Make the Most of the New Year

After taking an extended and much needed break, I am back! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and your new year is off to a great start.  During my break I did a lot of work.  I know it is an oxymoron but I started working on a couple of projects that I have been putting off and I am really excited about them now that the ball is rolling.  I am working with some great people and I will fill everyone in regarding these projects another time. 

This week’s post is centered on the theme of conferences and opportunities—both enable individuals to network and gain valuable insight on what it takes to get a job in the sports industry from those currently working in the field.  Although I am constantly telling students what they need to do or what they should be doing, it is sometimes more effective when they hear it from someone else.  As a result, I have compiled the following list of some upcoming conferences which I recommend attending if you are a student, young professional or someone trying to get into the sport industry: 

• 2/1-2/3 National Sports Forum – Baltimore, Maryland http://sports-forum.com/
• 2/19-2/20 18^th Annual Georgia Southern Sport Management Conference – Savannah, Georgia http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/sportconference.html
• 3/5-3/6 Sports Industry Networking and Career Conference Washington, D.C. http://www.sinc-conference.com/
• 3/26-3/27 Sports Events Marketing Experience Washington, D.C. http://www.seme-now.com/
• 4/14-4/16 6^th Annual Southern Sport Management Conference Troy University Troy, Alabama http://troy.troy.edu/healthandhumanservices/khp/ssm2009.html
• 4/21-4/23 2010 Scholarly Conference on College Sport Chapel Hill, NC http://www.csriconference.org/

In addition, the two sites listed below are not actually conferences but both put on amazing networking events. I recommend you make them part of your regular reading and attend as many of their events as possible:

• The Business of Sports – http://www.thebusinessofsports.com/
• The Sports Networker (has a great weekly newsletter as well) – http://www.sportsnetworker.com/

Please let me know, if I have missed any conferences or good networking opportunities…I’d be happy to post them as well!

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