Cultivating Community with Bekah Hawrot Weigel

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Twitter Ads

Bekah: Yeah, for sure. And that's what I always tell people, too, when they're looking for jobs, and they're networking on Twitter because your network is not just the people that follow you on Twitter. It's the people that follow you and their network. And so, if you build a network of people and you are authentic in that, then there's a tendency for really positive people to follow you as well. And they're not going to recommend you to a bad job, I mean, they might accidentally, but also, you have a greater chance of having a network connection that's going to lead to a more positive result than if you just were really casting far and wide with people you don't know.

#Marketing #Ad Networks #Marketing Platform 1 social mentions

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Word Online

Bekah: And so I would go to the dress store while my dad and my brothers looked at computer games, and that was consistent for me. I learned how to use Word and how to create documents. But I went to school and I have an undergraduate degree and a master's degree in English. And I taught for...I think I had taught for eight years when I had my fourth child. And when I was having her, I had birth trauma, and so two of my organs ruptured into each other.

#Office Suites #Word Processing #Writing 2 social mentions

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NewRelic

Pachi Parra: Hello and welcome to Launchies, a podcast for newbies, developers with non-traditional backgrounds, and career-switchers. I'm Pachi, a DevRel engineer at New Relic, and I'll be your host for today's show. And today, I have here with me Bekah. Bekah is a bootcamp graduate, and she's also the founder of Virtual Coffee, an awesome developer community. And she did all that while raising four kids, not one, not two, but four kids. I don't know how, but that just tells you that she is awesome. Welcome, Bekah.

#Application Performance Monitoring #Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 80 social mentions

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Flatiron School

Bekah: Yeah. So having a community and having people cheer you on, I was like, oh, this feels good. So I eventually got a scholarship to Flatiron School. And I did their self-paced bootcamp, which took me about a year. And then that's when I put out my tweet that I was looking for a job. I did not feel ready in any way, shape, or form. My husband said, "Nobody feels ready." And I landed a job off of that tweet. And what a difference it made because it is one of the most supportive jobs that I've ever had. So I think it took me a solid eight months to feel like maybe I could do this. But that seems pretty normal for people, I think.

#Development #Education & Reference #Online Learning 25 social mentions