Work is becomming 24/7

I am a wife, a mother and I own and run an online business. Gone are the days of clearly defined boundaries.

clipped from www.drewsmarketingminute.com Are the walls between our personal and professional lives crumbling? When I was growing up, my dad set the standard for how a business person behaved. He went to work every day, did his thing and came home. He would, on occasion, bring some work (read -- paper) home with him. I'm sure my dad made friends at the office but I didn't know or hear about them. Today, I look at my two worlds (work and personal) and the line is awfully blurry. Sometimes I wonder if that's a good thing. What do you think about this phenomenon? Do you think this merging of our lives has something to do with the fact that the old work day of 9-5 is also a thing of the past?

Creating Good Content

clipped from www.doshdosh.com What is Good Content? A Working Definition and Some General Principles Every successful blogger recommends the same thing: Create great content and learn how to market it. The whole crux of the matter lies with the notion of good content: What exactly is it? And if it’s so important, how do you create ‘good content’? Let’s examine this idea of content quality in this article. For all its lauded benefits, I’ve not yet seen a working definition for it. Can we crack the content code and determine some general rules or guidelines for its development? After some thought, I’ve made a list of three general principles on content quality, alongside a definition of what I consider to be good content. Principle #1: Content Quality is Subjective Principle #2: Content Quality is Comparatively Determined Principle #3: There Are Guidelines to Determine Content Quality Creating a Goal-Oriented Definition of ‘Good Content’

Isn't that what clipmarks is for?

perhaps I missed the point

clipped from rohitbhargava.typepad.com IdeaBar: Statlicious & Quotelicious The main problem with del.icio.us is that most of the content for a particular link lies behind a click.  While the tags describing content are often strong, the description that people enter is usually not as useful. The end result is that you follow a link, but then are forced to scan the entire text of the page to find the one small piece that you were looking for.  The two situations this has become most evident for me is when I was seeking a stat or a quote.  Both situations are essentially a search for a single relevant line of text, instead of a full page of material.  So this leads me to the idea for this edition of IdeaBar ... what if there was a version of a tool like del.icio.us just for stats and quotes?  People would still save links for original source material, but the text of the quote or stat would be included automatically in the description.  The keywords would also describe the context of each quote or stat, making it easy to find.

Virtual Assistants

International Virtual Assistants Association
http://www.ivaa.org

Virtual Professionals are located world wide.

clipped from www.chicagotribune.com Your personal assistant, half a world away By Laurie Goering In the latest twist on globalization, it is now possible to hire a personal assistant—in India—to take care of just about anything you don't have time to do and that can be accomplished via phone or the Internet. Need your daughter's birthday party organized? A snowplow to clear your driveway? Your résumé and cover letter sent out to potential employers? How about a romantic vegan dinner for two delivered to your home, complete with live music? A personal assistant working from a cubicle in Bangalore or Hyderabad now can arrange all that and a whole lot more, and not just for the long-pampered uber-rich but for a much bigger market: America's exhausted middle class. Now, "I call when I need something, and I pay for the work they provide—no stress or anxiety about unproductive time or employees." For somebody who is "spread very thin," he says, "that's huge."

"Gaming the Vote"

Book review by Gerry Donaghy

clipped from www.powells.com Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do about It) Reviewed by Gerry Donaghy Powells.com While most Americans would characterize our electoral process as "one person, one vote," the route to the White House is considerably byzantine. Why do so-called "super-delegates" exist? Why exactly do we still utilize an archaic institution like the Electoral College? In Gaming the Vote, Poundstone explores several possibilities for election reform. All straddle the borderline between complex and confusing. If there is a drawback to Gaming the Vote, it is that the author presents readers with several different options for replacing the current system, yet offers no concrete suggestions for implementation.

Virus Alert

It's Friday. Lets have some midday merriment:

ALERT
The Centre for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weary Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues, or anyone else via any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life completely. If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises. Take two good friends to the nearest grocery store and purchase one or both of the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system. You should immediately forward this medical alert to five friends. If you do not have five friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life.

More hours in the day

interesting

clipped from jon.gaia.com How to Have a 36 Hour Day Posted on Mar 24th, 2006 by Jon How many times do you hear someone say "I wish there were more hours in the day" or something along those lines?  The fact is that all of us are only given 24 hours.  Having said that, how we spend those 24 hours varies radically from person to person.  It's become a bit of a cliche by now but the 24 hours we have is the same 24 hours that Thomas Edison and Mother Theresa had and that Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates currently have.  As the old song goes "It's in the way that you use it." So here are 10 ways that you can radically change your life and free up the time you didn't know that you could. 36 Hour Day Strategy #1: Optimize Your Sleep Wake up at the same time every morning Make your room a quiet, dark cave Experiment with polyphasic sleep Time Savings from Optimizing Your Sleep = Approximately 1.5 Hours 36 Hour Day Strategy #2: Optimize Your Diet 36 Hour Day Strategy #3: Multi Task 36 Hour Day Strategy #4: Get Organized