I was recently invited to join two advisory boards for my old school, Winter Park Tech. One is for the Web Design program and the other for their Digital Design program. Both were very interesting to go to and learn about all the new trends and happenings within the industry, especially from professionals.

In the Web Design ABM, they had presidents and lead web developers from local design companies around the area, also from local radio stations. We were all able to talk about the new trends and what employers are looking for these days for entry level. I was really surprised by some of the answers.

The Digital Design ABM was a little larger then Web designs and was more informative. Everyone had really outstanding responses to some of the questions that students asked and also that the instructors asked the board members. I felt much more comfortable responding to some of these questions more so then in the Web Design ABM and I feel a little bad for it. In the Digital Design ABM there were presidents, senior art directors/designers and head managers from Disney World, SeaWorld, and local graphic and print companies. I was really impressed and honored to be invited to attend this meeting.

Contacts like these in this industry are highly wanted and I was lucky to be able to meet all of these people and hear what they have they have to say about the industry. Remember, networking is a key feature to success in the multimedia industry. To be able to know people higher up in the scale then you can sometimes get you by in certain aspects in life believe or not.