Oct 11, 2018 | Office Memo
I keep my cookbooks in the cupboard above my fridge. It’s a place overflowing with printouts and binders and cookbooks with notched and folded pages. All my favourites have notes and jotted remarks all over the margins, too. My cooking is for pleasure and sustenance,...
Sep 27, 2018 | Office Memo
It doesn’t take much to unnecessarily bog down your writing. You know the feeling—you’re practically erupting with passion about something and want to say everything about it to anyone who will listen. Well-written copy can make or break it with your audience, and...
Sep 16, 2018 | Office Memo
Raise your hand if, when you read a business book, you immediately do the exercise at the end of the chapter. If your hand is still on the mouse because you don’t immediately do the exercises in a business book, I’m with you. Marketing shouldn’t be an act of force;...
May 31, 2018 | Office Memo
In one of my first ‘online jobs’, I worked for a Virtual Assistant agency within a team of subcontractors. Our group addressed each client’s needs based on our individual strengths and skill sets. One of my previous co-workers connected with me on LinkedIn. I was...
Apr 1, 2018 | Book Review
I am guilty of many corporate office crimes like keeping the best pens for myself, hoarding sticky notes and creeping out early on Friday afternoons, escaping for the weekend. Even when I was in the office part-time, the siren call of the weekend sang sweetly. Working...
