I will be reaching out to a number of people in both my own and my wife's network. As a Turing grad, my wife has built up a network of people that I have become familiar with, through meet-ups and just general hanging out. I am a former member of the defense/intelligence community and have a few contacts there that I would like to take advantage of with my newly acquired skills.
I intend to make contact with them midway through mod3. I believe at that time I will see the end of Turing a bit more clearly and can give them an accurate timeline of when I would become available.
The follow-up will come in a variety of forms. For those that I am closer to, it will be actual conversations about what may be available to me. For those that I have not contacted in awhile, it will be just making them aware that I have graduated this program and check in to see what they are up to. Ideally, we speak about available jobs they may know about for me as well.
I really like the idea of making a blog and beginning a twitter. I am very impressed with Brittany's twitter following and how the community responds to her questions and comments. As for the blog, there are many questions that I wish were answered on the internet, that are just not. I cant try to fill in that gap.
Hey Greg, this is a great plan -- I appreciate how you've thought about utilizing the networks you're already a part of, and that you have a strong plan for starting a blog. Social networking is such a powerful tool, so I'm glad you're going to start building a presence there. Nice work!