Promoting Professional Geekery #35: Connect Groups

(For more Promoting Professional Geekery, see this Roundup of past columns.)

You know how it goes.  You’re there helping plan a convention and someone mentions they really need some artists for a project.  The artists group you hang with is looking for work.  That networking group of techheads is shrinking because of time limits, attrition, and people finding work.

All those geeky/progeeky groups have needs, and interested people.  They’ve got plenty of progeeks who could benefit from the two groups teaming up . . . 

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Promoting Professional Geekery #21: Start A Geeky Group At Work

Your work place may be the geekiest thing ever or it may be so straight-laced people fear there's going to be an office comedy made of it.  No matter what, it's a great place to form a geeky group – and a great way to support professional geekery.

Think of all the things you can do at work that bands people together for geeky interests, or just band geeks together.  A gaming group, a group for programming arduinos, an anime viewing group, what have you.  Why not found one – you and all your fellow employees may enjoy it.

It's also a great way to support professional geekery.  Yes it may be fun and relaxing, but it's also a huge professional advantage:

  • It lets you meet your fellow geeks at work – which lets you band together to work on your careers as well.
  • It makes people at work aware of the geeky contingent there – and shows them in a good light (well, hopefully).
  • It gives people away to meet the professional geeks at work and get to know them.  You might find a few unrealized professional geeks there.
  • It raises your profile at work by being so involved in bringing people together.
  • It shows off your skills and interests, which might open opportunities for you to apply them.
  • It helps promote other geeky interests at work – who knows what will emerge next from the fertile mind of your fellow progeeks?

There's really no downside as long as you do it right. 

Steven Savage

Promoting Professional Geekery #12: Do A Geek Networking Event

(The series keeps rolling on – believe me, I've got a lot of these).

So you want to help out present and future professional geeks to live their dream careers – so start helping them connect.

Yes, I'm charging you with the task of creating a Geek Networking Event.

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