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How Blogging Helps Your Career #7 – The Laboratory

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(The roundup for the “How Blogging Helps Your Career Series” is here)

Blogging is a way to grow and expand who you are – certainly it’s a kind of obstacle course that’ll teach you to be a better researcher.

But beyond the learning experiences and the stretching and expanding it puts you through, blogging also gives you options.  Lots of options.  A blog is there for you to do anything with.

Want to try a new blogging platform or plugin? Fine.

Want to try a new writing style?  Post that sucker no matter what.

Different layouts?  Easy.

Different SEO?  Go for it.

Blogging is about writing and communicating, but it’s filled with options from software and extras to the sheer freedom of writing anything on the internet.

Blogging is a laboratory.

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Gaming And Your Career: Making Money

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Continuing with my weekly obsession in trying to understand what the heck is going on with gaming, I continue with  . . . more of the same.  After all there’s a chance gaming is part of your career plans, and even if it isn’t, it might whether you like it or not.

Up this week, how the hell will anyone make money in video game?

The video game industry always involved gambles, and as some pretty big stinkers and unexpected hits can tell you, some gambles can get pretty odd.  Some series seem to be able to do no wrong, unexpected hits come, guaranteed ideas fail.  Some of this seems to be despite the actual quality of the games themselves.

Of course that’s the way it is, but in the disrupted world of gaming, I’m trying to get a handle on just how people and companies are going to handle the gamble – and make money.  Here’s my theories – with a caveat.

I am trying to piece things together here from a lot of data, information, trends, experience, and gut checks.  I may be totally wrong here, so call me out and explain why, because I really want to get a handle on this.

So on to what I’ve seen. Let’s start with the big names . . .

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Weekly Update 2/3/2013

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I realized that with all my projects, you’d like to hear how they’re going.  Of course I’ve got my update page here, but it’s a bit more technical.

First up, Quest For Employment, is going nicely – and it seems that it’s release is selling my other books.  Which I can’t complain about.  I still need to convert it to iBook, but just haven’t had the time.  Also, would you want to see it in print?  Let me know!

My work to convert my last two Focused Fandom books into print is moving ahead normally.  I think I’ve got the formatting good so I’ll be running test copies soon.  This is a tetchy part as at times I’ve had to run 3 print copies to get books right, so we could be seeing a month or two just due to delivery times.

There’s also a few more things brewing, so stay tuned!

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.