Category: Article

  • Don’t Be That Guy: The Serial Networker

    Don’t Be That Guy: The Serial Networker

    “If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. “LinkedIn is Not a Video Game” – me, four years ago I know, it seems weird that a group that constantly preaches about how importing networking is to your career would publish something…

  • Lessons from The Breakfast Club, Live Broadcast Tonight and More for 1/5/2015

    Lessons from The Breakfast Club, Live Broadcast Tonight and More for 1/5/2015

    I typed 2015 up there, right?  Phew, I did. Here we are in 2015, and while we still don’t have flying cars or self-lacing shoes, we do have our first live broadcast of the year taking place tonight, some lessons from The Breakfast Club that you probably missed, our first networking event of the year…

  • 7 Career Lessons You Missed From The Breakfast Club

    7 Career Lessons You Missed From The Breakfast Club

    “You see us as you want to see us… In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain…and an athlete…and a basket case…and a princess…and a criminal…” – Brian Johnson, Andrew Clark, Allison Reynolds, Claire Standish, and John Bender. If you’ve…

  • How Not To Suck At Starting a Networking Group

    How Not To Suck At Starting a Networking Group

    An interesting thing has been happening lately. People have asked us how we do what we do. People in Information Technology, but in other parts of the state, or even other parts of the country. People in other industries who are just as tired as we were of the dbags and lame events in their world,…

  • Last Show of the Year Tonight, Wrapping Up 2014 and More for 12/29/2014

    Last Show of the Year Tonight, Wrapping Up 2014 and More for 12/29/2014

    This is it, our last live broadcast of 2014 happens tonight. We’re winding things down for the year, which basically means that we’re putting the finishing touches on the first part of 2015 and all of the fun things coming. We’ve got memes and fun on our Facebook page, our first casual networking event for…

  • Is The IT Market Great Or Terrible Right Now? Or Is It Both?

    Is The IT Market Great Or Terrible Right Now? Or Is It Both?

    “It was the best of times…it was the worst of times…” So, you have two articles out there in the wild today…and then some perspective from people out there running the gauntlet. On Detnews.com, you have an article about how firms are looking outside of the state to fill jobs here now.  Also today, you…