I’ve attended some great conferences over the last few months. In August, I’m helping put on PodCamp Boston, and then in September, I’m attending the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in California (LifeHack.org readers: if you want to meet up while I’m out there, get in touch!)…

First of all, if you’re going to attend an event, have business cards that give people a way to contact you. If you’re not going as a representative of your current day job, make your own cards, and put your own sites and links and contact information on them. But then what? Or maybe you’re…

I’m at BarCamp Boston, an unconference being hosted in Monster.com’s headquarters. I’m surrounded by really brilliant people, mostly representing themselves, their small startups, their side jobs. I’ll tell you something: Learn to Connect Bring business cards. Get them made by someone like VistaPrint or make them at Staples. Whatever. But get some cards, and…