You just attended a PBL State or National Leadership Conference and learned from top notch speakers! Networked with business professionals and amazing members from around the state and/or country! Had the time of your life with new family and friends! And saw exciting new cities or campuses! You arrive home with confidence, achievement, contentment, and some level of personal growth. 
Then, the next morning, you upload all your pictures and videos from the conference and change your status to something conference related…and then it hits you: BAM! Post-conference depression. You continue your day submerged in sadness, as you reminisce. 

“Oh, if the conference could only have been one day longer! I miss those awesome people I met! I want to cheer in unison once again.” etc… 

Yes. We, as fellow PBL members, share your pain. 

That’s because PBL is just amazing like that!

If you suffer from PCD, then join the I ♥ PBL Conferences…I Hate The Depression That Follows! facebook group!

[Via: Michelle Nakaji]

For all of you that use gmail but feel that you have way too many email accounts- watch the following video created by our own VP of Alumni Relations, Patrick Tomas! In the video he shows you how to easily change the settings in gmail to be able to forward all of your email to one single account. 

Sorry y’all I haven’thad the time for writing the blog of officer summer retreat but I will do my best to finish it soon, but in the meantime here its an article about the new technology that Google is coming up with to compete with Microsoft! (Los Angeles Times September 2, 2008)

“We like this move by Google and believe it can help to increase or at least maintain its leading search market share,” Needham & Co. analyst Mark May said in an e-mail. “As the starting point for nearly every user’s Internet experience, the browser is important online real estate. The market share gains by Firefox in a short period of time show to us that users are looking for better browser experiences.”

One feature will allow consumers to run Web-based applications independently, which means that if one program crashes it won’t take down the browser.

By improving the reliability of such online services, Chrome could mark another step in the browser’s drive to supersede the computer operating system in importance, said Matt Rosoff, analyst with Directions on Microsoft, a research firm focused on Microsoft products and strategy.

Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft holds a virtual monopoly in operating systems, but their importance in the computing landscape is diminishing as Web-based programs become the starting point for many users.

Chrome will be an open-source product, meaning anyone can modify the software code and add features.

Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch called the browser market “highly competitive” and said he remained confident that consumers would stick with Microsoft’s product.

Google executives have expressed concern over the years that Microsoft could use its dominant browser to route consumers to its own search engine, which has sputtered despite years of effort and billions of dollars in investment.

Explorer 8 enables a user to surf the Web without the sites he or she visits being tracked. Google and other Internet companies — including Microsoft — use such information to finely target the ads they display. People who use Chrome could give Google even more information about their online habits.

Launching a browser war with Microsoft is a bold move for Google because Microsoft controls nearly 75% of the market. It also could cause trouble for Firefox, a free browser that is gaining popularity but still trails far behind Explorer.

The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which manages Firefox, has benefited from engineering help and money from Google. In 2005, Google hired the lead engineer behind Firefox, who splits his time between Google and Mozilla. Just last week, the two extended their partnership, which makes Google the browser’s default search engine, through 2011.

Also potentially vulnerable are Opera and Apple Inc.’s Safari, which have captured much smaller fractions of the user population.

News about Chrome broke Monday after the website Google Blogoscoped reported receiving a comic book from Google that outlined the details of the new browser. A Google blog post later explained that it had inadvertently released the news. “We believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the Web,” the post said.

The browser, which Google says was built from scratch, has been in the works for two years. It is intended as a “modern platform for Web pages and applications” that can run faster and be more responsive, the post said.

Even coming from a universally known brand such as Google, the browser might not catch on. Google may encounter resistance from consumers, who typically switch browsers out of frustration, not for new features, Enderle said.

Rosoff said Google will attract its share of “curiosity seekers” and can rely on distribution deals to increase its market share.

“I think this could be a real contender,” he said.