At this point, just 12 months later, I am in new place mentally, surrounded with new people and new opportunities.
I have even fulfilled or am in the process of fulfilling several lifelong dreams, like finally doing the Motorcycle Thing, rain or shine I'm riding baby!

A few people who have helped me out, made a difference, offered support, taught me something and offer so much back to our community here in Eugene Oregon.
Bernie Kitching of DoughCo.
Julianne Harris  of Pre-Paid-Legal
Craig Tomlinson  Eugene Real Estate
Patricia Rollins of EFI Printers Alliance
Thomas Price of TLP-Local to You & Green Lane
Amie Chaudoir of Reiki Results and Common Good Bank
Kerrie L. Harrigan of Zonta and Jus
Denise Vendley of Friday's at Five
Roka Walsh of Roka Walsh
Kim Crieger Goodwin:Crieger *Goodwin Real Estate Sales
Alison Kelly: Delano Designs
David and Michelle Reid of Elegant Sports Jewelry
Cally Duncan of Photography by Cally
Jamie Congedo: Voice Talent
Bree McKenzie LCC Consulting
Josh Dunn The Money Coach
Cindy Ingram: Booking & Promoting
Karen Rainsong of Rainsong Designs
Doug James of Bourland Printing Bradee Millon for choosing to Live Life!
Cliff Etzel of BluProjekt
Joan Gross: NS-Spa
Dale De Roos  The Gentleman Coach
Denise Beins of CEO Systems
Eric Beins of Tradia
Kathleen Hogan Luxury Lap Desks
Sonja Frigaard: Events By Sonja
Jeannie Marr: River Road Health Mart
Stephanie Lichtenstein:  Affiliate Marketing
Jason Burke  my Acupuncturist (thank you)
Jack Stephens Natural Builder Network and Life Coach
Gail Taylor for connecting me with old friends via Facebook
Pamela Cournoyer: Communicate with Class
Michael Clement: Communicate with Class
and of course My Mother for always being there, being strong, supportive, loving unconditionally, and being an excellent roll model. 

You all have made a difference in my life whether you know it or not. I thank you all for being the people you are and hope you will keep being the people you are in 2010 and beyond. May your personal lives and businesses continue to grow and be successful. May the community show you praise for your commitment to shopping local and sporting local small businesses. May you all have a Happy, Safe, and Successful New Year!…….And for all your mixed drinking be sure to check out over 9,000 mixed drink recipes at Pure Liquor

(shameless plug for one of my own sites)
 

This a a brife recap of what was discussed at the GoToWebinar about Twitter:
(hosted by Jay Berkowitz, Gail Goodwin-motivational speaker(InspireMeToday), Iconic88, Warren Whitlock wrote "twitter revolution"

Starting with a brief explanation of what Twitter is:
Twitter is an incredible news feed and Micro-blogging in 140 characters or less.

Then the panel moved into the outline of Good Twitter Tips:

1#How to build a following:
Follow those that are in the sidebar of people you like, chances are they will have similar interest.

2#Good basic profile
Good Head Shot, description/bio, and link, you only get one link.
Twitter is searchable from google so make it authentic, about you and use your link.

3#Follow a few people and listen before you speak.
Get a feel for what is going on in your "new tribe/community"

4# write some great tweets…why?
So people will get a feel for what your twitter stream will be filled with.
What is a great tweet? Answering a question, being of service, being positive.
You can find question by searching twiiter using the "?" Both to answer questions and to find answers to your questions, much like people are using google and yahoo.

5# Follow the Leaders – where are the leaders located?
Check out:
WeFollow.com WeFollow is a directory of Twitter users organized by interests.
TwitterGrader.com Twitter Grader : Measure the power and authority of your twitter profile (can check top twitters by geo-location)
 Twitteriti.com The World of Twitter and Microblogging "ideas to follow top 100 from here"
Technorati’s Real-time search for user-generated media (including weblogs) by tag or keyword. Also provides popularity indexes. Follow top 100. 
Then get in the converstation using the @ sign.  (you should have some tweets going alreay in your stream, nobody wants to follow a tweeter with no tweets!)

6# RT (ReTweet) with an @ sign
Sharing others information is siting the source, which can lead to others RT your tweets. Try  using only 100 characters to leave room for a comment by the ReTweeter.

7# Search.Twitter.com
The instantaneous search, Real time search results. Did you know Google recently offered Twitter a Billion Dollars to acquire it. Most likely for the search.

Tip interlude: Hash-tag # a way to create taging information around a common term.
i.e #iranelections or at Blogworld Convention #BWE09

8# Upgrade your profile
use a custom background that matches your site, personality, a new promo, specials, books you author, etc.
It doesn’t have to stay static.

9# Play with some twitter apps, like
tweetdeck, split tweet, seemic-desktop, peoplebrowsr
bit.ly (shorten a url, and track the named link…cool custom twitter link with stats!)
tweetlater (is now socialOomph) for autoposting/sechuled posts. It’s useful before events your going to attend. Set to go off 5 mins before the event starts.

10# Three E’s of Social Media
1) Educate – Help someone, answers a question, point them/link them in the right direction
2) Entertain – Be funny, link to videos, music, etc.
3) Engage -  use the @ sign and be involved in a converstation. Don’t let your twitter account, or any social account, stay dormant!
Also know as the the Two L’s :: Listen and Love

All in all it was a good webinar. I was refreshed on some things, learned some new things, gathered some great links, apps,  and resources… all shared above.
Happy twittering

-Brian