Someone who is not technically a manager like the KatiePersona, but nonetheless still a beehive of activity, or rather activities happening in parallel.

This persona is partially defined in terms of what they're not.

• NOT someone who has a linear list of concrete tasks that can done in order and checked off one after another
• NOT someone who feels constantly interrupted
• NOT someone who is having their priorities set by somebody else (ie. spouse or a manager;)

This persona IS

• Juggling multiple projects at the same time
• Constantly dealing with interruptions
• Having a hard time keeping their priorities straight
• Handling lots of amorphous tasks that grow over time

This persona is designed to catch the class of users who aren't HUBs per se in a particular sphere (e.g. work), but across multiple spheres (Work, Home, School, Hobbies), they take on a wide variety of personal projects.

• E.g.
• Organizing your Book Club
• Coaching your Kid's Little League Team
• Home improvement
• Organize birthday parties
• Buys all the holiday gifts
• Plans the vacations

• Writing up meeting notes
• Writing up feedback
• Writing up proposals
• Writing a blog about Teaching Methods
• Writing articles, op-eds, letters to the editor
• Speaking at Conferences
• Organizes office activities

You could say Busy Bodies have come about because of the advent of the Information Age. While it is hard to imagine that someone working in the physical world could take on such a wide variety of activities, the computer as the tool of choice for the modern Knowledge Worker facilitates multi-tasking in a way that was impossible just 15 years ago when people had to make phone calls and attend meetings and do physical things (e.g. Build bridges, see patients, manufacture cars). When working within the "virtual, soft" world of Information Processing: writing a blog post, scanning multiple mailing lists, keeping an eye on your kid on the day-care cam, attending an IRC meeting are all things you can do at the same time.

-- MimiYin - 03 May 2006