SkillsNYC

The Second Annual Brooklyn Skillshare will be held on Saturday, October 9th, 2010 at The Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School in Bed-Stuy and SkillsNYC will be giving a free workshop!

Our hour-long Create Your Own Website class will be at 2:15. For more information on the SkillsNYC class, click here.

Be sure to also check out 20+ other classes being taught that day! Its going to be an exciting day. We’ll see you there!

Google just released a store gadget that you can easily embed in a website in a matter of minutes — no coding necessary. It uses Google Spreadsheets as the database back-end and Google Checkout as the transaction engine.

No complicated coding or technical tasks are required. You can get your first online store up-and-running in under five minutes.

1. Sign up for Google Checkout
2. List products you want to sell in a Google spreadsheet
3. Place the Google Checkout store gadget on your website. (Also supported: Google Sites, Blogger, and iGoogle).

Follow along here: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/07/use-google-docs-google-checkout-to-sell.html

We’re excited to announce our upcoming workshop series will be held at New Work City, a coworking space in Manhattan.

This series of workshops is composed of:

• The Personal Website July 9th— create your website, learn how to maintain and update
• The Social Web July 23rd — get yourself on the social web and forge connections! The basics of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more!

We’ll see you at New Work City!

Career changing is a difficult undertaking, but far from impossible. Now is the perfect time for you to transition into a field and job that you’ve wanted to be in. Here are some great resources for getting you started and guiding you through:

• Fast Company’s Career Changing Guide
• A recent MSNBC article: Reinventing your career in a tough economy
• Wall Street Journal’s Reinvention Section
• Marshall Goldsmith in Business Week on Reinventing Your Career
• A slightly older article from Harvard Business School Working Knowledge

 
Some basic takeaways:

• Determine what skills you have and how they can be reapplied to a new industry.
• Determine what skills you lack and how you will go about attaining them.
• Educate yourself on the major players (both companies and individuals) and get to know them. Read blogs, network online and in person, forge connections, and put yourself out there!
• Be prepared, and allow for a transition period. This may be a period of unemployment, or a position/freelance role somewhere in between your previous and dream job.

Lifehacker recently had a great post on tools for starting up your side business. Check it out here.