Business Traveler Toolkit – MobileDay

My equivalent of an “easy” button

When you don’t live within 150 miles of any of the people you work with on a day-to-day basis, one thing that is inevitable is lots of conference calls.
What makes it especially fun as a consultant is that you have two different types of “stakeholders.” First, you have the project-related stakeholders, which on most weeks you’ll at least fly in to work with from Monday through Thursday. The second group is the internal stakeholders – the people that have somehow coaxed you into various extracurriulars with the promises of increasing your exposure with leadership (it’s not uncommon for you never to meet these people in person) and differentiating you from your peers come performance rating time. The thing to remember is that these extracurriculars, unlike client billings, don’t directly contribute to the firm’s revenue stream and as such have to be squeezed in whenever you have “extra” time, which many times means while you’re in transit. That’s where MobileDay comes in handy.

This little app takes every conference call in your calendar and allows you to dial-in with a single touch – no more going back and forth between your calendar trying to remember this call’s dial-in or passcode or scribbling the magic numbers down on the closest slip of paper. I’ve seen other programs such as meeting place include links that intend to provide this same functionality, but they have never worked as well on the iPhone as this application does.