A friend of mine just raved about Railroad a couple of weeks ago. I’ve had 2 or 3 songs on the iPod for a while, so I bought some more based on the 7 minute rant on the goodness which is Railroad Earth. So I’m currently on a recursive music loop, similar to the I got stuck in last year with Son Volt, another band who I went out and bought a bunch, including uncle tupelo to extend the “listen-ability”. This starts a little slow, but it’s the best quality I could find to introduce you to Railroad Earth, should you not know of them.
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Don’t get me wrong – the security lines, delayed flights and airports lines are fun and all, but work continues to accrue when in transit and it is effectively a continuous reality. I don’t have a list of tips per se only areas for consideration:
- Work doesn’t Stop – This is a common pitfall, some folks think that being on the road alleviates, or at least postpones the daily administivia – wrong! Your customers still need service. Carve out time to email, return calls and touch base with key workplace constituents.
- You Can Take a Meeting – This is the most interesting one to me. I find than many folks don’t take meetings on the road. Why not? 8 out 10 conference tracks are useless, 30 minutes out of an all day meeting can be refreshing and being on mute most of the time is ok. So why is it you decline most requests? Diversify and balance your day when possible.
- Be the Timezones – If you are typically an East Coast worker and you go west you have at least 2 hours of free time in the morning to stay on top of things. If you go from the west coast to the east coast you can wrap up yesterday’s west coast work by 10AM ET. The challenging ones are the 5+ hour time changes, it almost seems that the work never ends – so pick a time to end and manage to it.
have you ever just wanted a snapshot at what’s going on in your twitter-verse? Not my, phrase – the marketing team at Gridjit, not just known for centering on such a simple name, but also for thier key differentiation message:
Gridjit Features:
- Visualize your conversations in a clean layout
- Drill through other people’s view on the Twitter-verse by clicking on their profile names and the people they “@” tag
- Regular updates with more goodies to come!
I use it only for the quick view. ThinCloud has a great iPhone web application for Twitter, much nicer posting.
HINT TO BLOGGERS
Nothing good can ever come from a cron job during a maintenance window. Complex autoposting anyone? Not a good idea.
