Happy Holidays from everyone here at Career Opportunities and WelchWrite.com. I hope you enjoy this year’s holiday presentation from Friends in Tech. — Douglas
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“Mattie Stevens, a young boy of the early 80’s, dreams of owning a Commodore 64. He sets out to convince everyone this is the perfect gift. But, along the way runs into opposition from his parents and everyone around him including old Santa Claus”
It’s time for Make-A-Move Monday again. What goals do you want to accomplish (or make progress on) this week? What tools or information can you share that would help out your fellow Career Opportunities readers and listeners?
My recommendation for this week is David Allen’s book, Making It All Work. This is the second follow up to Allen’s well-known book on organizing your live, Getting Things Done also known as GTD.
I am looking for ways to take the GTD methodology to the next level and I think you will find this book interesting and useful, too.
After we completed CareerCamp Online 2009, I knew I wanted to do it again in about 6 months. While it has been a bit longer than that, I am feeling the itch once again. This time I am undecided whether this will be an online CareerCamp, a face-to-face conference here in Los Angeles or, more likely a combination of both.
This is where you come in. I am looking for your advice and comments on what CareerCamp Fall 2009 should be. What talk would you like to present? What would you most like to see? Who should we invite to speak or should it be entirely an unconference? Where should we hold the event? When?
Let’s use this discussion to get started. If we need/want to move to a wiki or some other planning tool, we can do that as we start to gain momentum.
Add your comments, questions, advice, recommendations as part of this discussion.
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I will be speaking on The importance of Visibility to Tuesdays with Transitioners on May 12, 2009.
Complete information on the group, and their regular, weekly meeting follow.
Douglas
Have you been laid-off or downsized?
Is the economic meltdown making you uneasy in your current position?
Are you looking to transition to a different career?
Then Tuesdays with Transitioners is the place for you!
We meet every Tuesday for lunch, support and encouragement, and to discuss ideas, share stories and resources, and garner tools that can lead us to new work, and unlock the potential for a hopeful future and career.
This week, we are going to talk about how to transition from one career to another, so come join us!
When: Every Tuesday, from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.
Where: Congregational Church of Northridge, Fellowship Hall
9659 Balboa Blvd., Northridge
(818) 349-2400 www.northridgechurch.net
Product Manager, Content Promotion: 3+ years Technical Product Management experience in an online content environment (flexibility for a Director position for a qualified candidate)
Program Manager: 3-5 years Project Management experience within software, Internet or consulting fields
Digital Operations Manager: 3+ years Product Marketing related experience in a web publishing or digital advertising supported organization
Linux Systems Engineer: 3+ years experience designing, developing and operating resilient high-capacity Web Serving environments. Functional experience in Ajax, Java, PHP, MySQL preferred; CMS sub-system development and support (Alfresco, Liferay) a plus
Application Engineer (Tomcat/JBoss): 3+ years experience designing, developing and operating resilient high-capacity Web Application platforms and support MySQL Database environments. Functional experience in Ajax, Java, PHP, MySQL preferred; CMS sub-system development and support (Alfresco, Liferay) a plus
Executive Producer: 3+ year digital media background managing and programming content plans for consumer-facing web sites
I meet a lot of great people in my work and I always like to highlight them here, when I can.
Kim Sudhalter is the owner/operator of Urban Legend PR here in Los Angeles. She is “good people” as they say and can help you gain the notice you, your business or your non-profit need to survive.
Rather than try to describe her work, I will quote from her web site and let her speak for herself.
Urban Legend PR is a full-service public relations, branding and marketing company. Our focus is on promoting businesses that are working to improve the quality of life in Los Angeles and other major cities. Examples include:
Historic districts & building developers
Boutique restaurants & hotels
Community events
Non-profits
With a strong background in corporate entertainment and consumer product marketing, we utilize “big business” branding techniques to market any type of company. In addition to providing strong media relations support, we offer strategic counsel, media training, speech writing, event planning, product positioning and destination marketing services.
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I will be speaking on The importance of Visibility to Tuesdays with Transitioners on May 12, 2009.
