Everything is getting shorter and faster these days. What used to be a get-together with your friends became a phone call. Long catch-up letters changed to emails, and now a quick txt message. The buzz this year is all about Twitter, the “microblog” service. Twitter taps into that trend. It's a service letting you tell people "what you're doing now.” These short posts are called tweets, and they can be links to interesting sites you've found, conversations with other twitter users, questions you want a quick answer to, what you're having for dinner, or even haiku poetry.

Are you meeting the most important person in your career? Are you tongue tied and not sure what to do about it? With advance planning and creative thinking you can be confident you will know how to handle this situation when the opportunity presents itself.