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Memorial Day is a time for…
- Wearing Poppies
- Flying Flags
- War Memorials
- Backyard Barbecues
- Start of Summer Vacation Season
- Spending Time with Family & Friends
- Doing work while intoxicated on pie or other libations
WHAT?! Doing work?
That’s what I said. Come on, now. You aren’t going to tell me that you will actually put away that BlackBerry, iPhone, or other mail-enabled mobile device that tethers you to the land of cubes and customers.
I can hear you now: “But what if someone needs me?” Now come on, are you really that important, or does the term “CrackBerry” apply to your lifestyle, too? They’re not called CrackBerries for nothing; they may even give you a Gollum kind of feel. (Yes, my precious, yes. What has it got in its Inbox and TwitterBerry?) If they were so easy to put down, we would — AND we would turn them off.
However, work worries can be stickier than a candy apple at the state fair, so this week we are offering up tips on how to make your time off more relaxing by keeping some work worries from creeping into your weekend plans.
This week’s tasty morsels can found in our blog entry for this podcast at www.productiveUpodcast.com, and include:
For Outlook:
- Turning the Out of Office Assistant On / Off
- Getting things done while you you’re gone (you, too, can be a friendly task master)
For BlackBerry:
- How to use the BlackBerry to set the Out Of Office Assistant
- Do not disturb, unless… How to limit interruptions on your BlackBerry using Notification Profiles
- Staying somewhere for the weekend? Why not use your BlackBerry as an alarm clock?
Enjoy your holiday weekend, and remember…
One phone to rule them all
One phone to tweet them
One phone to bring them all, and at the barbeque meet them
Don’t forget: you can follow us on Twitter at ProductiveUCast.
Music courtesy of Clayton & Fulcrum
