Issue 8: #TipTuesday #GivingTuesday and Mentor Mesh

Hopefully on this final day of November or as Mike Murphy calls it Movember, you have donated to some worthwhile charities for GivingTuesday.

Eleven years participating in Movember - great job and great cause. Also hit three causes from the Microsoft Alumni Network! Still have to do something with Safe Passage but the evening is young!

It’s #TipTuesday and I just finished attending Jae Taylor’s call with several Mentor Mesh members. Seems like a good place to highlight this week is this community he founded.

Jae Taylor is a technical leader who has figured out something that I never really realized, but I can confirm. If I think of all of the opportunities I have been afforded, it’s from the people I know and the network I have built. Whether it’s Microsoft (x2), multiple Microsoft partners, project work, consulting, or full time - people I know were instrumental in bringing me into the organization (and I’ve followed multiple contacts to other organizations).

If nobody knows who you are at Twitter, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, Tesla, Robinhood - you name your dream employer - it’s a lot less likely you will be hired.

Amber (TeGantvoort) Falbo commented during the session. I followed her and just got a connection request this evening.

Destiny Lawler - another connection from comments on the Mentor Mesh session tonight!

Eleni Leona Haloftis - spoke at the event. Great ways to connect are after you know something about someone and if you watched or watch the session on Career Branding challenges.

Anna Unger also was a featured winner from the career branding challenges. She is from Sweden! I don’t even want to think about how late this session was for her (evening here in the Midwest), but she did a great job.

Heaven Hamilton - was the MC tonight. There’s another group presenting tomorrow evening as well, but Heaven did a great job this evening.

Jalia Hines was not on the Mentor Mesh session this evening. Hines isn’t even the right last name! I don’t recall why I thought I had found the right person (might have done the comma trick - mentor to see who came up).

JaLia Steward - the correct JaLia was tagged by someone else and because I tagged the photo in my post instead of in the text, the easiest way to fix it was with a comment to the correct person/profile.

Everyone here is worth requesting a connection with and is likely involved with Mentor Mesh. I’d be happy if you joined us using my referral code below:

Most recent to be added as a connection is Ana Datsenka - my network people requests have been buried lately in a flurry of newsletter subscription notices! Ana is in design/marketing (so we may both have PowerPoint in common - as well as LinkedIn!)