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What is Your Done List Telling You? A different take on the to-do.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « 6 Tips to Save You Time and Wasted Effort | Main What is Your Done List Telling You? A different take on the to-do list. Have you ever considered looking at your "Done List"?  Did you even know you had one?  You do!

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5 Tips for Planning a Career Change

Eat Your Career

Today’s career experts agree that most people experience a change of career 3 to 7 times throughout their working life. This means a complete transformation—new job, new industry, new employer. It’s a big deal. These are the kinds of changes that cause massive amounts of stress, anxiety and worry. Sure, they can be exciting at the same time. But overall, a change of career is nothing to sneeze at.

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Are Young Job Seekers About To Take a Hard Fall?

On The Job

I often say that one of the happiest times of my life was when I was a college senior. Why? Because that's the last time in my life that I truly felt like I had the world by the tail. There wasn't anything I didn't know. Then, of course, I graduated, got a job.and realized I knew nothing. So, when I did this story for Ganett/USA Today, it brought back a lot of memories of my last days in college, and the naive belief that the world was waiting for me with open arms.

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Using The BlackBerry myTasks App As GTD Capture Tool

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. I am a happy camper with the BlackBerry Bold 9780. This phone is definitely an upgrade from my Nokia E71. I have now fully adopted my BlackBerry as my primary GTD Tool. And I want to talk about one of my favorite BlackBerry Productivity apps – myTasks , a free BlackBerry GTD app.

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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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4 Reasons Why Media Exposure Is Essential To Kick-Start Your Small Business

The Small Business Blog

This week I’m pleased to be able to have a post from PR Web’s Jiyan Wei, here on the SME-Blog. As my regular readers will know I’m a huge advocate of small business bootstrapping, and PR and news exposure is a great way for small businesses to get new customers, and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune! Savvy small business owners are always searching for ways to increase the amount of visibility they have locally and ultimately increase sales.

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It Takes a Village: Revamping A Website

Make or Break Moments

If you have ever revamped your website or started over from scratch, you know the challenge of thinking through all of the details from functionality, design, content, and who to trust with the project. As a website writer I find myself in the position of shoemaker – focusing on writing content, consulting and training my [.].

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Kill All The Marketers

Small Business Labs

Fred Wilson, a well known VC, caused quite a stir with a recent post that started with: "I believe that marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks." After panning marketing a bit more and explaining why startups shouldn't market, he provides his advice on how startups should market.  This very confusing message led to a lot of feedback.  It's worth looking at the comments in addition to the post.  I think Wilson's core message - that s

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Exporting

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Extensive research is essential before you even start considering exporting. Your product is likely to be subject to a wide range of tax duties varying by each individual country. 2. Make sure that you are aware of any modifications that you will need to make to your product so it is still legal to sell abroad. 3.

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Keeping a Journal

Ian's Messy Desk

10 Reasons to Keep a Journal. Keeping a journal gives outlet to your feelings in a way nothing else can. It is a place to record your deepest thoughts without fear of judgment. Journals allow you to be who you are; to examine your emotions in your way and time. Journal writing has many purposes. You may want to keep one as a historical document for future generations; as a prewriting activity for longer works you plan to publish; as a private means of expressing emotions and ideas; or much more.

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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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Is It a Curse -- or Blessing -- To be a Remote Worker?

On The Job

Most of the people I know who are remote workers say just like any work situation, there's both good and bad aspects. They love being able to dress more casually, of course, and appreciate that it often gives them a chance to see their kids more. But the downside for many is that they often feel left out of the loop and find it difficult to communicate effectively with the boss.

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Google Aims For High Quality Search

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. Google has rolled out some updates on their search algorithm, which is meant to weed out low-quality sites, mostly content farms, from the Google Search results. Google is continuously tweaking their search algorithm to address the demand for quality content.

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WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Wild Lotus Patisserie

The Small Business Blog

Congratulations to Chelsea Singh of Wild Lotus Patisserie. Wild Lotus Patisserie specialises in vegan cakes and speciality baked goods. Like many Pitch of the Week winners, Chelsea’s business came from a personal experience leading to a business idea. Chelsea told us how she was unable to find a vegan cake for her own wedding; meaning that neither her nor her husband could eat any!

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The Importance of Celebrating

Eat Your Career

You may have noticed that it’s been a little quiet around here. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been going through a pretty big transition. At this point, things are starting to slow down and life should (hopefully) return to normal (or some semblance of) before long. So look out for more frequent blog posts in the near future. For now, though, I wanted to share a little bit about what I’ve been doing and what I’ve learned recently.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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Analyst Firm Borrell Really Believes in Mobile

Small Business Labs

I'm a fan of the local media research firm  Borrell Associates.  I follow their work and enjoy their forecasts and analysis. But I'm a bit surprised by a recent post in Lost Remote  with their mobile ad forecast.  The post quotes Kip Cassino, EVP of Borrell: "Today, reported Cassino, 15 percent of online ad sales are going into mobile.

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Protect your resume

Job Advice Blog

As a job candidate you need to make sure that no one is sending your resume to a company without your permission! That means your recruiter needs to tell you the name of the company that they want to send your resume to. Three good reason are: Has your resume been submitted to ABC Company [.].

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Are You Perfectly Stuck?

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. As creative, entrepreneurial people, we are often gifted with the world’s greatest ideas. Our imaginations abound with business plans, information products, and new ways of marketing our services. So, why aren’t we acting upon, and manifesting all these brilliant dreams of ours? We’re perfectly stuck, that’s why.

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Where the feeling of overwhelm comes from (and how to destroy it)

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Last week I published a post encouraging people to try out my Next Step Challenge. It was a busy week. Having typed free, from-scratch reports until losing sensation in my finger tips I now feel qualified to report on some trends amongst the entrepreneurial community. It actually surprised me. Time and time again, I kept hearing the same thing from ambitious (but stuck and frustrated) entrepreneurs.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Five Surprising Health Insurance Tax Tips For Small Business Owners and The Self Employed

Small Business CEO

Whether you’re self employed or a small business owner, preparing your taxes can be a daunting task - scrambling to find every little deduction within “hidden&# tax codes to make the most of your return. And with Health Reform underway, there are new laws in effect that may translate into a bigger refund check. Here are five health insurance-related tax tips to consider before you file your taxes this year: 1.

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Mariner Promo Code – March 2011

Brilliantly Better

Tweet It’s been so much time since I started this promotion, that I sometimes ask myself how it’s still going on. How this thing may still be alive after more than two years? Oh, you don’t know what I’m talking about? Here we are: More than two years ago I started a prom0tion action with one of the oldest Mac software producers, Mariner Software.

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How To Eventually Use OmniFocus

Eventualism

Even Eventualists need to keep track of their eventualizing. And based on the stance I offered last week on paper, it’s pretty clear that I’m a fan of digital technology when it comes to eventually handling the things that need it. But what software solution do I, the Eventual Productivity Expert and productivity pundit use? [.] How To Eventually Use OmniFocus comes courtesy of Eventualism.

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Managing "Complexity" versus "Complicated": Short Video

BioTeams

In the second short video "Complex or merely complicated?" in his series on Project Management Michael Cavanagh explains the difference between "complicated" and "complex" and why you really need to know which of the two you are dealing with as a project manager. WATCH EMBEDDED. Find out more about Michael Cavanagh.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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How To Deal With Unhappy Customers

Small Business CEO

For a new small business owner who is seeking to grow his or her business, brand reputation is an important consideration to keep in mind, which is why any negative press about the business can be detrimental to its success. All it takes is one unhappy client or associate, the lightning-fast pace of the internet, and a negative blog post to derail even the best laid plans.

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs on Tour

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

This is public service announcement - no psychological insights today (unless you REALLY know how to read between the lines). Tomorrow I'm kicking off six weeks of travel. This is exciting for me because without you, dear readers. it wouldn't be possible. It's also exciting because we may have a chance to meet! Nothing would make me happier - so check out all the details below and let's see if we can make it happen.

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Steventualism

Eventualism

Well…look who showed up at the iPad 2 announcement yesterday. It’s apparent that the eventual chain of command over at Apple still stops at Steve. Having Jobs deliver the goods yesterday is further proof that Tim Cook could spoil the broth. Or cider, in this case. Steve Jobs takes Eventualism to a whole other level [.] Steventualism comes courtesy of Eventualism.

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Personal Virtual Assistants – Modern Day Business Strategy

Catch Friday

Gone are the days when work is limited on a personal basis. If you want to hire an assistant, you will have to provide working space for him and work personally with him. Today, you can get an assistant without these requirements – thanks to the introduction of virtual personal assistant. What Is Personal Virtual Assistant? With the advent of technology and the advancement of work systems, it comes as no surprise that personal virtual assistance will enter the corporate scene.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha