Each month we highlight one of our members, not only because they are fabulous people but also because we fully believe that shared experience and knowledge is important and makes everyone better people.
Continue reading Member Spotlight – Laura Johnston
A wiki is a website or database where multiple users collaboratively add and edit content to share knowledge. It requires high trust but allows for quick sharing and fosters collaboration.
Fortune 500 companies lose at least $31.5 billion a year by failing to share knowledge
The first known website wiki was called WikiWikiWeb. Wiki means quick in Hawaiian. Wiki wiki equates to really quick. So essentially it was the really quick web. This site was a place where multiple users could contribute to this shared knowledge repository on software design patterns.
Continue reading What the what’s a wiki?
I’ve been speaking nonstop with assistants since we went into lockdown here at The Officials HQ and everyone has tech on their minds. There have never been so many assistants working from home and it is pushing all this tech right to the front of your minds.
One question that caused a big reaction was ”How do you track your day to day?” The tech savvy Laura Johnston of The Assistant’s Handbook (and an Official!) told us all about Notion, and we were hooked! So we teamed up with her to bring you our next course Notion: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge which will be released next week. Read more about this powerful and collaborative tool with the potential of becoming your new best friend.
Continue reading Free Webinar: Notion for Task Management
G Suite is a powerful productivity tool. This is the tool that startups are built on and that assistants that are pursuing a role in startups/fintech/tech need to master. This intuitive suite of products rivals Microsoft in a way that can convert even the heaviest Office power user. Why? Because so much of it’s functionality is free! Also, because Google is constantly evolving and experimenting. They are great at boiling down the essence of a product and then adding easy accessibility, collaboration and a sprinkling of kickass features.
Google has announced it will be releasing its video conferencing tool Meet, a Zoom competitor, free to all consumer Google accounts this month of May 2020. We will be updating the course with all you need to know about Meet as soon as it has been released – a promising tool specially convenient nowadays when we are all still working from home. In the mean time, you can read more about it here.
Continue reading Course: G Suite All-Star
Become a G Suite genius! New to Google products? Want to improve your tech confidence? Want to work at a startup but are worried about the transition from Microsoft to Google products? Perhaps you are starting your own VA biz and want to know how Google free apps can help you run your business.
Don’t worry! Swing by my desk (virtually of course 👩💻) and look over my shoulder as I show you some of the cool features I use to make G Suite work for me as an assistant and 5 time saving tips to help make your life easier – because we already have plenty to do!
Continue reading On-demand webinar: Genius G Suite Hacks for Assistants Webinar
Each month we highlight one of our members, not only because they are fabulous people but also because we fully believe that shared experience and knowledge is important and makes everyone better people.
Continue reading Member Spotlight – Marta Vallespin
Whether you are starting your career as an admin or assistant and wondering what it takes to break into the industry; or you find yourself back in the job hunt due to the difficult and unfortunate current climate; or you are looking to take your career to the next level in a new role, now is the time to prepare, reasses, and give your resume a good dusting off to give yourself the best possible chance of landing the role of your dreams.
Continue reading Course: Getting the Job
It’s finally here! Happy Administrative Professionals Day!
We know first hand how hard admins and assistants work. They are the glue of the company. Which is why we have made it our mission to empower those that empower others.
We believe our community is the best around, though we might be biased. Which is why we wanted to thank you for all your hardwork by offering you a chance to win a Pamper Kit with some of our favorite products!
Continue reading Happy Administrative Professionals Day! It’s giveaway time!
Technology is a funny thing. It is now so intertwined with our daily lives that we don’t even notice it and yet we’re still looking for the holy grail – technology that will actually boost our productivity, make us more efficient and free our time to focus on high-value work.
Continue reading The Productivity Conundrum
Each month we highlight one of our members, not only because they are fabulous people but also because we fully believe that shared experience and knowledge is important and makes everyone better people.
Continue reading Member Spotlight – Sara Brown