A few years ago, a student I knew set up a web page called The Sarah Finder so her friends and family could keep track of her busy schedule. Sometimes I think that’s not such a bad idea! This is what I’ll be up to over the next few days: On Saturday, I’ll be joining…
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Fall Schedule of Events
It’s a sure sign that summer’s drawing to a close when my calendar starts to fill up with speaking engagements. I’ve got one scheduled each month from September to November, which is often enough that I stay fairly comfortable with it, yet not so often that it infringes on my regular workload. Here’s what I’ll…
Global Meets Local at Business Networking Event in Burlington
The Golden Horseshoe Virtual Assistants Group sure has grown since four local VAs decided to get together for lunch in March 2007! We now have regular monthly meetings and 16 members with a variety of skills and specialties who collectively support hundreds of businesses, so when we learned that the third week of May had…
Migrating a Large Website to WordPress
After hearing me extolling the virtues of WordPress a while back, my faithful blog reader, loyal client, and lifelong sister, Kathy Stinson, asked me if we should be switching her site over. Despite my passion for WordPress, I recommended against it, thinking that the size of Kathy’s website would make for a huge and therefore…
What I Did This Summer
Today, many school kids will be writing about “What I Did on My Summer Vacation.” Unlike them, I’ve been busy working for most of the summer, but it seems like a good time to fill you in on some of the recent changes on this site. Changes to My Lifestream: My Lifestream page wasn’t functioning…
Good News Comes in Threes!
It is often said that certain events, celebrity deaths in particular, come in threes, and today I’m going to confirm that by sharing three pieces of good news with you. The first two are admittedly shameless self-promotion, but do read on, because the third one is good news for YOU! First of all, my post…
Social Media Strategies for Small Business Workshop in Hamilton
Have you noticed lately that conversations at business networking events often seem to gravitate towards the topic of social media? When that happens, do you jump in with your success stories, or do you quietly listen and wonder what the fuss is all about? Well, you don’t have to wonder anymore! By popular request, I…
Interested in Becoming a Virtual Assistant – or Hiring One?
I know I promised that my next post would describe the WordPress plug-ins I learned about at WordCamp Toronto, but a couple of other things have come up and I’m too excited to save the news until next week! Several months ago, I answered a few questions for someone who was writing an e-book about…
A Chance to Win Free Time (or the next best thing)
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. When Burt Bacharach penned the above lyrics, he was, of course, referring to “love sweet love,” but I can think of a few other things that could fit into that category… take time, for example. There aren’t very many people who have never said they…