Promoting Professional Geekery #35: Connect Groups

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(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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Why We Need Imagination In Our Economies, Media, and Careers

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I’ve decried the lack of space opera – because it requires thinking big thoughts and often thinking of the future, it seems those traits aren’t in vogue.

I’ve recently read a brutal look at the plethora of startups that aren’t original. I had to agree.

I had a discussion with a friend who works in gaming that led to a series of bitter exchanges as we lamented rampant unoriginality.

We can look at economic and political discussions where the same thing is said over and over again. Most lately the dismal attempts at austerity that don’t seem to be solving things.

I would like to postulate that one of the problems in media, in economy, in economics and politics, is a lack of applied imagination.

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A Roundup Of Musical Passings

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Music is only intermittently covered here (the whole HoloPac thing was our first in awhile), but I didn’t realize that we had a week where we lost so many people from the music industry.

  • Dick Clark – Who needs no introduction.
  • Greg Ham – Of “Men At Work”
  • Levon Helm – Of “The Band.”
  • Jim Marshall – Who gave us the Marshall amp
  • Bert Wheedon – The man that gave us a lot of guitar lesson books (that infuenced many a musician).

Just a quick roundup so we can remember.

– Steven Savage