I hate voice mail.
You have to call in to retrieve it, if it’s for your cell phone getting your voicemail is burning minutes.
A lot of the messages aren’t worth returning, and some people leave their whole life history in each voice mail.
I don’t do voice mail any more.
Shop ‘till you drop—the motto of most wives.
Before you buy that latest tech toy, check out some of the deal websites.
If you are going to buy right now, try these:
It has been a crazy busy time the past two weeks. I'll be catching up this week and next.
So you need to have a meeting or conference call with 10 people.
The emails start. Who is available when? Is this option or the other better for most people? If everyone is hitting reply all, then hundreds of emails could be generated.
What a pain!
There are web based alternatives (http://www.setameeting.com or http://whenisgood.net/).
Need to set up a conference call and can’t even figure out how to add a third person to a call, much less have 10 people on the same call?
Don’t want to pay monthly fees and/or 10+ cents a minute for conference calls?
There are free alternatives. One I’ve been using for several years is http://www.freeconferencecall.com.
You go to their web site and register for a free account. They send you an email with a call-in telephone number and a conference call code.
Ok your network administrator freaked and won’t let you use Aavenu.
Ask for a virtual private network (VPN) connection to your network.
A VPN connection works like a network wire using the Internet as the wire. To keep anything going through the VPN connection secure, it is encrypted on both sides before being sent through the Internet.
There’s a VPN built into Windows XP and Vista, you just have to enable it. But I figure any program like a VPN that is pre-installed on billions of computers has been hacked.
You’re traveling and you realize an important files is on your desktop.
Maybe you can get a co-worker to email it to you. Or you can suck it up and do without (SOL).
Or you could plan ahead and realize you are going to need files you may have left back at home.
The keynote today was George Wright, VP Marketing of Blendtec, the Will it Blend people.
Here is the video of them blending an iPhone:
The Will It Blend videos are probably one of the most successful application of brand awareness through viral marketing on the Internet.
Blendtec is a small Utah manufacturer of blenders, mostly commercial products, but they also have a line of home products.
I really have to say I didn't expect much from Gary Vaynerchuck of Wine Library TV (probably because I didn't know who he was or anything about Wine Library TV).
His talk started with the video of him on Conan O'Brian.
90% of what I need to know I can find with Google. More and more great information is on Wikipedia. What about business information?
CEO Express (http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp) is a portal of links to other business information websites.
Almost any resource you might think of is on that one main page. A premium version (currently $29 a year) allows you to customize your home page.
