Author: Kevin Micalizzi

  • 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.

  • Online Photo Sharing in Plain English from Common Craft

    Lee’s done it again. The latest video on the Common Craft blog is Online Photo Sharing in Plain English. Another great introduction to social technology… [Update 9/4/2010: Sorry, for some reason they made this video private on YouTube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPU4awtuTsk -k