This blogging thing is really kind of hard. When I started blogging over two years ago I had a plan.  I was going to write each and every week, I was committed to carving out that time…no if’s, and’s or but’s.

Here I am November 9th and I just noticed that I hadn’t posted since July!  Okay so the plan I made two years ago – completely out the window. 

I could give you 101 excuses why I left my blog silent and alone for over 4 months.  In fact, that in itself could be a fairly lengthy blog post.  I could tell you that work has been crazy, that family has been crazy, that I -have even gone a little crazy.  And to be honest, each of these in one way or another would be the truth. 

But they would simply be excuses, and for those of you who are still taking the time to read my posts, well you deserve a little more than excuses.

So how about this?  I’m sorry. 

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Working virtually has its challenges.

In my virtual world I have found the challenges of sharing and collaborating on projects with clients and colleagues to be one of the big ones. For everyone on the team to work effectively everyone needs to have access to the documents we are all working on together. I find when everyone can work on the documents at any time and still leave them in a place where they are accessible to the rest of the team there is less time wasted with emailing, faxing, calling back and forth and waiting for answers.  Once a sharing platform is chosen for the project every member of the team knows they can go there to find the latest copy of all of the documents that pertain to that project. Lots of sharing and collaborating platforms have places to post messages for all team members to see and as well, a method for private messages that I only want a specific person to see.

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Do you remember when the little ding and the automated voice saying “You’ve got mail!” made you run expectantly to your computer to see who near and dear to you was dropping you a note? Continue reading »

When you have knowledge you have power. Being a lifelong learner gives you that power. When you learn new skills and gather new information it gives you the power to make informed decisions and to tackle new situations with confidence. It seems the more a person opens themselves up to learning, in any environment, the more they quest for knowledge.

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There is an exciting upcoming virtual event seminar that should prove to be very informative that I wanted to let everyone know about. It is the Red Deer College Next Wave 4 VA’s Virtual Workshop Event that will be taking place, you guessed it, virtually!

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In this crazy world of ours, life and work have many challenges to be faced and successes to be celebrated every day. The challenges can be of a personal nature or strictly business and conversely so can celebrations. For both of these circumstances I think it is essential to have a group of important people who support you, your final decisions, and the ultimate outcomes of these decisions. People who accept you as you are and don’t judge you.

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