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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I arrange quite a few events and have realized the importance of reading and reviewing the contracts carefully, highlighting key dates. I had an event for November 7th and the contract was signed, sealed and delivered, but then I noticed the hotel had put the wrong date on the contract. What are the dates you can cancel by?

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Happy Administrative Professionals' Day!

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am speaking this morning at an administrative event so looking forward to meeting some new assistants. The one good thing about speaking at an event where nobody knows me is, they have no idea whether my hair is supposed to be this dark. Some good advice to pass along: Never colour your hair the night before an event.

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Calendar "ah ha"

Laughing all the Way to Work

If someone puts in a "birthday" or a "pick up the dry cleaning" reminder in their calendar as an all-day event, to those who are using the Scheduler, it will look like the person is busy for the day and in reality they may have the day open. We also have a staff calendar at work and use the all day events the same way.

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Microsoft Office Poll Results

Professional Assistant Blog

This saves a bunch of time if you have to do a function several times and there isnt a keyboard short cut. Try checking Yahoo Groups or Google Groups. This repeats the last function you did (ie inserting a row in Excel) if you press the ctrl Y you will keep inserting rows. There are quite a bit of AA forms there.

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Just a secretary.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have seen some contracts for event planners and it seems like a lucrative career to get into. I love the planning, organizing and running around that goes into bringing a conference from a thought to a successful event. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Oh where or where is my password?

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Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgate, 2010 Stevie.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Lynn has organized strategic events such as the companys internal trade show, all-hands meetings, the annual awards banquet, internal events and leadership off-site meetings. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. She said that receiving the award has made her proud to do the work that she does.

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Skype + 3 = 3 Skypephone, but is it for small business? | THE.

The Small Business Blog

Update Oct 31, 2007: See comments by other bloggers I met during the event and get their take on the phone: Gadget Venue.com BlogNation Tamebay dalelane 3MobileBuzz « Marketing for Small Business: Do Pro-Bono work. of the press event you can check out 3MobileBuzz (who invited me down to London), BlogNation, sme-blog, Tamebay and [.]

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