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Jiffy Snippets - 1/8/11

A crisp beer, a book, a chair with sunlight on it 

Personal: Late last month I helped one of my high school best friend's raise nearly $8,000 in an evening for her younger sister that's sick with stage four Hodgkin's Lymphoma. We held the silent auction/fundraiser in our tiny hometown and people donated beforehand and also arrived in droves. It makes me even more proud to call that place home, a notion I never imagined possible given my fierce and undying love of it. Seeing so many people open their wallets to her rekindled my faith in humankind in a way that's never happened to me before. Humbled.

Screen: Downton Abbey's entire first season on Netflix. Second season begins tonight. I never tire of period television and Masterpiece Classics is a complete goldmine. Watched the Any Human Heart series as well (also on Netflix), a screenplay adaptation of a book that tugged at every literary heartstring beneath my sternum.

Books: Any Human Heart by William Boyd (did you see that coming?), Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella because FB likes her and I want to be her (FB, not Twenties Girl), and On Writing by Stephen King because all of the bourgeois things I've been enjoying in the past few weeks make me want to journal like a madwoman. 

Online: Stanford University is offering some of their popular computer sciences online to the public, free. Check out the two entrepreneurship courses: The Lean Launchpad and Technology Entrepreneurship.

Tara recently blogged about My Permissions, a website that allows you to log in to your social channels and revoke various permissions from years past. Mine was sort of horrifying. The clean slate feels nice. 

Dan Nolan is a friend that geeks out about personal finance as much as I do. He recently wrote about the daily spend value method, a trick I've been using for two years (although I didn't come up with a cool name for it like he did). If you find yourself spending too often and out of cash long before pay day, this will cure you.

Working in social media, I find myself constantly explaining why amounts aren't as important as matter. Jeremiah Owyang sums it up perfectly in Number of Fans and Followers is Not a Business Metric - What You Do With Them Is. Thanks, Nick, for introducing me to his blog.

Given my twelve years of ballet history that began when I was only three years old, this video demonstrating the tragedy of first position made me smile pretty hard:

Hope you have an amazing work week. Go get it.

Pivots and Pirouettes

Hi, it's me. I went from barely known blogger working a dead end web position at a university in Colorado to the only social media manager of a hugely successful company and concept (believe me, it was successful before me). I love what I do. I pop out of bed. I curl my hair in the morning. I go to the gym. I walk to work and back every day, almost 4 miles. I participate in my life. I'm soulfully alive again.

My Twitter account links to my Tumblr. My Tumblr links to here, where I have poured my heart out more than once. That said, this space is getting far more traffic from colleagues and applicants to our program than it ever had when it was just me, whoever I blackmailed into reading it on a regular basis, and any of you wonderful people tuning in now.

So...if I told you this space was about to become more tech / career / entrepreneurship / travel / personal finance oriented, would you stick around? Stil no niche, but more polished? Hope you will stay on the journey with me.