Get out of your own room!!
This morning, I was at the MN Startup Culture roundtable. There was a conversation about how marketing people only go to marketing events, and developers only go to dev events.
This shit needs to STOP now.
Marketing people, if you are looking for work, try an event without marketing, media, or breakfast in the name. Get to events, and speak at events, where you are the exception, not the rule.
Developers, get to a a marketing or a business event every once in a while.
I am not saying to stop going to your own events. However, you need to get to events outside of your vertical. The best way to help the culture we tech people have is to break down some of the barriers that are currently up, and the first is siloed events.
Who wants to do a tech event-marketing, startups, dev, the works?
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Mitch, thank you! I have been talking about this a lot with people when I tell them how I started the TCTHH networking group, people are always amazed by how many different job types and industries are represented at our events.
I never understood why people spend the majority of their time networking within their industry, it makes no sense. If you are a marketer and you want to work with dentists or doctors per say, you should be at every ADA, AMA (medical), medical practice, healthcare etc… event that there is. I think the more you can learn about other verticals and what makes them tick, the more likely you will be able to find ways to help them.
This goes for any industry too, not just marketing. Attorneys and CPAs also tend to struggle with the networking outside their industry idea.
I could talk about this topic all day, great idea Mitch.
-Jeff Nolan