Posts belonging to Category communication

Apple’s Anti-Sexting Patent Approved

It seems Apple has taken the moral well-being of the world’s teenagers into their own hands and been granted a patent (filed in 2008 but just approved) that prevents certain devices from sending and/or receiving certain content. A humerous look at the patent comes from John Davidson in the Australian Financial Review of Tuesday 19 [...]

Express Yourself – Often!

I know this blog is more often focused on the VA industry and business-related matters but I received a phone call today that prompts me to post something of a more personal nature. How often do you tell the people close to you that you love them? Or how much they mean to you? Unfortunately [...]

Appreciate Your Support

As we reach the end of another year my thoughts often turn to gratitude. I’m grateful to my clients who enable me to live this lifestyle, to be available for my daughter every day rather than having to ship her off to daycare, and generally be more relaxed about work. I’m also grateful for my [...]

Give Yourself an Early Christmas Present: A Second Phone Line

If you’re a VA working from a home office, do yourself a favour and buy yourself an early Christmas prezzie – a second phone line. I’m not talking about an extension here … but a separate line with its own number. Most people don’t realise there are two lines with two numbers already coming into [...]