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Blog Action Day 2008

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Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Blog Action Day 2008 Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 1:00 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging As a participant in Blog Action Day 2008, I asked everyone I know for information on programs (actual or planned) which combat poverty.

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8 Work-Life Balance Myths

Ian's Messy Desk

From Human Resources and Skills Development Canada There are myths or assumptions about what the family-friendly workplace really means. Some of the commonly held myths and the corresponding reality checks are as follows: Family-Friendly policies are soft HR issues, mainly for women. Thanks for visiting! Management will lose control.

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When you suspect a co-worker has a substance abuse problem.

Laughing all the Way to Work

it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." This is usually a lot of "talk" in companies.but little real support for it. in my experience. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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5 Tips for Out-of-Work Freelancers

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When you’re a freelancer, even if you’re between gigs and just sitting around twiddling your thumbs waiting for the next assignment to come through, it’s best to keep updating your skills and keeping up to date with the latest innovations and improvements in your line of work. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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VA Industry Leaders: a conversation

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What outstanding new skills have you acquired during your years as an entrepreneur? Comments: 19 19 Comments Marsha Kopan Comment // October 29th, 2008 // 1:34 pm I am not so sure about this blogging thing. James Comment // October 29th, 2008 // 7:53 pm Good post. Will this be your last career? VA will become serious business.

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Can Virtual Assistants provide social networking support?

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Social networking became the trendiest way to stay connected in 2008. Not everyone is born with or learns tghe necessary communication skills to learn to work as a team with a VA. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? I don’t know where I would be without her!

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Building Your Network

Ian's Messy Desk

Therefore, since you can’t control where your help or assistance is coming from, you must establish a blanket policy of giving with complete confidence that it will come back to you in the most wonderful ways. I work with poor people in the slums and empower them wit knowledge and skills which they really are unable to pay for.