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Roundup: A Guide To Fansourcing

October 10, 2011 by Steven Savage

For your convenience, all of the "Guide To Fansourcing" articles in one spot:

Part 1: What is Fansourcing – What is fansourcing? Please note that, as per part 2, we're considering what's discussed a kind of "subset" of overall fansourcing.
Part 2: Why Fansource – So why look to fandom to find – or apply – talent?
Part 3: When to Fansource – Just when should you try fansourcing?
Part 4: How to Fansource – How to find talent – or promote yourself – via fansourcing.
Part 5: Using Fansourcing In Your Career – Just how to apply fansourcing – or reqeusting fansourcing – to your job!
Part 6: Wish List – Things we'd like to see to help fansourcing.

Promoting Professional Geekery #6: Write The Book

October 5, 2011 by Steven Savage

I just spent three months writing a book. You probably noticed that by the updates.

I know plenty of great writers, who do tons of blog posts, documents and, yes books. During the time I was working on my latest book, a friend of mine wrote a novel TWICE as long and he's not even finished yet.

You probably have a professionally geeky book in you. A Geek 2.0 book. Something on both a career and your likely obsessive love of certain things. Maybe it's on how you made your video game career into a real one, or your observations of the six kinds of comic book artists, or whatever.

So write the bloody thing and be done with it. Promote professional geekiness by putting out a book.

Personal Branding For Progeeks #5 – Some Progeekey Edges

October 5, 2011 by Steven Savage

And we come to the end of another series (Been on a roll with those lately, haven't I) – Personal Branding for Progeeks.

Now I've spent time talking how to do it, ways to do it, and of course, why. But now that I've put you through the ringer, let's talk about some of the advantages you have as a progeek.

Yes, you, the professional geek, have advantages over non-geeks when it comes to personal branding.