Activities For The Civic Geek: Promote Space Exploration

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There are few things more geeky than space exploration.  So gear up and geek out to help us get to the stars.

Space may be the final frontier.  Exploring space has given us many scientific benefits.  But sometimes it seems we forget the value of space travel and get distracted by issues here on earth – forgetting that everything from weather satellites to new technology to the unifying drive to explore benefit us now.

Space travel also requires advocacy.  It’s expensive.  It’s hard work.  It’s often riven with politics.

If you’re any kind of geek you probably support more, better, and frankly expanded space travel.  If you’re a specific kind of geek you probably are really a supporter.  So help you and your fellow geeks promote space exploration.

You could:

  • Invite people to speak on it at various geek events – what’s a good convention without a discussion of space travel?
  • Support some of the causes listed below – or join them.  Everyone needs help.
  • Find local events sponsored by various space-supporting group and get your friends and geek groups to go there.

We’re not going to get off the planet waiting for someone else to do it for us.

But you can make a difference.

Resources

  • 100 Year Starship – They want humanity to be able to leave the solar system by the 22nd century.  Speaking, events, advocacy, and more.
  • Centennial Challenge – A NASA event to help develop new space technology.  If you’re not in the US there’s probably similar groups in your country.
  • Penny 4 Nasa – A group working to raise awareness of NASA, get increases in funding, and promote space exploration. If you’re not in the US there’s probably similar groups in your country.
  • Planetary Society – Sponsors charities, events, advocacy, and projects to promote space exploration.

Resume Plus Is Out!

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Happy Daylight Savings Time everyone.  I hope you’re doing well, and are prepared to have Christmas even further shoved down your throats advertising wise.

The big news is my NEW book Resume Plus is OUT.  This is my guide to jazzing up resumes using everything I learned from my coaching, career, and my series 50 Shades Of Resume.  It’s a collection of tips, each leading naturally to the others, to help you make a resume more interesting – while determining just how crazy you want to get.  It pairs well with Epic Resume Go!, and is sort of a sequel.

So, go on, take a look, let me know what you think!

I also enrolled in KDP Select, so we’ll see what that does for promoting the book and sharing it.

  • Steve

 

Activities For The Civic Geek: Support Industry Veterans

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Sometimes the people that are vital to our geeky communities hit hard times.  Rally to help them out.

We’ve all seen sad stories of people that were foundational in our geekery.  The great artist who has a tough time.  The great author who’s in a health crisis.  Many people who were vital but now forgotten having hard times.  As geeks, we can help.  These are people that made our world, our industry, our media.  When they have financial troubles, we can chip in as civic geeks.

What you can do varies by industry, industry awareness, and more, but a few things you can try:

  • Some professions have organizations to raise money for industry veterans in need.  You can always donate.
  • For organizations helping out veterans in need, some do various charity events.
  • If a famous veteran has a problem, perhaps your group, club, convention or guild can raise a fundraiser.

What you can do, who’s helping, and how you can help varies.  I’d like to see more organizations supporting veterans of geeky media, like the one below.  Then again maybe you’ll found one . . .

Resources:

Comics:

  • The Hero Initiative – Being in comics can be a tough road, and this organization helps support comics creators in need.

RPGs: