Year End Retrospective
The end of the year is upon us once again. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. We had a nice, quiet holiday at home with the dogs and cats. As the sun returns and we look forward to a new year,...
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10 Things To Do When the Computer Is Down
Don’t you hate it when the computer or network is down? You feel like you can’t do anything, we’re so attuned to doing everything electronically these days. After you call the tech folks, what do you...
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Saving Money on Office Supplies
One of the ubiquitous duties of administrative assistants everywhere is ordering office supplies. In the current economic climate saving money on those supplies is more important than ever. You’d be...
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Have You Got Google Wave?
Google Wave is the newest application of the ever popular Google company. They’ve taken a variety of IM and networking tools and made a truly unique collaboration interface. You can, of course,...
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Creating a Professional Voicemail Message
I think everyone can agree that first impressions are important. But what happens when that first impression is your voicemail greeting? We’ve all heard some of those greetings that sound like the...
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Office Supplies An Administrative Assistant Needs At Her Desk
Let’s face it, as executive and administrative assistants, we never seem to have enough space in our desk to keep everything we need. Space always seems to be at a minimum. It’s hard to keep...
View ArticleScreening Sales Calls
I’ve talked before about Screening Calls to Make Your Boss More Productive, but I didn’t discuss sales calls in particular. Telemarketers are wily characters that will do their best to try and fake...
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Maintaining Your Office Supply Cabinet
Most of the time when we take a new administrative assistant or executive assistant position, part of our job duties is to order and maintain office supplies. Often, there is an already existing...
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Should You Text Your Boss?
photo credit: ydhsu While perusing the many blogs that I follow, I saw this blog post on LifeHacker about the etiquette of texting your boss. It started me thinking about how much technology has...
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Maintaining Your Office Supply Cabinet Part 2
In my last post on maintaining office supplies, I talked about writing instruments and paper. Let’s continue on with other supplies you need in your office supply cabinet. Folders The types of folders...
View ArticleWeekly Links Roundup
Here’s the latest roundup of links I’ve shared on Twitter. You can follow me on Twitter as AdmnArts for my business related tweets, and as Jodith for my personal, political, and spiritual tweets. What...
View Article7 Posts You May Not Have Read
Those of you who know me will know that I’m an avid reader and huge fan of Problogger, a blog written by Darren Rowse on…well…blogging. Last week, Darren talked about reintroducing content that your...
View ArticleEating At Your Desk – Should You?
Should administrative support personnel eat at their desks? Some organizations allow it. Some don’t. Professionally, though, whether it’s allowed or not, is eating at our desks something we should...
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Dealing With Change In The Workplace
In today’s harsh economic climate, about the only thing that stays the same is change. Companies are downsizing, reorganizing, and rethinking everything they do. People are being laid off, duties are...
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I know people are wondering what is happening with this blog. If you know me personally, or have even googled my name, you know I have had health struggles my whole life, primarily with fibromyalgia...
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Ask the Admin: Greeting clients
We have a question today about greeting clients. Good morning Ma, I am going for an interview for the post of a hotel Receptionist Pls i would like to know more on how to greet a customer when they...
View ArticleBe Careful What You Keep On Your Work Computer
I was just reading an article at Office Ninjas about Journaling in the Workplace. It’s a good post and well worth reading. Be sure to follow her links, they’re quite interesting. It made me think of an...
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