Psychographic profiling:

How to get to know yourself, and what type of career suits you.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter II. This is a personality test - are you an Artisan, a Guardian, a Rational or an Idealist?

Seven Habits. This is Steven Covey's "Seven Habits of Effective People"

The Enchanted Mind. Expand your mind and relase your latent creativity

BrainDance. Make your brain work better

Mensa Workout. Are you a Genius? Find out!

The IQ Test. An old method of measuring people's ability, now less used

How to get to know, what you need to know, to advance your career.

Digital Think. Web based training for all areas of the IT industry

NetG. Web and CD ROM based training for all areas of the IT industry

WatchIT. Regular multimedia presentation on hot topics in IT

One type of place to look for new places to pursue your career.

Monster.co.nz. Search for Jobs in New Zealand with Monster.co.nz

NZ Herald Jobs. New Zealand Herald Classified Advertisements - Situations Vacant

Telecom Career Exchange. Jobs opportunities with NZ Telecom

Seek.co.nz Jobs Listing. Find a job through Seek

Jobstuff.co.nz. Find a job through looking at STUFF

NZjobs.co.nz. Find jobs in New Zealand through NZjobs!

Netcheck. Find jobs through Netcheck

Jobs.Com. American job website Jobs.com

HotJobs.Com. Yahoo.com's HotJobs website

The Career Exchange. Jobs in Canada and the USA

EDS Careers. EDS Resume Builder - Give EDS worldwide your resume and they might hire you

EDS New Zealand, Job Cafe. EDS New Zealand's head hunting website

JobServe UK. United Kingdom IT job search website

Infobel UK. Business directory for Great Britain

The Right Way to be Fired. An article on how to leave the job gracefully, and boost your career.
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Tips and tricks in some programming fields.

IBM Mainframe Links. A set of links from Ken Fussichen regarding all aspects of IBM mainframes

Planet MVS. Dave Alcock's site on all things MVS

Dinosaur Webring. In this case, 'Dinosaurs' refers to mainframe computers and old technology Not sauropods!

IBM. A directory of resources from Big Blue!

Websites associated with improving business over the web.

Loan Master. The Loan-Master software company of James Gu

Better New Zealand Organisation. Better New Zealand Organisation, developed by James Gu

Ministry of Economic Development. New Zealand Government Organisation, a potential source of business development funds

Successful Internet Strategies. Debbie Mayo-Smith's website on optimising business website strategies

Our first computer game, ABM is now online and undergoing play testing.
As an exercise to see if it was possible to make a living in New Zealand from designing games, I did some research.
I found a number of New Zealand companies now have a niche in this market:

Gaming Industry in New Zealand. A Nz Herald article on the New Zealand Gaming Industry

Industry New Zealand Gaming Report. Large PDF file report from government organisation "Industry New Zealand".
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Blitz Basic. Amiga games programming legend Mark Sibley has produced the Blitz game design programming language

Sidhe Interactive. Mario Wynands, Tyrone McAuley and Stuart Middleton founded Sidhe Interactive

Right Hemisphere. Inventors of Deep Paint

Medialab South Pacific. Consortium of universities and businesses concerned with mobile phone products

Blister. Mobile phone game company. John Labrie former CTO of Weta Studios

Acid software. Simon Armstrong, author of the computer car racing game "Skidmarks"

Oktober. Reputed to be a New Zealand software development company

Weta Ltd. The New Zealand company that did the computer graphics for Lord of the Rings, Contact etc

Kiosk and Display Systems Ltd. Develop computer gaming display technology, primary for computer casino games

Eldian. Internet computer game editing system

Castles Music Productions. Simon Castles produces music for computer games

Wunderbear Software. Timothy Wayper is the developer of the cross-platform arcade game Plodo

Binary Star. Thomas Reimann is the developer of the post-apocalypse adventure game Homeland

Screaming Duck Software. Neil Graham, famous for publishing Fitznic, which is available from www.dexterity.com

Dead-Fish. Developers of the game "The Deep"

New Zealand Game Developers Association. New Zealand Game Developers Association.

Australian Game Developers Association. Australian Game Developers Association.

Australian Games Developers Conference. Australian Games Developers Conference.

Game Developers Conference. Annual American game developers conference

Electronic Arts. American gaming company - Vice President Neil Young was recently here to sign up New Zealand gaming companies.

FORST Funding. Funding for game development.

The Magic Book. Mark Billinghurst's project at University of Washington

Human Interface Technology Laboratory NZ. Mark Billinghurst at Canterbury University

Argent Networks in Afghanistan. New Zealand telecommunications company connects Afghanistan to the rest of the world.

Hot Rival for Walker Wireless. Set top box the size of a modem will bring gigabit streaming internet (and telephone) into the home.

Saturday 23 November 2002 7pm at Chris and Jane's house

Participants:

Malcolm Craig, Eugene Dorokhov, James Gu, Chris Harrod, Michael Harrod, Jane Liu, Craig Lynch-Blosse, Paul MacQuibban, Ivy Xie.

Agenda:

Meet, eat, drink and talk.
Set a date for the next dinner.
A Powerpoint presentation covering central ideas was displayed and is available here.
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Opportunities:

The following business ideas were suggested:

• Accounting software for SME*, easily customised by accountants with good support
• Anything enabled to run through a browser, Microsoft compatable, that is well marketed
• WAP enabled software to customise car microprocessor engine settings on the fly
• Multilanguage world wide software support
• Online games

Success and Failure Stories:

It was noted that many good ideas (Beta video, University inventions unable to be commercially applied) failed due to poor marketing.
Also mediocre ideas flourished due to good marketing (Microsoft Windows vs Macintosh).
It was suggested a good product is only 30% of the battle, marketing, sales, clients, is the other 70%.

What Has Been Achieved:

• CV exchange
• Contact details exchange
• A number of members of the Network have been put forward for jobs
• Found out how Sausage Software got started: Steve Outtrim, founder of Sausage, developed the web authoring tool "Hotdog".

• Next dinner, Saturday 18 January 2003, 7pm, at Chris and Jane's house
• We need to know: How many software companies there are in Auckland

Participants:

Malcolm Craig, James Gu, Chris Harrod, Michael Harrod, Mrs Yung, Ian Wood, Sammy Dhaliwal, Jane Liu, Paul MacQuibban, Ivy Xie.

Agenda:

• Meet, eat, drink and talk
• The computer dinners seem to be losing a little steam
• We did a lot of talking, but made no firm plans
• Pleasing to report, Sammy Dhaliwal has found work in the industry!

What Has Been Achieved:

• A number of members of the Network have been put forward for jobs

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