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12 things you may be doing wrong in your job search: Tuesday, Jan. 26 @ 10:00 a.m. EST

Since we’re still deep in a pandemic and the unemployment scenario that comes with it, the job market is even tougher to navigate than usual. Finding a job these days isn’t just about doing the right things, but also about not doing the wrong things.

If you’re having trouble landing a new job, or are just feeling frustrated about how your job search is going, you might want to attend Computer Coach’s free online workshop tomorrow: 12 Things You May Be Doing Wrong in Your Job Search. They’ll cover 12 common mistakes people make in their job search and how to start doing them right.

Here are the details:

A little more about Computer Coach

Graohic: Computer Coach Training Center logoSaying that Computer Coach are a Tampa Bay tech training school doesn’t do them justice. They’re also active participants and sponsors at local events, regular tech meetup organizers, and part of what makes the Tampa Bay tech scene special.

Computer Coach have been doing so much for the local tech scene during the pandemic. They’ve helped connect Tampa Bay locals with not just tech training, but funding for it as well.

Over the past summer and fall, they quickly spun up all sorts of tech courses so that students could complete them before the end of the 2020 calendar year in order to qualify for education grants. I should know; I taught a couple of their Python and JavaScript courses, which helped both the students (who were looking to skill up) and me (I was looking for work at the time, and the pay and experience were helpful).

Visit the Computer Coach site to see what courses they offer, and check out their Meetup group, Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum, to find out more about their informative meetups!

 

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 25, 2021)

Welcome to the final week of January 2021! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, January 25 through Sunday, January 31, 2020.

By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.

For the time being, this list will include only those events that can be attended online because…

  • 1 in 13 Americans has contracted COVID-19 (25 million cases out of a population of 328 million, which is 1 million more than last week).
  • 1 in 787 Americans has died from COVID-19 (417,000 dead out of a population of 328 million, which is 24,000 more than last week).

…and we’re still experiencing a post-holiday spike that has a number of ICUs across the country running at maximum capacity.

We live in the age of broadband and ubiquitous computing — make the best use of it. Stay safe, stay connected, skill up, and #MakeItTampaBay!

This week’s events

Monday, January 25

Tuesday, January 26

Wednesday, January 27

Thursday, January 28

Friday, January 29

Saturday, January 30

Sunday, January 31

Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?

Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 18, 2021)

Welcome to the third week of 2021! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for the Tampa Bay area for the week of Monday, January 18 through Sunday, January 24, 2020.

“Tampa Bay area” means “Within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa”

By “Tampa Bay”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.

This list is sticking to online events for now

For the time being, this list will include only those events that can be attended online because…

  • 1 in 14 Americans has contracted COVID-19 (23.6 million cases out of a population of 328 million, which is 1 million more than last week).
  • 1 in 835 Americans has died from COVID-19 (393,000 dead out of a population of 328 million, which is 20,000 more than last week).

…and we’re still experiencing a post-holiday spike that has a number of ICUs across the country running at maximum capacity.

We live in the age of broadband and ubiquitous computing — make the best use of it. Stay safe, stay connected, skill up, and #MakeItTampaBay!

This week’s events

Monday, January 18

Tuesday, January 19

Wednesday, January 20

Thursday, January 21

Friday, January 22

Saturday, January 23

Sunday, January 24

Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?

Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!

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Tampa Bay Product Owner Meetup tonight: Stakeholder Management — Tips from FBI Hostage Negotiators

Poster for the 1998 film “The Negotiator”, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey.
If you haven’t seen this underappreciated 1998 film, check it out.

Looking for an interesting online meetup to attend tonight? I’ll be checking out Tampa bay Product Owner Group’s meetup, which has an intriguing title: Stakeholder Management — Tips from FBI Hostage Negotiators. It happens tonight from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Zoom.

(Here’s the Zoom link for the event.)

Here’s the description of the event, taken straight from their Meetup page:

Product Management IS Stakeholder Management. Influencing and Negotiating is a big part of the role.

In this session, you will learn modern negotiation techniques applied to Stakeholder Management. This is a fun spin on Stakeholder management using the negotiation techniques Chris Voss outlines in “Never Split the Difference.” We explore modern negotiation techniques, then apply them to real-life scenarios.

We examine Mirroring, Labeling, Getting to Yes, and Open-Ended Questions in realistic Product and Stakeholder scenarios. We think we learn by applying, so this will have an interactive element to it!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 11, 2021)

Take me to this week’s events

Welcome to the second week of 2021! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for the Tampa Bay area for the week of Monday, January 11 through Sunday, January 17, 2020.

By “Tampa Bay”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.

For the time being, this list will include only those events that can be attended online because…

  • 1 in 15 Americans has contracted COVID-19 (22.3 million cases out of a population of 328 million)
  • 1 in 880 Americans has died from COVID-19 (373,000 dead out of a population of 328 million)

…and we’re experiencing a post-holiday spike that has a number of ICUs across the country running at maximum capacity.

We live in the age of broadband and ubiquitous computing — make the best use of it. Stay safe, stay connected, skill up, and #MakeItTampaBay!

This week’s events

Monday, January 11

Tuesday, January 12

Wednesday, January 13

Thursday, January 14

Friday, January 15

Saturday, January 16

Sunday, January 17

Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?

Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!

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DELETE FROM twitter WHERE username = “realdonaldtrump”;

It happened: Twitter hit Donald Trump with the perma-banhammer. They’ve posted an explanation in their corporate blog, and in the usually feckless world of social media platforms, this is uncharacteristically bold. It’s a good move, seeing as the outgoing president* has used it as a tool of stochastic terror.

No technology is purely neutral, and as technologists, we have responsibilities for the platforms and tools we create.

Now it’s your turn, Facebook.

In the meantime, I checked up on my secret Parler account, and the system is non-responsive, probably because it’s swamped:

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But Slack is le tired this morning

I’m on a very distributed remote team at Auth0. I’m in Tampa, with teammates in Spain, Italy, Argentina, the north and south US west coast, Australia, and more. Slack is our combination hallway, water cooler, and memorandum system, and it’s down at the moment.

I thought I’d commemorate the first work tool outage of 2021 and the official end of Flash support with the meme pictured above, along with the classic animation from which it came. And here’s hoping that Slack comes back online soon!