I finished part 2 of 3 internal lunch-and-learn sessions on professional networking for my colleagues at LUCRUM yesterday.  Someone later on asked me if it was podcast.  Unfortunately, no.  I really gotta remember to capture opportunities like that.  I’m sure with time I’ll develop better habits.  I’m not yet the guy with camera and the recorder always going.  Although, that brings me to a post I’ll get out here once I have it thought through.  The title?  Probably A Word Paints A Thousand Pictures, as I’m a somewhat voracious reader and I’ve been dismayed at the death of imagination that the proliferation of images and video on the ‘net has caused. [...]

Boy, what a great panel discussion on guiding a software development career last night at the Cincinnati .NET User Group. I don’t know, probably 50 people packed the place to listen to Jim Holmes, Tim Apke, and Ed Summerfield share their nuggets of wisdom about career paths. The topics spanned everything from how to keep up with changing technology to how *NOT* to get into management. [...]

Last week I presented on the foundations of professional networking to LUCRUM, my organization. I received some solid feedback about the content so I figured I’d make some of it available here over a number of posts. The presentation last week was one of three planned presentations scheduled one each for May, June, and July. This first talk laid the groundwork of what is and why do we network. The next two dive deeper into the how-to’s. The groundwork is important because without it the how-to’s could become simple techniques, or even worse, manipulative behavior. [...]

Thursday, Chuck Clevenger, Seapine Software’s corporate recruiter, and I had the privilege to meet with the local BDPA membership at the Fifth Third’s operations facilities. We discussed career trends as well as resume and interview subject matter. This is the third consecutive year the BDPA has invited me to participate. Hopefully I actually add value to the group [...]

Okay, the part you really need to read is at the end of this post. I wanted to do a wrap up of the week and that is the intro material you’ll find first.

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I had lunch today with Joni Burton, who recently moved from CIBER to Trasys. Joni took the president role at Trasys and has the opportunity to guide and work with that organization unencumbered by delivery responsibility for organizations that had no reporting responsibility to her.

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