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- Geo-Loco! Bay Area Geeks discuss the issues and direction of geo-loco services.Yesterday
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The Geo-loco panelists
Wednesday evening I attended the sold out Geo-loco panel event put on by Bancroft Research Group at Stage Two Consulting. There was a waiting list of over 80 people indicating a significant level of interest in the topic of geo-loco services in the Bay Area.
The panel was composed of Kevin Marks of BT as the moderator, with Robert Scoble of Rackspace, Tom Coates of Yahoo’s Fire Eagle, Matt Galligan of SimpleGeo, Jeremy Toeman of Stage Two Consulting, and MG Siegler of Techcrunch as the panelists. Sponsors included Rackspace, Traveling Geeks, We Blog The World, Stage Two Consulting, and Gordon Biersch.
Based on who I recognized in the audience, I would say it was largely composed of geeks and early adopters.
As one would expect, the first thirty minutes revolved around privacy before moving into monetization, place vs. space, and how companies are trying to use it. Here are a few of the more interesting quotes and points that were made (more or less in the order they came up in the discussion):
- Tom Coates pointed out that as an industry we now
- 10 Ways Not to Blow an Interview as a Project Manager - Part IISeptember 15 2009
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- Bring your resume. Take a moment to look at the interview from the interviewer’s point of view. If the agency is hiring that means that there is enough extra work to justify a new position (or to refill an existing one). It’s likely that one or more of your interviewers are carrying that load. That means more meetings, and more work on top of the interview process. You want to present your best, so have your resume ready in case it’s needed. You are only cutting into your own interview time if someone has to step out and reprint your resume. And as a project manager or interactive producer, I recommend that you have one or two more copies than you think you’ll need.
- Take notes. Many experts recommend that you ask if you can take notes before the interview starts. That’s fine, but I personally care a lot less about whether you ask. You are a project manager. Please convince me that you aren’t going to rely on your flawless memory to run projects.
- Do your research. Sometime in the interview process, the interviewer is going to offer you the opportunity to ask some questions. This is really an opportunity for you to show off your knowledge of the space, your skill set, and your interest level. So, check out the company website. See who their clients are. Think about the challenges they may be having. If you haven’t done your research it’s going to show. And if you’ve been taking notes, you should easily have several
- 10 Ways Not to Blow an Interview as a Project Manager – Part ISeptember 14 2009
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Over the last two months, I’ve been interviewing for three positions on the team at various levels of seniority. Now that I’ve made the hires, I want to share some common mistakes made by otherwise qualified candidates. If you are looking for a job as a Project Manager or Interactive Producer at an agency, here are 10 things that will help you get the most out of your interview. In each instance they have been culled from specific interviews or would-be interviews I’ve held over the last few weeks.
- Focus on the end game. You may have been out of work for awhile, it happens to all of us. And sometimes the temptation to take any job that comes along is high. Resist playing that game. If you are senior enough for the position, you are senior enough to be thinking about your career, not just paying your bills. You have just as great a stake in making the right decision as the company does. Relax and focus on making sure this is going to be a good fit. This means being honest in your skills, expectations, and desires. It does not mean changing your story in mid-interview or between interviews.
- Be on time. Now, generally I wouldn’t expect to have to include this one―it’s usually covered by parents or even in a class, but based on results, being on time isn’t particularly a quality that some candidates feel obligated to meet. Yes, parking is difficult. Yes, our office isn’t the easiest to find. You are a Project Manager. You are supposed to a
- Contribution vs. ConsumptionJune 19 2009
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Jeremiah Owyang is celebrating the third anniversary of his blog today and posted a handy little piece of advice: “Pay yourself first.” It’s good advice and we’ve all heard it before. What I found interesting though is in how he defines paying himself first:
“I put in a lot of passion, and read and blog nearly every morning (It’s 3:51am right now) before I check any email (which is paying someone else), have an editorial calendar, and am slowly writing drafts (there are 413 of them right now) each day as I collect little bits of information, or get ideas.”
My notice here is that his definition of paying himself first–blogging, is how I define his biggest contribution to the community. I don’t think it’s any accident that Jeremiah has risen to the blogger A-list over the last three years. To paraphrase something that Brian Klemmer said to me last week, “We define success as position, acquisition, and consumption and then wonder why well paid people don’t contribute and take responsibility.”
Congratulations Jeremiah on all you’ve accomplished and will continue to. Thanks for demonstrating a spirit of contribution!
Note: Jeremiah, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, & Mark Silva are participating in an SFAMA panel discussion on small business, tech bloggers, and social media next Thursday n
- Bluetrain 55/85 and the “Use” of ArtMay 6 2009
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Bluetrain 55/85
I’m very excited - this week I received my Bluetrain print from Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid.com fame. Here is close up of the work from Hugh’s gallery site, gapingvoidgallery.com:
If you don’t know Hugh, I suggest that you take a few minutes and peruse his blog - paying particular attention to his original How to be Creative post that is coming out soon as a book titled Ignore Everybody, The Global Microbrand, and the Hughtrain
