Sat.Aug 21, 2010 - Fri.Aug 27, 2010

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How to Avoid Making Emotional Decisions

Eat Your Career

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m a big fan of podcasts. Radio Lab (produced by WNYC and distributed by NPR) is one of my current favorites. A recent episode on the topic of “choice” discussed a fascinating scientific research study that had unexpected results and significant implications. Here’s a summary: Two people are given two different sets of numbers to remember.

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7 Tips for Getting Off to a Great Start in a New Job

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, August 23, 2010 7 Tips for Getting Off to a Great Start in a New Job Its a tough time to be entering the workforce. If youre in your first "real" job, there is a lot expected of you. You know the unemployment lines are long, and no way do you want to wind up there -- again.

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5 Things You Can Do During Office Downtime

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. Once in a while in the office we experience those unexpected system outages or downtime. These outages would sometimes take hours, which is annoying especially if you are in the middle of something important. Downtime can cost us great amounts of productivity if we do not know how to manage it.

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Needed: Guest bloggers for VMoxie!

Virtual Moxie

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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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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Bad Career Advice: Promotions Are Always Positive Career Moves

Eat Your Career

Congratulations! You’ve done such an amazing job managing your current responsibilities; we’ve decided to give you more! You’ve earned longer hours at the office, higher levels of stress, and no additional vacation time. Plus—here’s the good news—that minimal increase in salary will be completely wiped out by taxes. Promotions sometimes feel like back-handed compliments.

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Stress Management Techniques

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Stress Management Techniques Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on August 23, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Living is inherently stressful, but how we manage it will determine the number and severity of the stress related symptoms we experience.

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Miscommunication, Misfiled, and Misplaced = Misrepresentation

The Office Professionals Place

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Lets grow together! Sunday, August 22, 2010 Miscommunication, Misfiled, and Misplaced = Misrepresentation A work day consists of filing, answering phones, greeting visitors, and a host of communication efforts with coworkers, supervisors, and customers, plus other duties and responsibilities th

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Time Management Magic is Here and I’m Giving It Away!

Eat Your Career

Yes! It’s true! My new e-workbook, Time Management Magic: An Interactive Guide to Boosting Productivity is finally ready for you. To celebrate, I’m giving five copies away for free. Here’s how you can win: 1. Become a fan of Eat Your Career on Facebook and share a link to this post with your friends. (To become a fan, just click the “like” button on the Eat Your Career Facebook page).

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Top 5 Tips for Online Promotion

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Write articles, either about recent developments in your industry or which provide advice. Submit them to sites such as Digg to increase their popularity. 2. Use Twitter and other social media to connect with customers on a personal basis and generate real-time feedback. 3.

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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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Local Online Advertising to Increase 18% in 2011

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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Answering Your Phone: Is it You or Memorex?

Make or Break Moments

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Five Strategies to Cope When Quitting Really Isn’t an Option

Eat Your Career

Those who say “quitters never win” are fooling themselves. If you stick something out just because you’re afraid of giving up—and it’s something that no longer serves you—you’re wasting your time. And ultimately, you lose. Sure, you’re not a quitter. But you sure as hell aren’t winning either. When it comes to work, quitting is sometimes the best move you can make.

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Could That Promotion Be a Career-Killer?

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Thursday, August 26, 2010 Could That Promotion Be a Career-Killer? Reporters often make lousy leaders. I should know. Ive worked with plenty of great reporters who were promoted to leadership positions. Often, this was disastrous, and resulted in a revolt of other reporters who threatened to inflict great bodily harm on the reporter-turned-manager.

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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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20 TED Talks for Small Business

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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Is Customer Service Part of Your Business Process?

Make or Break Moments

SUBSCRIBE home Bio Products Speaker for Hire Speaking Calendar Testimonials Monthly e-News Blogroll AllBusiness Customer Service Articles Alltop Customer Service AllWrite Ink Articles by DCB Church of the Customer Customer Care Institute Customer Experience Crossroads Customer Service Articles Customer Service Point Marketing 4 Business Open Forum Articles Return Customers Ritz Carlton Gold Standards of Service Categories Attitude Books Boss Moments Child Moments Communication Connecting Moments

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How to Remember Names and Faces

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to Remember Names and Faces Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on August 27, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! With Look, Snap, Connect Do you want to know how to remember names and faces?

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Network Extensively, Advance Your Administrative Career

Office Dynamics

In the administrative profession, success is based not just on what you know, but often on who you know. So to advance your career, strive to embrace this best practice. Create a vast network of acquaintances and advocates with whom you enjoy doing business, have done favors for, know well – or know remotely, via others. The only good reason for an assistant not to know a lot of people is because he or she has just begun a new job out of state.

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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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Top Five Reasons Websites Lose Google Index Ranking | Internet.

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Aug 25 Top Five Reasons Websites Lose Google Index Ranking By AndreaKalli Wit

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The Growth of Private Company Stock Exchanges

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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Get organized for back to school

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Get organized for back to school Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on August 25, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Image via Wikipedia I posted this about a year ago and it is appropriate to bring forward.

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Build Trust - Patiently, Advance Your Administrative Career

Office Dynamics

How many times have you heard this one? To be a successful assistant, you have to build trust with your supervisor. Fine and well. But how do you actually build trust? (In a way, it’s like asking how to herd cats or nail Jell-O to a tree!). Build trust with time – and DWYSYWD (pronounced “dwis-ee-wid”) approach to success: Do What You Say You Will Do.

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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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Video, Audio, and Text: How to Arrange Different Content on Your.

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Aug 24 Video, Audio, and Text: How to Arrange Different Content on Your Blog

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What are Social Magazines and Flipboard?

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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The Importance Of Hiring The Very Best Employees

Small Business CEO

As small business owners, we wear many different hats. Among which, hiring the right people, and helping them achieve their highest potential, are two of your most important responsibilities. But which one is MORE important? This is an oft-debated topic - at big companies and small - about whether it’s more important to: A. Hire the best people, or.

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Befriend Your Supervisor, Advance Your Administrative Career

Office Dynamics

Welcome back to The Joan Burge Blog! If you have been following us this week you know we are talking about five proven ways to advance your administrative career. Yesterday we covered the first method, Expand Your Job. My next recommendation may seem like a no-brainer – but you wouldn’t believe how many assistants I’ve coached who’ve never taken advantage of this simple success rule: Become friends with the person (or people) you support.

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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

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Four Essential Qualities of Successful Search Engine Marketers

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Aug 27 Four Essential Qualities of Successful Search Engine Marketers By Andr

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Despite Recession, Private Tutoring Booms

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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Getting Into The Foursquare Frenzy

Small Business CEO

Many business owners are now relying heavily on social media to help market their products and services. You may already have a business account with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You may also see that with these sites, your sales went up higher than you expected. But you should not stop there. People regularly think of ways to let them connect with others who share the same interests and you have to be updated so that your business can thrive.