The JobCamp just keeps growing and growing. Today, as I rode on the Greyhound bus down to an event I was attending in Chicago (don't get me started about Amtrak!), I got a call from the Journal Sentinel about the event. We talked for about twenty minutes and, although we didn't make any reference to it being written up as a news story that was certainly my hope.I thought nothing more of it. But this evening, when I returned to Milwaukee, a friend who was attending the local Spreenkler event (awesome event, guys) mentioned that he saw 'my' story on the Journal Sentinel online edition, I was stunned and, of course, very happy that it came out so quickly.
But, of course, it's not my story at all. It's the story of the hard work of a growing team of really smart people who want to fight the feelings of hopelessness and desperation of those who have lost their job, who want to do something positive that brings employers and job seekers together, and who feel keenly that the old 'tools' like job fair events simply aren't cutting it.
Unsurprisingly, next generation networking/unconference events like Milwaukee JobCamp are going around. Joel Dresang, the reporter for the Journal Sentinel asked me if I heard about the LaidOffCamp event featured recently on NPR. I like to think that we're being a little different with what we do. We very carefully wanted to take the emphasis off of "pink slips" and "laid off" and are trying to focus on the positives: Milwaukee and the surrounding counties has a tremendously talented pool of hard workers and a large number of truly great employers. But I do applaud any event that's trying to change the dreary economic situation.
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