Most of my online posting is now either at www.gadgetell.com (@gadgetgell) or on my personal Twitter via @AdamB, though I’ll try to check in here and there.

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>

It all comes down to the learning experience, being part of the global team, located in Europe. There is a very different style of working. Sometimes better than in the US, sometimes worse, and sometimes it is just different. While I can be frustrated and disagree with how they work, I’ll take it as a learning experience for me, as I move forward in my career and manage other people.

So they send me to Hamburg for six months, only to wind up back in NY/CT for a week.

Yup I’m a jet setter, in and out of London in a day. No big deal…

It’s time to start adding some hard content to my blogging. A few people have been asking about office life. Who do you sit with? What do you eat? Where is the office located?You asked, I answer.

I will be sure to talk more about office life in another post, this is just a starter.

**Random thought** I am not sure why the flights leave so late in the evening. By departing at 6pm on the east coast you don’t end up finishing dinner until 1am Europe time. If flights departed an hour or two earlier you would begin to adjust to the time zone even quicker. But I digress…

After collecting my bags I was promptly picked-up and driven to my “flat”. The driver asked if I would like to listen to some music, me never turning down music said “sure.” What do I find myself listening to? The Red Hot Chilli Peppers – now that is globalization for you.

Check out the video and pictures below to check out my flat. More to come soon, though these updates may all get posted at the same time since I don’t have internet yet.

Check out pictures of my flat here. 

I am leaving today for Hamburg for 6 months. Why Hamburg? I have opted to take a secondment with Unilever, to work on the Axe Shower Gel global brand development team. I plan to write, at least on a weekly basis, about my experience, travels, work, and more. To kick things off check out some photos from the SIDE hotel in Hamburg from trip #1.

I am currently in LA getting ready to launch my first marketing campaign for Unilever/Axe, “The World’s Dirtiest Film”. I will do a whole bunch of self promotion here and other places, but for now here are a few one-liners to wet your pallet.

• Dirty is life, live a little
• The cleaner you are, the dirtier you can get / The dirtier you are, the cleaner you can get
• So dirty you’ll beg for a shower

More to come including a TV spot, appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, a college tour, PR, Facebook, and our celebrity David Spade.

Check it out…