticed that Bonnie and I talk and write a lot about technology companies.  What's Apple up to?  What about streaming video?  What about this or that . . . it's always streams and circuits, chips, and screens, and technology.

We talk about tech a lot.

Here on the blog we're all about geeky things – Tech of course.  Video games.  Also books, comics, television and more.  We're not exactly a tech career blog, and that's intentional – we want to cover a lot of progeekery.

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The Power To Do Better

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Youtube, Lulu.com, BlogTalkRadio, and many more websites and services out there are throwing down a challenge.  It's not apparent, but in time I'm betting it'll become moreso.

It's a challenge to all those people who say "I can do better."

Think you can make a better music video?  Book?  Web page?  Think you can sell your art better or sell your crafts better?

From Etsy to Smashwords, the tools are out there that, the next time someone says they can do better with some creative endeavor, they have the opportunity to put their money where there mouth is.  There's no reason not to publish a book or sell cosplay materials online, because there's many ways to do it.

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