Expose Yourself: – Events – Keeping Up to Date

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Expose Yourself:

The Right Way

Adam Tomat & Megan Pitt

  • We're going to talk to you today about how to get involved in the local community, & how to get the most out of it.
  • We'll also touch on techniques on how to stay up to date with this ever-moving industry.
  • I have also brought a little demo along which aims to show you the cool stuff you can do with the web.
  • Everything you see has been built with css, html and js, including this slideshow.

Events

  • Great way to see who's involved in the community. Companies like Etch, us, Hinge, Carswell Gould etc..
  • They are a great way to learn. Ask questions, gain inpiration, seeing demos and watching talks from industry leaders
  • Whatever: social
  • Hacksoton: technical
  • Evening Of: socal and technical

An Evening Of

  • Get out what you want to. Social or technical

Getting the most out of events

  • Talk to anyone and everyone
  • Get involved
  • Enjoy yourself
  • Surrounded by like-minded people
  • bring code, do a talk. Will help you learn by experimenting with something new, and also allows you to get feedback. Helps people remember you
  • Relax and have fun. We're in this industry because we love what we do. Events should be no different.

After the event

  • Twitter
  • Write about it
  • Find out when the next one is
  • Talk to friends about the event. Bring them along. Raise awareness if you enjoyed it
  • Helps you to articulate. Invaluable skill
  • Online presence
  • If you are talking about it, we can see that you enjoy this stuff. It can be hard to portray passion in a CV or in an interview.

Keeping Up to Date

  • This industry moved quickly. It's important to understand the problem new things are trying to solve. Why they exist.

Expose Yourself

  • It's about exposing yourself to as much new stuff as possible.
  • Balance between actively finding information and letting it find you.

Conferences

FullFrontal Conf
Brighton
Smashing Conf
Oxford
  • Great way to get a sense of what's 'cutting edge'
  • Always leave with motivation rejuvinated
  • Watch live or watch videos from old ones

Twitter

  • Great way to start building up a feed of what's happing in the industry and what people are talking about
  • Alice: Financial Times, used to work at GDS
  • Jake and Paul: Google
  • Jen: Runs 'The Web Ahead' web podcast

Blogs

  • Books: "A book apart"

Talk about it

- Megs More personal. How we are doing it.

Play & Experiment

Share

- Adam
  • Let these be a playground. They can spark conversations
  • Codepen
  • Dribbble
  • Behance

Go to events

Interning

Get Involved

  • Make connections
  • Talk to people
  • Never know where things will lead

From our perspective

- Megs Chance for us to teach. Might be new. Junior transitioning to mid-weight Hightly rewarding, seeing progression Internships are not work experience. Hire afterwards Tend not to actively advertise 'We want an intern'. More likely to see if we can get you in if we like you

It's about who you know

  • Recommendations from people / companies / jobs etc
  • Get involved with local scene
  • Get involved in conversations (e.g. twitter or slack channels. Ask questions)
Expose Yourself: The Right Way Adam Tomat & Megan Pitt We're going to talk to you today about how to get involved in the local community, & how to get the most out of it. We'll also touch on techniques on how to stay up to date with this ever-moving industry. I have also brought a little demo along which aims to show you the cool stuff you can do with the web. Everything you see has been built with css, html and js, including this slideshow.