Candace Hagood wrote:

As a newbie, I am looking for opportunities to speak on RIM related 
topics and broaden my network. Any suggestions for local speaking 
opportunities for someone midway into their career?


Way back in the Jurassic period, when I was starting out my speaking 
career, I found out that the best way to get speaking opportunities was 
to write.  As a matter of fact, my entire speaking career has been an 
accidental artifact of writing articles.  I didn't think I wanted to 
speak, I just wanted to write.  But when my articles started coming out, 
people started callling to ask if I could do a seminar on the same topic 
as the article they'd read.

There are lots and lots of seminar committees out there looking for 
speakers.  Your problem is, they don't know you're there, they don't 
know what your expertise is, and they don't know if you can talk 
intelligently about it.  So If you write an article on a topic of 
interest and you sound like you know what you're talking about, seminar 
committee people hunting around for a speaker will seek you out, because 
that article puts you on the radar, proves you actually know the topic, 
and proves you can construct real sentences.  And if my experience is 
any indication, an article in even the most obscure publication seems 
not only to get read, but to get saved.  I sometimes get calls about 
articles I wrote years ago that someone clipped and put into a reference 
file somewhere.

So I'd encourage you to start writing and getting articles published 
wherever you can -- chapter newletters, ARMA mags and publications, and 
the many, many other professional newsletters and publications in other 
industries to whom RIM and Information Governance are of interest.  If 
you get some material published, people will call.  Having a resume with 
some published articles in professional journals in it is not a bad 
thing either.

I might add that some writing opportunities actually pay money, so 
there's aditional incentive there.

John

-- 
Best regards,

John
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