My First ProVA Video!

WooHoo! I followed Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice and I did the thing I feared – I made a video. What a great way to end 2009 and here’s to a wonderful, fun and prosperous 2010 – for all of us! ~Sandra Movie Mogul in the Making!

On Heating, “Them” and Taking Responsibility

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This article was inspired by Jon Morrow’s post, On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for Your Ideas, on Copyblogger – thank you Jon and Jon’s Mom for your courage and determination. It’s been 10 days since my furnace thermostat shot sparks and smoke at me and the furnace breathed [...]

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Questions to Help New Virtual Assistants

A new Virtual Assistant over on Virtual Assistant Forums posed these questions to experienced VAs and I thought I would share my answers with you. Even though I’ve been a VA for a few years and worked at home for a lot of years, I found this exercise very thought provoking. Whether you are an [...]

Sometimes Rules Must Be Broken

I’m a big fan of Copyblogger. I enjoy reading it and have learned a lot. One of my favorite contributing writers is James Chartrand of Men with Pens. Yesterday James published one of the most thought provoking articles I’ve read in a long time – Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants. It clearly struck a [...]

FaceBook’s New Privacy Settings

I use Facebook more for fun than business but in today’s Social Media world it is sometimes difficult to separate the two. I think this makes Facebook’s new privacy settings even more important – don’t just take the default’s for granted. For more on this, check out this article on Fast Company: Facebook Privacy Update [...]

News You Can Use and the Low Information Diet

I studied International Relations in College. And became a news junkie. When CNN was born, (did I just date myself or what?) I was thrilled! I could get all the bad news any time I wanted it. Drama on Demand. Then some stuff happened. 9/11 The war in Iraq And the Drama on Demand features [...]