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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>Hi
all!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>As always, our
meeting is from 6:30 to 8ish, with the first half hour being social time,
meetings start at 7pm. The location is Stella's coffeehouse, 1476 SOUTH
Pearl Street, Denver CO. Due to T-rex messes, your best bet is take the
Broadway Exit, and turn east on Arkansas Ave. Either that or take Colorado
Blvd and turn west on Evans, then north on Pearl. Do us all a favor and
help the owner, Stan, by buying a drink! Stan fully supports our
group and offers the room for free, since he likes what we
do!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>Wow, I've got to say
that incredible things are happening with IT Sams. We have a lot of
volunteer opportunities right now! Karen Floyd did us all a huge
favor and passed on information about IT Samaritans to a
friend who is the Associate Director of Community Shares of Colorado; an
organization with 96 member 501c3 organizations! I've been
inundated! I've got a few people who are willing to go out and take the
lead in the business development arena here, but to move some of these projects
ahead, I've found I need the driving force of good project managers!
If you're a PM who'd like to pad your resume, send your resume along and we'll
figure out the opportunity best for you! For those on Josh Zapin's PIM
Mile Hi yahoogroup, please ask Josh how this will help you if you have
doubts; he was one of our best and brightest volunteers last
spring!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>In the last few
weeks, we've finalized the service contracts on a few projects. We've got
some projects upcoming that are going to be great opportunities for any of
you to participate in! Some of these connections are truly
going to help us out. To help us out further, Ken Bingenheimer has
graciously offered to head up a press campaign. This will send out word of
who we are, and what we are doing, but more importantly, each press release we
put out will publicize the names of the volunteers who worked on a
project. This hopefully will give you some broader exposure and
"notoriety" for your next job interview. I need 3 volunteers on this one,
2 writers and spokesmen, and a project manager (you must have PM
experience). </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>In addition, we're
going to institute some further speaking engagements like the one I arranged for
our last meeting. I have contacted several recruiters (headhunters and
company recruiters) to come in and participate in a "roundtable" discussion
where they freely discuss what hiring trends they see, what means they are using
to weed through resumes, and how to make yourself a better candidate to get
through the screening process. I need some people who are willing to help
me follow up on this to make it a reality. This also will be a great
press event and those arranging it will have their names prominently in front of
recruiters and news organizations. I need a project manager for this one
too, and again - you must have PM experience! </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>Additionally, I've
found out some info on a Denver County Program called Quick start. While
this particular one is through Denver county and for Denver County
residents, since it's through Coworkforce that means there's a
comparable version of it in all counties. It's a program where laid off
workers can get up to $3000 for certification programs that are 18 months in
duration or less. I've invited the head of the Denver program to meet with
us, probably at our first meeting in November. If you can't wait,
then contact your local workforce office and ask about it. keep your eyes
open for opportunities like this, and post them to <A
href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/itsamaritans">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/itsamaritans</A>,
please? Join our yahoogroup for other meeting info, as we don't always
post everything to other yahoogroups!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>Here's our biggest
news! On Thursday October 24th, we will have our very first branch
affiliate meeting in Colorado Springs! Richard Byrd s a highly experienced
Project Manager and Business Analyst who has offered to run things down in
Colorado Springs. Richard has a PMI background, which means that he drives
things to make it happen; critical to get this organization moving ahead!
If you're in the Springs and been wanting to attend, here's your
opportunity! In addition, we already have had 2 Colorado Springs
non-profits contact us with projects! the details of the Colorado Springs
meeting will come out in a separate email immediately following this
one, so please look for it and attend if you're from the
Springs!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>Well, we've got
a lot of stuff going on at our regular Monday October 21st! Here's our
agenda:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>overview of projects
upcoming</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>status reports of
current projects</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>CO Springs IT
Sams-intro Richard and two opportunities</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>press
Campaign</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>website
revamp</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael J. Mikelson</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=149021606-19102002>Founder,
IT Samaritans</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Denver CO</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:MJMikelson@yahoo.com">MJMikelson@yahoo.com</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>303-388-8555</FONT></DIV>
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