The whole idea behind virtual assistance is that we can serve our clients offsite, so it matters not where our clients are located. Or does it? Angela Parker of Wicked WordCraft and a founding member of Remote Professionals examines various aspects of having clients in your own community in her article “Working With Local Clients: [...]

I wrote a related post on this subject back in July of 2006 after discovering that content from one of my sites had been lifted verbatim. I used copyscape to discover the “purloined letters,” thanks to tips from Vonetta Booker-Brown. Here’s that original post: http://blog.looseends.net/?p=63. Many entrepreneurs are concerned with thieving of their own intellectual [...]

To regular readers, this may seem off topic. But as a baseball fan and mom of a ball player, I must comment on last week’s Major League Baseball Draft. All of my other children have taken fairly conventional routes from high school on into the workforce. College or not, a few false starts, typical stuff. [...]

Chug-chug-chug… conquering insurmountable odds, two very special little iPods deserve special commendations. My ddil (dear daughter in law) Skyla told me today that she and our son finally broke down and bought a refurbished Shuffle. They had it for only a few months when SOMEONE forgot to check all the pockets before doing laundry and [...]

The idea for this post comes from Liz Strauss at Successful Blog where she throws out the challenge:craft a metaphor that explains blogging for those occasions when you can tell the person you’re talking to does not get it. Analogies and metaphors are fantastic tools for conveying new information to the inexperienced. Teachers routinely introduce [...]