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term="pop star" /><category term="popular" /><category term="iPad" /><category term="password" /><category term="storing information" /><title>Interactive Medias Blog</title><subtitle type="html">DesaraeV will help you and your company become online savvy with website building, social media and technology tips. 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                                            &lt;img height="28" width="165" alt="Small hr" src="http://www.nul.org/email_templates/nul-couple/images/hr-small.gif" /&gt;                                             &lt;h3 style="margin: 10px 0pt 14px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(167, 35, 35);"&gt;conference presenting sponsors:&lt;/h3&gt;                                             &lt;p style="margin: 10px 0pt 14px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(167, 35, 35);"&gt;&lt;img height="49" border="0" width="89" alt="Lilly" src="http://www.nul.org/email_templates/nul-couple/images/lilly-logo.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                             &lt;img height="63" width="52" alt="United Postal Service" src="http://www.nul.org/email_templates/nul-couple/images/ups-logo.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 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I am the National Urban League" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                                             &lt;img height="28" width="192" src="http://www.nul.org/email_templates/yp/images/hr-small.gif" alt="Small hr" /&gt;                                                        &lt;img height="44" width="106" src="http://www.nul.org/email_templates/yp/images/logo-nul.gif" alt="National Urban League" /&gt;                                             &lt;p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 13px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(143, 141, 141);"&gt;120 Wall Street &lt;br /&gt;                                             New York, NY 10005 &lt;br /&gt;                                             ph: (212) 558-5300 &lt;br /&gt;                                             fax: (212) 344-5332&lt;/p&gt;                                             &lt;p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 13px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(80, 80, 80);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=JQ9F8X9Gzb%2BT7%2FlqcrB9n8GpBY19%2BYyI" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(87, 168, 181); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;www.nul.org &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                                             &lt;/td&gt;                                         &lt;/tr&gt;                                     &lt;/tbody&gt;                                 &lt;/table&gt;                                 &lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;/tr&gt;                             &lt;tr&gt;                                 &lt;td colspan="5" style="padding: 15px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"&gt;&lt;img height="28" width="620" src="http://www.nul.org/email_templates/nul-couple/images/hr-small.gif" alt="Small hr" /&gt;                                 &lt;h3 style="margin: 10px 0pt 14px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(167, 35, 35);"&gt;centennial presenting sponsors:&lt;/h3&gt;                                 &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="70" border="0" width="572" src="http://www.nul.org/email_templates/nul-couple/images/centennial-sponsors.gif" alt="Centennial Sponsors" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                                 &lt;/td&gt;                             &lt;/tr&gt;                         &lt;/tbody&gt;                     &lt;/table&gt;                     &lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;/tbody&gt;         &lt;/table&gt;     &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;You can also find me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/desaraev.
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&lt;b&gt;You can drown in only a few inches of water. &lt;/b&gt;All it would take is you slipping and falling face first in the shower or on the street full of water and passing out for just a minute or two. One small accident that no one helps you out of. Business is the same way. If you don't surround yourself with other smart business people who will continue to challenge your strategy, help you improve your goals, keep you on track, ethical and down to earth your company could drown. Businesses don't necessarily drown in water, unless their is a flood. Businesses down because of a lack of business savvy, motivation, dedication or because the cash flow dries up.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;If you don't have the technical skills or training to stay afloat, you may drown.&lt;/b&gt; In water you may be able to figure out how to doggy paddle on your own, but generally someone teaches you how to swim. In business you may figure out some things on your own, but you'll reach the other side of the pool a lot faster if an instructor teaches you the best techniques. Their is always at least two paths if not more: the right way, the wrong way, and the off beaten path innovative way. You wont know what the right, wrong or improved way could be unless you learn what the first two are. Generally rules for business are in place for a reason, someone else got burned and implemented those rules to protect you or the business. Like don't run around the pool deck or don't talk bad about your boss on Twitter. Both seem obvious to me, but to someone else they may not seem so obvious.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;19% of online adults age 18-24 have used twitter or something like it  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;20% of online adults age 25-34 have used twitter or something like it  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;10% of online adults age 35-44 “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;5% of online adults age 45-54&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;4% of online adults age 55-64&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;2% of online adults 65+&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; “ &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;35% of twitter users live in urban areas  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;9% live in rural areas  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;online american who live in lower income housing are more likely to use twitter  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;17% of internet users in households earning less than $30,000 tweet  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;10% of internet users in households earning more than $75,000 tweet  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;76% of twitter users use the internet wirelessly &lt;/li&gt;
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This is a lot of random facts, now you have them. What the hell are you going to do with them. In the scheme of things the internet is full of numbers. We love metrics. Why? What do you want with them? What will you do with them, use the numbers to target people? You can't connect with a million people at once. It's like being in a crowded room with music playing. If you want to chat you have to focus on one person, even if 20 other people are listening. Let's face it, once it gets past 4 people listening to you talk in a room you might as well get a podium or start broadcasting. Social media is about conversations and if you want to connect, it's not hard to find people looking to talk to someone just like you. You don't need graphs, charts or metrics to know that. The metrics just help you understand what conversations you are getting right or which people your most interested in. Analytics are also good for telling you how you are messing up your SEO or website content, but it's not going to tell you how many friends you have. If you want to read more about &lt;a href="http://interactivemedias.blogspot.com/2010/03/social-media-metrics-plus-right-way-to.html"&gt;how to use social media metrics&lt;/a&gt;, read this article: &lt;a href="http://interactivemedias.blogspot.com/2010/03/social-media-metrics-plus-right-way-to.html"&gt;Social Media Metrics. Plus the right way to use social media vs. the wrong way to do social media. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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When you ticked my terms of service box, I thought you told me you  loved me.  How could you not?!?  Look at all the &lt;a href="http://hollrr.com/products/hollrr?utm_source=NewUser3&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=NewUser3" target="_blank"&gt;great things&lt;/a&gt; other people are saying about me.  Am I  just another notch on your belt like the &lt;a href="http://foursquare.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Foursquare&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://vark.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Aardvark&lt;/a&gt; floozies you play  around with?&lt;br /&gt;
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We. Can. Do it. Yes We Can. Positive messaging throughout the ages has lead the way for companies, the military and people to move forward for causes. The banner in the picture above was used in World War II as a cultural icon to represent working women, her name is &lt;b&gt;Rosie the Riveter. &lt;/b&gt;Rosie is meant to encourage women to leave there kitchen and take up the work that their husbands, fathers and boyfriends left behind.&lt;br /&gt;
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Are you plastic, old fashioned or &lt;span class="kn"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id=":2zy"&gt;chauvinist&lt;/span&gt;? Well, minus the plastic I'd guess you'd be nothing like barbie, unless you are the Mad Men Barbies. She's been fat, skinny, skinner and held over 80 jobs in her 50+ year toy industry rein. Versatility matters in any industry just as much as innovation and imagination. What's next for your industry and are you any where near the forefront or just trying to catch up all the time?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/67206/r-i-p-social-media-it-was-nice-dream-while-it-lasted/"&gt;R.I.P. Social Media, it was a nice dream while it lasted.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;Read that post first for this one to make sense.&lt;br /&gt;
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In all sense of the traditional media term for broadcasting it is entirely not the same. In no way can I yell at my television for hating a commercial and have the person who made it apologize, defend it or want to become my friend. If I find a newspaper ad spammy, it would take a lot of effort on my part to call that person out. We DO have people who care about this space and while no one is policing it, I would say it has a fairly self-monitoring system where people will call you out if you set back the community. &lt;br /&gt;
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I care about this space and think it has a lot of potential both as a way to stay connected with friends across the world and with brands that I personally am interested in. I get better customer service on Twitter than on the telephone with most companies. I've talked to my favorite authors and some celebrities thanks to sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz. The majority of my friends and client contacts from the past 4 years are thanks to social networks and my blog. Social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Buzz, YouTube and others. You are right, social media is not a coffee shop setting. You have to make your own coffee and you will only get out of this space what you put into it, but the rewards are great if you are willing to wade throught the muck and find the true treasures.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;If you find the right business strategist, you can brainstorm some pretty amazing ideas too. Ideas that can change the space, improve the community and open up a company to a whole new world where your clients are helping you innovate, all the while helping them in return. It's like any relationship, give and take. Think of how many people are successful in helping other people in these spaces, do you think they cam in with all the answers? Hell no. They are probably still learning new things, and being put in their place as we speak. Yes, "social media" has been around for about 5 years as it stands today, but that just means that we are all still learning and revising our tactics on how to understand each other and what is considered proper etiquette. Now all the people who are marketers and taking advantage of the space, yes they give it a bad name but hopefully you can nicely take them aside in a DM fashion and give them a pointer or two. If you don't like the way things are going, help us change it.&lt;br /&gt;
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In social media if you are not warm and helpful, someday you are going to need someone to help you back and who is going to be there for you? Why do you help a friend paint a house or move? Not because you love house painting, but either because you love hanging out with your friend, your just a nice helpful person, and because someday you are going to need them to be there for you in one way or another. Twitter is not just a social network, but a big phone book of potential friends and colleagues. If you are on social networks to use people, than those are exactly the kind of friendships you are going to grow. Think about it.&lt;br /&gt;
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Desaraev • Agency Couture</title><content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasaweb.google.com/desaraev/InteractiveMediasBlog?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ3ekZzq_5DHigE#5450935486216571218'&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bDA0TvdvLfc/S6Wc8cWCiVI/AAAAAAAACUU/5zP19WVswHk/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm always working on being the best ME. Let's face it the best me, that I know how to be, is not perfect an not always good enough. Trying to be perfect is exhausting. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasaweb.google.com/desaraev/InteractiveMediasBlog?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ3ekZzq_5DHigE#5450935499168904930'&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bDA0TvdvLfc/S6Wc9MmHduI/AAAAAAAACUY/kSRfU68sU_M/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='280' height='281' style='margin:5px'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trying to be perfect is not my style neccessarily but aiming to be a better person, a better business woman, a better daughter, cook, runner, designer... Etc.. Well that IS me. Reach for the stars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I hear about a new technology or something I want to learn about, I aim to understand it. If I want to learn generally I read books, blogs or go to a class. In the case of being a better person and boss let's say that I'm doing the ladder between books and school. In this case living life and just showing up is my classroom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasaweb.google.com/desaraev/InteractiveMediasBlog?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ3ekZzq_5DHigE#5450935509599093490'&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bDA0TvdvLfc/S6Wc9zc3gvI/AAAAAAAACUc/GvD4irdrSYM/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not sure when I'll graduate but until then let me preach to the choir and just say, life is too short not to enjoy what you do on a daily basis from work, to marriage to God only knows what else is on your plate. Some day I'll join my friends in the wonderful world of marrieds (some blissful others less so), but for now I am content and happy. I recommend you be content with your situation as well, never forget the grass is always greener.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As women, we haven't always had the best role models at work. We've either worked for men or we've had female bosses who are, well, big bitches." The girl's guide to starting your own business and the girls guide to being a boss, are two books that will "teach you to be powerful without being    possessive, to be opinionated without being brassy, and to have a strong voice without micromanaging." I'm not saying women do these more then men or that all women have these problems, in fact, everything in quotes is from the back of the book and I think most men could stand to take some of these book's advice. Management isn't any easier then being perfect, it's nearly impossible somedays. Learning to be diplomatic and aiming to be the best person you can be, well that's a great goal that I hope everyone wants to work towards. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know IM not perfect, and not every one of my opinions or posts are spot on, but I'd love to hear what you think.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always you are more then welcome to use any of my content, repost it, rewrite it, and broadcast it all I ask is that you link back to where you found it (http://interactivemedias.blogspot.com)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would also love to hear YOUR comments, questions or concerns of my posts and reviews! What do you think, its ok if our opinions don't match up! 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I'm testing out giving up cable and internet at home as an excuse to get  out more. I realized I have a minor addiction to cable/internet and  want to live a fuller life then sitting in front of the boob tube. To  remove the temptation I'm testing out shutting it off. The first few  days sucked, but I think it is exactly the change I was looking for in  my life. I've left home every day since making the decision. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” -- Albert Einstein&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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You can start by reading, pursuing professional organizations, blogging, teaching others, and surrounding yourself with other smart individuals. Reading and going to events seem like obvious places where learning can occur, but why would I add teaching others?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;If you want to learn a subject, do some research and then teach someone else what you learned. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
You really have to know your stuff and do some research to be able to teach a subject. I bet you write out what you want to tell them, edit it a few times, and then practice teaching them. By the time you are done putting together your mini-lesson syllabus you probably have a pretty good hold on the subject. Teachers do this all the time to their students, when they ask you to do a report and an in class presentation. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Test your failures, move forward, record and start another test. Never stop learning.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I probably read three books a month, along with hundreds of blog posts, and attend dozens of events. I try to record my insights and thoughts on those books and events on this blog, that way I can expand from my research and get even more feedback from you. After I read, I put my hypothesis from what I learned into action: hypothesis then test, record and study the results. Results are never the ending to a science project, analytics or a test they are only the beginning. With any variable you can either expand on that test or test another related variable. Say I have a website and I want to test the design to see how many visitors will fill out my contact form based off site colors or the size of the submit button. In this situation I'm trying to optimize a site using multi-variable testing, but we can do A/B testing as well. Their are tons of tools you can use to do this, one of those tools is Google optimizer. &lt;br /&gt;
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--Carol Bartz, Yahoo! CEO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Learn to walk, then run. Learn to follow, then lead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Are you a leader in your company, your household, a professional affiliation, the military or a team sport? Do you know how the military teaches individuals to be great team leaders? They start by teaching you to understand what it means to be a team, how to think outside of the box, and then instead of telling them how to be a leader they give them the opportunity to step forward. Setting up the simplest leadership exercise will immediately allow someone to step forward in situations they excel at, the task doesn't have to be extremely hard, just cooperative.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In junior high, high school and college my parents pushed me to excel and to join things that would teach me leadership and how to humble myself. You can teach someone what color is, you show them. This started with 4H, lead to sports, girl scouts, FFA, pageants, volunteering opportunities, conferences and IAYI. Those programs are places built by people and in any situtaion with people you get out of a program what you put into it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Material Needed:&lt;/b&gt; Bandanas or cloth strips, other items as needed&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Time Required: &lt;/b&gt;15-30 minutes, depending on the goal and number of group members&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Group Size:&lt;/b&gt; 2-15&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Purpose: Work as team to complete a common goal&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Arrange participants into a circle, facing each other. Ask them to hold out their arms.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tie the group together so that each person is tied to both neighbor's wrists. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Now that the group is "all tied up", give them a task to do together.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;b&gt;Some ideas are:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Make root beer floats for everyone&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wrap packages with gift wrap, bows, and a card&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Eat lunch&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Make a snack&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Create an art project&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pour a cup of water for each person in the group&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anything else that is fun and crazy&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Why were you successful (or unsuccessful) at completing the task?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How did the time restrictions aid or hinder your group from completing the task?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Did everyone in the group help to get the task done?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What happened when someone didn't help?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do you ever feel like you are "tied up" with someone else when you are working with them and trying to get a job done? If so, why, and how do you deal with this feeling? &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; I'm not perfect and didn't get strait A's, I was closer to B's most of my academic career but loved to learn and be hands on. Throughout my education I was horrible at tests, I would nearly freeze up when put on the spot, even though I could give you a 2 hour speech on just about any of those topics even in front of a class. The key, is to know what your handicap is.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;My handicap is that I get nervous, so not only would I study harder but I would let my teachers know how nervous I got. Get to know the people in charge of you and trust me they will be a lot kinder when you get closer to your pitfalls. My sorority would have a teacher appreciation dinner about three weeks into every semester and I would make a point to invite a teacher that I loved their class or one that I knew I would struggle in. I knew I would need to get to know these people. On day one, I would always go up and introduce myself at the end of class. You may call this a suck up or you can call it dedicated either way I got through 20+ credits a semester plus sports and other extracurricular activities for seven years. I'm still good friends with a couple of my teachers and respect them as mentors and leaders. Plus getting to know them also made them more apt to want me as their teacher's assistant later on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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