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JUNE 17, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos, part 1 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 3:44 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Baseball , Cleanup Knitter A week ago today, our youngest was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels. 11th Round. Angels, taken as a 3B player. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos – Part 3 (reporting & fans) Friday, June 19, 2009 at 4:19 pm // By: // Category: Baseball Today, he drove to Tempe, to the Angels Tempe Diablo Stadium to report. Received equipment, signed up for his new insurance program (yeah!), Then, the fans.

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DECEMBER 13, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Redistributing your work-life balancing act? Though it is all calendared, this where I prioritize an actual day’s activities. You didn’t have time to keep your closets or kitchen cabinets decluttered and organized before?

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APRIL 18, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs AZVAs Podcast 3: Prepping to Attend Industry Events Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 2:34 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: AZVAs Podcast Your quick link to the April 2010 AZVAs Podcast is at the bottom of this post. has been cancelled. How you can get on the podcast!

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APRIL 28, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Have you got game? If you’re a female executive, add that other balancing act, appropriate assertiveness versus perceived bitchiness, and you may find your carefully honed professionalism isn’t cutting it. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Don’t miss it. Mark your calendar for Wednesday, March 18, 2009 beginning at 7:00 p.m. You can take a test-drive, too. Check out our 2-month trial program, here: [link] You’ll get a chance to ask me and Katie any question about your business, and websites or SEO. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Round up #3, Prescott Style Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 7:48 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Election Day 2008! I presume they won’t have time to chat today, in that the predicted turnout will keep them hopping. But c’mon.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Please Mind Your Manners Monday, November 16, 2009 at 10:18 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Life of the Virtual Assistant Please bear with this veteran VA while she spouts off on some assaults on common courtesy she’s noted of late.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Pretty Twitter Badges by Limeshot Design Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 3:13 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Craving a new look for your Twitter badges? Limeshot also offers Twitter Backgrounds for those who don’t know how to make their own. Try Limeshot.

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OCTOBER 25, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Off the needles! Originally used for my granddaughter Tessa’s first baby blanket and sweater, made four years ago, the yarn band is, alas, long gone, so I don’t know its name or recommended gauge. Baby hat and bell bottoms. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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JANUARY 1, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs The Way to Start a Year Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 10:50 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Ever read The Way to Start a Day by Byrd Baylor ? It’s one of my favorite read-alouds from back in my earlier career as a middle school teacher.

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OCTOBER 27, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs I am such an SOB! You don’t even have to take a time machine to get there. Monday, October 27, 2008 at 9:03 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Successful and Outstanding Blogger, that is! Meanwhile, I’ll be over at the SOB party tomorrow.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

After all, even though the book discusses how you can start the new year anytime you want, the beginning of the calendar year is a great time to remind people of that. You can read more about The Front Nine at the book’s web page …and you can read the actual book starting next Tuesday.

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DECEMBER 13, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs All I need is $4.59 Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 10:37 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Family Life , Life of the Virtual Assistant I won’t tell you how long it’s been since I became a Google Adsense Publisher. But I WILL tell you I have only $4.59

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MARCH 26, 2009

Springtime also heralds the start of allergy season, and this means more time spent indoors than I would like. It’s also an opportunity to dig through my assorted knitting bags to see what might be languishing there, forgotten. And, here it is on my dress form, wishing to be worn outside. Hope springs eternal. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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JANUARY 25, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Taking Care of Each Other Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 5:53 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Travel These times provide lots of opportunities for extending simple kindnesses, and taking care of “our chother,&# as my children called it when they were tiny.

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JANUARY 16, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Calling all Northern Arizona Virtual Assistants: Is there anyone out there? If you reside in Northern Arizona and your VA practice meets the * criteria listed below, then you won’t want to miss this local meet-up of seasoned professionals. – 10:00 a.m.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos: First Spring Training Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 11:16 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Baseball , Sports I appreciate that I am still in business. I don’t know if I could manage to not go watch if it were my son; that would be very difficult!

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JUNE 24, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs WordPress 2.8 I know, WP experts will advise me that it wasn’t magic but rather misbehavior of a dormant plugin or something else I did or misjudged. The only remaining big mess was the admin panel which wasn’t seeing its intended CSS and image files.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Give a care? Who wouldn’t love showing up once a week to pick up two tote bags full of flowers and veggies, picked just that morning?! I don’t know about Chino Valley, Prescott Valley and Paulden. Give a share! Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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OCTOBER 6, 2008

If you haven’t been providing web design for long, you won’t have this problem, UNTIL a new client asks you for a site update or redesign of his older site, and you discover that you’re going to have to start from scratch. Hence, you have what seems like an ethical conundrum. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Updating to WordPress 2.7 Specifically, my update didn’t find or recognize these three files: wp-includes/http.php wp-includes/pluggable.php wp-includes/Text/Diff/Renderer/inline.php All it took was a look through the 2.7 They are totally different.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Tandem Social Networking Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 10:55 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Harry Caray may be one of the best networkers ever, moving thousands of tone-deaf Cub fans to stand and sing at the top of their lungs. in our area.

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JUNE 16, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Has your blogging pace waned? And who isn’t facing that reality? and also to know when to close down an avenue that isn’t working… and start to listen to our intuition/gut when it comes to making decisions. 1,314 spams.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Prepare now for when business picks up again Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 12:54 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives Here’s a list of things to do now, if you are in a work slowdown, so that when things pick up again you’ll be ready!

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

A freelance job is a blessing in more ways than one—you don’t have a fixed job or one boss to answer to, you’re a free agent who’s allowed to pick and choose the assignments that you think are best for you, and you get to work from home and keep flexible hours. Spend your time reading and searching for new assignments.

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JULY 26, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos: Part 5–”Trip to Orem Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 10:10 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Baseball , Sports Ever optimistic, I discovered another silver lining in this lethargic economy: we were able to skedaddle for a few days to watch a some short season baseball.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Reasons why work slowdowns can be good Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 11:12 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant My DH had his first-ever no work day in 35 years as a Land Surveyor. Not that he has never taken a day off. For me, the key is substitution.

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can you say “sidetracked?&# Going into a cave to escape isn’t the answer, though. Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 11:41 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant I could blame it on the economy. I’m so envious of you, Katie!

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Climate change and the 6 Americas Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7:55 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging , Business Strategies/Perspectives , Life of the Virtual Assistant What do these things have in common? failure to use a condom 2. volcanic eruptions 3. wildfires 7.

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JULY 10, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Roundup #5 Prescott Style Friday, July 10, 2009 at 2:26 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources A recent meeting with local VA bud Tara Fort , owner of Versatility4u.com , generated a list of resources you may want to review. And, guess what else?!

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Considering it is a more personal type of newsletter post — as in, I don’t that much about the book – I thought I’d make it available here as well. As we head into the last quarter of the calendar year, I find myself exceedingly busy. And that’s a very good thing.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

And even if you didn’t knit them yourself, the hand-knitters in your life will be impressed that you appreciate these special gifts enough to preserve them. The pair I will use as my example were knit (by me) of yarn that isn’t really suited to socks but I loved it and made them out of it anyway.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can Virtual Assistants provide social networking support? If I am a client contracting with an assistant to manage my social networking communications, how do I know if this assistant is aware of protocol if I don’t know the protocol myself?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs And now for some damage control Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 4:02 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging In the wee hours of February 18, while I was packing for a trip out of town, Loosely Speaking vanished from existence. Wade is in tech support at Alentus.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs And now for some damage control Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 4:02 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging In the wee hours of February 18, while I was packing for a trip out of town, Loosely Speaking vanished from existence. Wade is in tech support at Alentus.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Blog Action Day 2008 Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 1:00 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging As a participant in Blog Action Day 2008, I asked everyone I know for information on programs (actual or planned) which combat poverty. Contact the shelter at 928-778-7744.

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