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/.

A Game Of Chicken

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Well, OK, Chick-Fil-A is having some medieval-themed “Date Knight” event. This event encourages sons to take their mothers out to Chick-Fil-A. It appears to be something to encourage family bonding via a kind of knights-and-damsels themed event.

OK, so look I’m not going to bring up Chick-Fil-A’s anti-gay issues, though I can criticize that. I could critique their food, but let’s face it they never claimed to be healthy. Date Knight isn’t a half-bad core idea, encouraging some fun family connections.

Except, as noted in this rant at i09 it’s incredibly creepy.

In fact one of the creepiest things about it is also a prime example of why you need Geeks On Staff to evaluate your cultural impact and choices. You need people who dig deep into culture-focused, technology-enabled culture.  You need people aware of far-flung memes and trends.

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The Great Science Fiction Gap?

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I was talking with a friend who’s a fellow Silicon Valley resident and professional about the various devices and gizmos we’d seen – and that frankly we weren’t sure about what the holidays would bring. Nothing enthused me, the gaming platforms seemed to be headed for weirdness and overstepping. Nothing seemed, well interesting. Or new.  Or meeting a need.

This quickly led to discussions about innovation, where we needed to innovate, and why we innovated. This in turn led to science fiction.

A realization settled: we’re living in the technical worlds that we saw created in the 80’s and 90’s.

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