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	Sharepoint and Biztalk Job Syndicate If you are a developer that specializes in Sharepoint (2003 or 2007), or Biztalk (2004, 2006, 2006R2), and lives in the New Jersey, New York City, Conn. area, I'm putting together an informal "Job Syndicate".  Basically, a loose network of individuals that will share information about open employee and consulting opportunities in our area.  If you have tried Dice and Monster and have been swamped by all the Resume Trawler's spam, you might have realized that the only way to find the decent jobs is via a personal network.  Now, we all know that we should spend time cultivating a personal network, but most of us (myself included), have been neglecting their network.  I've been getting slammed by lots of Sharepoint and Biztalk opportunities, most of which I can't take advantage of, and my pool of local Sharepoint and Biztalk developers is pretty small.  I've already have a private blacklist of firms (firms that you should avoid), and I'm sure that if we combined resources amongst a group of like-minded developers, we can all get better paying jobs and consulting assignments.  So, I'm creating a NJ/NYC/CT Sharepoint and Biztalk Syndicate.  Contact me if you want to join the syndicate.  Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Published Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:45 AM by donxml Filed under: .Net, .Net Communities, Sharepoint Comment Notification If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS Comments Noah Coad said: That is such a great idea! What a nice way to help the community. Wish there was something like that in my area. :) Best of luck June 12, 2007 1:01 PM

About donxml

I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.