{"id":895,"date":"2007-09-09T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/unconditionally-contactable-no-thanks.htm"},"modified":"2007-09-09T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T13:46:32","slug":"unconditionally-contactable-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/unconditionally-contactable-no-thanks.htm","title":{"rendered":"Unconditionally contactable &#8211; no thanks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This last week has been manic &#8211; hence the lack of blog posts&#8230; taking a day&#8217;s annual leave on Monday and then spending half of it catching up on my administration didn&#8217;t bode well, then there were two nights when I was up until 1am trying to write an infrastructure design document and the usual mix of travel, conflicting meeting requirements and trying to get some &#8220;real work&#8221; done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Mark&#8221;, I hear you ask,&#8221;surely you use some of the technologies that I see you write about to improve productivity?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that I do &#8211; I&#8217;m using Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007, the Office Communicator client 2007 and Live Meeting 2007 a fair bit &#8211; as well as our corporate conferencing service.  Soon I&#8217;ll be linking all of that in to my voice mail to make use of Exchange Server 2007&#8217;s unified messaging capabilities.  It&#8217;s a really good solution (especially when Communicator reads my calendar or Live Meeting status and sets my presence accordingly). But the technology is no panacea: sometimes something doesn&#8217;t work &#8211; I spent quite a bit of time this week waiting on a Live Meeting call as Microsoft struggled to get the audio working (they later postponed that particular meeting as even they couldn&#8217;t fix it); and other times there is no substitute for getting together in a room &#8211; like my main meeting on Friday which necessitated 4 hours travel (which could have been better spent doing something else) but resulted in the production of a migration strategy for a key customer&#8217;s messaging infrastructure &#8211; something which we had failed to do several times over the phone (and which I doubt even advances in video conferencing would have helped with).<\/p>\n<p>As someone who struggles at times with information overload, and who was described by a friend and ex-colleague as &#8220;[sometimes] exhibiting workaholic tendencies&#8221;, I need to help myself to become more productive.  As I already have a pile of books by the bedside, it&#8217;s probably time for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/\">audiobook<\/a> or two on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/\">Getting Things Done<\/a> (or at least to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/\">43 Folders<\/a> from time to time).<\/p>\n<p>As for unified communications (UC), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itweek.co.uk\/itweek\/comment\/2197878\/getting-harder-away-3428987\">Dave Bailey wrote an interesting comment for IT Week on the difficulties of getting away from it all<\/a> &#8211; it was only a few days previously that, as I was busily IMing one contact,  another team member started e-mailing me on the same subject and I had Outlook &#8220;toast&#8221; popping up as fast as I could type.  Then I spent half of Friday afternoon this week reducing the size of my mailbox so that I could get below the system limits and send mail again (there is one simple answer &#8211; the delete key&#8230; but that&#8217;s not exactly productive either). As my colleague pointed out, it seems that UC really stands for &#8220;unconditionally contactable&#8221;.  No thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last week has been manic &#8211; hence the lack of blog posts&#8230; taking a day&#8217;s annual leave on Monday and then spending half of it catching up on my administration didn&#8217;t bode well, then there were two nights when I was up until 1am trying to write an infrastructure design document and the usual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/unconditionally-contactable-no-thanks.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unconditionally contactable &#8211; no thanks.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,37,46,108,80,78],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-e-mail","tag-im","tag-exchange","tag-outlook","tag-lync","tag-telephony"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unconditionally contactable - no thanks. - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/unconditionally-contactable-no-thanks.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unconditionally contactable - no thanks. - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This last week has been manic &#8211; 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