Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 26, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Files can be kept in open piles on a desk or in folders, according to your style. Use the RAFT template: refer it, act on it, file it or toss it. File it, if necessary. Eighty percent of filed papers are never looked at again. Thanks for visiting!

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 9, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Manage paper effectively – Barbara Hemphill, author of The Paper Tiger, offers the FAT principle for paper burden: file it, act on it, or toss it. Reference Files: store in a convenient location close to your desk. Thanks for visiting!

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Happy holidays everyone, thanks to all of you for reading my blog and I look forward to continuing this in 2012! Filed under: Skills. Whatever super powers you possess (and I’d love to know what yours are?) remember with great powers there must also come great responsibility so wield your powers wisely!

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The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

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. Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. Lets grow together!

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 25, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Sort – everything into boxes/containers according to what needs to be done: file , shred, recycle , refer, toss, etc. Thanks for visiting! Make an appointment - Don’t just hope you find the time to clean up, set a calendar entry and stick to it.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 9, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Delete unnecessary files: With a computer, you can free up space by sending unnecessary files to the trash. How about all those “junk files” on your mental hard drive? Right now, the “files” on your Download list are a jumbled list of To Do items.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 1, 2010

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I keep mine in an encrypted Word file on my computer. Works so far!

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The Office Professionals Place

JANUARY 21, 2010

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. I even look forward to the different holiday themes that the word ‘Google’ will have on the search engine page.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 28, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Schedule filing time at least once per week. Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive. anything you need reminded of on some future date goes into your tickler file. This is not the same as a tickler file.

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The Small Business Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. You want a little more. You want the whole tree." 1 week ago More updates. Do you think. My personal favourite is #4.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 23, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets the phone book, standard filing practices etc.) See what I mean?

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 5, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. This feature lets users load and save HanDBase files to and from their desktops and import/export CSV files for transfer from/to other desktop applications. Thanks for visiting!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 10, 2010

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 30, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Not only did she remember the name of the antibiotic from four years previous, within 45 seconds she had pulled a copy of the prescription from her files. Thanks for visiting! I learned from my mother. That was just before my mother’s 78th birthday.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

  Here are a few tips to get started: Set up a filing system to store and manage your paperwork Your paperwork likely consists of three types of paper:  1) stuff you need to take action on 2) stuff you are saving for reference and 3) stuff that you should have tossed a long time ago, but haven't.    Avoid backlog. 

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets When a meeting is finalized, I put the scheduling sheet in a completed file.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In my first blog post I posed a question, how difficult will it be to stick to a routine that will enable me to maximise my productivity? It detailed all of the department’s procedures including a large section on administration, such as holiday requests and ordering meeting rooms. Ensure you have everything at your finger tips.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

  Every other Wednesday, I share links to a number of different blogs and sites.  Do you have an article or blog post that you have written recently that will help my readers with organization, productivity or time management in their business or professional life?  What Have You Written?   To your success! .

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 15, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

"I recently stumbled across your blog and have thoroughly enjoyed reading your posts! Dear KC, So glad you like my blog and hope I can be of help! Where will you get flowers, baby gifts, birthday cakes, catered lunch, a venue for the holiday party, wine, a list of all the hot restaurants in town? I have only been an EA for 1.5

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Keep an organized filing system and file list.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 23, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 26, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Or if you want to attach a file, choose Attach File.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. You could find possible investors anywhere, even while on holiday. You want a little more. You want the whole tree."

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 4, 2010

You can file and label the files with appropriate titles; throw or give away unwanted things. At home, see if you can set aside a weekend for paying bills and organizing your savings and even planning your breaks and holidays. 'Organize' Organize your papers At office, you can de-clutter your desk.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. You want a little more. You want the whole tree." 1 week ago More updates. Do you think. My personal favourite is #4.

2009 100

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 29, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Get any files they may need as a result of the e-mail correspondence.

Management 100

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 13, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Keep up the good work with the blog! Lets enjoy our day together.©

Time Zones 100

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 19, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Related articles by Zemanta Leading From Below (slideshare.net) Stealth Meeting Facilitation from the Rank-and-File (blogs.hbr.org) Could Your Organization Be Bipartisan? Thanks for visiting! There are times when decision-making requires input from a group of people.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. I would love to follow your blog. You want a little more. You want the whole tree." 1 week ago More updates.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Some days it might be an accumulation of small tasks — like sending emails, printing reports, locating files for colleagues — other days I might be able to finish an entire project in an hour. Related Stories The Rise of The Smart Magazine The 2013 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide How to Avoid the Bad Meeting Trap. Information'

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP 2009 International 100

The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. You want a little more. You want the whole tree." 1 week ago More updates. Do you think. My personal favourite is #4.

2009 100

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Even with the ability to search for these files being at our fingertips there’s often going to be duplicate files, revisions of documents, and other naming discrepancies that can get in your way despite all of your efforts to avoid that. It’s time to get tagging, creating sub-folders, and deleting dead files.

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