By Carlee Mallard, on March 5th, 2011% I quit my job at RTI International. My last day was Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011.
I’ve already received many congratulations, which is exactly the response I was expecting to get. I’ve also received lots of questions like, “What’s your plan?” or “Do you have another job or interviews lined up?”
My “plan” really started a year ago and because RTI wasn’t part of my plan to achieve my goals, quitting was simply imminent.
No job lined up. So what is my plan now? I’m looking for the next big thing that will bring me closer to my goal of . . . → Read More: I quit my job.
By Carlee Mallard, on December 22nd, 2010% People across all sorts of industries are finding industry-specific events to be I got an email the other day from a friend of mine up in New York City who’s completely new to putting on events and is faced with the possibility of holding monthly events in NYC in her industry. Not only is she new to event planning, but she’s sort of scared of it. It’s totally new territory.
So she emailed me asking for some suggestions, a place to start, and some “event-y wisdom” as she put it.
Consider this an “annotated bibliography” of event planning resources . . . → Read More: Online (and offline) Event Planning Resources
By Carlee Mallard, on December 15th, 2010% Disclaimer: I probably say a lot of things I’m not “supposed to” say in the words that follow. Well, screw the rules.
I think it’s about time I get really clear about my job situation.
I can’t take it much longer. I’ve been there for 2 and a half years. I’ve changed so dramatically over the past two and a half years and my job has changed this much: not at all. So I was happy there at first. I took copious notes. I pitched in as much as I could. I read everything I could get my hands . . . → Read More: A Wise Decision, Things My Life Doesn’t Need & Appreciation
By Carlee Mallard, on December 8th, 2010% #reverb10 December 7th prompt: Community.
Community has been such a significant keyword in my life throughout 2010 that I had to mindmap everything I could think of relating to community in my life this past year (hence the image to the left). Yea, a lot, right?
First of all, to answer the first part of today’s #reverb10 prompt, “Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010?” Believe it or not, online communities often help formulate IRL relationships. I know, hard to believe that having profound, intelligent, and sometimes emotional conversations in an online community could move you . . . → Read More: Recognizing Essential Communities
By Carlee Mallard, on December 6th, 2010% Letting go of people and things that are second-nature in your every day life or that once carried
significant meaning to you is difficult. While I let go of a lot of a lot this year—an old boyfriend who got engaged early this year, the home I grew up in, and a lot of my “stuff that had accumulated over the years—one thing stands out the most in having  contributed to my subsequent growth and maturity more than anything else.
Drama. I sort of hate that word though because people are always saying, “I’m drama-free” or “I don’t need any drama . . . → Read More: Let Go
By Carlee Mallard, on November 9th, 2010% Brazen Careerists’ newest product, Network Roulette officially launches today and you should be really excited about it (I am)! We all know that networking is important. Some of us may be better at networking than others, but Brazen has pretty much taken most of the hassle out of traditional networking by putting it all online.
What is Network Roulette?
Network Roulette is online speed networking that’s actually useful. It’s simple – first, you’re randomly matched with other professionals after answering two simple questions: “What are you looking for?” and “What are you providing?” Next, participants have up to 3 . . . → Read More: Network Roulette: Easy Networking Whenever & Wherever You Want
By Carlee Mallard, on November 2nd, 2010% Happy birthday to me.
No more early 20’s for me. Today I’m 25 years old. They say that my brain should be fully developed by now – that I should be the person I’m likely going to be for the rest of my life.
I finally know who I am, what I’m not, what I value and what I don’t, who matters & who doesn’t, and what work I’m passionate about. Of course none of this happened overnight. I didn’t just turn 25 and everything became clear. No, but I do think that a lot of this discovery took . . . → Read More: Happy Birthday to Me! (and my blog)
By Carlee Mallard, on October 19th, 2010% The following post comes from Rianna Mallard’s new blog called “Little Duck, Big City”, which you can find here (update: which you should click through to read the job offer she received in the comments on October 25th – if you love the power of the internet it will blow your mind!). Continuing with the story of my sister’s journey from Raleigh, NC to NYC to find a job, I give you Rianna’s personal perspective on this day in history: October 19, 2010.
I’m in the middle of something amazing right now. If you asked me a few months ago if . . . → Read More: Guest Post: Creating a Carrot Kind of World
By Carlee Mallard, on October 14th, 2010% Background…
If you follow my blog you probably know that my true and dearest sister, Rianna, moved to NYC without a job or a place to live (only a one-way plane ticket) at the end of August.
Wanting to help her succeed and really not knowing how, I did what I thought best: I dedicated a blog post to her telling all of the internet how amazingly talented she is and that everyone should befriend her.
The outpouring of niceness from New York residents surprised both of us. Yes, people all over New York actually invited her to meetups, . . . → Read More: How This Blog Got My Sister A Job
By Carlee Mallard, on October 6th, 2010% I have this unique (or so I think it’s unique) perspective in dealing with the press for the first time as an event organizer because actually, at times I actually am the press. Not for the same purpose, though. I don’t get so entangled that I actually report on my own events. Yes I do blog about my events but really who actually reads this? My blog certainly isn’t mainstream media so it doesn’t count.
Cyn Mallard, Jay Dolan, and Chris Sopher on the radio with Frank Stasio
I digress. So about the same time that PechaKucha Raleigh . . . → Read More: Learning from the Press: both sides of the story
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