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.
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.
As an instructor at Red Deer College, I come across some fantastic reading material. There are a number of great books out there specifically for the Virtual Assistant and those individuals who work from home. I thought I would share a few of these awesome books with you today.
As I mentioned in my last blog post, it’s been a pretty hectic couple of weeks at my household with the back to school preparations. What I didn’t mention was throughout all of this, I’m also making my preparations for back to school.
Not of course in the same way that my 15 year old son is, I’m on the flip side. I’ve been an instructor at Red Deer College where I teach 3 courses for their online Virtual Assistant Certificate Program. I’ve held this position now for approximately 4 years and I have to tell you that I love every minute of it.
There is such an amazing energy in these virtual classrooms. The enthusiasm and excitement that the students bring with them every term is completely infectious. One may think that in a virtual classroom this may somehow get lost, but the tools that we use are really quite ingenious.
To be perfectly honest when I first signed up for Facebook I really didn’t think much of it. I thought it was a great social site, with some fun applications (I got hooked on Scrabulous for about 3 months) but just another site I could spend a few hours on the weekend playing with. After all, my 15 year old son had his own Facebook profile so you can kind of see the mindset I was in.
I didn’t quite grasp the concept of using Facebook as a tool for one’s business. I mean, I know there were plenty of people out there “preaching” the power of Facebook, but I guess I just didn’t pay much attention…”me bad”.
I believe wholeheartedly in continued learning. Not only from the professional standpoint, as a VA who needs to stay on top of the latest and greatest, but also from a personal standpoint, an inquisitive personality who needs to know everything…about everything.
Unfortunately, time does not always agree with me and the days of sitting in a classroom are over for me. I know, I know, there are plenty of teleclasses and virtual classrooms available, yes if I can make the space on certain days and times.
However what if you could learn by your schedule completely. A friend of mine and fellow VA, Pam Ivey recommended a resource and I had to spread the word.
