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Apr

Social Media: You have to jump in even if you don’t understand it

Posted by Kim  Published in virtual workspace

I know everyone is tired of the “what is social media” question, but I found this article to be a great quick-and-dirty argument for embracing social media as it happens. It really nails down how the internet became an essential part of business (apparently sometime in late 1997) and concrete examples of how companies jumped [...]

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Tags: bad marketing, fan pages, guerilla marketing, haters to the left, interesting, internet demographics, networking, overcoming technophobia, social media marketing, social networking, twitter, viral marketing, work smarter

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2

Mar

Welcome to the age of Gigonomics

Posted by Kim  Published in virtual workspace

Interesting piece on Web Worker Daily on how smart talent is adapting hard and fast to the changing economy and career trajectory they inevitably face. This post dubs the phenomenon “Giganomics.”
Most of the web workers I know tend to be college educated people with reasonably good incomes, and I suspect that most of the people [...]

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Tags: bottom line, crisitunity, current events, data, enviable innovations, happy clients, home, interesting, interesting people, internet demographics, overcoming technophobia, virtual workspace, work smarter

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27

Feb

Everyone, pack it in with the business cards- Lego wins

Posted by Kim  Published in virtual workspace

I just got my new business cards from Moo this week, and I was very happy. They are all black, made of lovely partially matte paper, and alternate colorful backgrounds you might find draped in fine coated cotton across provencal-style farmhouse kitchen tables in the visual merchandising at Anthropologie. They come with sleek little deck [...]

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Tags: design love, enviable innovations, guerilla marketing, inspiration, interesting, networking, presentations, social networking

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18

Feb

An efficiency that’s not possible in most physical offices…

Posted by Kim  Published in Uncategorized

“I had an admin assistant that wasn’t doing a very good job and wasn’t working fast enough,” Lee recalls. “To take on other projects, I needed to find other resources.”
So she started e-mailing out work for the GlobeTask team to do – PowerPoint presentations, online research requests, weekly reports on Web traffic, and a laundry [...]

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14

Feb

In a Nutshell: Why Virtual Assistants Make More Sense In This Economy.

Posted by Kim  Published in Uncategorized

“She can work as much as I need her to and I can focus on being in front of clients rather than putting together a mailing or database,” Trull said. “It enabled me to take my business to the next level without having to hire an employee.”

via WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL.
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11

Feb

Cool Brain Tricks: Synaesthesia

Posted by Kim  Published in Uncategorized

Although fairly few people are truly synaesthetic, I found this video blog* on CNN to be really interesting. While most of us (myself included) can’t identify with the complexity of synaesthesia, it’s still pretty cool when a scent triggers a memory or vice versa.
I personally avoid most video stories, but I find the CNN iReports [...]

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Tags: interesting, interesting people, internet demographics, just for fun, presentations, video blogging

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1

Feb

Er… Don’t You Guys Have More Pressing Worries?

Posted by Kim  Published in Uncategorized

From the files of “Really? …Really?” comes this distasteful, dated and pointless initiative. So many things wrong- I’ll just post an excerpt and you can post your own conclusions. May I also add… >facepalm<?
Earlier this week, the Bank of England held “Dress for Success” day. On that day, they sent out a memo to female [...]

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29

Jan

Study: 1 in 4 ‘Net Users 55 or Over

Posted by Kim  Published in Uncategorized

In my last office gig, I heard time and time again that internet marketing wasn’t worth pursuing because the demographic we served (Boomers) didn’t “get computers.” I suspected that the 50+ crowd was being underestimated technologically, and it turns out they’re gaining ground.
I came across this piece and wanted to share it- it breaks down [...]

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18

Jan

Interesting: This was New York…

Posted by Kim  Published in Uncategorized

There’s something about looking at old pictures of New York City that’s like looking at old pictures of your family.

New York Architecture Images- black and white new york.
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