Welcome to the Fan To Pro Library. Here you’ll find articles, resources, and links to important series in the blogs.
PRINCIPLE:
- The Fan To Pro Manifesto - What this is all about.
CULTURE:
- The Fan To Pro Glossary - What we’re talking about here.
RESOURCES:
- 100+ Technical News and Information Websites - Websites to help you stay informed on technology news and trends, organized by category.
- 100+ Resources for Video Game Professionals - Websites for careers, specific technology, news, and more.
- A list of Professional Associations for Fans, Geeks, and Otaku - Great places to join, look for information, or recruit speakers for conventions and events!
- A list of Geek Resources - News sites, information sites, and geek culture sites.
GUIDES:
- Epic Resume Go! - A Geektastic guide to how your resume is like a story.
- A Guide to Fansourcing - Go on and try – or use – fansourcing, the activity of turning to fandom for skills!
- Steve’s 2012 Job Search – Steve wrote up what he learned during his 2012 job search.
- Skill Portability – Steve’s guide ot moving skills form job to job, or career to career.
- Promoting Professional Geekery - How you can promote the Fan-To-Pro ideal.
- How Blogging Helps Your Career – The different ways blogging can help your professional life.
SERIES:
- Convention Ideas - An ongoing series exploring ideas for fan-to-pro events at conventions, as well as profiling conventions with interesting events for the career-oriented geeks.
- The Viability of Virtual Stars - How the creation of Virtual Stars may be a viable ventures.
- I Have a Job They Don’t - Tips on using your progeekery and position to help others looking for work.
- Steve’s Kill-Your-Cable Adventure – How Steve kicked cable and what he learned.
- The Recruiting Nightmare – Steve rants about how tough it is to be a recruiter and provides helpful, less-ranty tips.
ACTIVE SERIES:
- Ask A Progeek – Professional questions to professional geeks.
- Geek To Geek – The various members and friends of FTP talk about geeky things.
- Lost In Translation – Scott Delahuntlooks into remakes.
- Magrathean Diary – Serdar Yegulap’s exploration of worldbuilding in his latest novel.