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Keeping it Green, Clean and Germ Free with Method. Review and Giveaway

Eco-Office Gals

So ya’ll may remember way back when my daughter was attacked by a staph infection in her toe (graphic picture be warned). I freaked, green cleaners were put on the back burner and harsh chemicals were brought back in to kill any living organism, and probably several of our own brain cells, lung linings, the works. It scared the heck out of me for sure!

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Got Laminarity?

Virtual Moxie

Virtual Moxie - The Cure For The Common Virtual Assistance Practice I Want Moxie! And you can also join in the conversation about Moxie posts happening over on my Facebook page Recent Comments Stephanie on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Anastacia on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Renee on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Pam Ryan on Speed is the enemy of many good things.

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Optimizing Your Social Media Presence for Link Building and SEO

Andrea Kalli

Some claim that social media can revive failing businesses; others that it can significantly increase your brand power. Like most marketing forms, the value of social media is variable. Some will generate direct income from it, while others will find fairly mixed results. There’s one field in which social media truly shines: SEO. However, most of the web’s well-known social media marketers are focused on branding and direct sales, with very few dabbling in anything but the most basic

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Does Your Small Business Have A Growth Strategy?

The Small Business Blog

Whether you are currently running a small business that you are looking to expand or you are running a ‘lifestyle’ business to suit you and your family growth and reputation are imperative. Even if you are not looking to grow your business in the traditional sense, growth of your brand is still necessary to ensure a regular customer base and the ability for your business to provide you with the income and lifestyle you want.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Green Gift Giving: Great Eco-Office Gift Ideas

Eco-Office Gals

With Thanksgiving fast approaching, it means one thing: gift-giving season is just around the corner. But kind of clueless on what to get your co-workers this year? Below is a list of great green gift ideas that will help you shine at this year’s office Christmas party. Reusable Water Bottle. Buying your co-worker a reusable water bottle is the easiest way to help kick-start their eco-friendly lifestyle.

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Please Take Your Snotty Nose and Go Home

On The Job

In the next several weeks, you're probably going to get sick. I know this not because I'm medically qualified to tell you so, or because I have a hot line to the Centers for Disease Control. I know this because yesterday when I was out doing errands, I heard kids coughing. They were sneezing. They were whining. And they had runny noses and parents with really short fuses.

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Google Vs. Facebook: Whose Data Is It Anyway?

The Small Business Blog

I have previously written about the dangers of using a fragmented IT infrastructure, held together by APIs and so called ‘mashable’ technologies, on my NASDAQ column. But this week saw a new danger emerge to innocent users and any small business using these API technologies; manifesting itself in the Google vs. Facebook business ego clash ! The upshot of this ego clash is that users will no longer be able to exchange data between Google and Facebook, as Google is no longer allowing the Facebook

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StudioPress Theme Discount and some free stuff, too!

Eco-Office Gals

Many of you know I recently moved to the StudioPress Enterprise Child Theme and I love it! I’ve also worked on many clients themes on the Genesis Framework as well. Chris Brogan recently made the move to Genesis and Mashable recently named Genesis the “best of the best” premium WordPress themes. If you’re looking for a theme you can customize yourself the StudioPress Prose Child Theme may be right up your alley.

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Productivity in Bite Sized Pieces - Weekly #Cinch Audiocast Review

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Personal Productivity, Organization and Mindset #Cinch Podcasts In One Location | Main | You Can Steal Time Back From Email » Productivity in Bite Sized Pieces - Weekly #Cinch Audiocast Review Last week I wrote to tell you about the new cinchcasting that I am doing.  My goal is to have them recorded daily during the week and no longer than 10 minutes each so that they ar

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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How to Find Your Voice at Work

Eat Your Career

I know so many amazing professionals who often tell me that speaking up at work is a challenge. It’s not that they don’t have opinions—the certainly do! And it’s not because they don’t have the smarts—these folks are the best and the brightest. But they still have an incredibly difficult time expressing themselves in the workplace. So today’s post is all about finding your voice at work and overcoming those internal demons that have been keeping you quiet.

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Top 5 Benefits of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for your Small Business

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. It doesn’t matter which platform you prefer (Linux, Mac or Windows) because SaaS is not platform specific. 2. SaaS does not require any kind of installation because it runs from within your web browser. 3. There is no need for you to update the software because the service provider can do this without any involvement from you. 4.

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Eco Mobile and Broadband

Eco-Office Gals

Cell phones and broadband are now an everyday part of life not only in the developed world but increasingly in many developing countries. However, these modern day necessities have also become a major source of environmental degradation. Every year, millions of people around the world upgrade their cell phones often discarding the old phone rather than recycling them.

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Small Business Labs: Do Business Incubators Work?

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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stephenfry: Must say I really really enjoyed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One. Just emerged from a screening. Best one yet, IMHO

Clutter Coach

stephenfry: Must say I really really enjoyed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One. Just emerged from a screening.

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WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Sales Conversation

The Small Business Blog

This week’s WinWeb Pitch of the Week winner is Tessa Stowe, founder of Sales Conversation - a company developed to help small businesses to make more sales through the building of relationships and the art of conversation. Tessa passionately believes that small businesses could greatly increase their sales figures if they stopped using sales-y and pushy tactics, and instead valued the conversations they are having every day.

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Green Gift Giving: Way Basics

Eco-Office Gals

I have had the opportunity to review the innovative creations of Way Basics in the past, and was excited when I was contacted by them recently to review their newest line, the Madison Bookcase. They sent me the Espresso version (also available in black and white), shown the the picture, to review. I had the perfect home for the bookcase, across from the girls room and main bath.

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Are You Putting Off Having a Baby in This Bad Job Market?

On The Job

Anyone who has ever been pregnant on the job knows it's not easy. You try not to barf in meetings. Your feet get so swollen you can't get on any shoes besides your Nikes, and those make a less-than-professional impression. In the early part of your pregnancy, you can't think of eating without getting queasy. When that passes, you can't stop eating. Some co-workers, who think they're so darn funny, can't decide which is bigger: You or the Goodyear blimp.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Remembrance Day

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Remembrance Day Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on November 11, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Image via Wikipedia Today is Remembrance Day.

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AZVAs the Podcast Episode 9: What 2010 tells us about 2011

Loosely Speaking

November 2010 Podcast Program Notes. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the “AZVAs the Podcast&# logo to listen to the episode now. For iPod users, AZVAs the Podcast is also found in the podcast directory at the iTunes Store (FREE!). Here’s that link ! Most of this month’s episode was recorded on site at Cuppers Coffee House in historic downtown Prescott, Arizona.

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Guest Post: Six Ways You Can Green Your Gym and Workout Routines

Eco-Office Gals

Going green is in and looking for ways to keep our bodies healthy and the planet healthy at the same time is revitalizing and every little bit will help preserve the Earth for future generations. There are several ways to reduce our carbon footprint while sweating through a cardio session or pumping iron at home or in a gym. Let’s take a look at six ways you can go green with your workout.

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Personal Productivity, Organization and Mindset #Cinch Podcasts In.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Listen to Productivity and Organization Tips - Steph Has Started Audio #Cinch Casting | Main | Productivity in Bite Sized Pieces - Weekly #Cinch Audiocast Review » Personal Productivity, Organization and Mindset #Cinch Podcasts In One Location Follow Stephcalahan on Cinch   All Productivity and Organization Audio Cinchcasts   Personal Productivity   Organizat

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Paying For Job Advice???

Job Advice Blog

Monster.com gets me going sometimes, I tell you! In many of my past blog posts (on other blogs) I have ranted about what their value really is to job candidates and more importantly, what it really is not. Today, while surfing around the net just to see how our blog was ranking in search engines [.

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Bask in Your Glory

Eat Your Career

This past weekend, I attended a three-day training for becoming a certified life coach. It was the first class in this series (which is quite intense and will take more than a year to complete) and, when I first walked in the door, I wasn’t at all sure that the training would resonate with me. However, by the end of the very first day, I knew I had stumbled upon a great life calling.

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The 12 Privacy Tips of Christmas

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap The 12 Privacy Tips of Christmas Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on November 10, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Image by d70focus via Flickr On the first day of Christmas , the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner gave to me… 12 tips for prote

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The Thankful Season

Office Dynamics

It’s not quite yet the season to be jolly, but it IS the season to be thankful now that we are headed into November. This is a critical time for administrative professionals and executive assistants! It’s time to reflect on the past year, plan forward to finish well and prepare for year-end performance reviews. It’s not even too early to begin dreaming about what we want to accomplish next year beyond the holiday season so quickly approaching.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Hooray for Wilhelm Roentgen

Loosely Speaking

I am not great at recalling dates, phone numbers, that sort of thing. I DO have a knack for names, and when I saw Google’s visual tribute today , November 8, the name of the man who discovered X-Rays popped instantly into my head. And, what timing. Due to his insatiable appetite for things inedible, we’d been sitting vigil with Chester throughout the weekend.

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Acting the part.

Laughing all the Way to Work

We can't know everything, but our boss's certainly don't need to know that. It's a bit of an act isn't it? Inside you may not have a clue what the answer is, but usually there is someone who does so I always base my answer on that. I act calm when presented with the problem and ask my boss to leave it with me to come back with a solution and give a short timeframe that I will get back to him.

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persdevquotes: Live out of your imagination, not your history. ~ Stephen Covey [link]

Clutter Coach

persdevquotes: Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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