My Mobile Culture
Everyone has an opinion and everyone has their own experience of the ever-swirling, ever-changing, available-at-a-moment’s-notice technologies. I find that current trends in mobile media are fed by actual pros, benefits that I am able to make work with my lifestyle.
I am all about keeping my personal and professional life as organized as possible. Is this doable? Can I actually stay “with the program” and keep my wits about me? In the end, the buck stops here, with me.
Isn’t that the most important point here, me?
I work full time and am a mother of two growing boys. Business deadlines, sports practices, classes, birthday reminders and bills all need to be dealt with … before they come due. Therefore, my most prized possession is my mobile handheld unit.
The handheld is an all-knowing one-stop-shop where I can monitor all of the developments, schedules and activities in my life. It is a necessity. Franklin Covey watch out! If planning-on-the-go is the wave of the future, you may be going out of business!
Advertisements, political agendas, community activism and corporate campaigns continually remind us to be green and sustainable. What’s better than loading up your mobile unit with content that would otherwise, quite literally, fill binders, briefcases and pockets galore? I no longer need to print every document for later reference, which means my garbage bin isn’t filled to the brim with stuff that will later end up in a landfill somewhere, someplace, in our country. It also means my house stays clean and organized — no more stacks of papers that go untouched for months. I am able to pay my e-bills, correspond with teachers and document important conversations on an ongoing basis without cutting down another tree.
Not only that, but I’m also able to keep up with conversations in realtime and, if I have a question, the answer is just a Google, phone call, email away. Access is at my fingertips, when and if I need it.
We all have so much content to consider; some nights I hit the pillow with a head stuffed to the gils with numbers and letters. At what point does that super-saturation turn our brains mush?
Who has thought about that, as far as sustainability?
My handheld mobile unit is that form of sanity for me. This resource meets my personal, human needs and preserves my environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also in my indefinite future. This form of communication and organization also preserves my quality of life as a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend and business professional.
Therefore, my culture continues to adapt with the ever-changing mobile community. I have accepted it in free will, in order to preserve and conserve my personal and business relationships, sanity and self-satisfaction.
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Yes, I concur - Mobile is as Mobile does… Great insight, Shelby!
October 15th, 2008 at 9:24 am
I find that managing my business is easier with my Motorola QM. However, I also notice that telephone calls are often preferable to communicate with clients about more complex issues. And too often the tech generation does not pick up the phone to communicate, particularly when it is a businesss-type complex question.
I also believe that it is dangerous to chat on the phone while driving, and see it way too often. I have witnessed poor driving while people had a phone to thier head.
I also think it is bad when folks get together to visit , and instead of visiting and face-to-face talking one of them is tied to a conversation on their cell-phone. This is very rude in my opinion.
So . . . .