Instructional Technology Strategies Conference: The Shy Connector's Guide to Getting Ready for Conference Awesomeness

This document provides links to learn more about an Emacs conference in 2013 and the Emacs text editor. It includes links to the conference website with information about the event and the GNU Emacs website. Additionally, it lists the blog of a speaker at the conference on Emacs customization.

The document analyzes data from time tracking over 480 days, including over 7,000 activity records. On average, a person engaged in about 15 activities per day that lasted 15-30 seconds each. Sleep accounted for 11-15% of time on average each day. Personal and discretionary activities each accounted for about 30% and 22% of time respectively. Tracking time helped the person focus and realize they had more free time than expected.

Sacha Chua presented on how she organizes, shares, and continuously improves her sketchnote work. She organizes her sketches digitally using folders in Dropbox organized by date and event. She shares her work using various platforms like Dropbox, Evernote, Twitter, and WordPress. She practices continuous improvement by doing many sketches, analyzing other people's styles, building her visual vocabulary, experimenting with tools, and using virtual assistants.

The document provides instructions for summarizing tracked data by month to see seasonal patterns and overall trends by balancing out daily variations. It recommends calculating the month field to group data and then using a pivot table in Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice to summarize the data and see totals for each month. The summary advises having fun analyzing the monthly data and provides resources for more information.

Living an awesome life requires focusing on what really matters like relationships, experiences, and personal growth rather than superficial things like money and status. It also means pursuing meaningful work that makes a positive difference and living with intention by prioritizing health, learning, and contribution over distraction and consumption.

Ryan Mulkeen of Kuiken Brothers says following manufacturers on social media allows them to build relationships and promote new products to local customers. If a manufacturer like Trex is pushing a new color nationally, Kuiken Brothers can help tell that story locally to make it relevant for their customers. Sam Cobb shares how one of his tweets about flooring led to an email conversation, phone call, and a customer purchasing flooring products from a local distributor.

This document contains a collection of sketchnotes by Sacha Chua, an author and sketchnoting expert. The notes can be freely shared and used under a Creative Commons license. The collection is a work in progress, and readers are directed to Chua's website or Twitter account for more updates and additional sketchnotes.

Sketchnotes of selected talks from the Quantified Self Conference 2012; recap at http://sachachua.com/blog/p/23723/

The document provides contact information for an individual who creates business and tech sketchnotes including a Twitter handle, email address, and LinkedIn profile. It also includes a link to view additional sketchnotes on the individual's blog categorized under the "sketchnotes" section.