Denise Aday

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Sexist speech: Sick and tired of it. Naming it and shaming it to change it.

Denise Aday

First up: “man-hours” in a nature.com blog post, in reference to the amount of work time leading to a discovery. No more excuses accepted or passes given because that’s “the way I grew up”, just don’t think about it, it’s automatic, or traditional or whatever. What century is this? Huge, sexist FAIL. Let’s lose this term.

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Doing the Virtual Assistant Shake(Up)

Denise Aday

Blog Updates. Can also refer this help as needed.). I’m also looking for more of the other items below that score near the top of the enjoy-o-meter: Specialties (see [link] ): Email Marketing (Permission-based. Details below.). Editing & Proofing. Internet Research. Provide analytics reports.

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Gmail + GTD + Inbox Zero = Profitable Productivity

Denise Aday

Next, I have labels for status, projects, clients, context, and reference. Context labels – @Call, @Reply, @Read, @Blog, @Follow-up, @SocMed. Reference labels – R/Expenses. Hide miscellaneous, reference and archive labels that you check infrequently and don’t have unread mail routed to. Priority, !Today,

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