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Beware of Grouply

Especially those with a Yahoo account. I received the following information from a Yahoo group I belong to (from a reliable source):

“This so-called “service” (Grouply) accesses your private data and can change
your account.

There are a few new services coming online which are social “networking”
sites similar to My Space and Facebook.

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Watch Out for Those Botnets!

Take a look at this article that of my AssistU Colleagues, Desiree Greenlee-Powell, shared with the community. Scary stuff, that.

Techno Thursday: Time Tracking

In keeping with the time management theme, I want to talk about one of my most useful business tools: time tracking software.

I remember reading on a Virtual Assistant web site once that she does not use time tracking software.  That boggles my mind. Why? Because it  is essential to keep

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Techno Thursday: Do You (Microsoft®) Groove?

What is the one business tool you couldn’t live without (besides Microsoft® Office – that’s a given)? There was a discussion about this recently in the AssistU community and the different responses were interesting.

I wasn’t surprised about the “winner” at all, though. Even before Microsoft® bought Groove, it was highly

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Keeping Your Computer up to Snuff

Over at The Virtual Wire, Rob Neilly is beginning a series on maintaining a healthy computer. It’s a very good article and starts with tools you already have on your computer.

I confess that I am guilty of not taking the time to maintain my computer as I should – with

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Skipping over Vista

Yep, I said I wasn’t doing a Techno Thursday post, and I’m not. I just wanted to pass this along:

If you have Microsoft XP – and hate the thought of having to switch over to Vista – here is an article fellow VA, Sandra Trca-Black, passed on

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Techno Thursday: Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft OneNote is fabulous. It is one of my favorite software programs and I almost always have it open on my laptop. I love the flexibility of the program and the ability to write anywhere on the page in the note containers.

It is a great place to gather and store

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