“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important thing I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

On October 5, 2011, around 3:00 p.m., Jobs died at his home in Palo Alto, California, aged 56, six weeks after resigning as CEO of Apple. We will forever miss you Steve!

Let me start by saying; I’m not one to read FW’s or actually FW those emails to all my contacts. But some of my friends have been posting this questioner in their blogs (Margie Clayman, Joe Ruiz) Because most of my friends exist online I find appropriate to take time and accept Margie’s challenge; in an effort to get to know each other better, so here it goes:

1. First Name: Can’t tell you…let’s just go with Jeannette
2. Were you named after anyone? No
3. Do you wish on stars? No.
4. When did you last cry? last night (reading a post by Libby)
5. Do you like your handwriting? yes
6. What is your favorite lunch meat? chicken
7. What is your birth date? 3/18
8. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with yourself? Yes, we’d be BFF’s
9. Are you a daredevil? no!
10. Have you told a secret you swore not to tell? hmm not intentionally:)
11. Do looks matter? Agree with Margie> “in business they certainly do!”
12. How do you release your anger? away from it all – music soothes me too
13. Where is your second home? My office
14. Do you trust others easily? hmm trust is a big word.
15. What was your favorite toy as a child? my books (don’t remember special toys, but do remember my love for my books)
16. What class in high school do you think was totally useless? Home Ec
17. Do you have a journal? Yes
18. Do you use sarcasm? Yes ツ
19. Nicknames? None:(
20. Would you bungee jump? Never!
21. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? yes
22. Do you think that you are strong? I am a rock! I can face anything coming my way – yet I can cry with TV commnercials
23. What’s your favorite ice cream flavor? Frech Vanilla
24. Shoe size? 6.5
25. Red/pink? don’t like red at all, I prefer blue or white
26. What is your least favorite thing about yourself? thinking things can be ‘perfect’
27. Who do you miss most? my parents
28. Do you want everyone you sent this to, to send it back? Sure
29. What color pants are you wearing? blue jeans
30. What are you listening to right now? Ivy
31. What was the last thing you ate? Grilled Cheese Sand.
32. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? White
33. What is the weather right now? inferno
34. Last person you talked to on the phone? My daughter
35. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? Hands & how they’re dresssed (sorry, you asked)
36. Do you like the person who sent this to you? yes!
37. Favorite drink (alcoholic/non-alcoholic)? Diet-Pepsi, White Wine
38. Favorite sport(S)? College & NFL football, Soccer, College Basketball
39. Hair color? Grey
40. Eye color? Brown
41. Do you wear contacts? Glasses
42. Name of pet? lost my dog this year:(
43. Name of favorite childhood pet? Dutchess
44. Last movie that you watched? Cowboys and Aliens
45. Scary Movies or Happy? Happy, for sure!
46. Summer or winter? Spring and Fall
47. Hugs or Kisses? yes, please!
48. What books are you reading? Leadership 101
49. What is on your mouse pad? Don’t use one.
50. What did you watch on TV last night? ..TV? what’s wrong with Twitter?
51. Rolling Stones or Beatles? Beatles!
55. What’s the farthest you have been from home? Quito, Ecuador

Now it’s your turn. Leave a comment when your page is ready for us to visit.

Twitter – Reaching Your Customer

People are using Twitter to stay in touch, listen, learn and share with their clients and customers. Learn how to reach your customers and connect on a personal level with 140 characters or less. This platform can keep you current and in the know of what your customers want. Twitter just turned 5 years old. They’ve grown from an idea to explosive growth with 1 billion tweets per week—in just a short time you can stand out as the thought leader and expert in your field using Twitter.

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Wed., Aug. 10, 2011 – 1 PM – 4 PM

Santa Fe College – CIED

530 W. University Ave., Rm. DB112

For more information or to register  please call  352.395.5896.

Facebook – Manage your Brand                Jun 23, 2011          9am-12pm

LinkedIn – Develop Master Strategies       Jul. 21, 2011          1pm-4pm

Twitter – Manage your Brand                     Aug 10, 2011         1pm-4pm

Facebook - Manage Your BrandYou may already use Facebook for personal reasons such as keeping up with your friends or sharing photos, but the idea of running a business page on the world’s largest social network might still seem intimidating. Where do you start? What should your goals be? How much time and effort should you invest? This course provides step-by-step instruction on setting up a Facebook fan page, covering some of the reasons why you should set one up and why its interactive elements make it such a great tool for business promotion. You will also learn how to maintain your business page separate from your personal page by creating filters and getting the most out of ‘Tabs”.

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Thu., Jun. 23, 9 AM – 12 PM

SF-CIED 530 W. University Ave., Rm. DB112

LinkedIn - Develop Master Strategies to Grow Your InfluenceHarness LinkedIn’s powerful business related social networks of some of the most powerful and influential professionals in the world to help you generate more leads and sales. Become known as a subject matter expert in your field and increase strategic connections that will allow you to grow your business. Whether you’re a business owner, professional, consultant, or entrepreneur, this course will teach you how to capture the power of this platform to increase your bottom line. Go beyond just setting up a profile! Learn to make useful connections and create powerful, costeffective, highly-targeted campaigns to increase your opportunities.

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Thu., Jul. 21, 1 PM – 4 PM

SF-CIED 530 W. University Ave., Rm. DB112

Twitter - Reaching Your CustomerPeople are using Twitter to stay in touch, listen, learn and share with their clients and customers. Learn how to reach your customers and connect on a personal level with 140 characters or less. This platform can keep you current and in the know of what your customers want. Twitter just turned 5 years old. They’ve grown from an idea to explosive growth with 1 billion tweets per week—in just a short time you can stand out as the thought leader and expert in your field using Twitter.

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Wed., Aug. 10, 1 PM – 4 PM

SF-CIED 530 W. University Ave., Rm. DB112

For more information or to register, call SF Continuing Education at (352) 395-5896

Course Description:

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as “tweets”. Even if you don’t join Twitter yourself, you can monitor what people are saying about any person, company, or brand. This is quite useful from a marketing and PR standpoint. Twitter has a search engine that lets you do just this and it can drive leads and sales. Taking the time to optimize your brand on Twitter is important to help capture potential sales.

Learn:

• The basics of Twitter – How to Get Started

• Why it’s so much more than just “what are you doing”

• How to use #hashtags

• How to find and follow people

• Tips and shortcuts to simplify your social media tasks

• Other applications that make Twitter a better experience

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April 21

1:15 PM – 4:15 PM

SF-CIED Center for Innovation & Economic Development

530 W. University Ave.

Rm DB112

For more information or to register, call SF Continuing Education at (352) 395-5896

This year is going to be different and here is why.  A few of us @SMSJoe @solete @nickyhants @davidmcgraw @karlkovacs @starry_girl @paulbiedermann @HeidiCohen have decided to create our own #UsGuys #SXSW experience.

This coming weekend (3/11 through 3/13) we are going to have our own virtual mini conference.

Here is how it will work:

1. We have registered the #usXsw hashtag so use that hashtag.

2. We will guide the conversation by selecting topics and providing a few questions for each day.

3. Joe will write a framing post with questions ahead of time, for those who want to write posts we can share those too.

4. Of course free flowing conversation will be welcomed.

And there is more:

We have also secured some prizes! Here is our current list of sponsors:

• AT&T
• HootSuite, (providing SXSW material e.g. shirt,stickers, coozies, Ipad stand,tattoos etc) HootSuite’s new reports release goes out Wednesday March 9th and all mobile versions will be updated  Thursday, did we tell you it’s free?
• Author John Spence‘s latest book Awesomely Simple Turning Ideas into Action!  Filled with case studies and clear action items, Awesomely Simple includes easy-to-follow guidelines for implementing the strategies in any organization no matter its mission or size. After concisely breaking down each strategy, John gives specific examples, tips, tools, discussion questions and exercises for how to execute them successfully.
• Grandmothers Coffee - 3-12oz bags Guatemalan Reserve Whole Bean Coffee (100% pure premium – not blend) This coffee is from the Huhuetenango region of Guatemala. It is a premium single origin coffee in its purest form.Many coffees are blends of several regions, or blended from multiple countries to achieve fuller flavor. This coffee does not need to be blended to achieve its best flavor
• Michele Price/WIDFY “What I Did For You” a social resume app that is quick, simple and reliable.
  You invite people you have done work for, whether as employee or freelancer/business and voila you have your own social resume from them answering a couple sentences what you did for them.  Go give it a try , use your private beta invite and show your friends where they can tell people “What I Did For You”
• #Hashable – T-shirts, stickers and other surprises!
• Meet-Meme – 5 codes for a complimentary pack of 20 Meet-Meme Cards. The winners just need to visit www.meet-meme.com and purchase 20 cards (2 10 packs). The codes are good for $10.74 off your order, which is the amount of 20 cards plus US shipping.
• Grooveshark – Free (1) Year of Grooveshark awesomeness!
• David McGraw – 5 copies of Seth Godin’s latest book
• Socialisle –  2 copies of Gary V’s new book “The Thank You Economy”

We will award the prizes based on things like contributions to the chat. We welcome your feedback. Please tell us how we can make this weekend fun, informative, and special.

Let’s get this party started.

@MyAgenda & @SMSJoe