It was fitting that my meeting with Monika Maeckle ended up being a phone call while I was driving across Texas. Maeckle heads BusinessWire’s national social media strategy as their VP of New Media in an office across the street from the Alamo. Like Happonen Communications these past couple of weeks, she’s a virtual [...]
How many people can say their office is literally in Paradise? Paradise Valley, to be precise. Sunday night we set up camp 10 miles south of Livingston and I hammered away at the picnic table/office desk on my laptop writing “to do lists” for the week.
Yes. I’m one of those people. “List” people. There [...]
It’s Saturday night…two out of four of us are asleep. And I’m realizing that this is the window of quiet I need to actually get some work done.
There’s a lot of talk about the “Mobile Office” these days. We certainly have the gear necessary. But to paraphrase from ad legend Bill Bernbach, “[Technology] can turn [...]
Experience can be a cruel teacher. In our case, we are learning hourly just how to manage all the items one needs to go on a cross-country road trip with a full array of mobile office supplies; camping gear; two kids and their paraphernalia; clothes; food; guitar; fishing gear; and other “necessary” stuff.
Somehow after clearing [...]
