About two-thirds of the population are visual learners, who like to see what they are learning. That’s a pretty good reason to use photos in your blog posts, but when time’s at a premium, you may find that it’s too much bother to download an appropriate image to your hard drive, resize it to will…
Virtual Assistant, Website Designer, and Blogger
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A Web Makeover
If you’ve had a website for several years, you know that after numerous updates, changes, and additions, inconsistencies in design, format, and even content can occasionally appear on your site. Even a carefully maintained site can begin to look tired over time. When Daisy Wright of The Wright Career Solution contacted me, her website looked…
Introducing "Your Organizing Business"
As you probably know, I just love to blog! Wanting to improve my blogging skills, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and decided I’d like to try what the experts refer to as a “niche blog.” It can be tricky to find a niche, because if it’s a really popular subject, there’s a good…
Introducing Sharon Graham
For nearly two years, I’ve been working with Sharon Graham, president and principal consultant at Graham Management Group, founder and executive director of Career Professionals of Canada, and author of Best Canadian Resumes. One of the benefits of being Sharon’s VA is the variety of interesting projects, the most recent one being the creation of…
What is a Blog?
The word “blog” is, of course, a commonly accepted short form for “weblog.” Other than that, being a relatively recent phenomenon, its meaning isn’t clearly defined (neither “blog” nor “weblog” are listed in my copy of the Oxford Canadian Dictionary, published in 1998). Because of this, Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips has initiated a…