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Sweet - SarcMark: A punctuation mark for sarcasm!

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Submitted by Ethan on January 15, 2010 at 04:51 PM I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read an email, IM, Facebook post or comment online and not known if the person writing the remark was serious or not. However, if it doesn’t catch on and reach critical mass, no one will know what it is anyway.

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ProAssisting partners with IngBoo for Link services!

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By partnering with IngBoo, we’re giving them a tool that completely simplifies searching for assistant positions in their specific location and makes sure they won’t miss any new postings if they don’t happen to check a particular job search site that day.&# Pretty cool, huh?

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Are your work communications professional? Are you sure?

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Speaking, emailing or writing a new business deck, the communication doesn’t take on the formal tone that work communication deserves. I don’t blame our “wired in&# generation for this; they’ve grown up with Twitter, Facebook and IM status updates where slang and short communication rule.

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Raise your hand if you like automated phone message systems…

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Very easy to search and the instructions are easy to follow… and you can also rate your experience using that number or add your own with instructions if you have any that aren’t listed. Just another use of technology to bypass a level of technology that drives me batty. Share it with others.

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The plan for a successful project

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Don’t worry about being neat or making sure everything is in order, you just need to make sure that your brain is opened up for everything needed for success. What didn’t? Define success - it’s important to know what you and your boss view as a success for each project you’re assigned.

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What Matters Now!

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mba on ProAssistings Better Business Bureau Accreditation Categories All Posts Interpersonal Skills Off Topic Organization Stress Management Tales from the Trenches Technology Tricks of the Trade Copyright 2010 ProAssisting - Privacy Notice - RSS Feed - Sitemap - Customized by the genius Men with Pens

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From Executive Assistant to CEO

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He didn’t want to discourage her candor, but, like Mr. Hicks, he offered tips about how to be more effective—“like giving people credit for ideas that they didn’t have, but you sold to them, to give them ownership,&# Mr. Allaire recalls advising her. Hicks, so she could be his executive assistant.

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