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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. Are you familiar with this?

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 09, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity D o you find that when you receive phone calls or voice mail messages, you cant remember who called, what time they called, who they were trying to call, etc? Home About Me Advertise Who Called? Use A Phone Call Log!

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Put a smile on that face Monday, December 15, 2008 at 9:42 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Family Life Feeling too busy? Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? Not busy enough? Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Round up #3, Prescott Style Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 7:48 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Election Day 2008! This one feels like Christmas. I voted early by mail this year. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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OCTOBER 27, 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008 at 9:03 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Successful and Outstanding Blogger, that is! Liz Strauss , the original SOB is hosting her blog’s 3rd birthday party tomorrow, October 28, 2008. Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? See you there?

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APRIL 2, 2009

I can’t say I know him, but my son was his teammate for the 2008 Wildcats season and I am pulling for Ryan, as he’s the first teammate we’ve ever watched to go on and make it to the show in his rookie year. Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Home About Me Advertise The E-tiquette of E-mail By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , MS-Outlook E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing all the Way to Work: The Ultimate Secretarial Survival Blog. Jane Watson of J. Who are you?

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 11:41 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant I could blame it on the economy. ktcosmos Comment // December 6th, 2008 // 4:06 pm Melodee, We are a house divided: I like the Cubbies, my husband is a Dbacks fan. Melodee Patterson Comment // December 6th, 2008 // 5:01 pm choke Cubbies!?!

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 2:02 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant With each successful update of WordPress, the more comfortable you become when receiving weird fatal error messages, which cause your blog to crash completely until you decode and address them. Comments: 2 2 Comments Posts about Wordpress 2.7

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 9:25 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Web/Tech Social Media sites have been heralded as the latest and best way to network and establish your brand. Tapping the Power of LinkedIn Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change?

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DECEMBER 13, 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 10:37 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Family Life , Life of the Virtual Assistant I won’t tell you how long it’s been since I became a Google Adsense Publisher. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? But I WILL tell you I have only $4.59

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Reasons why work slowdowns can be good Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 11:12 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant My DH had his first-ever no work day in 35 years as a Land Surveyor. Not that he has never taken a day off. Loosely Speaking�A

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And at the same time executives have said, well, this is our policy and people don’t seem to be abiding by it. But we started reinstalling travel processes and saying, no, the executive team needs to go to where the work team is. Is it a policies issue? Zoom meeting doesn’t cut it. Is it a design issue?

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JULY 7, 2010

Defining Small Business Innovation 2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends Intuit Future of Small Business Resources The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs The Connected World of Entrepreneurs Disclosure Policy Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients.   This is little changed from 2008, but up from 14.5%

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DECEMBER 13, 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 9:55 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant There’s a clipboard on my desk (pictured beneath my furry assistant at right) that is more valuable than any tech tool in my office. Comment: 1 One Comment Pages tagged "dazed" Pingback // December 15th, 2008 // 9:06 am [.]

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OCTOBER 25, 2008

Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 10:47 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Knitting Every girl needs a pair of bell-bottomed yoga pants. Speaking of this , here is a related post from the Loosely Speaking Archives: On My Needles Today, June 16, 2007 Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change?

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 10:39 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Prescott Arizona I used to love (and be good at) gardening. Pingback // December 13th, 2008 // 10:46 am [.] Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? Give a share! A Virtual Assistant’s Blog » All I need is $4.59

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MAY 24, 2010

Some of the commonly held myths and the corresponding reality checks are as follows: Family-Friendly policies are soft HR issues, mainly for women. Many companies offer their work-life balance policies to employees at all levels. Participation in family-friendly policies is a career-limiting move. Management will lose control.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

The project determined that we can be divided into 6 separate Americas based on our perceptions of the reality/unreality and extent of this problem and regarding whether individual change or national policy is the solution. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Posted on 11 December, 2008 6:06 PM Anonymous Right now I'm sitting in my cubicle and the "new person" has turned on her radio and is humming loudly off-key.I'm Our workplace actually has a policy of not allowing them any longer. 'm wearing my headphones and I can still hear her!

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Task Crate was founded in 2008 by his wife and partner Jennifer Talbot. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change?  Contact Tara Fort (tara@Versatility4u.com) or Katie Baird (ktcosmos@LooseEnds.net). Brian Talbot is the Co-Owner/SEO Consultant at Task Crate, LLC. Episode 1: February 2010 [.]

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JUNE 23, 2010

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OCTOBER 6, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs When a client’s site cries out for help Monday, October 6, 2008 at 3:39 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Web/Tech Like many small developers, I built a number of websites between 1998 and 2002 using the then standard approach of hand-coded HTML and, later, a web editing program.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Comments: 19 19 Comments Marsha Kopan Comment // October 29th, 2008 // 1:34 pm I am not so sure about this blogging thing. Kathie Thomas, A Claytons Secretary Comment // October 29th, 2008 // 6:36 pm So many questions – and I can answer all or some, or just one. James Comment // October 29th, 2008 // 7:53 pm Good post.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

In 2008, the topic was poverty. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? Participating bloggers dedicate a post to their personal examination of that year’s issue. By participating you can educate yourself and consider what you personally can do about the issue locally or globally.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Comment by Ian McKenzie on May 30, 2007 @ 1:13 pm I’ve had similar experiences after trips; I travel to customer sites and while I’m onsite, I can’t typically keep up with the things I usually do when I’m in the office, so I find myself going through a similar process.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? Speaking of this, here are some related posts from the Loosely Speaking archives: Reasons Why Slowdowns can be Good Finding Opportunity in Uncertainty Break Open a New Market How do I get out of This Funk? Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

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." Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? in my experience. does the company have random drug testing. ?

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Social networking became the trendiest way to stay connected in 2008. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? As a result, clients in many industries are seeking VAs with proven expertise to manage their social media presence. Application Security Comment // March 6th, 2009 // 2:37 am I agree.

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JUNE 3, 2010

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APRIL 13, 2010

this summer with her boyfriend – not only because her company’s policy mandates that she take at least five consecutive days off, but because she needs the break. For Avery, the decision to take a vacation wasn’t a difficult one, even though there was a period in 2008 when both she and her husband lost their jobs.

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JULY 14, 2010

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. Rather, it comes from others who have been influenced by people whom we have helped directly.

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MARCH 5, 2009

Symptom 1: “Cannot Connect to Server Database Error&# In early December 2008, I updated this blog to v.2.7. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? Here’s the anatomy of the crash Loosely Speaking recently experienced. I’ll let my correspondence tell the story. Love WordPress!

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Interview with World Traveler, Robert Fitzsimmons Reply Cathy ( @kookieskrumble ) December 9, 2009 at 6:33 am I would have to say it is a choice. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically." - Captain Jack Sparrow Home | Services | About | Comment Policy | Disclosure | Contact Copyright © 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc. Powered by frugal

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JUNE 9, 2010

I was just recently researching various tactics and strategies – what worked in 2008 versus 2009 and today. And now suddenly I have 5 travel guidebooks under my belt. Thanks for being relevant, Amy. Great post! Reply Ralph ( @RalphJP ) June 10, 2010 at 8:42 am Good stuff, good stuff. Or work I was in over my head for taking.

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