Tomorrow I have the privilege of taking my entire PCMA membership team off-site for an entire day of planning. I say privledge because when was the last time you just detached yourself from your computer/phone and thought about stuff, planned instead of reacted?
If you had a year similar to people I know, you were asked to do more, with less…nose to the grindstone with barely enough time to come up for air. For a lot of us that strategy worked last year to a large extent, but that is no …

My new favorite website/blog of the day (thanks to a Tweet by @JeffHurt) – http://www.happiness-project.com/
Gretchen Rubin (@gretchenrubin) has written a book, Happiness Project, which I have not read, but I can tell you that if it’s on Kindle, it will be downloaded on my commute home.
Have you read this book/blog? If so, what one great idea have you come up with that brings you more happiness in your day-to-day world?
Here is a sample from today – Ten Reasons Why Using Twitter Will Boost Your Happiness http://ow.ly/17xfn
Christine

Two new tools I just learned about. Have you used them? Did you like one over the other?
http://www.jingproject.com/
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
Basically, both tools allow you to record your desktop in a video format. Jing appears to be free for up to a 5 min. video. Camtasia has a free trial.
For more ideas on screencasters – check out this blog by Betsy Weber:http://visuallounge.techsmith.com/
-Christine

I love Twitter. Here are the reasons I love it, add yours!
1. It helps me stay connected to members2. I get to meet new and interesting people who “live” in the association space3. I get to meet new and interesting people who “live” in the social media space4. I’m learning how to communicate in 140 or less5. You can find out cool stuff about interesting people6. You can find new blogs to read7. You can keep an eye on the trending topics to stay on top of world issues …