More importantly, it seems that the Mid Atlantic region is home to a lot of sub-communities of entrepreneurs and social pirates–to build on your water analogy–each with their own circuit of well-loved events. I’d love to see more “pirate” collaborative events, e.g., between the vloggers, bloggerazzi, tech entrepreneurs, developers, and non-profnets (tech non-profits).

I know I’ve met some great developers at vlog events, and some top-notch PR monarchs at tech events.

Maybe we should co-host an “After-Party with Friends” event, where no one is ALLOWED to speak with anyone they already know until the after-party, and folks tag the name tag of who they’ve met to prove that they’ve met someone new — a kind of innovation upon Jeff Pulver’s creative name tag. Thoughts?

Here’s trend we’re seeing now — what I’ve coined as the “BlackBerry effect” for resumes (perhaps one could call it the “Twitter-effect” as well). Information is being received and digested in ever smaller bites and attention spans are shrinking as multi-tasking and mobile messaging grow. Resumes need to work in this environment. And targeting is a big step.

To capture attention in all this “noise,” resumes must follow suit, be relevant to the recipient, and easily readable on mobile devices (or by harried multi-tasking execs, recruiters, and HR folks). They must speak of only what is necessary to communicate value to the target.

In this new brand of resume, impact counts far more than “responsible for” (always did) but now it is even more important than even most accomplishments.

Decide the biggest thing you’ve done in each position and what it meant short- and long-term. Then support it with critical accomplishments (dollarized, of course) and be done with it.

Bottom-line for the resume-writing/job-seeking public? If you don’t have a value prop (impact statement) that will fit on Twitter (140 characters) and get you an interview, you’re not ready to write your resume! Precision is power.

And yes, the wifi was the biggest problem that I’ve heard. The main cause was people live-streaming the sessions. While I appreciated it, I tried to ask them to just record and upload later. Make the network a bit more functional

“If you kill the Joe, you make some mo… That’s old school rules baby… wohoooooo”
-TTT

Therefore, I started working to diversify my income. I started blogging. I started networking like crazy. I started doing side work. When I started off, 100% of my income came from one customer. When I ended that contract, only 50% of my income came from that one… and the $’s from that one had never shrunk. I grew the other things.

But here’s the point… when you’re still *early* - in your career or investment - you’re allowed to make mistakes and not get as big of a return as you might like. Sure, it makes it a bit more difficult later on, but there is plenty of time to make different choices.

Michael