After running in stealth mode for the last two-and-a-bit months Volltext Blogbuch is finally heading towards it’s official start, with Promotions in our Partner Papers on Facebook and probably on Google+ (though not as an official entity since G+ Pages haven’t yet appeared on the scene). Just last week I ordered a bunch of books from publishers for us to review and today I was meeting with Robert Schindel and Sabine Konrath from the Institut für Sprachkunst at the University of Applied Arts Vienna to discuss a possible cooperation for the next couple of months. So far things are moving at the expected pace, just a tad slower maybe but I’ve reached Zen. Also because we finally have the architecture of our virtual newsroom that becomes necessary once I move to Konstanz next month.
My Bachelor Paper at the other hand is creeping at a frustratingly (and quite frankly terrifyingly) slow pace. And even though I picked an incredibly complex matter the reason for the tardiness is the amount of work I have to do for Ambuzzador. Since our client Media-Saturn (the biggest technology market of Austria and Germany) quit the monitoring programm I moved over the Austrian Airlines as the main analyst – which was quite ok since it got me away from the (by then quite boring) Media-Saturn, it was rather straight-forward and not too much work. But at the same time Ambuzzador aquired a new, international and huge client: the Austrian Oil Company OMV. So of course they needed an experienced eye on that project: me. Now…because we also monitor our client’s competitors (anything else would be pointless) we suddenly also have such heavyweights like BP, Shell, Total on our sensors. The result: Almost 4 times the hours of every other project!
And all that during the last few days of my girlfriend being in Vienna before leaving for Edinburgh for a year! Sometimes it is true what people say: Time’s a b..!
So obviously with Volltext becoming more work, me moving to the University of Konstanz and having to finish my Bachelor paper till the end of September I cannot continue working on the OMV. Now: How do I tell that to my bosses?








