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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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It's all in how you feel

Laughing all the Way to Work

I recall the first day of school feeling so smart in my new clothes as I proudly walked to meet my friends. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Quotations Marks Rules for numbers Saying thank you in an email Seasons greetings or Seasons greetings? School will be back in full swing soon.

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Monty Python Officeland

Laughing all the Way to Work

The funniest was the gym clothes. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Quotations Marks Rules for numbers Saying thank you in an email Seasons greetings or Seasons greetings? This is awesome! You have quite a bit of humor on the way to and in the office! Oh where or where is my password?

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How To Build Reputation With A Blog – Create Value

Brilliantly Better

That’s a key point and a very important question for every blogger who had been wrecked more than one keyboard writing. Putting banners on a blog will be like putting advertising tags all over your clothes. But the most important part of the question is not “how” but “why”. Why would you want to convert that traffic?

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How to Write Massive Quantities on Demand

Men With Pens

I sit at the kitchen island and read my email. I wake up my daughter and get her ready for school – iCarly, cereal, clothes, prepare her lunch, brush her hair, walk her to the bus stop. whirr” – hit the keyboard. And today I wrote 8,000 words – not counting client emails!). I wake up. I grab a cup of coffee.

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Why You Don't Need to Mimic Someone Else's Fame | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

It’s fun, but it’s not like I sit at my keyboard, occasionally throwing my arms into the air and squealing, “Wheeeeeee! We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I . “That’s what I want.” I’m writing!” Thanks Dude!

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Creative Mind Cleaning | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Possibly behind that couch in the corner, the one buried under boxes and old clothes. It would be much easier to keyboard it but I know it wouldn’t have the same effect as writing it by hand. I do feel much more comfortable with a keyboard than hand though. That story you thought of in 1999 is still in there, somewhere.

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