Career advice: Making your abilities known

From Computerworld, January 9, 2009...

Throughout my 18-year career, I've always been aggressive in furthering my education, learning new technologies and generally staying up to date. I think I have a breadth of knowledge that surpasses anything those 10 or 15 years my junior have. But when new projects like virtualization come up, I'm not being tapped for either the initial evaluation or the implementation. How can I broadcast my abilities without coming off as a braggart? I'm afraid of being typecast as old school and not making the cut in some future round of layoffs.

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