SourceCon Community, 

Let’s all give a collective virtual handclap of praise to Ashley Surratt! She is the first person to earn a ticket to SourceCon via the Sourcers Anonymous program. Yay!

For those who missed the memo, four peer-reviewed articles published on the SourceCon website earns you one in-person ticket to SourceCon. Said ticket is good for any SourceCon conference (in case you can’t make the curent one) and is transferable. If you have earned a ticket to SourceCon and cannot make it yourself, you can gift the ticket to someone you feel deserves it. Up to you.

In case you are curious, these are the four articles that earned Ashley Surratt the coveted honor of being the first Sourcers Anonymous awardee.

• Tips for your first SourceCon and what I learned from mine

• Using Inmail Reporting to Track the ROI of Your Inmail Templates

• How To Determine Keywords For Your Boolean Strings

Her fourth article, “Building and Managing Pipelines and How You Can Do This Using Outlook“ debuts on Monday, so stay tuned for that.

There are quite a few more authors that are well on their way to earning their tickets as well. Click here to keep track of their efforts.

The next question to ask now is, “Who will be next?” or better yet, “Will you be the next person to earn a ticket to SourceCon via Sourcers Anonymous?” Time will tell. I’m cheering you on.

On another note, if you happen to know anyone who is open to new opportunities, please refer them to our upcoming webinar - Job Hunting is a Team Sport: Mastering Innovative Strategies for Your Career Success. I have the priviledge of leading the webinar, along with my co-host Michael Rasmussen.

The webinar is on March 5, 2024 at 2:00 pm EST.

Sign up now as seating is limited.

That’s it for this week, see you next week in this newsletter, with more SourceCon news.

Until then,

Jim Stroud
Your SourceCon Editor

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