Re: [EXTERNAL] Guidance could help.

Posted by Parks, Raymond on
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 Ask other Technomancers.  If you have a career goal, put it out there and get feedback.

  You can use social media to solicit feedback.

  I'd start first with asking in a forum that is less public and less impersonal than most social media.  These lists are a good place if you want to cut down the amount of disparagement and ignorant replies - but you'll be trading off against a lack of diversity.  We just don't have enough folks to cover every aspect of how you might achieve a particular career goal.

  If you are you a member of a professional organization (ACM, IEEE, or ???), they probably have some sort of limited membership social media opportunity.  As a closed society, these tend to be more polite if, perhaps, less active.  The same goes with school-based groups - I am a member of Zoomienation but I see very little traffic from the forums on there, such as Rock the Kill Chain.

  LinkedIn would be the first open social media I would use - get yourself a personal account, search for groups using keywords associated with your career goal, and then check out those groups.  Some are more active than others, in my experience.  I am a member of two groups associated with the Cyber Security Forum Initiative <http://www.csfi.us/> that are very active.  I'm also a member of the Smart Grid Executive Forum - which is less active.  I'm also a member of the Cyber Weapon Global Discussion - I hardly ever hear from it (it started as a discussion about Stuxnet and has basically petered out).  Once you find a group that fits your career goal, ask your question.

  If you're thinking about a career goal related to creating a startup, then try ycombinator's Hacker News <https://news.ycombinator.com/news>.

  If you ask about your career goal on /. or Ars, then you'll get a low signal to noise ratio but somewhere in the comments to your Ask Slashdot you're likely to find nuggets that tell you how realistic your goal may be.

  I'd avoid putting your question on your Facebook wall or Twitter feed unless you've only friended or followed/been followed by knowledgeable technomancers.

ObFriam: I wonder if anyone has ever done a study of social media forums to understand how they start, why they continue, and why they slowly die.  I seem to remember such a study being done about USENET, but I wonder if the same dynamics apply to LinkedIn, Yahoo lists, et cetera.  Would agent-based modeling apply?  What about complex systems modeling?

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On Nov 21, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:

Another day as my world oozes along.

I'll make this  succinct for the benefit of the Technomancers on both lists.

Greetings fellow Technomancers:

Where and or how does one go about getting some notion of how realistic a career goal is these days?

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