Category: Work

WebEx Delegation

I learned that there are two kinds of delegation in WebEx, and they work independently.

You can delegate someone to SCHEDULE your meetings.  It’s a setting on your own profile and applies to all your meetings from then on.   Then when they scheduling from the WebEx interface, they will be prompted to ask if they are doing it for themselves or for you.  This is perfect for any assistant.

You can also schedule someone to START and RUN your meetings.  You do this when you schedule the meeting, and it’s specific to that meeting.  Then, when they log into their WebEx account, they will have the option to Start, rather than Join, that meeting.

The best part about learning this is that I went to figure this out after hearing that someone else had “delegated” a WebEx meeting and I later learned that I had misunderstood and she didn’t know about this feature either!

Get a Good Deal the First Time (be sure to get a smile)

Sally taught me that when you sign a contract for a TV show you need to read the fine print and get in on the residuals!  Mary Ann did it, but the other castaways got nothing.

This is from IMDb trivia http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/trivia

“It has long been stated that the entire cast of Gilligan’s Island never received residuals beyond the first four reruns of each episode. This was true for the entire cast except Dawn Wells. When the show was picked up by CBS and Dawn was cast to replace Nancy McCarthy, she was married to her agent at the time. In her original contract she was to be paid $1200 per week plus the residual contract the 6 other castaways received. Her husband/agent said that should the show become successful Dawn would not benefit from receiving such a limited residual option. Believing the show would flop, the CBS executives humored Dawn and her husband and put a clause in her contract giving her long-term residuals should the show ever syndicate. As a result from that clause Dawn has made literally millions of dollars as the years have gone by from syndication of Gilligan’s Island. This was never public knowledge. Dawn and series creator Sherwood Schwartz are the only individuals to profit long-term from the series.”

Confirm!

Today I learned, again, to confirm meetings before rushing to them.  Not everyone uses the calendar tools to cancel a meeting, although they would if I ran the world (but then if I ran the world we’d have other problems, so it’s just as well)

So with that constraint (the me not running the world thing), the next best thing is to check ahead and confirm the meeting, well in advance.

Automagic

This is new term that I learned today – heard in a meeting in context that made perfect sense as in: you click here and then a miracle occurs.

Wiktionary (another new thing for me) says it is the “Blend of automatic and magic; from the principle (often called Clarke’s third law) that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Know Where You’re Going

I am learning how important it is to know where I’m going.

It could be driving in Boston (see ALL those entries about using a GPS in Boston), for which it’s important to know where I’m going in two ways: know that the GPS picked the right destination, and then know the general idea about the destination (for when the signal is lost in the tunnel AND the cowpath thing freaks out the GPS).

Or it could be knowing where I need to be, as in my dream last night where I was frantically trying to get to a drumming thing but instead climbing ladders in the wrong direction.  Bummer.

Or it could be my career.

They all have this in common: Know where you’re going.

Air Hunger

I learned a new term, dyspnea, which means shortness of breath.  Even the spell-checker here doesn’t know it!

I am fortunate and grateful to be managing a project that is intended to improve the quality of life for lung cancer patients, and this is a symptom to manage.

You can learn more about it here: http://www.clinicaltrialssearch.org/lung-cancer-symptom-assessment-and-management-intervention-nct00852462.html