Now that apparently everyone has either a text-enabled cell phone, BlackBerry or Treo, meeting room tables are always abuzz with the sound of, well, buzzing. Numerous people put their phone/device on the table, on vibrate, and they buzz, buzz, buzz. Sometimes people pick it up from the table to see what call/message is causing the buzz (only to put it down and it starts buzzing again later); other times the device/phone just buzzes away and it’s ignored as if there’s no sound whatsoever happening. But there is sound.
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Ugh. Scheduling conference calls with board or committee members is a real pain, even if they’re all in the same time zone. I usually spend 10 minutes or more during my Cool Tools presentation (I’m available to present it to your association, by the way) describing some of the web’s best online calendaring services. Here’s a new service I’ll be adding to my slide deck. It’s called ScheduleOnce.com. Not only does it help you find the ideal date and time for your meeting or conference call, it also takes into account your participants’ time zones and daylight savings time status. Watch this YouTube video to see how it works.
And benefiting from the arrangement.
Today I was talking while driving to my next speaking engagement - and missed the turn off for my normal place to break.
Not wanting to waste time, I drove on.
About 20 miles down the road I (finally) came across a cohabitating Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
Here are a couple of good Web sites for planners, courtesy of Jim Spellos of Meeting-U’s Techniques e-newsletter:
The first one is just for those looking for a new job: Indeed, which Spellos calls “a search engine for jobs” where you can browse what sounds like a big assortment of Web-based job listings. And you can […]
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The Washington Post wrote on Sunday that most banks hide the total list of all fees that they charge customers. All fees are not listed on most sites and agents were unable to get a full list of fees when they requested one in person at a branch.
Since the advent of ATM fees, many, many […]
PowerPoint karaoke–where people pick up random presentations from the Web and wing ‘em in front of an audience–is no longer just for geeks, according to this article in the Boston Globe. Here’s how it works, from the article:
In a typical event, a few brave people volunteer to “present” a random deck of slides pulled off […]
Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, is predicting that free is the future of business and this month’s issue summarizes his thesis. Read the article linked here, listen to the podcast–well, for free. Well reasoned, amply illustrated with examples of…
Now that apparently everyone has either a text-enabled cell phone, BlackBerry or Treo, meeting room tables are always abuzz with the sound of, well, buzzing. Numerous people put their phone/device on the table, on vibrate, and they buzz, buzz, buzz. Sometimes people pick it up from the table to see what call/message is causing the buzz (only to put it down and it starts buzzing again later); other times the device/phone just buzzes away and it’s ignored as if there’s no sound whatsoever happening. But there is sound.