The ADDexecutive is launching in three phases through 2007.

Phase I, now live, is the ADDexecutive.com blog with articles written by the ADDexecutive editor, Phil Marsosudiro. Most of these articles will touch on corporate or personal management issues related to the ADD/ADHD mind in the workplace.

Phase II, on schedule for July, will include a panel of new contributors including clinicians (MDs, PhDs, MSWs, etc.) with insights into medicine, psychology, and other therapeutic issues that relate to workplace ADD; and other professionals (JDs, MBAs) with more thoughts on executive performance, coaching, and legal issues related to the Americans with Disabilities Act andmore.

Phase III, already in progress, is the opportunity for readers to contribute through the blog comments and through the forum. Reader-contributions are doubly useful: they bring knowledge to other readers, while also providing the authors an opportunity to share their knowledge — a therapeutic act on its own.

Planned updates in July:

•  a “rate this blog” or “rate this comment” function
•  articles from our first clinician/professional authors
•  announcement of our editorial board

phil .at. addexecutive .dott. com

For better and worse, we’ve got the magic ADD. One moment we’re right here, and the next we’re hey, check out this new online tool for Jim, would you double check the figures on the KRX proposal?The ADDexecutive is here to serve us (and our colleagues) who believe that ADD is something to be taken advantage of where it’s an asset, and managed where it isn’t.Here’s what’s coming to the ADDexecutive:

Advice columns — detailed and specific! — on the things that really get us, like: how to deal with the “tempation of many ideas”, how to manage our excitement when we’re pitching a new client, or how to make the most of having a secretary or assistant (who we hire for their organizational skills, and drive nuts because we have none of our own).

Reader comments — a place to share your own feedback (c’mon, you know you want to say something!) and your own stories that might be helpful to someone else who’s “living the dream” of executive authority coupled with a head that has a mind of its own.

A nationwide directory of ADD clinicians and coaches — the ones who specialize in working with executives, professionals, and business owners.

Drug forums — How’s Strattera working for you? Better than Provigil? Oddly at certain doses? Not if we ever want to have sex again? You are one big science experiment — why not share? We’ll do the same.

Book reviews — We’ll skim the books so you don’t have to.

Product reviews — datebooks, desk organizers, you name it. And heck yes we want you to tell us which miracle products have worked for you (and why), and which ones weren’t worth the time it took to download you to remember to pick them up.

Software reviews — Who among us hasn’t believed at least once that a $129.95 piece of time management (or money management or project management) software wasn’t going to change our lives forever? We’ll review.

Clinical publications — from our friends with MDs, PhDs, MAs, and MSWs: their thoughts and research on the things that make us tick.

Links — of course. To other useful sites and people.

And more — Of course more. I mean, how could not say “more”?!

The ADDexecutive: a Resource Community with the best of info from our editors, clinicians, and you.

Drop us a line. We’ll be glad to hear from you.

– Phil Marsosudiro, editor

Ideas and mental notes show up when they want — they don’t wait until we’re sitting at a desk with a pen and paper to write them down.* Some ADDexecs carry a small voice recorder to capture their flyabout thoughts.** But before you go shopping, did you know you probably have one in your pocket, already?

Most new cell phones have a voice-recording feature that will work fine for notes up to several minutes long - plenty of time for most ideas that hit us while we’re wandering around town. Some cell phones don’t have a dedicated voice-recording function but do have a small video camera with audio. As long as your chin doesn’t mind being on camera, this function works fine as a short voice recorder.

For convenience, figure out how to get the fastest access to your phone’s voice recorder. My modest Samsung D-807 has a programmable “hot key” function that let’s me get to the voice recorder with one click. The convenience makes it more likely I’ll use the thing (and to start recording before I forget what I’m planning to remember), and also makes it less dangerous for using while driving.

As long as I can remember to check my recordings every evening, the voice recorder is a great way for keeping my brain free for other tasks, instead of occupied with remembering the little and big things that I need to track each day.

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*”Reminder — set alarm clock for early tomorrow: breakfast meeting with John.”

**”Hey, here’s a brilliant idea: wouldn’t it be great if we partnered with the Jenson PR Agency and Cassilly Design to make a small marketing cooperative for joint-referrals and occasional team projects? I should call them to see if they want to meet next week before the Venture Capital conference.”