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30 Days of Thanks

Over on Facebook, Stacy invited me to join in on the event “30 Days of Thanks.” This is an awesome, wonderful, beautiful idea!  I already have a practice each evening of writing down at least 3 things I am thankful for each day – so this is just taking it

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Making Connections

On Saturday, I had the privilege of hosting the AssistU local chapter at my house.  There were four of us: Dona, LeeAnn, Pam, and me. We spent the afternoon talking shop, getting to know each other and just shooting the breeze. It was wonderful.

After they left, I had much to

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Techno Thursday: Transferring Large Files

Yesterday, a Twitter follower, Lynne Lee, needed an economical way of transferring a large file. I had suggested using her FTP client or Dropbox, but those solutions didn’t met her needs. I turned to my VA colleagues at AssistU and the VACOC, who gave me a bunch of options to

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Tip for Keeping Track of Passwords

If you have trouble keeping track of all the passwords you have from the various websites, forums and groups that you belong to, here’s a little tip (actually found this tip in a magazine, but can’t remember which one):

Use an address book. Write in your user name and password for

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References Don’t Work

When people read different articles about Virtual Assistance, or how to chose a Virtual Assistant, they are often told to get references before agreeing to work with a VA. Some of these articles are just laughable. I’ve also noticed different discussions around the blogosphere about the pros and cons of

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The Miracle of Relationships

Last Saturday my husband was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia. There were some complications, but thankfully, he is on the mend finally and was able to come home today. He’s not 100% better, but way better than he was.

This whole week I have been amazed with the outpouring of

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Happy Administrative Professionals Day!

Are you in a profession that you love and doing work you are passionate about? I am and feel truly blessed to be a Virtual Assistant and have the opportunity to work with fabulous people on a daily basis.

Today is Administrative Professionals Day and to all my clients I just

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Debunking the Myths about Virtual Assistants – UPDATE

I’ve never heard about this before but, Liz Strauss of Successful Blog hosts an “open-comment night” each Tuesday at her blog. Apparently, it’s like an “open-mic” except a little different. I get the impression like it is similar to Twitter without the 140 character limit or a chat session on

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My Blog’s Name Blog Carnival

Ramblings By Reba is hosting a blog carnival because she is curious about how people came up with their blog’s name.  This is a great idea, I love discovering the back-story behind’s people’s decisions to name their blog, business, etc.

I wish I could say that I had an interesting story

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Microsoft Office 2007 eBook

One of my AssistU colleagues, Rob Neilly, recently launched an ebook called Making the Switch to Microsoft® Office 2007.  As soon as I saw his notice on the AssistU community forum, I knew I wanted to buy it.

So, I bought a copy, saved it and promptly printed out a hard

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