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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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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Well it’s finally here!   Yes, the book that has taken me almost 2 years and a lot of late nights is finally hitting the shelves.    The Virtu@l Office Essentials is my newest published works and I have to say I am really quite proud of the end result.  

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I have to say, I’m very excited about the upcoming Virtually, Anything is Possible…Infinite Prospects and Possibilities of the VA Industry online symposium that is coming up.  The event is being hosted by Red Deer College’s VA Certificate Program graduating students and they have done a fantastic job with it.

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I have to say, I am completely hooked on WordPress. I absolutely love this software, and hey you can’t complain about the price – FREE.  I’ve been doing alot of playing around with it.  I find I learn more by doing, then by listening how to do it.  So I’ve set myself up with a WordPress demo site and for the past 6 months I’ve been using it as a learning tool.   Playing with themes, customizing headers, adding widgets and plugins, I’ve learned so much, but the bottomline is it’s really not that hard.

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