Author: Kevin Micalizzi

  • ‘What’s next for Kevin’ update–new connections, resume feedback, and an unexpected discussion

    Some interesting developments in my “What’s next for Kevin?” work. Since last week I’ve attended 2 technology events in the Boston area: Ignite Boston 4 (Sept. 11) Web Innovators Group (Sept. 15) They were both good opportunities to network.  At Ignite Boston I saw 2 of my favorite Tweeters (@CMajor, @znh).  Got some great advice…

  • Web Strategy Resume – v1

    After a minor glitches, the first draft of my updated resume is below. A couple things to note: my goal is to shift the focus of my experience from just technology management to better reflect the broader web management and strategy experience I have the formatting is readable, but I’ve had to switch editors and…

  • Resume – work history, exaggeration and ethics

    As I’m working through my resume re-write mapping my work experience to the web strategy competencies, I’m trying to be careful how I state my role in the events/projects/initiatives I reference.  I want to avoid exaggerating my work.  Not sure if it stems from my personal standard of ethics or because I’m under-valuing the work…

  • Rebuilding the resume, competencies for web strategy

    The tool I’m most frequently asked for in this job hunt is my resume.  Though I haven’t fully decided what’s next for me, continuing in the web strategy space is a reasonable place to keep looking. My current resume emphasizes technical leadership with less focus on the strategy side.  The result has been many calls…

  • What’s next for Kevin?

    Typically, I take very few risks.  I was taught that you never leave a job unless you already have the next one lined up  Recently I realized my career wasn’t going where I wanted. So, I left my job at the beginning of July…. …and I didn’t have a new job lined up yet. It…

  • Scripted support troubleshooting can be painful

    A little rant on call centers.  I just had a very frustrating experience today with a Voice Over IP (VoiP) company (I’m going to leave off their name as I like them and this is not a commentary on their service, just their support center). My cable provider had an outage yesterday, our internet was…

  • Jumping into the conversation? Great, now can you sustain it?

    If you are going to join the conversation online, make sure you can sustain it!

  • Use your own email address with GMail

    I’ve been using GMail as my primary mail client for some time now and have walked a number of people through these steps. For these steps to work, you will need to be able to have your email address (ie. yourname@yourdomain.com) directed to your GMail box (yourname@gmail.com). [Update 9/4/2010: Sorry, in the move to a…

  • New video on Common Craft blog – Social Media in Plain English

    Lee Lefever has posted another video, Social Media in Plain English on the Common Craft blog. It takes a look at the different perspective needed for social media — “for the people, by the people.” -k

  • New video on Common Craft blog – Twitter in Plain English

    Of all the web technologies I interact with, Twitter (or microblogging) is the one I’ve had a hard time getting my head around. Lee Lefever at Common Craft has posted a video called Twitter in Plain English. It’s about 2.5 minutes and makes sense.