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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That in just a few minutes. But now Trish and
Marietta Georgia either. Trish glad to have you on board
with us.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank him. I'm so excited to speaking to you.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
So what's going on.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, there's Excel, which I think is being badly misused
as a database. In college, I learned from professors they
said Excel is not a database, and it would add
a strong punctuation and they would add a period there.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I think an exclamation point.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yes, actually yeah. So I'm working in communications and so
there's different You collected data, you want to tell your
boss about what you've been doing. You want to document
your work. Then you also have projects. They also want
to document a project, and a lot of people just
put everything Nextcel and it's so unwieldy and it's just very,
(00:57):
very frustrating.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You've got different cells and formulas and people sorting data
and except you know, it used to be good for that,
but there are so many better tools. So what kind
of projects are you managing?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
A different communication project where different teams get pulled in
and you need to communicate things at a certain point
in time, what kind of business is It's it a university?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Okay, all right, all right, so you've I just want
to give them some sense to what exactly where we
were communicating. And that's a big deal. So especially when
you're talking about a university setting. I mean, people do
get set in their ways.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right, yes, So you're with the communication and technology, it's
just moving so fast, which is why your newsletter it's
it's a gym every day get updates. I really appreciate that. Well,
thank you, great help.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, it's you know, it's my labor of love. As
you can tell, there's a lot of work that I
go by do that every single day. All right, let
me tell you about some options. We use something called
Monday dot com and I don't know if you've ever
taken a look at it, but it allows you to
delegate to project management, assign different tasks. It can be
(02:16):
you can link to different documents into that. I mean, like,
for example, every day at around nine p fifteen, our
executive producer, Mattie, she's marvelous. She comes into my office
and use we use Monday where she lists maybe thirty
five different stories that she found that might be interesting.