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Networking

Who is the city?

September 12, 2008

I’m running late. Not very – in fact, I’ll probably arrive just about on time. But the person I’m meeting has already sent me a text to say she’s there. I dash through the revolving doors and up the stairs. As she said, she’s sitting at the first table. “Hello, are you Vanessa?” “Yes.” We [...]

Happy Birthday Girl Geek Dinners!

September 1, 2008

Last Thursday I had dinner in Café Royle – Google’s staff canteen. Google were hosting a birthday event for Girl Geek Dinners (strapline: definitely does compute) to celebrate their third anniversary. Girl Geek Dinners is a bit of a phenomenon. Sarah Blow set up the non-profit community in London over three years ago and now [...]

Meet PMI in Malta

May 7, 2008

The Project Management Institute (PMI), is the world’s leading member association for the project management profession, but it hasn’t really got the reach of PRINCE2 as a standard approach in the UK. Not yet, anyway. PMI over here is growing, and they are holding a conference in Malta in a couple of weeks to prove [...]

Working smarter, not harder

April 23, 2008

Did you know that an individual typically works overtime in a year equating to not being paid until 22 February? That’s nearly two months of ‘free’ work we give our employers because overtime is unpaid. As project managers, we are generally quite a well organised bunch, and I didn’t think I’d learn a lot at [...]

How to attend a conference

January 22, 2008

The spring round of industry conferences is coming up, and if you are going to one, here are some tips to bear in mind. Take the minimum amount of stuff with you. You won’t need a notebook: any good conference organiser will provide copies of slides and blank paper for notes. So don’t load yourself [...]

Networking for networkers

November 29, 2007

Denise Best from Oxford University’s Careers Service has written an interesting article on networking, pitched at IT students, but for beginner networkers like me, I need all the advice I can get – even the basic stuff!

Networking (part 2)

November 19, 2007

The other event I attended recently was hosted by the British Computer Society’s North London branch. ‘ITIL deliver – can you manage IT?’ was held at the Learning Tree International offices near Euston Station. My experiences of Learning Tree are pretty limited: they sent me an annoying amount of catalogues for their training courses until [...]

Networking (part 1)

November 12, 2007

I’m not that good at networking at conferences and seminars. You know, standing around making small talk with people you are unlikely to meet ever again, on the off-chance that you might have enough in common to sustain a conversation until your glass is empty and you have an excuse to move on. You can’t [...]

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