{"id":101,"date":"2011-09-16T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-09-16T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T23:02:00","slug":"keeping-track-of-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/keeping-track-of-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping track of contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I put <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/toys\/liaisonmanager\/\">an Access database template<\/a> up on my website and thought I&#8217;d better get around to actually mentioning it. What it does is keep brief notes of all my interactions (face-to-face, phone, email) with the academics, research students, and undergraduates I liaise with. (The templates actually on the website of course only have dummy data.)<\/p>\n<p>My old system was handwritten notes on a copy of the welcome letter each grad student received on enrolling. This was Suboptimal for many reasons that only <i>began<\/i> with the fact that I could never decide whether to sort by first name, surname, or department&#8230; The database lets me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sort by anything I like;<\/li>\n<li>see together everything I&#8217;ve talked about with any given person, or everything I&#8217;ve talked about regarding any given course;<\/li>\n<li>or my favourite (which I got the fantastic help of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/dakvid\">@dakvid<\/a> for coding the SQL; also more generally I want to acknowledge my colleague Margaret Paterson for her inspiring beta-testing) &#8211; sorting all my contacts to show at the top the people I talked with the longest ago so I can be reminded to catch up with them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I said, I&#8217;m currently using it for liaison work but I suspect it could be used for other uses too, so if anyone wants to nab a copy, <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/toys\/liaisonmanager\/\">there it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I put an Access database template up on my website and thought I&#8217;d better get around to actually mentioning it. What it does is keep brief notes of all my interactions (face-to-face, phone, email) with the academics, research students, and undergraduates I liaise with. (The templates actually on the website of course only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[108,13,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}