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MARCH 9, 2010

To download the.mp3 to save and listen to later on your computer, iPod or other mp3 player: For Mac users, hold “Ctrl&# and click the link then select “save linked file to…&# to save it to your desktop. For PC users, “right click&# the link and “save link as…&#. Share it with others. Share it with others.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   I use Facebook to build new relationships and reconnect with people.    Read on to learn how to clean up your Facebook stream -- getting rid of the games, while still seeing the funny/engaging things your friends talk about.   Or connect on Facebook

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 24, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! It Could Be Gone Faster Thank You Think - Ours Almost Was » The Great Organizing Giveaway is Here! The new year is a great time to think of ways that you can improve your life -- Getting Organized always lands in the top 10 lists of New Year Resolutions. 

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Post-COVID-19, many employee tracking software programs started popping up, allowing companies to track employee productivity , computer activity, emails, and even individual keystrokes. Certain types of employee monitoring software allow you to enable ‘time-wasting’ sites like Facebook and YouTube, but only for a. limited period.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! 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.  Send emails to others that you would like to receive back.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | Overwhelm Busters (my buddies share their best again) » Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds  A few weeks ago my colleague Janice Simon and I were chatting on Twitter about some of the changes that I have put into place in the last 1.5 years or so. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | Personal Productivity, Organization and Mindset #Cinch Podcasts In One Location » Listen to Productivity and Organization Tips - Steph Has Started Audio #Cinch Casting Its a CINCH! Or connect on Facebook ! Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - Whether you want to create an innovative product or provide an unusual service, organizing your ideas is key to seeing your vision come to pass. But before Facebook even had one user, its founders had an idea.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! » Top 9 Mistaken Organizing Statements There are a number of statements that I have heard people say over the years with regard to their organizing projects.  " If you are struggling to find time, then you have an even bigger need to get organized! 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Social Media Changes to Facebook Pages – A Quick Guide - [link] - Often when Facebook makes major changes to profiles or business pages people flounder to figure it out.    Have you written any great articles on organizing and productivity?  To your success!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 7, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | 5 Easy Ways Kick-Start Your Daily Personal Productivity » Get Organized and Lose Weight!   By learning and acting on a few organization tactics, you can get back on track just in time for swimsuit weather!    Or connect on Facebook !

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On The Job

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

We can’t remember passwords for our online banking account and lose critical emails or other bits of data important for our work. Become your own enforcer of no email or Internet for certain periods so you can sustain your concentration. It’s a technique used by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg). Just say “no.”

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 25, 2016

Apps for file access, e-mail, calendar, password protection, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, virtual meetings, news, weather and travel are examples of key productivity tools mobile devices should have installed. (I Backup and store your files via a cloud service. Share and collaborate on files. Additional Apps.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I love hearing what is on your mind and I often ask questions on my Facebook page and then share tips and strategies right there.  In some of my presentations I teach that there are two organizing styles. "innie" I’m talking about organizing systems that work differently for different people. Make sense?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! » 7 Tips for Organizing Your Home-Based Business Home based businesses are more than a passing fade.    Getting organized is a challenge for most business owners.    Avoid the seductions of a ringing phone, your email or someone dropping by to visit. 

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Leverage your skills and help your Executive achieve his or her goals by creating a positive reputation both inside and outside the organization. 43-File Tickler System. While you were out email updates. Join us on Facebook for Live Broadcasts and more. Learning Highlights. As an attendee, you will learn…. Tweet Deck.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 29, 2012

Stacks of paperwork are one thing, but when they’re compounded by endless emails, Facebook updates, and text messages, it can become increasingly difficult to focus on the task at hand. A file cabinet can be your most useful accessory. If necessary, organize over your lunch break. Evaluate Your Infrastructure.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Perhaps you spend too much time recreating every proposal or contract, every form, every letter or email each time you need it. Look at everything— the RFPs and email inquiries you respond to, requests you send out for different things, contracts, invoicing forms, etc. Second— Organize. First— Standardize.

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Eat Your Career

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Organization is as much about others as it is about you. People mentally associate organization with a whole host of other traits, including: Maturity. Organized people aren’t necessarily any more mature, competent, or intelligent than the next guy. Share this on Facebook. Email this to a friend? Engagement.

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The Office Professionals Place

AUGUST 22, 2010

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 that can get overwhelming. Lets grow together!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 30, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are growing in popularity for not only those that want to get in touch with family and lost friends, but also for business professionals.   Both Twitter and Facebook give you the option to "list" your connections. 

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Step It Up VA Coaching

APRIL 11, 2013

Perhaps you spend too much time recreating every proposal or contract, every form, every letter or email each time you need it. Look at everything— the RFPs and email inquiries you respond to, requests you send out for different things, contracts, invoicing forms, etc. Second— Organize. First— Standardize.

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Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 25, 2009

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. Stay away from email! I was the person who kept everything in my Inbox because I hated to file. The upshot of it, for me, was this: Don’t file your email.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 29, 2011

I hear this story all of the time when I talk with professionals that are contacting me for help with productivity and organization.  I created a “My Smiles” file in my office. That is where I file all of those wonderful pieces. When I had a bad day, I could open the file and quickly be cheered up!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Check out these Great Reviews by @JanetBarclay Janet Barclay of Your Organizing Business wrote a great post a few days ago that recapped how she is choosing her planner for 2010.    Or connect on Facebook !   Or connect on Facebook !   To your success!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 26, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   They say: " Over 5 million people worldwide have used Basecamp to collaborate on over 4 million projects, track 57 million hours of work, share 46 million files, and complete 43 million to-dos. Archive Network with Steph Is This You? How will you use Basecamp?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

            Dawn McCloskey Ultra Organized, LLC. OneNote: My Filing Cabinet In The Clouds. Microsoft's OneNote is my go-to organizing tool for anything that I do online.I create notebooks and files just like I would with paper, but now it is all organized on my computer.

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The Office Professionals Place

AUGUST 13, 2009

Effective Business Writing Skills Who wants to read a three page email? Join Professional Development Organizations Joining professional organizations will give you the opportunity to network with individuals in your field. Need a filing system? OfficeArrow.com has a great article discussing the "43 folder filing system."

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Check out this great tool | Main | Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds » Can You Define Social Media Clutter?   So, then I asked QUESTION: What do YOU think clutters up Twitter/Facebook? Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   Hmmm. 

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This is the time of year that most people stress over because we are waiting for documents like W2’s, mortgage statements, 1099’s, and other information in order to file taxes. Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. Tax season doesn’t have to be a tear jerker.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! PS -- If you've enjoyed this post and want to see more, why not subscribe to our daily emails ( Feedblitz ) or through the RSS Feed ( click here )?    Or connect on Facebook !   Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? To your success!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! I turned off my email notification a long time ago (about 15 years) because I did not want to be taken out of the important state of concentration when working on projects.  100 emails a day x 220 work days a year.   So let's really do the math!  You got it.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   After I posted Productive Social Networking-Making the Most of Your Twitter & Facebook Experience - Do You Use Lists?   After I posted Productive Social Networking-Making the Most of Your Twitter & Facebook Experience - Do You Use Lists? To your success!

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Karen Vivarelli

JANUARY 24, 2021

After some google searching and exploring Facebook I found a FB group for Virtual Assistants and joined to learn more information. Once I set up G-Suite for her and organized her files online, she shared that she needed a website of her own! 3 | What made you want to become a VA? Check out the VA Course here.

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The Office Professionals Place

JUNE 7, 2010

If my files were lost, how could I do my job effectively? Backup electronic files. Most businesses have an IT department that may take care ensuring that your files can be accessible if your computer crashed. But what if the IT department couldn’t access those files either? Organize paper files.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   If you are reading this from an email subscription, you can go to [link] to get all of my latest recordings. If  If you subscribe, you will get an email notification every time I record a new audiocast.   Or connect on Facebook !

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   My friends and colleagues on Twitter and Facebook gave me some great responses.  PS -- If you've enjoyed this post and want to see more, why not subscribe to our daily emails ( Feedblitz ) or through the RSS Feed ( click here )?  To your success!

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