It’s an incredible luxury to have the entire spectrum of human knowledge at our fingertips, but it can feel more than a little daunting.
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Adminja is a project management system designed specifically for virtual assistants. Since I work at a virtual assistant company, I couldn’t help but give it a try to see how it measured up against other systems I’ve used. Everything Zen Before I get into the actual meat and potatoes of the program, I have to mention the ninja-themed images used on the registration and login pages. A calm inner peace washes over me...
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In an office environment, where everyone’s connected to the internet and working on a computer, instant messaging programs make a lot of sense. They provide a way to communicate quickly with coworkers (or clients), and also meet some convenience requirements conducive to office-type work – especially for us! For one, typing to one another via a chat is silent. There may be times when we need to speak to each other in person or...
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It’s time to draft some copy. You’ve brainstormed your topic and done your research, but now you’ve got to start typing… Where do you go to begin? For some, it’s that ubiquitous blue W – the longstanding king of word processing, Microsoft Word. For others, it’s a straight to their favorite browser to fire up Google Docs and make drafts in a more web-based way. But what’s the difference? Why would people choose one over the...
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How many times have you called into your bank and reached an automated system? All you want to do is check your bank account balance, report fraud, or transfer funds… But before you get to the solution, you hang up with frustration because the system doesn’t recognize what you’re saying. “Last week at Finovate 2013, Franklin-based Interactions took home the award for best in show. Finovate is an annual event...
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I’ve had a peripheral interest in this topic ever since my google alert for “virtual assistant” started to flood with Siri related articles. Seemingly overnight, we had a new competitor for the popular keyword – and for a moment, I questioned if we would start having to compete against artificial intelligence for work. The question was answered in this article by our writer, Mike. I’ve still been...
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