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Entries from February 2009

Using a Virtual Secretary: Sid Savara on Virtual Assistant Services

February 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Last year, virtual outsourcing made it on my list of 10 Technologies I Resist. Adding a virtual administrative assistant to my workflow seemed like a solution looking for a problem. There wasn’t much that I could imagine a virtual office assistant doing that I couldn’t do personally in much less time and with less management [...]

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Six Time Management Tools from Julie Morgenstern

February 15th, 2009 · 8 Comments

Time management has become increasingly important to me, despite my reservations about excessive focus on time scarcity (see my time management system smackdown). In the last six weeks, I’ve gone from full-time freelance writing work to working for the Man, doing analytics for an internet firm in El Segundo — while still maintaining most of [...]

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