Ding Dong… DING Dong… DING DONG!

March 10, 2010 · 9 Comments

Have you ever had that with your front door bell ringing? Do you stop what you’re doing immediately, think: “I wonder who that could be?” Then leap you to your feet to go and find out? Do you pride yourself that you can tell by the nature of the ringing as to the type of caller you might find there? Do you ignore it? Do you have a peep hole or entry phone with camera? Or do you position yourself so that you can see who is standing at the drawbridge to your castle but they can’t see you and then decide whether or not to answer? Let’s have some fun and test it out: One “I mean business”... [Read the full story]

Topical news

Do fizzy drinks cause cancer?

March 9, 2010 · 14 Comments

Do fizzy drinks really cause cancer? Recent research followed over 60,000 people over time as part of the Singapore-Chinese Study. The questionnaire asked people about their lifestyles, including how many soft drinks they usually consumed and other dietary questions. They followed up the participants for up to 14 years, noting when someone in the group developed cancer and other ailments. Now, what’s interesting is that the research clearly showed that a high intake of a diet high in fresh and preserved red meat, refined carbohydrates, and sodium was associated with increased risk of respiratory... [Read the full story]

Guest blog

Guestblog: Teens today – How do you cope?

March 6, 2010 · 11 Comments

Trust me, I’m no parenting expert, but at the moment, it’s parenting issues which are particularly pressing on me. Today, my chosen topic is my niece. Well, not really – I’m going to talk about teenage life in general, as lived by my niece. My 14 year old niece spends her life on Facebook. As I’m her Facebook friend, I see it all, and it is really hard knowing how to deal with this, given that I’m also her aunt. I’ve decided, though, that it’s better to be there as a friend, observing from the sidelines, rather than being unaware of what is going on. She accepts all and sundry... [Read the full story]

Networking

Five reasons to do your Professional Networking Online

March 2, 2010 · 8 Comments

Why should you do your professional networking online? Well it’s a no brainer. Here are some of my reasons. Image by gillicious via Flickr 1. You can do it any time, any where I started networking online when the only time I had was my lunch hour and the train commute to and from work. I had a new baby and was working full time, with my husband acting as stay-at-home dad. He’s done a great job, but 7.30 to 6.30 was more than enough for him – I had to be accessible in the morning and home in time for dinner. No breakfast or evening meetings for me! Using my iphone, and now a netbook... [Read the full story]

Business blogs

Videoblog: Work and The Olympic Spirit

March 6, 2010 · 3 Comments

An Olympic size videoblog this month with Bob in his bobsleigh… yes, that was my idea. The Olympics are the greatest non wartime movement of people, worldwide, and they do a tremendous amount for the nations involved. It really is the coming together of the host country to deliver sporting excellence. A few weeks ago I watched as the Olympic flame was passed to another person, the streets were awash with people to watch something that nearly 12,000 Canadians had done. The Flame had been carried across Canada, the biggest distance it has travelled in the games history – 45,000 kms.... [Read the full story]

Careers

Are YOU worthy?

March 3, 2010 · 25 Comments

Have you noticed that there are some people who, time after time, get within a hair’s breadth of what they really, really want only to have it slip through their fingers as they ‘come up to the finishing line’? And have you ever wondered why? It can affect all aspects of life, too: Business, relationships, sport, everything. Take the Canadian women’s ice hockey team getting into trouble at the weekend after their Olympic Gold medal win. They decided to celebrate: Quite right too, after all the effort they’d obviously invested and the fantastic result they achieved! High spirits and... [Read the full story]

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Great features of Replace in Word

There is a feature most people know of and swear they don’t need training on, yet when I go through what it can do, they never knew about most of them! I can say this about quite a number of features , if you are like most people you tend to learn what you need to to get by. There is a lot more to replace then...

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Guest Blog: Steven invites us for a bonk…

Imagine this: a group of enthusiastic business people get together to share ideas about networking. They exchange ideas; they refine current approaches; they devise new, more effective, ways of doing things. Over time they create and share and continually improve a definitive Body of Networking Knowledge, comprising...

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65 followers on Twitter and proud!

OK, so I’m starting my post for today with a disclaimer – I’m no Twitter expert. A social media evangelist? Definitely. But a Twitter expert? Not really. But then again, who is? To date, my whole Twitter experience has been at best, a stumbling, bumbling 140 characters in the dark. It’s not that I have a lack...

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Marketing campaigns that work

Aiming a marketing campaign at the correct audience is key. For all marketing campaigns you need to firstly define who your audience is. Are they male or female are they young or old? The next question is where? Where are they in the country, where are you most likely to capture this audience. We then come on to the...

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