With all the chiming, ringing and beeping from various devices, it seems like the workday is destined to be interrupted. But for many professionals, being able to reach people quickly is vital to their jobs, and the same is true for their own accessibility. With an incredible array of wireless devices, you can e-mail in traffic, file a story remotely and call anyone from just about anywhere. Progress has one drawback, however, and that is interruption and distraction. How best to manage the wireless onslaught?

Communicators share their rules and scenarios for using the devices, and journalists uniformly applaud the advances wireless devices have given them. Human resources professionals reinforce smart usage, emphasizing it is in a candidate’s best interest to be heard clearly.

Meet a communicator who wishes more people would conduct public relations wirelessly, and see how much success she has already found with her favorite devices.

And finally, in our section dedicated to goings-on in New York, we share the second half of the outstanding articles that began in the last issue. Accessibility was a major concern after 9/11, and professionals from two companies in Lower Manhattan share special stories about how they continued to manage effective communications, and more. We are happy to have columns from OppenheimerFunds and Verizon Communications, leaders in two diverse industries equally important to customers, investors and the general public before, on and after 9/11.

Changing your e-mail address? Keep us up to date!

Click here for a printer-friendly version of the October 2002 Edition

© 2004 Heyman Associates, Inc.