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Update 5/13/2013

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Greeting everyone, so what’s up?

Well first “Epic Resume Go!” is basically done . . . but processing at the publishers.  Until it’s ready on all platforms, I’m not comfortable going public.  Also it’s a pain to go back and change the pages again and again.  It looks good, has a nice slick cover, and I’m pretty happy with it!

It looks like I’m going to be doing a lot more speaking at PMI – and around the Bay Area, so you might get a chance to catch me if you don’t want to come down to Silicon Valley.  Definitely enjoying getting out and meeting people!

Serdar and I are working on our seeming ever-growing cultural/media correspondence.  Get in on the latest at Genji Press.

Otherwise, gearing up for my usual events this summer – and trying to relax.  Which is not going that well because I’m me . . .

– 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/.

Site Update 4/30/2013

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Hey gang, so what’s been up lately?

Well the Resume Guide is FINISHED!  I just have to get it into a publishable format, so I’m expecting it to be out around mid-month or so depending on how fast that goes.  Only issue so far seems to be converting tables . . . which I never expected to be a problem.  I use them once, so . . . we’ll see.

The guide came out pretty well.  In fact, I redid my own resume just to test it out – and it worked pretty well.  So hang in there, it’ll be out soon . . .

As noted, with the print books of the focused fandom titles out, I’m waiting to see how those do.  If you want a review copy, let me know!

Fan To Pro’s upcoming expansions, which I hinted at, seem to be all set.  It’s just a matter of putting in some new stuff and making changes, but that’ll be more near the end of May/start of June.  I think you’ll like what you see . . .

I’m gearing up for Anime North  and hope you’ll be there!  We’ve got an entire 3 hour career block, which includes Fan To Pro going back to its roots with a discussion panel, and a new guest I think you’ll enjoy!

– 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/.

Site Update!

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So what have I been up to?

Well, you saw about the speaking – I’m back on speaking outside of the convention circuit.  I’ll also be fleshing out some new “multi-use” presentations for people.  So if you need a speaker, let me know!

The new resume book is still in the works as I got some helpful – and accidental – feedback that was really insightful. So I want to take time to incorporate the feedback and do some more tests.  So it probably won’t be out for about two more weeks.  After that another project begins – and yes, I need to get plans for the next Focused Fandom book.

Fan To Pro’s upcoming improvements are almost designed.  You should see some new stuff in May or at the latest very early June.

Seventh Sanctum appears to be stable and people are digging the new comments (which is really just Disqus, so props to them).  The redesign is scheduled to start sometime this summer, probably in Bootstrap, which looks to be fun to develop in.  I will probably multistage the development to add feature after feature as I see what is needed and what can be done.  My big focus is to make it more utility-like and functional across devices.

As noted I hope to do some podcasts and vlogs again, but with busy times I’m holding back for awhile to get other things out of the way.

And that’s where I am!

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers athttp://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/.