Olive Juice

Don’t pretend you’re omitted from this happenstance. You’re writing an email including a recent design comp, or partnership agreement, or screenshot, or family photo, what have you. You’re detailing the contents of said-attachment, excited and anxious to finish the mailer and get to your next to-do of the day. You remind yourself, mid-writing, “Don’t forget to attach it before clicking send”, and your mind responds “C’mon, I won’t, give me more credit than that”. Finally you finish the last sentence, type “Regards, Best, Your Schnookems, Sincerely” and your name. And send.

Ah! Forgot the attachment. Forehead slap (repeat thrice). You thence compose a new one-liner email stating “Sorry, forgot to attach.” and send your file, as the previously excited productive feeling turns to shame and remorse.

Alas, GMail saved me from such a fiasco this afternoon, as it will many more in the future, with it’s new feature so appropriately called “Forgotten Attachment Detector”.

Dear GMail Engineers and Inventors - Thank you kindly for this feature.

Regards, Yours Forever Truly, Sara

Friday afternoon I decided to check out CoLab, downtown Orlando’s co-working space since 2008. With memberships starting at $49/month, the space offers working stations for individuals and suites for larger groups. They also host various events each month, including screenwriters meetups, Refresh Orlando and “learning lunches” every other Friday.  There’s also the OmLab right upstairs, a studio for yoga/massage/acupuncture.

Last Friday the free learning lunch was sponsored by Doterati, and featured a presentation with Director of Interactive Strategy Murray Izenwasser from Biztegra, Inc. Murray discussed doing “social media right”, particularly focusing on the masses of Facebook fans (e.g. 104k active fans of the color Purple), Tweeting can work for any industry and taking advantage of the SEO opportunities via YouTube videos.

If you’re in the Orlando area, check out CoLab as well as Doterati to get in the event loop & connect with like-minded members (e.g. TweetUp this Tuesday, BarCamp April 3)

Do you have a killer product concept and are ready to finally make it a reality? 2010 might be your year to build it out, launch a company, and change the world.

Betaspring – a mentorship-driven startup accelerator for technology and design entrepreneurs – is opening up applications for it’s 2010 summer program. They bring the best entrepreneurial teams from around the world to Providence, RI, for an intensive twelve week program.

As Co-Founder of Olive Interactive, LLC. (DandyID andClaim.io), headquartered in Providence – and a Rhode Island native – I can personally attest for our vibrant community of technologists, artists, business leaders and innovators…

(Click here for the full article on Girls In Tech)