Hold your breath…
Sorry I have been gone lately. This post isn’t do much more to wet your pallet. Yesterday my internet was kaput and today I am working on an upcoming Dabbledoo interview as well as a pretty big thing. I can’t talk about the big thing yet, but when it goes live I will be sure to blog about it here.
Stay tuned for more.
Ps. - I will be back in the states from Tues April 15 - Mon April 21. Then onto Barcelona from April 22 - April 25.
Gamertell get’s redesigned
Doug and I have been working hard over the past few weeks to get up the new design and a refreshed logo. I am happy to say that it is now complete.
Check out the site here: Gamertell - gaming goodness and a whole lot more
Me, a travel agent
<Begin frustration> To put it bluntly, I had a rather crappy week of work. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mind the 4 days work week (well 3.5 days for me since I went in after Linds left on Tuesday), but what I did just sucked.
As part of a workshop I am planning in Barcelona at the end on April, I spent the week booking hotels and planning the event. I wouldn’t have minded this if I had started planning from the beginning — I would have been down with it 5 weeks ago. Rather a colleague of mine had been in charge of booking everything and we can just say that he never finished it, so it fell onto my plate.
It is so inefficient for me to have to spend a week of my time planning hotels and conference space, when it literally could have been done 5 weeks ago and in much less time. I also found out that on the European teams, not only do I have to plan the bookings, I have to essentially “hand-hold” everyone to make sure they book their flights, hotels rooms, the proper number of nights, how they are getting from the airport to the hotel, etc. No one likes to travel without the proper information, but it seems ridiculous, this level of guidance. </End Frustration>
What I want to accomplish in ‘08
Doug has written a recent post with his goals (BHAG) for 2008. After reading these for a few weeks, I am compelled to do the same, though maybe not as extensive as his. I feel like 10 things in 1 year (or 9 months) is a good start. So, in no particular order:
- Study for/take the GMAT. TBD if I want to go to B-school and when, but this is the first step.
- Seriously consider buying an apartment when I get back from Germany
- Push myself beyond my comfort zone as I move to a new brand/position with Unilever upon my return from Germany. It is very easy to relate to the Axe target.
- Enjoy the summer. Get to the beach, my parent’s pool, concert, and more.
- Learn a bit about coding. The basics/difference of/between PHP, ASP, CodeIgniter, AJAX, RubyOnRails, Java Script
- Live healthier. Get back in shape, exercise more, east better.
- Though slightly contrary to the point above, party/do more. I am young, living in Hamburg/NYC, there is no reason to be so boring (besides money). This doesn’t have to be drinking, it can be cultural events, museums, opera/ballet, live music (besides headline acts), reading, seeing independent movies
- Go somewhere cool. A film festival, a web conference, ski somewhere out of the ordinary, travel to South America, get to TED or All Thing Digital (given my financial situation I expect that I can only do one of the above)
- Expand my network - make use of technology and face to face opportunities to network with people. Utilize LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, my blog, Pounce, Flickr, and more.
- …. - I am going to leave this one open-ended, if I don’t I feel like I am trapped in and can’t pick something else along the way.
Do you think I’m missing anything? Any that you would change or remove? I’m all ears.
