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Last week I had the honor of being invited to Rotary, now I am sure many of you might be part of Rotary or maybe you’re familiar with it because your dad is a member. This was my first Rotary experience so I didn’t really know what to expect. All I knew was that there was a speaker coming to talk about the Health Plan Reform and free food. To my surprise, as I walked into the conference room, I was definitely one of the youngest people attending and probably 1 of 4 females in the crowd. After we had some lunch and chit chatted with the people joining us at our table, the President announced the speaker. As the speaker launched into the Health Care Reform, I took a look around the room and noticed that not one person was twittering, facebooking, emailing or texting. I didn’t even see anyone with their phone on the table ready to react when they see that little flash of red light. It was killing me to not even glance at my phone to see if I had missed a call or email but it occurred to me that if this same room was filled with Gen Yers, everyone would be on the phone doing some sort of social media! My point to this situation is, know your audience. Rotary is an organization whose members are very successful business people in the baby boomer generation and it would have been completely disrespectful to them and my client if I had whipped out my phone and started to twitter about the event. So the next time you are at an event, take a look around you and make sure that your environment is accepting of you paying more attention to your phone than to what is going on around you.

Happy texting, twittering, facebooking and emailing at your next event!!

xoxo