I believe that entrepreneurship is one of the driving factors of careers today, regardless of whether you are working for yourself or within a traditional corporate environment. You have to DO for yourself as much as you DO for your company or you risk being left out in the cold when the company no longer needs you or your skills. Don’t be caught off-guard. Start thinking like and entrepreneur today!

The new entrepreneurs by The Open University

Course Description

Whether you’re thinking of starting your own business, looking to improve one you already own, or are simply interested in understanding more about how the business world works, this learning pathway is a storehouse of ideas, techniques and real-life stories to inspire and inform.

It includes resources to help you assess and evaluate an idea using comprehensive, practical techniques, and explore a range of business types – from home-workers and ‘mompreneurs’, to family businesses, social enterprises and ‘lifestyle’ entrepreneurs. It also looks at entrepreneurial psychology. What are the qualities you need to succeed? What are the downsides to being your own boss, and how can you prepare for them?

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I’ll be highlighted other educational opportunities to build your career in the coming weeks.

iPad and iPhone App Development (Fall 2011)

Course Description

Updated for iOS 5. Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone and iPad platform using the iOS SDK. User interface designs for mobile devices and unique user interactions using multi-touch technologies. Object-oriented design using model-view-controller paradigm, memory management, Objective-C programming language. Other topics include: object-oriented database API, animation, multi-threading and performance considerations.

Prerequisites: C language and programming experience at the level of 106B (Programming Abstractions) or X. Recommended: UNIX, object-oriented programming, graphical toolkits

Offered by Stanford’s School of Engineering, the course will last ten weeks and include both the lecture videos and PDF documents. Released with a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

This is a series of video lectures and accompanying materials in PDF format.

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Action — any action — can help us to get our careers and lives moving forward. Douglas presents a few “action items” you might want to explore or use as jumpstart points for your own ideas.

Learn how action benefits you no matter what your job, current job status or career!

60 mins

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Cultivating Your Career Reputations

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While we often talk about one, monolithic, Reputation – with a capital R — I believe that there are a series of reputations that make up the whole. This book will focus on the combination of reputations that make up your one, overarching, Reputation. By examining each of these reputations in detail, I hope you will find specific areas where you can improve your work, your actions and your thoughts so that your overall professional reputation grows.

Why break your Reputation down into its constituent parts? It is often said that you can’t “do” projects, you can only do the individual tasks that make up the project and achieve the desired result. The same can be said for reputation. You don’t build your reputation as a whole, you cultivate the smaller reputations that create it. Each individual action builds your reputation in unique ways and each requires some thought as to how they relate to the whole.

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Due to personal family issues with the scheduled speaker, I will be speaking at this weeks’s Tuesday’s with Transitioners meeting on the topic of “A Year of Action!”.

Action — any action — can help us to get our careers and lives moving forward. Douglas presents a few “action items” you might want to explore or use as jumpstart points for your own ideas.

Learn how action benefits you no matter what your job, current job status or career!

Please share this event with anyone you know who might be interested. All are welcome!

RSVP via Facebook

What: Douglas speaks on “A Year of Action” at Tuesdays with Transitioners

When: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – Noon-2pm

Where: Congregational Church of Northridge, 9659 Balboa Blvd, Northridge, CA 91325-1902

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CareerCampLA 2012 is in the planning stages.

For more information, visit the CareerCamp blogs CareerCampLA or CareerCamp International.

Are you interested in helping us organize CareerCampLA, speaking or attending? Watch these blogs for further information.

Join us for our next career unconference and Build the Career the You Deserve!

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Join me for the Career Opportunities Office Hour Google+ Hangout on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1pm EST/10am PST.

Circle my personal Google+ account or the Career Opportunities G+ page to see the link to the hangout on Wednesday.

The office is now OPEN!

The office hour has ended. Thanks to all who attended.

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Building the career you deserve means becoming both director and promoter of it–No one cares as much about your career as you do. This means taking the lead in ‘Telling people what you do and how you do it!” Social media provides the tools needed to develop the jobs and projects that make one’s career unique and fulfilling.

This panel will give practical information about how to use social media to build the career you desire. We’ll talk not only about the “why” of social media, but also about “how” it can, and should, be used, so that you are in control of all aspects of your career.

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Panelist and Moderators

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• Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
• Douglas E. Welch
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• Marla Dennis
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• Denise L. Cook

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A live recording of my presentation, “Production, Promotion and being Proactive in your Career”, at Tuesdays with Transitioners on February 15, 2011.

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Friday March 18, 2011

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In just a few weeks, Susan is presenting The Bootstrap Sessions (a two night event), along with Nathan Hangen.

Having seen how Susan works up close and personal, if you want to “Get over the fear of failure” and “Build your business on a dime” I would highly recommend attending The Bootstrap Sessions. It would be a great way to start moving forward on you business and career plans.

Here is some more specific information from The Bootstrap Sessions web site…

THE BOOTSTRAP SESSIONS

When: June 15th and June 17th at 8PM EDT

Where: Anywhere You Want! (Call in or use your internet connection)
Over the course of two evenings, we’re going to teach you how to build a passion based lifestyle business. We’re going to help you overcome the hurdles of getting started, and teach you how to get past go.

Session 1: The Mindset of an Entrepreneur (60 minutes + Q&A)

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Why failure doesn’t matter
The #1 trick to dealing with fear
How to deal with naysayers and critics
Why you shouldn’t try to please everyone
How to create a clear path of ascension

Session 2: Bootstrapping (60 minutes + Q&A)

Master the art of:

Creating a quick business fund
Build a business fund from scratch
Make money right now!
Create something worth selling (something you love)
Turning your passions into a business

Need some more info before you sign up? Check out their FREE “Virtual Happy Hour” event.

Join Susan and Nathan for the 1st Ever Virtual Happy Hour!

Friday, June 11th, at 7PM EST

A once in a lifetime networking event!

Hosted by rockstar designer: Erica Swanson!

Pull up your cocktails and come join us for a virtual happy hour! We’ll get to know each other a few nights before the event kicks off…we can talk about your businesses, ideas for your businesses or just about anything you want to. You may even have questions you’d like to throw out that we can address during the workshop.

We will even send you a recipe for our signature cocktail called “The Bootstrap” a few days before in case you want to join us in that fun.

No ticket required, simply sign up here!

We’re looking forward to meeting you, getting to know you better and helping you bootstrap your way to success!

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