Saved from the bell

I love to do interviews about Response Point, but for some reason I keep running into last-minute problems.  I am sooo glad Response Point is easy, or I would be in serious trouble.  Here's another example:

One morning last week I was getting ready for a phone interview on Let's Talk Computers, the pioneer of tech radio dating back to 1989, when our administrative assistant, Joy Olson, popped into my office to remind me that we would be having a fire drill in about 30 minutes.  What!? I said.  I have 10 minutes before the phone interview and how's it going to sound if there's a blaring fire alarm in the background?!  Not good.

Joy kindly rushed to check all the adjacent buildings to see if I could borrow an office with a phone, but long-story-short, there just weren't any available on such short notice.  Normally I like to do these interviews on my Response Point phone system (of course!) but how could I do that in the middle of a fire drill?  I could use my cell phone I suppose, but we don't always have good reception around here.

So what did I do?  Our PR manager and I rushed to the closest building unaffected by the fire drill, and I set up my laptop with OCS right there in a quiet part of their cafeteria.  I did the whole interview over a VOIP line running on our internal, wireless network.  Setup of course was super-easy and I had no problem starting the interview right on time.

Alan Ashendorf posted the interview and you can listen to it for yourself on the Lets Talk Computers web site.  Can you tell that I'm talking on a phone system that was set up minutes before the call?