Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 21 February, 2009 Thats not my job! As an example, I am now helping my boss with a corporate blog he started and because I have experience with blogging in my personal life, I have used that and now do it professionally as well. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 5, 2012

Many writers hit the keyboard for set periods of time. For example, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates likes to write before breakfast. National Book Award winner and New York Times essayist Richard Powers claims he hasn’t touched a keyboard in years, not even to write an email. ” Write for time.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 26, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 26 October, 2008 Repeating Headers and Footers while in Sections Someone was asking on another site how to repeat a footer for just one section in a document, i.e. a table. In this example, I did the following: Go to the end of page 1, i.e. the last cell (bottom right), or after the last word on the page.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 18, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 18 October, 2008 Guest Blog: Networking Like a Pro This is a guest post from JEM over at [link]. If you meet someone at an Administrative Assistant conference, for example, make sure to follow up with that contact within a week or two after the event. Lets enjoy our day together.© Keep in touch.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 February, 2009 Welcome to Canada, Mr. President. For example, addressing the Minister of (insert govt agency here) is it Honourable so and so or Mr. or Ms. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Lets enjoy our day together.© February 22, 2009 Patricia Robb said.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 29, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 29 August, 2009 Managing your Bosss Inbox Nowadays our bosses are busy almost 24/7 and in order to cope they need our help managing their e-mail account. For example, Patricia Robb on behalf of [boss’s name]. Some emails are obviously junk. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 10, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 10 October, 2008 Working for the Disorganized. In my readers example, the problem was the trials of working for multiple bosses when one or more of them is disorganized. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Lets enjoy our day together.© Oh where or where is my password?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Keeps all your appointments, contacts and email in one spot so it's all synched up. For example, if all you need is a place to store contact information and keep your calendar, that is much different than a system that can prompt you for different types of follow up, keep templates, etc. What do you need the system to do for you?

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

That’s a key point and a very important question for every blogger who had been wrecked more than one keyboard writing. I know I’ve been giving a lot of examples from the blogging and copywriting niches, but for podcasts, the first one that comes to my head is galadarling.com. The closest example is a Formula 1 pilot suit.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Check out these fast examples: You’ll make mistakes. Things I didn’t get done that day, emails I meant to send, bills I haven’t paid, posts I haven’t written, product launch process – they all keep me awake in the wee small hours. hours of sleep is achieved. Reply Go ahead. Leave a Comment!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 24 May, 2009 Word and Outlook 2007 tips I use Word 2007 at my new job and have never really had a chance to go through it to find the quick tips and how-tos that I had in Word 2003. Click Apply and OK To set your email to view b.c.c. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh.

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Men With Pens

MAY 24, 2012

Here’s an example: Every day, I follow the same, fixed routine. I sit at the kitchen island and read my email. whirr” – hit the keyboard. And today I wrote 8,000 words – not counting client emails!). Hit the trigger, run through them and the scenes unfold until you reach the end: you, writing.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 20, 2010

Now, when I say ‘don’t write’, I don’t mean you should take a break or get away from the keyboard for a day. Take me, for example. Text-to-speech and speech-to-text are two great potential examples. I’m a pretty fast typist but it made me realise how unnatural it is to use a keyboard, or even a pen.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

DO NOT look at a single work email after that. Your quick email check becomes a written response, some analysis, and finally that little voice says, “What the heck. It’s really easy to get sucked in to one more email and lose an entire evening. Kenji – love James’ example in his comment.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

His emails are usually brief, casual, and mention something like, “Have a nice weekend,” or “Hope everything’s good with you.” So it was weird to get an email that was so stilted and formal that it sounded like it was written by the Queen of England’s chamberlain to someone she was too polite to outright call a waste of space.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2010

It would be much easier to keyboard it but I know it wouldn’t have the same effect as writing it by hand. I do feel much more comfortable with a keyboard than hand though. As for hand-writing versus keyboard, I too am much faster when using the latter, but for me, that’s not the point. I get hand cramps!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

This is where bloggers get a head start: if you have a blog, you have a good reason to put fingers to keyboard on a regular basis. For example, one of my favorite blogs is Liz Styles’ Damomma – I’ve been reading her blog for five years, despite having no kids and no plans to have kids any time soon. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Take psychology-style self-help books as an example, arguably the single most destructive e-book on the internet today. No matter what the topic is, before you put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, be sure that you have the qualifications to write about whatever you are about to share. For example, Zen Habits. Reply Go ahead.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People Are Approaching You in Real Life Situations For example, you may be approached by people who start up conversations with you using sentences like: I don’t know you but I read your blog. Receiving Out Of The Blue Thank You Emails This started to happen a year ago, and in the last few months has become more and more common.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

If you were, say for example, to add WishList Member to Men with Pens and offer a paid level of content, you would be, essentially, creating a product. For example, if you sell a book for $10, you might sell a workbook for $40. What follows is me thinking into my keyboard. THAT is what I want to change.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Sonya – I do have to admit that most people who email me their resume and quote an English degree tend to have some of the worst writing in the world… Not sure why that is, actually. If you’d like to be the first, please email me at steve@ionleap.com and ask me. Wish I knew. I’d really appreciate it, seriously.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

For example, you’ve mentioned that you want to be paid for what you do, for the hours that go into your work and exposing yourself so much to your fans. Many people take advantage of that openness on another level, which is to say we’ve all had trouble with copyright law and keeping our work our own. It’s funny. Same thing.

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