So I saw this holiday give-away thing over on Twitter and happened to find your blog. I see I'm supposed to write something here about how Google Voice will improve my business or career – it won't!

I am highly creative, yet very disorganized, mind-maps, mental-noise-reduction-routines, honest-to-goodness friends who keep me outside of myself, are the only things that keep me functional!

I am a geek by definition, but unemployable by most American standards, as the moment I find something shiny or have a question about how or why something works, or if something can be done, I go into my bat-cave and do not emerge until I have either solved the question, or passed out from exhaustion.

Now, this would be a great skill, if it could be utilized towards something useful, like saving the universe, or keeping comcast from disconnecting, but, no, I'm not quite that focused, so one week it is an android application, the next a grand-mothered replicating backup network, the next adding sound and OpenCV object recognition to a motion detector, the next fixing a counter-top dishwasher to run from my bathroom, the next, representing myself in a lawsuit, and the next, building household furniture.

Yeah…not very employable… but, y'see? Google Voice would be very cool. It would get me another number, one that would remain fairly consistent, one that would contact me based on my heuristics, one that would let me see voice messages, let certain people through, block others, send nice messages, like “sorry, i'm on a project” to close friends, or “bother me if you have to” to family members, and “i'm sorry, i'm not ok to take calls” from “my computer is broke people” and, maybe, possible “we're sorry, this phone number is no longer in use” to ex-employers =) .

Hopefully that is reason enough for someone to give me a Google Voice account? I can trade with Wave invites, but for now, I think I need to go create my new website,

Sam

Help, help, my superhero identity is taking over my life!

Okay, my only superpowers are snark and sarcasm, but I use them liberally when disguised by my “secret” identity. Okay, you got me again. My identity is not really a secret since I use it on my blog, on Twitter, at techie conferences and anywhere else that I care to express my unbiased opinion. However, much like Clark Kent toiling away at The Daily Planet, me and my “real name” get recognized by a precious few. If I Google myself, I'm (happily) nowhere to be found; right now the “government” name is for taxes and the resume I still need in order to find a 9-to-5 hustle to support my internet writing habit. But mypolaropposite – my superhero doppelganger – is EVERYWHERE. Go ahead, open a search engine, I dare ya…

Fortunately for my SELVES, I've got two Twitter accounts, a few e-mail addresses, and a bunch of custom URLs. Darn that superhero, she's all over all of them while my mild-mannered “professional” persona monopolizes my Facebook account, my LinkedIn profile, and my telephone number. These accounts remain the last vestiges of contact solely for my college roommates, executive recruiters, and people who knew me before the Internets took over my life.

Since my superhero ego has lots of other cool tech tools at her disposal, doesn't she deserve her own voicemail? Tell her to say goodbye to AT&T and hello to her own voice service. And since she's using her obsession with WordPress themes and SEO to convince others to blog, shouldn't her voicemail be at Google with the rest of the techies? Sure it means getting new business cards, but they'll go well with her new blog theme and avatar.

Please save the “real” me from my current practice of giving everyone my cell number and relentlessly screening calls. One of these days I'm gonna miss a call from the Publishers Clearinghouse and it won't be pretty…

I would love the opportunity to utilize technology to my benefit, such as Google Voice, in order to be accessible for my current clients and prospective future clients as I grow and nurture my first interior design business. I have started slowly, but I have already enlisted the help of Twitter, Facebook, my own website, and Google Apps for my business, so I can work from virtually anywhere I carry my BlackBerry. I am a current college student earning my BS in Interior Design, and my goal is to be self-sufficient by the time I graduate. I then want to examine my choices from there. Thank you for the chance at winning the holiday giveaway!

Hi Adria – In hopes of getting Google Voice…

Okay, so I have been expanding my business over the last few months and have been working on creating a better income stream with less work for staging homes for sale. I have decided to launch a new branch of Sorted Affairs Home Staging and create “Virtual Staging”. This would entail clients who cannot afford to have me fully stage their homes (and maybe even organizing) send photos and then we can spend time on the phone discussing the ways that they can stage themselves.

I am really excited about this because it means I can stage a home in Los Angeles or Omaha, or even in London. Having better access by phone would be incredibly important to create this amazing new opportunity – and it would be a whole lotta fun! Hey, if you mpove to San Francisco I can help you set up your new home to be efficient from the start.

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