Lunch with Cindy Li

I had the recent privilege of meeting and lunching with Cindy Li, graphic/web designer. Cindy Li loves lunch, well, food, and she probably won’t mind me saying so. She is a self professed food lover. But beyond all the wine and dine, she spends many of her days traveling the countryside, telling as many as she can, the effective ways in which social networking can benefit people in the design profession and any other profession for that matter. She explained the ways in which social network systems like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and many others are providing opportunities to tune into people, that typically, you would not be connected with. The system opens up the possibilities to do business out of country and keep in close touch with individuals. I can see where this is a huge tool to collaborate with people who share your visions and passions.

She also made us aware of some of the risks involved with having these networks. Sort of reiterating what she spoke about in the a.m. It is important to be aware of the individuals who begin to have access to information about you, and how you want that to be controlled. She gave us sound advice on how to set account restrictions and how to lock certain information or photographs so that they are not exposed to just everyone.

We ate lunch at Easy Bistro & Bar, thank you to Medium, formally known as Coptix. It was a great lunch and lucky for me, I sat across from Cindy Li who had great advice about planning financially for retirement while we are young and just starting. Saving when you get started is the way to go. Luckily I already had good advisers helping me get retirement started, but it was good to be reinforced.

The lunch was yummy and the company was a insightful.