{"id":769,"date":"2009-03-24T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2009-04-06T02:32:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T07:32:18","slug":"holding-office-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/holding-office-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding Office Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you've ever been to my main page, if you look to the left down about halfway you'll see a little box that says \"Talk To Mitch.\"  That box is courtesy of something called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meebo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Meebo<\/a>.  Meebo is actually an instant messaging system that allows you to log into different types of instant messaging systems such as AIM, Yahoo, and MSN, but from your browser.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/meebo.jpg\" width=\"450\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>However, in this instance, it's main benefit is that, if I happen to be signed on and you visit my site, you can talk to me directly, or, if I'm not on, you can leave me a message.  When I'm not on the road, every day I try to hold what I call \"office hours\" for at least an hour, sometimes more, which I'll usually announce on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Mitch_M\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Twitter<\/b><\/a>.  I have the same Meebo box on my other business site, so when I'm on with one, I'm on with both.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, I've had very few people who've ever taken me up on my office hours notification, but that's okay because the times have been somewhat sporadic.  When I get my mind together, I expect to set up more routine with it so that if people have been wanting to talk to me live, I'll be available for them when they'll be expecting it.<\/p>\n<p>This might be something interesting for your business also; why not take a look?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been to my main page, if you look to the left down about halfway you&#8217;ll see a little box that says &#8220;Talk To Mitch.&#8221; That box is courtesy of something called Meebo. Meebo is actually an instant messaging system that allows you to log into different types of instant messaging systems such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}