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Earlier this morning our office building had a major power outage. “Some guy” ran “some tool” into a circuit breaker and “everything went down.” Whatever happened we were powerless for around an hour. Everything switched over to backup generators, but those only powered our servers and not our workstations. So here we are completely disconnected form the world for a few hours in the middle of the business day.

Within minutes, all of our staff was briskly punching away on blackberries and making cell phone calls to insure key clients that we are all OK.

It got me to thinking about how connected we all are, especially in my industry. We hear that all the time, this being the “information age,” but if you really think about it, it’s pretty amazing.

For Example, I have now reached the point where I have about 4 land line phone numbers between work and home, an ungodly about of email addresses (20+), Blackberry, and it’s gotten to the point where facebook/myspace is another essential tool in keeping in touch. (I found myself using facebook several times last week to make sure I have clients names right) I have even made the decision to get a second cell phone to try and keep somewhat of a wall between work and my personal life.

Good or bad, who knows… but, I can’t imagine living without it.