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6 Strategies to Implement a Summer Schedule

Office Organization Success

And so, after reading an article in Office Secretary Magazine, I became a Virtual Assistant in November 2001. Plan out my calendar in advance. Follow the School Calendar. I add all school vacations for the upcoming year to my calendar in early June so I know exactly when the boys are going to be off school.

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10 Reminder Systems for You To Consider

Stephanie LH Calahan

gives me time to send a card or ecard This is what they say about their service on www.BirthdayAlarm.com :  " Birthday Alarm was started in 2001 by Michael and Xochi Birch and Paul Birch (see below) to provide a simple way for people to remember birthdays.   Get your calendar on the go.  Feel better!

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The Evolution of Getting Things Done with David Allen

Productivityist

The meat of our conversation gets into how it has evolved over the years since it first was introduced in 2001. Want to keep up with the podcast? David Allen joins me on this episode of the podcast to dive deeper into the Getting Things Done methodology. It’s always a treat to get to chat with the creator of GTD. Enjoy the show?

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Get ready to ditch your website for a blog site!

Office Organization Success

When I first started my business in November 2001 the ‘big’ thing back then was to get your website up. put your website up online and then you’d leave it for maybe six months — or even a year — until it needed updating again. Add a sign-up page to EVERY page of your blog … quickly & easily.

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10 E-mail Etiquette Pet Peeves and How to Handle Them

Office Dynamics

Bonus fix: Using a separate field indicator (“Flag for Follow-up”) is better than pre-fixing subjects with “AR”. In an organization that is a multicultural company, it’s easy to get surnames and first names mixed up. Pet peeve: Calendar invitations with attachments. People often send me calendar invites that include attachments.

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VA Industry Leaders: a conversation

Loosely Speaking

I had a chat to my accountant and we decided setting up a network of homebased secretaries would be the best way to assist those asking for help. During that time I set up an online discussion forum via a service that no longer exists and we had to shift it around a few times and finally settled at yahoogroups. That was in 2001.

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