Get Your Office Schedule Back on Track!

Written by Tracey Lawton


Afterrepparttar long, lazy, summer you may have let your office schedule slip-- follow these great tips and get YOUR office schedule back on track!

Clear out your desk and files Make way for those exciting new projects that have been put onrepparttar 103981 backburner overrepparttar 103982 summer. I recently did this and apart from getting rid of four grocery bags of papers, I felt much more motivated to start those projects that had been lurking for months! And it's amazing what you come across too!

Set up a Resource Folder Keep track of those all-important pieces of information that you come across daily. How? Create a Resource Folder:

:: on your PC--store all those downloaded documents and create a shortcut on your desktop so that you can easily access your information. Go one step further and create folders within your folder, each relating to a specific topic, i.e. industry news, marketing, accounting--decide what works best for your business!

:: in your Favourites Folder in your web browser--bookmark those web pages that you find useful so that you can easily access them again. Create subject specific folders withinrepparttar 103983 main resource folder.

:: using a ring binder file--print out articles that you come across while surfing or any emails that you may need to refer to again; cut out useful magazine articles; store newsletters, circulars or magazines. In fact use your resource binder to store anything that you will want to keep and refer to again! Use divider cards so that you can easily access resources on a particular topic.

The Benefits of Online Portfolios

Written by Jesse S. Somer


If you’re an up and coming graphic/web designer just out of university, you’ll know it’s quite hard to break intorepparttar workforce. You have to contact employers one by one, spend your time traveling and lugging your portfolio to their offices. Well, things have changed, and forrepparttar 103980 better let me tell you. Now you can make your own on-line portfolio onrepparttar 103981 Internet, and send its web page address to numerous design companies at once so they can all see your work easily. You don’t even have to leave your house and organizations all overrepparttar 103982 world can access your work easily.

Individual businesses will get to know your particular style and your capabilities. It’s exactly like having an interview but with no schedules to have to adhere to and they don’t have to meet you in person! You might even consider leaving your MSN address so people can conference with you instantly. Asrepparttar 103983 quality of web sites are reaching great heights, you can exhibit very detailed artworks in full color and if you gain a little technical knowledge (easily attained) you can even make them interactive. You can also have links to graphics sites that you admire giving employers and potential clients knowledge about what truly drives you.

The amazing factor inrepparttar 103984 equation isrepparttar 103985 idea that you’ll be sharing your identity withrepparttar 103986 wider community at large. If one graphics company feels your work doesn’t suit their style, they may have friends inrepparttar 103987 industry who they know will be interested, thus usingrepparttar 103988 age old ‘word of mouth’ technique to get you out there. Other people that see your site can help you get work as well. They don’t have to be inrepparttar 103989 industry to see that your art is worthy of their projects.

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