It’s Wednesday, and this is all the tech news you need for today!
I’m a volunteer here at the Tampa Bay Technology Center, and one of the things we’ve been thinking about reviving in a big way after the first of the year is in-person tech networking.
Remember how we used to do that? It was happening all the time. Then suddenly, when the pandemic hit, Zoom came into our lives and became incredibly efficient. But we lost something important—that personal touch, that face-to-face connection that’s so necessary for building relationships in both our personal and business lives.
Introducing Monthly Tech Meetups
After the first of the year, I want to start hosting networking events at the club. One day a month where people can come together with no arranged agenda—just being together and talking tech. We’ll occasionally have a speaker, but most of the time it’ll be us members helping each other and connecting the way real people do.
I’m very interested in hearing your thoughts about this. We have this facility on Range Road where people can actually come and sit down. We have coffee (and we don’t charge for it!), and we can spend time together sharing our hobbies when it comes to technology.
What I’d Like to Learn
Personally, I’d be very interested in learning:
- How to do Amazon FBA
- More about self-publishing on Amazon
- About Raspberry Pis (if you don’t know what those are, keep reading—I’ll tell you more when I learn about them!)
An Interesting Tech Discussion
I was at Dunedin High School earlier today and got into a discussion with a tech-savvy guy who argued that it’s no longer important to have large hard drives on your computers. He has only a 40-gigabyte hard drive, primarily because he keeps most of his stuff in the cloud.
So why do you need a large amount of space? At first, I thought that was outrageous—of course you need space! But then, as I sat down to write this newsletter, I checked my laptop. I have a terabyte of storage on my hard drive, and I’m using less than 3% of it.
Plus, I think it’s important you have to remember that about five years ago one of our techs and now board member Paul forced me into buying a Chromebook. By the way it was one of the best things that he could have ever done for me. Strangely it only has a 36 gigabyte hard drive that I rarely use because on Chrome everything is online including all my documents and spreadsheets and presentations.
Let’s Connect!
What I would like to see happen is the comeback of in-person tech networking so that I can learn more things – and so can you! If you have any suggestions, please let us know.
Have an outrageously warm week! (Because as I’m writing this today, it was 38 degrees when I woke up this morning, and I don’t do well in 38 degrees.)
See you next Wednesday!