Mon.Mar 12, 2012

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The Moxie of Reinvention

Virtual Moxie

Yesterday was a big day here at AssistU , and I wanted to share the news with you. If you’ve been reading VMoxie for any length of time, you probably know that at the end of 2010, after 13 years, we stopped training VAs. Our Virtual Training Program was still super solid, but with the economy tanking, our revenue model and our delivery model no longer made sense for us in a way that would allow us to continue.

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Work-Life Balance

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Make sure that you are able to prioritise your workload in order to tackle it in the most efficient way possible.

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The Future Of Education Is Online

Productivity Bits

How to teach kids more effectively? The school environment is the most important portion of that. There is no doubt about it. There is an urgency that school children need to learn more math and science. That is specially true here in the US. What if the parents can utilize a cool tool to augment their kids’ learning? What if the hardest part of this tool is convincing kids to sit down and watch videos (I guess, that is not hard at all)?

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What is the Post-PC Era?

Small Business Labs

During Apple's recent iPad announcement CEO Tim Cook made several references to the "post-PC era" This led to a flurry of articles on the topic. At the simplest level, the post-PC era refers to the growth of computing devices that are not traditional PCs.  More specifically, the current use of the term refers to the growth of smartphones and tablets.      The term and concepts date back at least to the late 1990s when discussions of computer and Internet

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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The Questions I Would Ask If I Were Marketing Your Business – Comment and Part 1

The Small Business Blog

About a month ago I read the following post: The Questions I Would Ask If I Were Marketing Your Business on the MarketingProfs site.

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Create Simple Systems

Office Organization Success

A system simply describes HOW you do something i.e.: How do you create a new client file? How do you handle client enquiries? How do you monitor receipts/expenses? How do you track contact data? How do you stay in touch with your clients/prospects? If you want to manage your business more efficiently & effectively, change your thinking around running your business – think in systems/steps/processes.

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Optimize Your Time on Social Media: Avoid the Social Media Time Suck

Stephanie LH Calahan

Ashley Zeckman wrote a great post about how to effectively use your time on social media.  In it, she covers: Avoiding Shiny Object Pitfalls. Tips for an Optimized Focus. Tools for Optimizing Your Time. Curation Tools – good for quickly gathering. It looks long, but takes about 2.5 minutes to read and is filled with geat actionable steps.  Here is the link:  [link].

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Personal Objectives for Life Balance

Ian's Messy Desk

More than ever before, we play many roles in our lives. We are workers, parents, spouses, friends, caregivers and volunteers in their communities. We also try and make room in our lives for taking care of our own well-being. Not surprisingly, achieving balance among all these competing priorities can be difficult. Here in Canada 58% of people report overload associated with their many roles.

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Administrative Assistant Conference Speaker David Meinz

Office Dynamics

Welcome to our Speaker Series! We have dedicated several blogs to informing you about our administrative assistant conference speaker line-up. With each message we'll introduce a speaker and share with you a little bit about them as well as why we chose them to be a presenter at the 19th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence. David Meinz, Nutritionist.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Asana: What Needs Doing

Productivityist

I’m pretty pleased with my experience with Asana since I really started using it at the start of the year. I like the ubiquity of it, I like the way it is laid out (for the most part) and I really like the email integration that goes along with it. But there are things I don’t like. You know…things that give me pause every once in a while, although not cause for concern.