Conference call audio recording is a good thing
Monday Apr 03, 2006
The other day, I received an email that included the audio recording of a conference call that I wasn't able to attend. (If I spend every working hour in meetings, how am I supposed to get any actual work done?!) At that time, I was in email delete mode. My was mouse hovering over my mail delete button and my finger was cocked and ready to click. Although I did want to listen to the conference call (it was an update on a project I will soon be working on), I am a realist and realized that I likely wouldn't find free time before they hold the same meeting again. Then I felt guilt. I thought, well, the recording is in MP3 format and I guess I could download it to my MP3 player and listen at the gym.... but then I'd miss the relaxing part of my day when I don't have to actually speak or talk about work. (Plus, I'm selfish and normally use the FM tuner on my MP3 player to listen to one of my favorite shows.)
It then hit me. I knew I'd be spending 12ish hours on flights to and from Boston and downloaded it to my laptop. Genius. Ok, not really b/c I'm sure many people do this but hey, it was genius in my little world. I'm actually on a plane right now (well, when I wrote this blog entry) and just listened to the audio recording. I also followed along with the slides that were presented. Except for not being able to ask questions (the other passengers would probably think I was weird), it was like being at the meeting last week.
Going forward, I'm probably going to keep a folder on my desktop and download the audio recordings of conference calls I miss. Maybe I will even start to ask that particular calls be recorded if I know I cannot attend.
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