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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Attire, Scheduling & Etiquette

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I sat at my kitchen table watching my phone blow up while people were emailing and IM’ing me all at the same time wanting to know why they couldn’t get on the call. I am copied on highly confidential information and I read emails that seem to be written in a new language – sales speak. Thank you so much for your email!

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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

Is it possible to get a list of attendee email addresses to network after the webinar? Baby boomers are admired for their business savvy, etiquette and professionalism and companies want that to flow over to the Gen Y’s and millenniums. ASAP offers the PACE certification [link] (Shared by Karen). I still feel I earned it.

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Productive Networking: 22 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup

Stephanie LH Calahan

I make sure that I send an email to the contacts I met and set up coffee meetings to make a better connection with the ones that I am most interested in pursuing further. Next I import them into IContact and send them a nice to meet you eMail. Get Rid Of Those Cards ASAP. Image And Etiquette Consulting & Public Speaker.

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

And who bothers writing out the words e-mail, TV, ASAP or FYI when everyone will know what you mean anyway? Quotations Marks Rules for numbers Saying thank you in an email Seasons greetings or Seasons greetings? Does anyone even know what CNN stands for?

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Warning! Warning! Incoming text message.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Other times we will be talking and I notice his eyes moving to his BlackBerry and I will see he is no longer paying attention to me, but reading emails instead. Here is some common-sense etiquette: Screen your calls: Subscribe to call display. However, I think our etiquette hasnt caught up with the technology. 23, 1 p.m. (for

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Welcome to Canada, Mr. President.

Laughing all the Way to Work

What is the proper etiquette when addressing or writing to a President? Here is a video link on the proper etiquette to address a President. Everyone up here calls him Obama and our Prime Minister is called Harper. Why do we not use their full name? Or it is that we just dont know how to address them so revert to last names?

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Pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I had no idea this could be done, but I was thrilled when I got her email, but it just proved to me once again that we are all holding on to things we take for granted that others know about. The tip she sent me was how to edit an email that you have received. Close out of the email and you will be asked to Save the changes.