Jordan Schwartz

"In my social media class, I mentioned one "hack" for improving your work efficiency in Microsoft Outlook is to turn OFF the "New Mail" alerts that pop up every time a message comes in. It's like ADD in a box: constantly interrupting you from what you're doing to attend to . It's a bit tricky to find, so here are instructions for Outlook 2007: Tools -> Options -> E-ma..."

"I apologize for not having a hand-out for the presentation yesterday and today on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media for Event Planners. But never fear: I've posted the Twitter Resources for the Event Industry to the talk page as a PDF that you can view and print at your leisure: http://pathable.com/events/cec09/meetings/788 You'll see the hand-out under "Materials"."

"We'll be printing special icebreaker name badges for the Sunday night reception that will incorporate the tags in your Pathable profiles, so if you don't have tags yet, go add them now! Just click "My Profile" in the upper right below "Cascadia Commons" and then click "Edit Profile". Remember: tags are words or short phrases that describe things you're interested..."

"Saw this coming from MPI's Twitter (http://twitter.com/mpiDallas): Emergency Industry Wide Conf Call @ 2p EST TODAY hosted by U.S. Travel Assoc. http://tinyurl.com/bfprz2 #micecrisis #mpi PS If you wonder what Twitter is and what all those little #'s are doing in there, come to my session at CEC, I'll explain"

"I'll be teaching two sessions at CEC on social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, all that jazz). I could spend days talking about all the ins and outs of these topics, but I don't have days, so I thought it would be nice to hear in advance what people are most interested in learning about? For example: - Are people interested in Twitter from a "How will it help me keep up to da..."

"Let's use #cec09 as the hash tag for Cascadia. Hint: If you're interested in Twitter but don't "get" it, check out my Twitter for Event Planners guide or come to my talk at CEC. http://resources.pathable.com/twitter-for-event-planners"