Hello Everyone,
The agenda for this Friday's Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) meeting will be featured by our speaker, Stephen Balzac. The facilitator for this week will be Barbara McKee. We will devote the first hour, from 10 to 11 AM to the following agenda: Welcome, Landings, Announcements, New Member Intros, and Needs & Leads. Please arrive early, so we can make every effort to start on time. In the second hour, Steve will give a talk about, "Interviewing For Success: How to Find, and Land, Your Dream Job."
"Interviewing For Success: How to Find, and Land, Your Dream Job"
Job hunting is frustrating, stressful, and, in today’s economy, often agonizingly slow. Just getting a call back is difficult, much less getting an interview. You will learn the key elements that will enable you to land the job you want. Learn how to identify the value you bring to your employer and leverage that value to make you stand out from the competition: skills make you a commodity; value makes you unique. The talk also covers how you can avoid getting caught in the Black Hole of Resumes, how you can get into the mind of the interviewer, how you should deal with difficult questions, and key questions you should always ask.
About Steve Balzac
Stephen Balzac is an expert on leadership and organizational development. A consultant, author, and professional speaker, he is president of 7 Steps Ahead (www.7stepsahead.com), an organizational development firm focused on helping leaders grow their businesses. Steve is the author of “The 36-Hour Course in Organizational Development,” published by McGraw-Hill, and a contributing author to volume one of “Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values Through Play.” Contact him at 978-298-5189 or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ActonNetworkers/post?postID=_wJ1jDt9XYptHjhgJBoM_gg_4t28Uo4ZR-7OOAbUcGutyg0NYbXbPYgxD9ceq8-_t_aNuauXOZ2hmfBt1SF6
Schedule for HNG Meetings:
June 3, 2011 Workshop
June 17, 2011 Abby Grant Using Boston Business Journal for the job search
July 1, 2011 Wendy Gelberg Personal Branding
July 15, 2011 Patricia Hunt Sinacole "A Practical Guide to Landing a Job in Today's Employment Market."
August 5, 2011 Gail Greenberg
August 19, 2011 Amy Mosher STEMPower Program
September 2, 2011 Workshop
September 16, 2011 Dan DeMaioNewton "Dealing with the Afflictive Emotions of Job Seeking"
General Information:
The networking group meets in Hopkinton, at St. John the Evangelist Church parish hall. The meeting occurs, from 10 to 12 noon, and will meet the first and third Friday of the month. The parish hall has a capacity for 250 people and there is plenty of parking spaces in the parking lot and on the street. Around the perimeter of the parish hall are rooms to allow us to have focused network groups or for any other purpose we need. We chose every other Friday to allow everyone to attend the Acton Networking Group or any other networking group, if they wanted, on the Friday we do not meet.
We will maintain our close affiliation with Acton Networkers by using the same list-server to share information between the groups. Any e-mails specific to the Hopkinton Networking Group (HNG) will be indicated in the subject line either by "Hopkinton Networking Group" or "HNG"; this way anyone attending these meetings will know the e-mail is intended for them.
We will follow the following agenda items:
Welcome
Landings (with doughnuts)
Announcements
New member introductions
Needs and Leads
Speaker(s), Workshop, or Focus Group
Cleanup
For those new members who give their introductions, this is what we would like to know:
Name
Skills and Value Statement
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Your title
Your target companies
Geography of search
Name and e-mail address
If anyone wants to join our team, please let one of us know; we could always use the extra help and input for ideas.
Directions:
Take Rt. 495 North/South and get off Exit 21A. Go through three traffic lights. Colella's Supermarket is on the right at the third traffic light. The first street after the third traffic light is Church Street, take a right turn. The church is on the right. Go around to the left of the parking lot and go into the side entrance of the parish hall.
Depending upon where you live, perhaps you may want to use Mapquest for a more direct route. The address of the church is:
St. John the Evangelist
20 Church Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748
Regards,
Hopkinton Networkers Group (HNG) Coordinators:
Steven Hakar
Gil Krispien
William Lam
Barbara McKee
Salpi Sarafian
Franklin, MA
Friday, May 20, 2011
"Go By Bike!"
Sent to you by Steve Sherlock via Google Reader:
via Commonwealth Conversations: Transportation by Klark Jessen on 5/19/11
Check out the updated "Go By Bike!" brochure that has just been released for Bay State Bike Week 2011. MassDOT Planning, the MassDOT Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV), and the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition (MassBike) all partnered to update this useful guide to bicycling in Massachusetts. The "Go By Bike!" brochure provides a concise and easily understood summary of biking basics that can be used to help a range of ages and experience levels get an easy ride when they "Go By Bike!" Like Bay State Bike Week, "Go By Bike!" is another product of the MassBike – MassDOT partnership. This partnership reconstituted Bay State Bike Week as a truly statewide event and jointly promotes the Same Roads Same Rules initiative that promotes safe and cooperative sharing of the road among bikers, pedestrians, and motor vehicle drivers.
The document can be printed on demand in keeping with MassDOT's GreenDOT sustainability policy.
Please view and download the "Go By Bike!" brochure. For more information, visit baystatebikeweek.org , www.massbike.org and MassDOT Biking and Walking on the web. This document is a great reference for bicycling in Massachusetts as an active transportation mode that is healthy, green and fun!
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Community Gardens update
Hello to all of our Community Garden Supporters!
We been busy getting the garden ready, and not so busy writing to you all.
Forgive us!
(you can subscribe to this and as it is updated you will get an email link right away)
There is still time to sign up for the lottery, links available on the website!
Volunteer Opportunities:
Build Team:
- We need some help fixing/building/re-building/remediating/relocating some of the raised beds-on-legs gardens from last year. The snow got 'em bad. We need to make them safe.
- Heavy work, but quick. Will be some lifting, sawing, drilling, shoveling. Dirt moving. Lumber getting. Rough and tough stuff. You on? contact Chris at hakai2@gmail.com
- Still trying to coordinate when and how, will depend on your availability. Locations: Senior Ctr, Food Pantry, Eaton Place.
Giving Garden:
- We are also looking to form a dedicated group of volunteers for this season for the Franklin Food Pantry's 4 garden beds, which we are calling the "Giving Garden"
- Duties----planning, planting, watering and harvesting, delivering produce to the pantry.
- Would like enough folks so that each person has a 1-2 hrs a week, tops, so about 10 people would do it, 15 would make it cruise
- please email Amy Acevedo directly at amyacevedo1@verizon.net and we will get it together and roll it out!
May Showers bring June Flowers, Right?
New England version, anyway.
Best Regards,
Amy Acevedo
& crew:
The Friends of Franklin Community Gardens, Inc.
The Franklin Community Garden Committee
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"they didn't know how much time is spent ensuring drinking water is safe"
Perrotta provided a general overview of the town's water system, explaining where the water comes from, why usage restrictions are needed during the summer and how harmful bacteria is eliminated from the water supply.
"A lot of people complain about paying high water and sewer rates and they don't know that there is a huge infrastructure to maintain," said David Labonte, the secretary for the Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization that supports charities and holds informational meetings such as last night's once or twice a year.
The department is primarily funded by water and sewer fees and oversees 13 wells, six water storage tanks, about 9,600 service connections, more than 2,000 fire hydrants and 157 miles of water main, Perrotta said.
"You have eight or nine balls in the air and if you drop one of them the water comes out pink," he said.
Franklin's water comes from groundwater as opposed to surface sources such as reservoirs. The town pumped 928.5 million gallons in 2010, he said.
Read more: http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x1134625219/Hard-work-of-Franklin-Water-Dept-workers-touted#ixzz1Mn6MpXIZ
Franklin, MA
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