Women and Yoga

If you are a women in business or anyone who works you might want to consider yoga. Yoga is a group of Indian spiritual practices designed for the purpose of cultivating a steady mind. A practitioner of Yoga is called a Yogi or Yogini.You will feel at peace at the end of a yoga class because there is a natural realignment of your body which leads to a natural realignment of your perception of life and of who you are. Yoga gets you relaxed and helps you concentrate more, which means you'll most likely have a productive work day. If you wan to learn more about yoga and schedule some classes go to: http://www.yoga4everybody.net/.

~T.O.B.

Trying to get keep track of your daily e-mails may be a struggle, but there are some things you can do to make sure that your e-mails are read by the recipient and answered properly. The first thing is to always add a subject line, never leave it blank. This one line is used to grab the reader’s attention, notifying them of the information in the e-mail.

Because e-mail is also very cost effective, if you have several points to discuss write a separate e-mail for each topic. Keeping the topics clear and concise will encourage a quick reply. Make sure you specify if a follow up either by e-mail, or phone is necessary and also include all of your contact information to guarantee you will receive the follow up.

With the 4^th of July right around the corner, while you are making plans whether they are far away or closer to home be sure to take care of your car during these summer months. Taking special care of your tires is even more important in warmer weather because of the long trips, heavy loads, and high speeds put more stress on your tires than usual. Check your tires regularly for signs of damage, and make sure they are properly inflated to the correct tire pressure. Never overload your vehicle, and make sure that you do not travel at a high rate of speed for a long time, traveling at a lower speed also means better gas mileage!!

Women in Business

Women business owners use technology to:

• Improve efficiency......79%
• Respond quickly to customers......77%
• Increase profits......77%
• Be more innovative......58%
• Keep costs down......52%

Women in business use technology in a very good way, and when in comes time to improve efficiency there right on top of the game.


~T.O.B.*


*T.O.B.= The Office Blogger

When people hear the word outsourcing it is usually directed to the field of information technology.

Previous blog posts have touched on the idea that although jobs are being outsourced to other countries, one would assume that domestic IT jobs would be scarce. But this is not the case, it seems as though the need for IT positions will continue to grow, and that IT is still an in demand industry here in the states. In fact, the 100 best companies to work for IT in the year 2008 can be found by clicking here.

When you are set in your job, it is very easy to forget that at some point you may need to look for another job. That is why it is intensely important to keep your resume updated with all of your most recent accomplishments and marketable skills. You never know where the road will lead you. If you do not keep up with adding awards, promotions, and accomplishments to your resume as they come, you may not remember them when looking for a new position and distributing your resume to possible employers.

The New York Times reports that high tech jobs in software, computer design, and the internet are becoming vacant all over the United States because American schools are not producing a sufficient number of graduates capable of filling these positions. Because of this, an enormous number of high tech jobs are being lost to other countries.
Reason being that for such a decrease in high tech jobs being filled is because the federal government is not issuing enough green cards or visas to students already studying here, so they are returning to their home countries. The solution posed by the Times is to increase the number of visas for foreign technology industry workers in order for the US to stay on the cutting age of technology. What else can be done to fill the technology job vacancies in the US?

comic of the week

Enjoy our new section called comic of the week!

Senior Moment Joke

Senior Moment | Work Related | Funny Videos, Pictures and Jokes at JibJab

This is something that will make you laugh out loud! I know all you people at work need some time to relax and laugh and this will do the trick.

***Warning: You might spill coffee from laughing to hard***



Have a blast,
~T.O.B.

The summer months are upon us, and more of us will be outside enjoying the nice weather and sunshine. However, too much sun can be a bad thing when it results in a sunburn. Sun exposure causes up to 90% of premature aging, and skin diseases as well as various types of cancer.

Some of the best ways to avoid a sunburn start with applying sunscreen 30 minutes before going out in the sun, and reapplying it every 1-2 hours. Another step is to wear protective clothing such as a wide brimmed hat, long skirts or pants to cover legs, and shirts with sleeves when you are going to be in the sun for long periods of time. Also, limit time in the between the hours of 10am and 3 pm when the sun is its strongest.

Have a great summer!

Women in Business (Continued)

As you know, women are in businesses all over the world. And when they are dealing with computers they always have the right protection. Most business owners are using virus protecting software (86%) and have a network security system (52%). However, only 23% have a disaster recovery system in place. Learn more at: http://www.nfwbo.org/.

~T.O.B

Flimp Media

Not everyone is tech savvy. So for someone interested in web video marketing and communications new software by Flimp Media could be the answer. FLIMP stands for Flash Interactive Marketing Platform and allows users to quickly create, distribute and track flash video sites. These sites can automatically collect and report viewer data without any programming or analytics plug-ins.

This new software means that anyone can quickly create and launch web video marketing campaigns via email and automatically track and report detailed viewer engagement and response data and by individual email address.

Using personal e-mail...while at work

Some employers restrict, or blatantly prohibit the use of personal e-mail in the workplace. Is this a detriment to an employee obtaining a healthy work/life balance? Some people feel that blocking access to websites at work could backfire. This could reduce job satisfaction and productivity while others feel the opposite, that work computers should be used strictly for work purposes in order to increase productivity. Although many feel that a personal e-mail here and there is not a bad thing, e-mail has a way of taking on a life its own. Therefore, it is important to know your employers policy on personal e-mails, and if personal e-mails are allowed be sure to limit them to a reasonable amount of time.

Bogged down with paperwork?

Healthcare institutions everywhere are under pressure like never before to make all information on their patients available whenever and wherever needed. This includes for patient care, medical services, and financial management.

Automating documents, is not unique to just healthcare institutions, it can be helpful for all businesses types. Each day your employees and colleagues are routing information and making decisions as they perform their daily business tasks. Automating documents will help your organization reduce time, costs, and even make it easier to access stored documents. This improvement in accessing documents can lead to enhancements in other operational efficiency and enhance customer service.

First Job Necessities

With all of the college graduations winding down thousands of new grads are excited about new job prospects. It is important to know the ins and outs of health insurance, retirement plans, and taxes offered by your new job. A good article to read on how to protect yourself and get the most out of your money in what may be a new experience can be found here.

Benefits of Water

Water is a fundamental part of out lives. It is easy to forget how completely we depend on it, even thought 50-75% of our bodies is comprised of water. Water has been known to:

1. help tame hunger pangs after midnight
2. ease back and other joint pain by drinking 8-10 glasses a day
3. decrease daytime fatigue
4. a 2% drop in body water can trigger trouble with math, difficulty focusing on a computer screen and fuzzy short-term memory.
5. Drinking 5 glasses of water a day may also decrease the risks of a variety of cancers including colon, breast, and bladder.
   

Happy Father's Day!

Women in Business

It's a new time and women are now starting businesses all over the world. Women owners use the internet to enhance sales and marketing. They:

• Seek out new business opportunities- 45%
• Submit bids for new contracts- 27%
• Use blogs, podcasts or email newsletters to reach existing and/or new customers- 21%
• Sells goods or services on a hosted sales web site- 20%
• Conduct meetings or make presentations- 11%

A great example of a women in business is Doreen F. Gebbia. She has been running her own company with her husband Mark Richards, and she
does everything listed above! And you can reach her at dfgebbia@e-richards.com if you have any questions on how she does it.

~T.O.B.

"Blackle.com - Saving energy one search at a time".

Blackle.com was created in 2007 after another blog mentioned in its title that if the background of the Google search engine were black it would save energy because of the popularity of the search engine itself. The screen is set to load as black because more energy is used to produce a screen that is white or a lighter color. We can all take small steps to save energy; change your homepage to Blackle.com to do yours today!

Commit yourself to constant improvement. There will always be a better more efficient way of doing things. Be the person that is always looking to improve rather than settling with what might be just comfortable. Be the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

Get relaxed for the summer

Now that summers here you probably want to relax and be care free you want to stop thinking about the next year, sit back on the beach chair and rest! But you don't really know how to get started.
With the help of Maharaji and a little patience, you'll be on the beach thinking about only you and your family (friends). Check out his words of wisdom at http://innerlink.typepad.com/ .

~~T.O. B. (The Office Blogger)

More and more people have been found to be falling asleep at work. Sure, it is good for a good laugh every once in awhile, but worker’s lack of sleep is causing some companies billions in lost productivity, and increased absenteeism. Some companies in an effort to combat the effects of tired employees have offered workers nap rooms. So what can you do to cut down on being tired at work? Have a before bed routine, a cool bedroom, and avoid caffeine after lunch.

Having a good memory is good for your career. Making presentations without note cards, learning and remembering the names and positions of colleagues is also key; however, our memories are not always reliable so here are some tips that can be used to help.

Quickly repeating new information such as someone’s name upon meeting them can be used to help your short term memory.

To improve long term memory pay extra attention to what you need to remember, give it meaning, repeat it and even use a little creativity to relate it to something else that will “trigger” your memory.

The new 2.0 version of iPhone software will be giving BlackBerry a run for its money when it is released today, by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

The iPhone will now support Microsoft Exchange so that office e-mail, contact lists, and calendars will all be synced...and more applications are on the way.

Economic success is clearly the biggest and best business motivation there is. But what motivates the people that make the business, a business?

Profit, growth and sustainability are terms that describe a healthy business, and these are the same terms that are required by employees to create successful businesses. Unless employees are inspired and rewarded properly, no business would be capable of financial success.

So why not start with teamwork? Working with a team gives you the support, to reach your full potential, and when you’re at your best you are doing your best work.

Work. Not somewhere you go, but something you do. An interesting article about the new approach to work at Best Buy has me thinking, that this could help a lot of people go about their day to day business but with a little more flexibility and less stress.

Best Buy uses the acronym ROWE or Results-Only Work Environment, to increase the efficiency of their workers. This theory evolved out of the concept of the worker being able to exercise the freedom of doing whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. This means the order of tasks completed is up to the worker, and the time they arrive or leave work as long as they finish their work by the deadline.

Organizers of ROWE at Best Buy believe that this could work in both small and large companies…to read the article click here.

According to CNN.com, researchers in an undisclosed but otherwise “industrialized nation” outside of the United States used cell phone towers to track tens of thousands individuals' locations whenever they made or received phone calls and text messages over six months. According to the FCC this type of nonconsensual tracking would be illegal in the U.S., but nonetheless this is a step for science and studying human behavior through the use of new technology. If this technology was ever made legal in the U.S. or in other countries it could help with the design of better transportation systems and give doctors guidance in fighting the spread of contagious diseases.

Wake up and see the possibilities!!

Are you doing yourself a disservice by only searching for what you believe to be the “perfect job”? What does that even mean the perfect job? Focusing your job search is one of the most important steps, but being too overzealous and applying to every job posting is just as bad as having too narrow of a job scope. Approaching a job hunt with a predetermined mindset that is unwilling to accept anything less than the precise job title, pay, and hours wanted means you could be setting yourself up for disappointment. See what other amazing possibilities are out there!

Management involves planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling organizational resources. Leadership involves applying influence skills to achieve a common goal and creating change. However, we all have our different views of what leadership is and what management is. The question is do you need to be a good leader to be a good manager? And does a leader need to have good management skills to be a good leader? What are your thoughts, feel free to weigh in!

Gearing up for the week ahead!

Tomorrow is Monday! What better way to start you week off then going in to it with a positive mindset. Enjoy some quiet time and a cup or tea, or coffee. Here are some things to keep in mind throughout the week whether it be at work or at home.

1. No one can ruin your day without your permission.
2. The best way to escape problems, is to solve them.
3. Life is a journey, not a destination so enjoy the trip.
4. Success stops, but only when you do!
5. Breathe.