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By Janet Barclay, MVA
For decades, there have been a multitude of options when it comes to paper calendars, from the full year on a wallet-size card to a zippered binder with two pages for each day and additional sections for other important information. You have probably found a format that suits your needs and lifestyle, and purchase a new calendar or refill each year, but if you’ve noticed that more and more of your colleagues have switched to an electronic calendar, you may be wondering about the advantages of doing so.
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By Daniel Roth
As our lives speed up and become more complex, the common calendar system does not seem to be as effective as it once was. Or is it? If you are unsure about an upgrade, this article helps you decide between a mobile, electronic calendar system (MS Outlook and a PDA for example) or a paper-based system.
There are six criteria you can use to decide which makes more sense to you.
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By Janet Barclay, MVA
I recently conducted a survey to look at the relationship between an individual’s personality type and his or her organizing and time management style, and noticed that the majority of participants said they have a calendar system that works for them. As there are so many time management systems available, both paper-based and electronic, I thought it would be interesting to find out which calendar systems are most popular with each personality type, and asked my ezine subscribers and visitors to my website to describe their time management system, what they like and dislike about it, and their personality type according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®). The MBTI measures your preferences in four areas:
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By Time/Design
As With Any Tool, The Answer May Come Down to Human Nature
As the popularity of handhelds grew, many people shelved their paper organizer for this new high tech solution. The paper planner market took a big hit in recent years. But then an odd thing happened - many customers began migrating back to paper.
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By Kathleen Gagne
When grocery shopping, you have the choice of paper or plastic grocery bags. Paper used to be the most common. Now plastic has taken its place. Most people use plastic because that is what is offered. However, you can still get paper and some people prefer that option. Then there are the few who bring their own environmentally-friendly cloth bags to the grocery store every week.
What does this have to do with time management? Really… nothing… except the analogy that even though times have changed the options, the choices are still yours to make. What works for someone else may not work for you.
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By Janet Barclay, MVA
With the growing popularity of laptops, tablet PCs, and PDA’s, more and more people are adopting some form of electronic calendar system. A large number people, however, prefer the familiarity of a paper planner - and who could blame them? Although electronic calendars offer many benefits in terms of efficiency, they don’t provide the satisfaction derived from putting pen to paper, the joy of reminiscing while reviewing the past year’s events and accomplishments, or the thrill of a blank new calendar along with the anticipation of what will be written in it over the coming months.
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Filed under Website, calendars, time management
By Janet Barclay, MVA
In the past, most offices had a receptionist whose responsibilities included scheduling appointments for clients, customers, or patients, but with the increase in one-person businesses, as well as automated attendants in larger offices, this is seldom the case any more. As a result, if you are working with a client when a call comes in, you have to choose between interrupting your work to deal with the call, or letting the caller leave a voice mail message and hoping you’ll be able to connect with them before they decide to book their appointment with your competitor.
You can save valuable time and reduce the risk of losing business by using an online appointment booking system. Enter your hours of operation and available staff, and clients can visit the site to schedule or cancel their own appointments.
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Filed under calendars, computers, contact management, information management, office organization, software, time management
By Olan Butler
Effective appointment calendar software should have the ability to create multiple categories, display a monthly view, create reminders and provide recurrence capability. In this article series I will go in-depth into the above features and show the valuable benefits of each one. In this last and final article of this appointment calendar software series, the focus is the recurrence capability.
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Filed under calendars, email, office organization, organizing, planners, time management
By Janet Barclay, MVA
If you’ve set a goal, resolution, or intention to be more organized in 2007, congratulations! You obviously recognize that being organized can help you to save time, money, and stress. Unfortunately, getting and staying organized is an ongoing process which, for most people, involves changing your daily habits, so don’t be surprised if it doesn’t happen for you overnight.
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