—Let me start this off by saying…. grrr…. I already typed and lost this post not sure what happened but frustrating to say the least. 

Last we thankfully I was able to get out of the office for most of the week and see agents!! Went to Blair, Seward, and Milford.   It’s really interesting for me to get out and see all of you and your respective agencies.   I tend to get a better feel for what is important to you in our membership benefits, and thank you for your allegiance to the association.   On these visits I’ve been introducing everyone to virtual university, one of my favorite benefits.  If you don’t know what this is leave me a comment and I will elaborate more. 

Web 2.0 work group had a productive conference call Monday.   Everyone on the call is so smart!  I’m suppose to be the millennial up on all the technology and these folks are beating me to the punch.   I got an email yesterday about this website www.insurancecampus.org.  If you haven’t seen it before it is a ning community for insurance pros.  Fun place to talk about everything that has to do with this wonderful industry.  As usual it is free, and you just never know what gem you might find out there. 

An update on Twitter… Honestly, I had some what lost my excitement for twitter.  I could find anyone and didn’t really understand all the excitement.   So after my conference call with the work group I finally asked for help.  Yes that four letter word that can be very difficult to say.  Rick Morgan emailed me the link to www.twitterdeck.com…. now I get it.  I now understand how gigantic the impact of dumb little twitter can be.  I have found the president of  zappos.com, insurance journal, North Dakota Department of Insurance, Craig from Craig’s list, and a few more interesting folks to follow. 

Now don’t think that all my time is doing this stuff.  We are attempting to decide how we will approach our grant dollars for Trusted Choice, and planning an exciting Agent Auction event for Rural Convention (this will be interesting).  So things have been slightly busy. 

My step daughter Ashley is studying to take her PC exam on Friday and is attending the Big I’s first ever PRE-LICENSING CLASS!  Yup we have those now.  We are looking to fill up the classroom, so send those us those reps that need to get licensed. 

It’s been good to blog, haven’t been here for almost two weeks and now I’m scolding myself.  I shall probably see you all in person or on the web!

Best,

Liz

p.s. If anyone would like to try out oVoo with me send me an email or leave a comment I just got a webcam on the new netbook, can’t wait to try it out.