Vincent Wright

Current

• Founder at MyLinkingPowerForum.com
• Founder at MyFacebookPowerForum.com
• Founder at MyVirtualPowerForum.com

• President/CEO at Wright Enterprises

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Past

• Assistant Director, Technical Staffing at CIGNA Corporation
• Senior Technical Recruiter at United Health Care
• Senior Technical Recruiter at The Hartford

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Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Vincent Wright’s Summary

Top Seven Things To Know About Me:

1. I own a unique small business designed to solve employment problems through creative recruitment, coaching, and networking practices. All my work is centered around bringing the right people together.

2. President/CEO at Wright Enterprises. I use a variety of techniques to network for you and I do so through 5 interrelated consultancies focused on recruiting, networking, career coaching, and search engine optimization. I center my work on a powerful in-house developed meta-methodology for building structured, yet flexible approaches to networking, coaching, recruiting, marketing, and training.

3. Founder, Director Of Community at
MyVirtualPowerForum.com (Yahoo)
MyLinkedinPowerForum.net (Facebook)
MyLinkingPowerForum.Ning.com (Ning)

My forums help online users "power up" their networks.

4. Social Network Creator: Created more than 1,000 networking discussion groups & blogs ranging from "My Linkedin Power Forum" to "Linkedin Bloggers" to "Linkedin Chicago" to "Linkedin Malaysia" to "Linkedin Venture Capital", etc.

5. Wright Hand Blogger at www.WrightHandBlogger.com and www.SocialMediaConsortium.com

6. IT Recruiter at Fortune 500 Insurance Companies such as Aetna, The Hartford Insurance Group, United HealthCare, CIGNA Corporation.

7. I'm always looking to network with people who need a highly creative networker, recruiter, coach, or online community manager to help them reach their "big break" in business. I am relentlessly creative on assignment & work intensely to introduce you to the right people, "The Wright Way". My networking purpose is to build vibrant, communicative, professional networks & to take good care of the people in them.

Thanks, and Keep STRONG!!
VincentWright.com (Linkedin)
VincentWright.net (Facebook)
VincentWright.org (Google Profile)
VincentWright.us (Twitter)
Skype/Gtalk = MyLinkedinPowerForum

Vincent Wright’s Specialties:

* Online Community Management
* Job Coach
* Career Coach
* Job Search Agent
* Entrepreneurial Recruiter
* social media consulting
* social media optimization
* social media coaching
* social networking
* professional networking
* business networking
* social influence marketing
* discussion groups
* forum moderation
* confluence
* influence
* affluence
* social recruiting
* group dynamics
* conversation
* micro-blogging
* Recruitment
* Technical Staffing

Vincent Wright’s Experience

• Founder

  MyLinkingPowerForum.com

  (Online Media industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Founder/Director Of Community at MyLinkingPowerForum.ning.com, a very active Ning-based social media platform consisting of more 4,700 professional members lending a hand to help members find jobs and develop business via more than 280 professional networking and discussion groups.
  
  If you need help with your professional networking efforts, you're invited to stop by and introduce yourself at either of the following:
  
  http://MyLinkingPowerForum.ning.com or
  www.MyLinkingPowerForum.com

• Founder

  MyFacebookPowerForum.com

  (Online Media industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Founder and Director Of Community for MyFacebookPowerForum.com, a Facebook group consisting of more than 1,600 professional members lending a hand to help each other find jobs and develop business via discussions about using Facebook for business development and other professional purposes.
  
  If you need help with your professional networking efforts, you're invited to stop by and introduce yourself at the following:
  
  http://www.MyFacebookPowerForum.com

• Founder

  MyVirtualPowerForum.com

  (Internet industry)

  February 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)

  Founder at www.MyVirtualPowerForum.com (Formerly, www.MyLinkedinPowerForum.com), the first, large, Linkedin-centric discussion group. During its first four years, almost 9,000 members have generated more than 47,000 topics on Linkedin and related social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, and YouTube.
  
  As Director Of Community I,
  - Monitor & moderate online posts, threads, topics & discussions
  - Help answer questions from the forum community
  - Build growth in number of participants, pageviews & activity
  - Make decisions regarding posters & membership requests
  - Create & implement specific policies to guide positive growth of
  the community
  - Identify problems and seek & expedite solutions
  - Catalyze/start discussions

• President/CEO

  Wright Enterprises

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  August 1989 — Present (20 years 4 months)

  Wright Enterprises is a unique small business designed to solve employment problems through creative recruitment, coaching, and networking practices. All our work is centered around bringing the right people together.
  
  We use a variety of techniques to network for you and we do so through 5 interrelated consultancies focused on recruiting, networking, career coaching, and search engine optimization.
  
  We center our work on a powerful in-house developed meta-methodology for building structured, yet flexible approaches to networking, coaching, recruiting, marketing, and training.

• Assistant Director, Technical Staffing

  CIGNA Corporation

  (Public Company; CI; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  July 1996 — October 1996 (4 months)

  CIGNA Corporation's first Assistant Director of Technical Staffing. Responsible for recruiting all computer professionals for all CIGNA Divisions (Recruited for 10 Corporate Divisions, excluding CIGNA Health Care).

• Senior Technical Recruiter

  United Health Care

  (Public Company; UNH; Insurance industry)

  February 1996 — July 1996 (6 months)

  Hired Chief Information Officer for United Health Care's TPA Division. Proposed, set up, and coordinated on-site open-house to fill Information Technology openings.(Information Systems) Out of 240 attendees, hired 32. Filled 20 openings for PACE Program through college recruitment. Conducted Behavioral Interviewing classes for ~65 IT Managers.

• Senior Technical Recruiter

  The Hartford

  (Internet industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years )

  Fully involved Sr. Technical Recruiter. Member Human Resources Automation Project Team. Recruited Smalltalk and C++ Programmers, TCP/IP LAN/WAN Specialists, UNIX Systems Administrators, and ORACLE DBA's and Developers. Developed and managed Strategies On Agency Procedures recruitment agency management program.

Additional Information

Vincent Wright’s Interests:

Career coaching, professional networking, recruiting, forums, groups, social networking, social media optimization, blogging, community building, saxophone, yoga, writing, applied philosophy, applied metaphysics, applied taxonomy, Systematic Theology, The Secret, Law of Attraction, motivation, encouragement, humor, knowledge management, information engines, strategy, tactics, stratagems, etymology, figures of speech, memes, memetic engineering, chaordics, creativity, information design, philosophy design, philosophy engines, community design, community engines, taxonomy, ontology, and much, MUCH more! :-)

Vincent Wright’s Groups:

http://MyLinkingPowerForum.ning.com
http://www.MyVirtualPowerForum.com
http://www.MyFacebookPowerForum.com
www.MyJobTIGER.com
www.SocialMediaConsortium.com
www.MyRecruiters.net
www.TechnicallySocial.com

•    eOffice
•    Arbita CyberSleuths
•    Executive Suite
•    Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame
•    Helping Friends Career Network (LI2HF)
•    Obama for America
•    BDPA
•    DataShaping Advanced Analytics
•    Facebook.com
•    Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org
•    Skype for Business
•    Google Group
•    JibberJobber - Career Management
•    Fans of Mashable
•    The Hartford
•    Technisource Network
•    CIGNA Alumni
•    Linking Eyes To FInd Missing Children
•    Chief Learning Officer magazine
•    My Virtual Power Forum
•    allPM.com Community
•    Chief Learning Officers Network
•    The Entrepreneurial Recruiter
•    Success Through Networking - unlock your future
•    Linking The LaidOff
•    Dream.In.Code
•    Alaska Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support Group
•    Linking Subject Matter Experts
•    Federal Government Contracting
•    Hartford Business Journal's - Best Places to Work in Connecticut
•    Hartford Business Journal's - Diversity & Inclusion Conference
•    JobAngels
•    Career Change Central
•    Book Writing, Self Publishing, and Marketing for Business People
•    MetroHartford Alliance
•    TweetMyJOBS.com
•    Linking Coaches
•    You Are My Son
•    Masterminding Tribe

Vincent Wright’s Honors:

1. MyLinkingPowerForum.com featured on Ning's blog:http://tinyurl.com/486unu

2. MyVirtualPowerForum.com/MyLinkedinPowerForum.com chosen as Best Of Yahoo! Groups

3. City Of Hartford, Mayor Eddie A. Perez, Contributions to Hartford Community

4. State Of Connecticut, M. Jodi Rell, Governor, Community Service & Outstanding Contributions

5. 3 FBI White House Security Clearances (Administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, & Jimmy Carter)

6. Entrepreneurial Certificate of Achievement, ACCESS Entrepreneurial Center

7. Computer Programming Certificate of Award, Extended Data Processing Training Program, Aetna Institute For Corporate Education

8. Featured Yahoo Groups Moderator.

9. My Linkedin Power Forum featured in "LinkedIn for Recruiting" by Bill
Vick & Des Walsh

10. Quoted in the following books: "Linkedin For Recruiting", "Tales From
The Networking Community", "Linkedin Personal Trainer", "Linkedin For You",
"Happy About Online Networking"

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