Dear Twitter, how I love you. Okay, you all know that I love social media, and I fully support people using it, blah, blah, blah.

But it's not just some new tool that I'm excited about using and have jumped on the bandwagon for. It can be incredibly useful professionally. That was particularly clear to me this week.

I started in my current position six and a half years ago, and went to my first LMA conference in 2005. I was a shy young thing because I knew NOBODY and I hadn't even participated in any of the local chapter's events. I was terrified I'd end up just wandering to and from conference sessions like a ghost and not meeting anyone.

Of course, that didn't happen. I met some lovely ladies, had dinner and lunch with them a couple of times, and enjoyed their company. But other than a few sporadic emails after that which eventually died off, that was it.