Thursday Thirteen: International Teleconferencing

1. Do you say good morning when it's morning at their end, or at yours?

2. Whoever's first to say good morning/afternoon/evening wins and sets the default time zone.

3. It's hard to drive the meeting and take notes at the same time.

4. I'm real glad I'm not a project manager and have to drive the meeting an/or take the notes of record.

5. I can listen with one ear, and with the rest of my body occasionally check the agenda and speak up now and then and generally do whatever I want.

6. Wireless Bluetooth headsets are nifty cause I can walk all the way over to the men's room and back and not lose the signal.

7. Wireless Bluetooth headsets suck when the batteries are weak.

8. When the people on the other end don't speak English very well, I think maybe this would go better in Instant Messenger.

9. When the people on the other end don't speak English very well, I hope someone is taking good notes.

10. I try to but my mind wanders.

11. You can't be shy about asking if such and such has been covered already.

12. When the people on the other end don't speak English very well, you can be excused for not being sure if such and such has been covered already.

13. It's vitally important that the project manager is someone you can go to afterwards and say, what the hell did we just talk about anyway?