There seemed to be an underlying theme of being a servant, of humility, and that I just love – especially in a world that screams out that you have to step on everyone to climb the ladder. There seems to be this new way of thinking about leadership that seems necessary and more effective.

Here are the notes I took today. I’ll be reviewing these multiple times, I am sure.

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This little program (opened in your browser – chrome) will somehow combine your twitter accounts & your facebook into one feed, flawlessly. The notifications in blue above are from facebook.

Here are a few more things I love about it (so far).

1. Because of the flawless integration of facebook and twitter accounts mentioned above this prevents me from having to open facebook 16 gazillion times a day just to see if I have any notifications.

2.  I can refresh it by using the browser’s refresh option.

3. Notifications for facebook & twitter come through as little pop ups, a bit reminiscent of growl.

4. It’s all tucked up into my browser, so I don’t have an additional program running.

5. If I close the tab, opening a new one is a cinch, and I don’t have to wait on the reload process.

6. It may take up the whole screen (something that previously intimidated users about tweetdeck), but it’s inside the browser, making it less intimidating. I hope.

7. Uploading media is faster than the original tweetdeck.

My only dislike so far is that I can’t see my facebook messages. Once there is a way to add these to the feed, I won’t have to open facebook ever again. Okay – maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but at least I won’t have to open it as much as I used to.

What do you think? Have you tried tweetdeck for chrome? Or, if not, what is your twitter client of choice?

There are many great solutions and suggestions being offered up today at the event in Rocky Mount, NC.

Customers are saving money and are learning about new technologies that will help efficiency and productivity.(I, too, am learning quite a bit.)

I got to work on the Marketing for this event. Here are some of the mailers we sent throughout November and December (click on the thumbnail to see the image larger).

Pictures from the event to come soon!

Being engaged is an odd time, though I think it helps me deal with some real issues that I’m faced with. I’ve been single for quite some time -(single here means not married) and I loved it! I am so thankful for the time I got to go overseas (many-a time), I got to enjoy single life making new friends, moving to a place of which I wasn’t familiar (several times). And now, another unknown -marriage! We’re reading up in a marriage book that helps us walk through different topics like Money, Conflict, Sex (yes, even that), and Family. It does help, but I realize that I won’t know what it’s like till I get there.

If you’re single don’t mope, be glad you have this time, but also know that when he or she does come along it might send a shock through your system. It has been a big adjustment for me to learn how to live with someone else alongside of me (and he lives 2 hours away). I’ve got to get used to having someone else around – and learning to put him first! It’s not the easiest thing because it reveals my selfishness through it all.

I’m enjoying it too, though. It’s nice to have Jeremy around. His opinion is so helpful often. His ways are so gentle. He is caring and loves me in a different way than I’ve ever been loved before.

Being alone though, is a state of mind. There are many people who are married now who feel alone, for one reason or another, may that never be Jeremy and I. I pray that God unifies us and bonds us together in love, so that the space between is measured in love.

You can’t hope in marriage to satisfy you, cause it won’t. Just like a new shirt won’t. Even a new tv, it won’t.

Let’s put our hope, our trust, our everything in the Lord.

We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. Psalm 33:20

Just this past week someone said to me,

Your facebook messages are so cryptic. What are all those numbers, letters, and symbols?

So, without creating a twitterictionary – because I’m sure that already exists, I will attempt to explain what these things mean. Especially so that later, you can refer to this post as a mini twitorial. (Upon further research, it does exist – it’s called Tiwtteronary.)

RT – stands for “ReTweet” it’s when someone you follow on twiter makes a statement that you really want others to see, or a link that is worth passing along, this is a RT.

bit.ly – a url shortening site, just like tinyurl. Twitter only allows users to post 140 characters, so that things will be kept short and sweet (tweet) – (I can’t help myself). With this 140 character limit you don’t want/need to post links that will steal all of those characters away. thus bit.ly and tinyurl.com

tweet- is a singular message sent through twitter by someone.

@- this is the call center for your twitter name. it’s how i differentiate someone’s real name, ie Jeremy Smith, and his twitter name @s1174430, as you can see a twitter name can be a collection of numbers (in his case a student id # from Cedarville days) or your actual name, like mine @kellycain.

When someone wants to speak “at” me through twitter, they will put @kellycain

Twitpic – this is a service that allows you to upload pictures and send them to twitter – sort of like a new version of photo bucket or webshots (wow, remember webshots?)

Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Twitterific- these are all 3rd party apps, that make twitter easy (and fun!) to use. Most of these can also be found on many phones.

DM’s- Direct Messages are a way to send links, messages, etc through twitter without the whole wide world seeing your thoughts.

Syncing with Facebook – the average facebook user changes their status through facebook, most twitter users, sync their twitter account with their Facebook account so that they don’t have to update in both places.

Twitter in Plan English – I have posted this before, but it’s too good not to post again.

Twitter in Plain English from 140.tw on Vimeo.

Why get on twitter? What’s the purpose? Honestly – it’s fun. It’s a way to stay connected with people. I find that I know when my friends are sick, pregnant, even when they are going to the store. I find out when new albums are coming out, when Zack Morris appears on the Jimmy Fallon show and much more.

Twitter is a way to find out useful and useless information in a fun way.

With that said, follow me on twitter. Tell them I sent you.