Today 130 tuatara are being released into Karori Sanctuary in Wellington. A powhiri at lunchtime will welcome the tuatara. There’s a chance that wild weather in Cook Strait could delay things as the tuatara are coming from Stephens Island, off the tip of the South Island.

Because of that possibility, and because the weather was pretty bad yesterday I followed the instructions in the invitation to call the office to check that the ceremony was still on. It is.

So: I made a phonecall. Someone in the office had to stop what they were doing to answer the phone. I explained what I wanted, they confirmed the arrangements. We both said goodbye and hung up.

It took maybe 2 minutes. Now multiply that by everyone who’s attending. I have no idea how many that is, but even if it’s 30 people, that represents an hour of someone’s time. Time wasted, I might add.

If the Sanctuary had a blog it would have taken someone 5 minutes (at most) to add a post confirming arrangements. Those attending could check at their leisure, or get the update in their RSS feed.

If the Sanctuary had a Twitter feed it would take at most 2 minutes to send a confirmation. That would appear automatically for any ‘followers’.

Office time spent to provide both types of confirmation: about 7 minutes (or less), leaving most of the hour for more productive work.

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