No more having to switch your working from home day, reschedule meetings, visit a locker, drive to a post office or contact a courier all because of a missed delivery.
Chances are, you got up the next morning, took a shower, got dressed and checked out of the hotel to attend meetings, visit friends or just see the town.
He went to meetings, visited the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, and smiled and waved.
The benefits are face to face meetings; visiting a friend down the street; happenstance.
For a self-described Ms. Inside, Ms. Burns has been fielding media calls, talking at investor meetings, visiting customers and otherwise building up a lot of outside credibility.
Those efforts are to be expanded toward the end of March, he added, with "a large push" that would include steps like meetings, visits and conference calls.
Tech companies can keep track of when a particular Internet user looks up Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, visits adult Web sites, buys cancer drugs online or participates in anti-government discussion groups.
Joined by Susan Sontag, who was president of PEN, and by many other groups including publishers, we organized public meetings, visited TV and radio stations, and had extensive conversations with leading American Muslims to ask for their advice and help.
The events Mr. Bush and his aides were describing today, similarly echoed of the style of Mr. Gore, who has been holding town hall meetings, visiting teachers in their homes and stopping into coffee shops to talk to workers.
Among the staples of his administration were "Area Days," carefully planned, jampacked rounds of meetings, visits to senior citizen centers and factory tours in a particular part of the city.
Washington State's laws were changed the old-fashioned way -- newspaper and TV coverage, endless public meetings, visits to Olympia, the patience and perseverance of people like Susan Michaels, founder of Pasado's Safe Haven.
