To lessen the disruptive nature of e-mail and other messages, teams need to discuss how to alter their work process to allow blocks of time where they can disconnect entirely, Professor Perlow said.
Armed with booklets and materials containing life-enhancing messages, teams travel to small rural towns and villages, engage local girls in a friendly football game and then sit and talk with them.
Her policy team is no doubt as well stocked as her message team, and it may have the tougher job.
Two other young aides are also part of the message team -- Dan Senor from the Office of Global Communications and Reed Dickens, a deputy under Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman.
The message Team Obama has sent to supporters there is that it does not believe that a setting synonymous with the term "1 percent" befits a campaign aimed at wooing the middle class.
BUSH EXPANDS MESSAGE TEAM -- With the presidential contest now a dead heat, Gov. George W. Bush has added a Washington-based Republican consultant, Ed Gillespie, to his communications team to help sharpen his campaign message.
"In the lull after a conflict or flare-up, when people can travel again, then we can pass on messages," says Danielle Martin, another member of the tracing and messaging team.
That would have the early warning mechanism, deep pockets, smart lawyers, great message team, powerful advocates on Capitol Hill – and a billion, or, say, three billion, connected grassroots users – all linked up, mad, smart and empowered.
