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3 Ways to Create a Better System for Information Management

All Things Admin

If you’re going to implement this across calendars and digital tools that overlap with others, it’s important to discuss it and create something that makes sense to everyone on your team. In Microsoft Office, categories carry across email, tasks, and calendar. When I see a red block on my calendar, I know it’s a speaking event.

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Calendar "ah ha"

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 January, 2010 Calendar "ah ha" I was participating in a Harvard sponsored webinar with my boss the other day. One of the things they recommended to executives was to use their electronic calendar to leave themselves reminders. . -- Wait a minute! I guess he thought I needed the help.

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Essential Systems for Entrepreneurs

Jen Lawrence

There’s a lot to consider – legal concerns, tracking financials, and getting all the work done. Email, Calendar, Task Management, Document Management, Password Database. The next is the key to documenting your systems for easy reference and delegation. In the beginning, we all start out doing the best we can. Operational.

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Essential Systems for Entrepreneurs

Jen Lawrence

There’s a lot to consider – legal concerns, tracking financials, and getting all the work done. Email, Calendar, Task Management, Document Management, Password Database. The next is the key to documenting your systems for easy reference and delegation. In the beginning, we all start out doing the best we can. Operational.

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Snail Mail 101

Clutter Coach

Put in your in box anything that requires you to take some action, whether it’s filling out a form, making a call or adding activities to your calendar. Keep files you refer to near your desk. Avoid decisions you don’t really need to make. If it’s the second one, when are you going to take the time to compare plans?

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Ask the Admin: Records Retention

Administrative Arts

How long you retain meeting minutes will depend on the type of meetings you are referring to. Those are the only meeting minutes that are referred to in most retention schedules. For departmental level meetings, I would suggest the current calendar year plus 2-5 years, just to have an historical background for procedural purposes.

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1099 vs W-2: The difference between employees and contractors

BMT Office Administration

Usually, when you hear about 1099s during tax season, people are referring to IRS form 1099-NEC, the tax form that is sent to independent contractors in place of a W-2 form. Here you will include the recipient’s full legal name or registered business name and their address. What is a 1099? Form W-2 filing requirements. Control number.

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