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Every Monday morning I go in the 7-11, grab my coffee (heavy on the French Vanilla creamer) and get a quart of milk for my weekly cereal breakfasts. Whenever I pick up the milk, I notice the expiration date (one week I got a bad carton and it scarred me for life) and was shocked to see that it had 7/2/09 as the expiration date. July??? Where did June go? Here in Philly, I think we’ve had rain everyday for the entire month of June so it hasn’t really felt like the beginning of summer at all. And, now July is just around the corner?? Argh!!

Why does it seem like time goes by too fast? Are we trying to cram too much into too little time?

Even with time flying by every day, I was determined to watch the live stream of the Social Media Recruiting Summit on Monday June 15th and was really pleased to see over 500 other “stream viewers” not to mention all the attendees at the sold out event. That’s a lot of people taking time out of their insanely busy schedules to watch, learn, and interact about a single topic. The mobile-to-mobile marketing presentation by Chris Hoyt and Michael Marlatt was quite informative and interesting. And, I now have a new word for my techno vocabulary: “backchannels” – kind of like the old school days of passing notes to classmates but on a business-scale that you can utilize for good (vs. the evil, which those passed notes always seemed to create in grade school).

I wished I could have attended all of the sessions at the Social Recruiting Summit, but afternoon meetings popped up on my calendar (not to mention the 100+ emails piling up in my inbox). Ah well – maybe more time will be available next year – although I’m sure the topics and trends will have changed. (And, I’ll be sure to RSVP early for a chance to visit Google’s headquarters!!)

For now, my goal is to take a deep breath at least once a day at work and unplug/disconnect/pause/logoff/shut-down/tune-out/turn off for at least an hour a day at home…which will probably occur right before I pass out at bedtime.

Author Bio:  Jennifer Greenfield, Consultant, Interactive Services, seems to have coffee, not mortal blood, running through her veins. Juggling her bags (laptop, spinning stuff, cool purse, projector) and array of web-based duties with professionalism, composure and a random assortment of funny faces, Jen, has been with Alstin for more than 13 years, lives and breathes the 'net.

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