We’re Not Done Yet; What Shall We Do Next?
Posted on | March 22, 2010 | No Comments
By Susan Older
Founder, Displaced Journalists
We have a rapidly growing, multi-talented Facebook community. What shall we do next with this initiative?
As one of our writers, Melanie Kolden, pointed out on our site in March, we really don’t know one another. (Of course, we just started in January.) We share articles, links, and comments. But we seem to have more trouble sharing advice or ideas that we could implement together to improve our collective dilemma.
I’m slowly redesigning the actual site to be more flexible — reinventing myself as a web developer along the way.
Do you want to post yourselves on the site for headhunters and companies seeking smart, seasoned, multi-talented people who just happen to be displaced?
Do you want to find additional tech training, get into other fields, find and finance continuing education? Should we go the route of career fairs, reaching out to headhunters and specific companies?
Could we create one or more content co-ops (definitely not sweatshops) of some sort?
Would you like to do something on an international level? I’m working on one idea already.
We’ve done big things before. Let’s do big things again.
Bring on the ideas — here or on the Facebook page: Displaced Journalists.
Tags: Career > Commentary > Displaced Journalists > layoffs > Networking > Reinvent > Solutions
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