Web Innovators Group in July
Next week on July 15th, 2008, the Web Innovators Group will be holding their only summer gathering. I’ve been to many WebInno meetings in the past, and we presented MyPunchbowl to the group in January of 2007.
If you’re any one of the following types of people, you won’t regret attending the WebInno meeting next week:
- You’re a person trying to start a company
- You’re a person looking for a job in a startup company
- You’re an angel investor looking to meet interesting people with new ideas
- You’re a VC looking to be one of the first investors to find an interesting deal
- You’re in a big company and spend most of your day wishing you weren’t
Make sure to register for the WebInno event (you have to be registered to attend). Also check out a preview of the WebInno demo lineup.
I’m hoping that David Beisel and friends will take my suggestion to help connect employers with employees. Specifically, here’s what I would do at the event:
- Provide large green stickers for hiring employers to wear on their name badge
- Provide large red stickers for job seekers to wear on their name badge
- Set up a specific area/room of the venue where job-seekers should congregate. Invite hiring employers to head over there if they are actively hiring
- Provide a large corkboard with notecards where job seekers and employers can post a note about what they are looking for (this will also serve as a logical place to gather)
- Publicize the WebInno job board throughout the event.
I also wish there was a WebInno Google group to keep the conversation going after the event was over. Hopefully, some of these ideas will be implemented for the July WebInno event. Hope to see you there.
