Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Dont Strangle Your Reminders! | Main | Rather Listen? Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.  For many it is an addiction.  Still others get completely overwhelmed with the information drowning their in-boxes

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Productivity Bits

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. Everybody needs an EVIL PLAN. Everybody needs that crazy, out-there idea that allows them to ACTUALLY start doing something they love, doing something that matters. Hugh MacLeod. Photo Courtesy Of gapingvoid.com. This dude had an evil plan.

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Eco-Office Gals

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Regardless of whether or not you adopt an eco-friendly attitude in your personal life, you should consider what the impact of your company has on the environment, your community, and the people who live there. Embracing an eco-consciousness with it comes to your business is not only a good move to shine up your public image (and potentially increase consumer approval and consequently, sales), but it’s also the right thing to do for the environment.

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Virtual Moxie

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Virtual Moxie - The Cure For The Common Virtual Assistance Practice I Want Moxie! And you can also join in the conversation about Moxie posts happening over on my Facebook page Recent Comments Stephanie on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Anastacia on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Renee on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Pam Ryan on Speed is the enemy of many good things.

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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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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Steph in the Media | Main | 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To » Dont Strangle Your Reminders! The other day, I sent out a tip update on Twitter: StephCalahan (Stephanie LH Calahan) Lists, notes, alarm clocks, software w/ reminder functionality all are valuable tools to help you stay on task.

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Eco-Office Gals

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Why not support the gadget craze while doing something good for the environment? You can find endless gadgets online that are environmentally friendly that also do their part to help save on energy! Envirogadget is a great online source for all of your nerdy, green gadget needs. Here are some fun office gadgets to take to work. Portable 40W Solar Power Station.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Social media is arguably one of the greatest things to have ever happen to small businesses. In less than a decade of usage, it has managed to completely transform the way in which businesses are able to conduct their marketing activities. In terms of what can be achieved with a great social media campaign, it puts even the smallest business on a level playing field with its larger competitors.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « 12 Business Productivity Tools They Can Not Live Without! | Main | Steph in the Media » Are you Time-challenged Tim or Non-productive Nancy? Then get in on this giveaway. Are you known as a Time-challenged Tim ? Or are you Non-productive Nancy ?

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Eat Your Career

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

A little while back, I wrote an article called How to Work For (or With) a Perfectionist. And it got me thinking…I could probably write a whole series of these. I could substitute perfectionist for almost anything: control freak , micro-manager, procrastinator…the list could be endless. We’re surrounded by flawed individuals in everything we do.

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The latest economic news and surveys show that the small business economy is finally recovering from the Great Recession.  Key indicators include a strong, positive uptick in small business sentiment surveys and stronger projected growth in the overall economy. (Click here for a WSJ article on Citibank's sentiment survey, here for an article in Small Business Trends that covers multiple sentiment surveys, and here for a NY Times article on the Fed upping their 2010 GDP forecast.).

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

This week the winner of the WinWeb Pitch of the Week competition is Annabella Forbes, from home-from-home accommodation website Bed and Fed. Bed and Fed is a web community of home from home accommodation, across the UK and Ireland, that visitors can visit for free. Annabella saw a gap in the market between hostels and upmarket, priced B&B’s or hotels, and felt that a service like Bed and Fed would fill the gap.

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On The Job

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Have you ever met anyone famous? Were you tongue-tied? I'm not talking Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie famous, because the truth is most of us would be struck dumb if we found ourselves in an elevator with either one of them or their 15 kids, but someone sort of famous. I once ran into Jim Nabors outside the Grand Ole Opry Hotel in Nashville. I was with my kids and he was just standing at the curb, looking like a man wondering where the heck he had parked the car.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Are you Time-challenged Tim or Non-productive Nancy? Then get in on this giveaway. | Main | Dont Strangle Your Reminders! » Steph in the Media   The past few weeks have been active for me with interviews.  I love it!  It is so much fun talking with different people and seeing what questions they ask.  I thought I'd share some of them.  Let me

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The Online Accounting Degree blog published their list of The Top 50 Blogs for Small Business Owners.  Smallbizlabs made the list and was very pleased to be listed between two of the top small business blogs around - Pam Slim's Escape from Cubicle Nation and Guy Kawasaki's How to Change the World.  The goal of this list is to get the bloggers mentioned in the list to do what I'm doing - post on it on our blogs.  This creates links to the Online Accounting Degree sit

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Investing in a good backup solution can actually prevent you from ever losing data. Combine a USB drive with a cloud solution for best results. 2. Make sure that you monitor your data carefully. Watch out for error messages, they could be a symptom of something more severe. 3.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

by Donna Toothaker. For those who work virtually, and even some who don’t, we can easily get stuck in a comfort zone of learning and networking solely by email, phone, teleclasses, and internet and don’t always find a way to get out to a live marketing, networking, or educational event or workshop. And there’s SO much more that one can get out of a live event that you can’t get from online networking and learning.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This is a guest post by Allison Gamble, a content writer representing psychologydegree.net. I thought it was relevant as the workplace is often filled with office politics and misunderstandings that can make your work experience quite miserable. Although, these same scenarios have made for some good fun on shows like The Office , when you are going through a tense work situation it is certainly no laughing matter.

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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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Ian's Messy Desk

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

If you’ve been reading posts at Ian’s Messy Desk for any length of time —or if you’ve read my About page— you will know I work for a non-profit organization. In a few weeks, I will be celebrating 15 years in this position. I do mean celebrating. This is the most rewarding job I have held in my career. There a lots of good reasons to work for a non-profit.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Investing in a good backup solution can actually prevent you from ever losing data. Combine a USB drive with a cloud solution for best results. 2. Make sure that you monitor your data carefully. Watch out for error messages, they could be a symptom of something more severe. 3.

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Over at the MBO Partners Consulting Blog, Jay Lash's essay The Way Work Gets Done in the Emerging "Project Economy" examines the shift to project-based work.  Key quote on companies shifting to project-based work: "Instead of building a large and expensive management infrastructure that previously comprised most growing corporations, work is now sliced and diced into bits of work called “projects.

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Make or Break Moments

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I just got my copy of Scott Ginsberg’s newest book, Ideas are Free, Execution is Priceless. It is a quick, daily read that offers insights, tips, motivations and a few reality slaps in the face. I love it. Truth be told, although my Amazon copy just came in the mail, I took advantage of a [.].

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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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Ian's Messy Desk

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

If you’ve ever told your spouse about your day at work, or explained how to make an omelet, you already have experience giving an informative speech. An informative speech can be used to tell people about something you’re interested in or to explain how to do something. If that sounds easy, it’s because it is. Just choose your topic and make sure you know what you’re talking about.

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On The Job

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I often get asked how to become a freelance writer and editor, because a lot of people are intrigued at the thought of working from home in their pajamas and having time to just do what they want every day. I always quickly set them straight: The freelance business is tough, and working in your pajamas every day starts to make you feel like a mental-ward patient.

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Market researcher ComScore recently released their 2010 U.S. Digital Review of the Year.  It is full of interesting data and insights on the Internet and social media usage.  The report is easy to read and free, so I urge you to get a copy if the topic interests you.  The report has too much information for a summary, but a couple of items jumped out at me: 1.  Ecommerce recovered from the Great Recession in 2010 and posted a 9% increase overall to $227.6 billion.&#

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Make or Break Moments

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The economy has taken its toll on all businesses, some more than others. But add to that fact, changing technology and the change in consumer buying habits and you have a more challenging operational situation. Borders Books announced yesterday that it is filing Chapter 11. On the same day I received a detailed email from the [.].

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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

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Brilliantly Better

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Tweet So here I am, in the middle of Christchurch, New Zealand, in a place called Cathedral Square, trying to find my way into a city I barely came in, a day ago. It was around 11 o’clock in the morning and the square was filled with people visiting a trade fair. Comedians, little things for sale and a vibrant atmosphere of good time. One of the things I planned to do in Christchurch was paragliding.

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Get Organized!

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Organizing Tips | Organizing Products | Organizing Services Thursday, February 17, 2011 Get Organized: Where Do You Put the Big Rocks (aka Priorities) in Your Life? In the previous blog post, I shared an organizing and time management riddle with you. (If you missed it, youll want to catch up first and read the initial post here.) There is a teacher who fills a jar with rocks, then pebbles, then sand.

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Small Business CEO

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Maintaining a business is very much like keeping a relationship. It’s a two-way street; it’s about giving and taking. Since Valentine’s Day is today, I won’t be dispensing with the usual tips, advices and general opinion about business. Instead, I will be discussing what I have personally observed and experienced on how relationships and business operations are more alike than they seem to be.

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