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Archive for the ‘Fun Stuff’ Category

April 24th, 2008

Fun Contest at My Organized Biz: Visual Organizing

If you, like me, are trying to get organized, you’ll want to check out Jen’s "visual organizing group think" at My Organized Biz. She’s challenging readers to share their tips for visual organizers. I’m one of those "out of sight, out of mind" people, so I have a lot of stuff on my desk when […]

By Kristen King -- 1 comment

April 10th, 2008

Biz Chicks in Real Life: Refrigerator Madness

Do you have a funny work story to share? E-mail it to Kristen with a short bio, and your story could appear on Biz Chicks Rule!
Refrigerator Madness
by Betsy Garman
There have been a rash of thefts from the employee refrigerators at work. The latest case occurred yesterday when someone stole an entire bag of salad. A […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

April 10th, 2008

Contest: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

As a timely follow-up to yesterday’s post about my identity crisis, I’d like to invite you to participate in the Business Channel’s April Contest: What Do/Did You Want to Be When You Grow Up? All you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling about what you wanted to be when you […]

By Kristen King -- 20 comments

April 8th, 2008

Tax Interlude: Don’t Think Taxes Are Funny?

I beg to differ. They’re good for a solid three and a half months of late-night television monologues! The Guide to Political Humor at About.com put together a collection of some really funny ones. Some are less recent than others, but they’re all worth a chuckle. Here are a few to whet your appetite:

"Your taxes […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

February 2nd, 2008

What Business Owners Can Learn from Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, and Tom Brady

I posted about this over at Lively Women in regard to women’s health, but I also wanted to put a business spin on things.
There’s something about an attractive, charismatic player that gets non-football fans interested in football, and Tom Brady and the Manning brothers are prime examples. From Family Guy to Saturday Night Live […]

By Kristen King -- 4 comments

January 7th, 2008

Guest Post: Lessons for small business success, from my twin toddler daughters (Part 1)

by Shannon Cherry
My twin two-year old daughters reminded me, without words, about business and success. When you are starting a business, you need to think of it as raising a child. You start by crawling, then walking, then running.
So take heart in the following tips – they may come from very cute, very small people […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

January 4th, 2008

Why Freelance Writing Isn’t Sexy Enough

 
“As my fingers stroked lightly across the keys, moving swiftly and passionately, not slowing down but increasing my speed more and more as I…”
Oh, I’m sorry. Excuse me. I was just making some adjustments to an article that I was working on. Hope you didn’t get flustered while reading those words. Okay, read them again. […]

By Bridget Wright -- 6 comments

December 15th, 2007

Tripping Down the BlogHer Blogroll, Part 2

Over at BlogHer, there are scads and scads of great women-written blogs and sites just waiting to be discovered. Here are several I’ll be checking out over the next few weeks from the second half of the alphabet.

Naturally WAHMs
News on Women
Pajama Professional
Sisters in Biz
Small Biz Survival
Smart Not Cheap
Startup Princess
The Anti-9-to-5 Guide
The Business of Life
The Work-at-Home […]

By Kristen King -- 4 comments

December 15th, 2007

Tripping Down the BlogHer Blogroll - Part 1

Over at BlogHer, there are scads and scads of great women-written blogs and sites just waiting to be discovered. Here are several I’ll be checking out over the next few weeks from the first half of the alphabet.

A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects
Balancing Motherhood
Boss Lady
Career Assessment Goddess
Career Diva
Entrepreneur Moms
eMoms at Home
It’s Women’s Work
Family Friendly Work
Girls […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

October 27th, 2007

7 Things You Didn’t Know About Kristen

Kelly at TaxGirl tagged Bridget and me for a meme on seven random things you don’t know about me. Seeing as how we’re all new here, this shouldn’t be hard. ;] But it will be fun! So, here they are!

When I was a kid, my family raised chickens (and cows and pigs and honeybees, too), […]

By Kristen King -- 0 comments

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