Posts Tagged ‘Extra! Extra!’

November 1, 2007

Concierges for your employees?

What are some of the benefits that your company offers employees? Consider this; a number are now including concierge and personal assistant services as perks. According to this article in Sun Sentinel:
About 5 percent of the nation’s companies, according to one survey, have hired personal assistance firms to handle at least some services for their [...]

October 9, 2007

Dos and don’ts when dining with your boss

National Boss Day is October 16. If you decide to invite your boss over for dinner, here are a few tips that Lansing State Journal lists when dining with your boss:
- DO keep things casual and comfortable. Sincerity goes a long way …
- DON’T talk about work unless your boss specifically brings it up.
- DON’T [...]

September 17, 2007

Why not join us on Facebook?

For the past few months our communication with readers has become skewed as we have unfortunately had to shut down our comments function due to an overwhelming influx of spam. However, we hope that you will join us on Facebook where our conversations can get going again. Whether you subscribe to this blog or our [...]

June 13, 2007

Home Offices and Barking Dogs

Joan Stewart of The Publicity Hound’s Blog asks her readers to help Michelle Nichols of BusinessWeek with a dilemma that a number of us with home offices face: our barking dogs. Not long ago I wrote about what I believed would be a solution for me when Max starts barking while in the middle of [...]

April 16, 2007

Our SL office is open

Feel free to visit our new office in Second Life, or stop by for our Open House tomorrow, Tuesday, April 17 beginning at 1pm (PDT). Teleport …

February 13, 2007

Protecting against phishing and identity theft

Over the past few days we have received an onslaught of emails that are clearly phishing for personal information. Two came under the guise of Bank of America and another two impersonated Wells Fargo and Washington Mutual. Right off the bat I knew they were not legitimate since the email address to which they came [...]

January 2, 2007

Don’t throw out those holiday cards just yet

If your office does not have a card collection program or if like me you work from home, don’t just throw out those greeting cards you received over the holidays. Here are tips to recycle or reuse holiday cards:
1. Consider cutting off the backs of the cards where each has likely been personalized, and use [...]

December 21, 2006

Add some energy to your day …

My last business trip for the year ended this past weekend, and whereas I have been looking forward to being in the office to catch up after what seems like almost three months of endless traveling, it feels as if I am dragging. Could it be that having slowed down the exhaustion is catching up [...]