ourcreativedifferences:

When the account team email through a list of strategy suggestions

Copywriter

Art Director

This makes me sad. This is pretty old agency thinking, in my humble opinion, that Account people should have no involvement in the account other than setting up meetings and billing.

Where I work, our good account people are the ones who work WITH the team, and contribute to solving the solution. That have insight into what needs to be solved. That are a partner on the account, not just some asshole who forwards emails. 

Its the elitism that suggests that only two magical roles in the company have good ideas, and everyone else is shit. Developers can never bring a solution to the table. Account people can never have a good idea. Or heck, that creative people can’t be a part of building a good long-term relationship with clients. Everyone has their own tiny job, and it is illegal for you to work as a cohesive team, all collaborating to do the best possible work. 

Or… maybe the issue is that the account person just emailed their ideas instead of sharing them face to face with the rest of the team? Yeah, I’m sure that’s it. Carry on. :) 

(via adteachings)

• unexpected / faster hair growth
• fast nail growth
• excessive salivation / drooling
• heightened sense of smell
• change in body size and shape (well, duh)
• inexplicably feel poorly rested 
• higher body temperature 
• bad temper
• change in appetite and new cravings 
• impacted by the moon 
• you can only get pregnant or become a werewolf after puberty
  

Coincidence? I think not. 

I’ve had a handful of days where I’m in meetings for the bulk of the day - the kind of day where you don’t even get to have a break for lunch or to pee. 

I’ve started setting up an out-of-office notification for these days to manage response-time expectations for email. Nothing too heavy, just a “Monday - in meetings all day” notice and that’ll need to wait until tomorrow for me to reply.

WHY? WHO CARES?

Partially it’s me being passive-aggressive I’m sure. “Oh I’m too busy and I hate you all for booking me in meetings all day”.

In all seriousness though, I am trying really hard to be IN the meetings I’m in. I’m very guilty of doing other work (mostly answering emails) instead of really listening and being committed to the thing at hand. So in theory, by announcing that I’m going to focus (e.g. not answer emails), I should really be present and be able to give input and feedback and thought into the things that I am booked to do, today.

I also want to manage client expectations. That should help manage expectations of immediate turn-around on unplanned requests from clients. 

But mostly, its to deal with internal communications and expectations. The last time I did it, I seemed to get way less emails and requests from my co-workers.

We’ll see how it goes. 

Odd… just on my iPhone, I can no longer log into tumblr. I was suddenly logged out after upgrading to iOS8.0.2, and my UN/P no longer works. 

I was not logged out on my iPad (I didn’t do the latest update) or computer, and no issues using the app there. I even did a password change, and it works fine on my computer but still can’t log in with new password on the phone.

Is it just me? Do I have fatter than expected fingers?