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Life Is Not a Movie

Success

Ebert’s prolific online journaling—at times so poignant and poetic you wondered why he spent decades reviewing movies —was called one of the year’s best blogs by Time magazine in 2010. The jokes, gossip, laughs, arguments, and memories I miss. It was an act of Ebert. The loss of dining, not the loss of food. But not me anymore.

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Do Not Disturb - Training In Progress

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Do Not Disturb - Training In Progress By The Professional Assistant on Friday, January 18, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Meetings , Productivity D o you get staff members coming to you for all sorts of questions? Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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10 gifts to give your career

On The Job

Get more training. Ask your boss for opportunities to train in other departments, or to attend seminars or classes at a local university. Your resume should always be able to reflect that you’ve kept up on the latest training and skills. Don’t gossip at work. Can't wait to read what you have in store for 2010.

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Five Ways to Respond to Social Media Challenges and Criticism

Andrea Kalli

Some criticisms just are not worth responding to, most notably ’snark’-style blog comments and angry gossip articles. September 16th, 2010 at 4:58 pm Great post. Gauge the value of a response. Take the celebrity strategy — respond to criticism that’s worthy of your input, and ignore anything that isn’t.

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Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up?

Professional Assistant Blog

You reminisce about that Seinfeld episode where Elaine gets stuck on the subway and starts talking to herself about how the train isn’t moving and starts to get claustrophobic. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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Macros: Shortcuts To Productivity With Microsoft Word

Professional Assistant Blog

The more difficult macros are the ones that are programming code related and require knowledge of Visual Basic (you can find some books here) , which unfortunately, I have no training in. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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EMEA East – Personal Branding Q&A

Practically Perfect PA

In November 2010 I got a new job but unfortunately the role wasn’t quite what I was expecting. As I said earlier personal assistants tend to fall into the job and then don’t see the benefit of training or improving their skills. Yes yes yes! I would encourage all assistants to actively use social media.