Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 27, 2012

As I brainstorm, the ideas I have come up with are blogging weekly, taking guitar lessons, tutoring kids, photography, sewing, random acts of kindness, skateboarding lessons, traveling, joining a book club, and cooking/baking. And anyone can email me questions and I respond only via this blog, not to your personal address.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 3, 2012

It does my heart good to know that I have made a difference in your lives and I greatly appreciate receiving your emails, letters, Facebook posts or LinkedIn messages. I look forward to being of service in 2013. Career – As you wrap up 2012, make sure you have identified areas for your professional development in 2013.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As I receive notifications of the voting opportunity via email, twitter, facebook, etc. When you set up opportunities for people to win a giveaway or vote on their favorite person for X honor, make sure that the tools you use are EASY for people to use!   I clicked on the link to find 100s of different blog posts. 

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 5, 2013

It’s great to set up systems and processes and have them work for you, but in order to fully automate your business you also need to know which technologies are going to work best to support you in that. c) 2013 Tracey Lawton. Another great strategy for building my list that really takes no time at all to implement! ” at [link].

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 19, 2013

In my recent blog on what I think Assistants can expect in 2013 I briefly discussed the relationship between assistants and how teamwork and support of each other will become more important this year. Do you only email each other or speak briefly on the phone when you need something? Working as a team. So how do we do this?

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

I was interviewed by the lovely Elena Aylott from EMEA East about my blog and social media in general. Why did you decide to write a blog? I think a lot of assistants are in the same position and appreciate the blog because I approach it with that honesty. That inspires me to write this free blog! Yes yes yes!

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

I was interviewed by the lovely Elena Aylott from EMEA East about my blog and social media in general. Why did you decide to write a blog? I think a lot of assistants are in the same position and appreciate the blog because I approach it with that honesty. That inspires me to write this free blog! Yes yes yes!

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 18, 2016

Over the last few years there are plenty more online communities and in more recent times we have taken networking to a whole new level with local networks, organised by assistants, springing up all over the place. First up we have the Edinburgh PA Network. Blogs I’m penning, personal notes (I’m a recipe hoarder!),

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Tips From T. Marie

DECEMBER 30, 2014

So called experts claimed that blogging had died several years ago when Twitter and Facebook exploded in popularity. Blogs and other content marketing methods take their rightful place as king again in 2015. That means responsive websites, cloud storage of shared documents and ease of communicating via email and social media.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 8, 2015

Well, friends, let me start this blog post by saying one thing: I’m still alive! Here’s a quick overview of what’s been going on (and then I promise I’ll get into the details): I endured a painful (though ultimately incredibly necessary ) break up. I woke up one morning and thought, “Wow. I know, I know. It’s been…like…forever.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 7, 2013

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact Turn Inaction into Action with The Ready Retreat Workbooks Posted on 01/07/2013 // Leave a Comment The blog has been dark over the weekend as I traveled and prepared for today’s panel discussion at New Media Expo in Las Vegas.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 30, 2013

This is likely to pop-up all over the web. Many people ask me how I manage my social media accounts (and others make stuff up rather than figure out what I do). When I’m checking out stories from the first two sources, I look at the “Most Emailed” and “Most Popular” listings on the right side of most websites. By Guy Kawasaki.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 8, 2015

Well, friends, let me start this blog post by saying one thing: I’m still alive! Here’s a quick overview of what’s been going on (and then I promise I’ll get into the details): I endured a painful (though ultimately incredibly necessary ) break up. I woke up one morning and thought, “Wow. I know, I know. It’s been…like…forever.

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The interface has been redesigned from the ground up, and I found it a lot easier to navigate as a result. Now you can have individual items (Logins, Secure Notes, memberships) shared with another person via email or an encoded, secure iMessage. Revisiting My OS X Email App of Choice Review: OmniFocus Premium Posts by Asian Efficiency.

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 4, 2012

And by spending times trying, you can wind up in trying times, situations, or work. ThatIsAll Latest blog post: Who’s in My Audience? Trackbacks Writing through the Ugly Middles says: 01/24/2013 at 4:33 am [.] Whether that’s a system, an app, or a workflow by using a system or app. Trying as a verb is great. As an adjective?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 1, 2013

So tell me: Will 2013 be your best year ever ? ” And as I write this post, I’m thinking the same for my own businesses: I want 2013 to be better than ever, full of game-changing results. Here’s a taste of what we’re up to: Damn Fine Words: The Next Session. And a New Style of Blogging!

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The interface has been redesigned from the ground up, and I found it a lot easier to navigate as a result. Now you can have individual items (Logins, Secure Notes, memberships) shared with another person via email or an encoded, secure iMessage. It’s clean and simple — just the way I like it.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 25, 2015

I wrote a blog about this a few weeks ago and shared some of the responses to that question. We don’t carry much cost – particularly when it comes to training us up. It’s not just me saying this either – in a survey conducted back 2013 in by the Office Team in the States. Whatever it is they get up and talk about their passions.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Some days it might be an accumulation of small tasks — like sending emails, printing reports, locating files for colleagues — other days I might be able to finish an entire project in an hour. Checking email (personal or work) can also be a distraction for many (myself included). Information'

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Productivityist

AUGUST 14, 2012

To celebrate the launch, he asked on his blog if readers would be willing to take on a challenge to help him promote it – and promote failure and fear in the process. What he asked of anyone willing to take on the challenge was to blog about fear and/or failure they’d experienced. The Blog I haven’t posted in over a week.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JANUARY 30, 2013

I usually try to mix it up by writing about work and also personal stuff. I try to keep the blog mostly work related for my readers’ benefit, so I was extra delighted by the comments I’ve been getting about my personal new year’s resolutions post last time. And thank you to new readers who are following my blog!

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Where you create this chart is entirely up to you. Below is mine in Evernote from my last international trip to Scandinavia in April 2013. I link to blog posts and add "guidebook" to the end of my notes when there''s more information there that I''ll want to check out again. visit some travel blogs, or buy a travel guide.

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