Category: Article

  • An Open Response To A Note About Our Events

    A couple days back, we published a note letting you know that we’re not really sure what to do with our Pink Slip Party events at this point. We’re still pondering…but feedback has started coming in. Some of it is nice to read (“You guys rock!”) but not very helpful suggestion-wise. Some of it has touched on…

  • Casual Networking Event Next Week At The BlackFinn

    A few days ago, I published a new Don’t Be That Guy about the dark side of networking. I’ve gotten a lot of email since that went live.  Everything from forwarded invitations to those other events (which always get a reminder that you have a “Report Spam” feature on your inbox, and you should use it)…

  • Learn How To Code And Win Lunch With Gov Snyder

    So you want to be a developer. But you don’t have thousands of dollars laying around for training, and those “teach yourself” books just don’t work for you? No sweat.  There are two initiatives that have just recently launched that can help you out…

  • Thoughts On Our Pink Slip Party Events

    …so, we’re thinking about tweaking our Pink Slip Party events a bit, and we’d like to get some input from you about it before we go screwing anything up. Because you know us…we will. And so we’re throwing this out here in an attempt to get you to save us from ourselves…

  • Kicking Off 2012 With A New That Guy, Events and One Last Chance To Support The Troops

    Well, here we are…the year 2012. The year the world’s supposed to end…yet again…this time on December 21st.  It took me a while to get Bob to understand that no, the Mayans had nothing to do with the invention of mayonnaise, but now that we’re all on the same page, we’re fairly confident that we’re…

  • The Almost Christmas Update for 12/21/2011

    Got your shopping done? No? Good luck with that. We’re wrapping up (pardon the pun) the year, and getting things ready for 2012.  Yes, even though the Mayan calendar conspiracy wonks believe the world will end exactly one year from today, we still think you should plan on spending some time with us in 2012.…