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READ MORE A web-based business called LongerDays.com has become one of the largest All-American providers of virtual employee and assistant services. In an industry dominated by cheap, overseas labor, LongerDays.com has built their business on the belief that there was a market for the quality, security, and service that can only be offered by American based virtual employees. In their fifth year of business, with a growing client list and team of staff, it appears their gamble is paying off.Muskegon, Michigan (PRWEB) November 08, 2011 A web-based business called LongerDays.com has become one of the largest All-American providers of virtual employee and assistant services. In an industry dominated by cheap, overseas labor, LongerDays.com has built their business on the belief that there was a market for the quality, security, and service that can only be offered by American based virtual employees. In their fifth year of business, with a growing client list and team of staff, it appears their gamble is paying off.An unknown industry to most, virtual assistance has proven itself as an emergent 21st century business model, capable of skirting economic hardship while enriching the local economy and job market at the same time. As many manufacturing and IT jobs are being sent overseas, LongerDays.com is doing the exact opposite, bringing new jobs into Michigan from businesses located all over the United States, and even as far away as Europe, Canada, and Central America. Instead of hiring a single part-time employee, businesses that need help can instead hire a virtual employee from LongerDays.com. Through this single point of contact, customers can access a wide variety of services including: administrative assistance, web design, ghostwriting, receptionist services, and just about anything else a business might need from an office employee. This combination of skills and education makes LongerDays.com a no-brainer for many businesses. The service is far less costly than taking on a traditional employee, and yet clients can access the talents of an entire team of people all through a single point of contact that acts almost like a “super-employee.” Unlike a traditional employee, clients only ...
READ MORE It was not a smooth start for Heather Fitzpatrick when she opened the virtual doors of her marketing firm, MarketFitz, back in 1998. She wanted to build a staff of people who worked out of their own homes. It would encourage them, she figured, to leave their desks and go "connect with the community."But in those days, Fitzpatrick recalls, the technology available to help bind a geographically dispersed group such as a phone system that provides everyone with the same three-digit exchange or a common internet domain for email addresses was hard to come by, especially for a small firm. Meanwhile, potential clients wondered if MarketFitz was really a team. "We tried to assure people by talking about our how this was cutting edge," she says. But even after the firm won some awards for the progressive arrangement, clients couldn't quite wrap their heads around the idea. "I used to get a lot of questions like, 'How do you know people are working?'" says Fitzpatrick, who eventually grew the business to around 100 employees before deciding to scale back and focus on market research. In retrospect, she says, "I wish we hadn't talked about it as much because it compounded the problem. It made people question even more."Today, companies are less hesitant about highlighting their virtual virtues but it took some 30 years for the "virtual office" to gain respectability, as both technology and conventional wisdom finally caught up to the concept. A whole host of web-based communications and project sharing tools have emerged to streamline the practical side of managing such an operation. And the economic benefits have become increasingly clear-cut: "You save money. Productivity goes up. And it's easier to recruit people," says management consultant Jack Nilles, who actually coined the term "telecommuting," the predecessor to "virtual office," in 1974.But for all the advances in communications, consultants and business owners say that technology isn't the hard part about building an effective virtual company. It cannot, after all, create a company culture, keep employees engaged and ...
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MADISON, Wis., Dec. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Departments of Veterans Affairs, Workforce Development, and Military Affairs announce that UBM Studios' Milicruit, the recognized leader for virtual career fairs for veterans, is partnering with Wisconsin and five other Midwestern states to produce a Midwest Virtual Career Fair on December 13. Wisconsin is reaching out to veterans seeking jobs, and to employers, to expand access to workforce development resources aimed at individuals, veterans, businesses and workforce professionals. "Connecting Wisconsinites with jobs, with a strong focus on employment for veterans, is a ...
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A new breed of services called virtual assistants let you outsource just about any task overseas, as long as the work can be done with a computer and a telephone. Virtual assistants are contract workers, generally paid by the hour, who perform menial tasks. The more mundane the job, the better--finding flights and hotels, paying bills, or buying birthday gifts for relatives you'd rather pretend you didn't exist. Think of virtual assistants as old-school secretaries, except that they can't drop off and retrieve your dry cleaning or take your vehicle to the car wash because they live 7000 miles away. That's a shame, because following our tests of four such services, we'd feel a lot more comfortable handing over our dirty clothes to these operations than entrusting critical business tasks to them. Focusing on how a small business might use virtual assistants, we gave each service the same three tasks in succession (so that they could focus on one task at a time), of varying levels of complexity. 1. The Spreadsheet: First, we asked the virtual assistants to take a complicated Excel spreadsheet and convert it to Google Docs, retaining as much of the original formatting as possible. We also asked them to create a new Google account that would own the file, and to share the file with two other, existing Google accounts. 2. The Business Trip: Next, we asked for a two-day proposed itinerary for a business trip to Tokyo. We specified a traveling party of four people requiring hotel rooms, sightseeing options during downtime, and lunch and dinner ideas with at least some English-speaking staff and--the kicker--at least one gluten-free dining option because one of the four travelers suffered from celiac disease. 3. The Website: Finally, we asked for research into e-commerce Web hosting options for an existing website, with particular attention to the costs involved. We said that we were especially interested in something that could build on a WordPress site, though we would listen to other ideas if the price was right. GetFridayPricing: Plans vary; overages and weekend surcharges apply; seven-day free trial to start. Total amount spent: $36.80 for 2 hours, 50 ...
READ MOREBut this month, Lewis-Terry, 47, saw her brother for the first time in 10 years. And she only had to drive 15 minutes from her Alexandria home to a local church. There, in a sunlit room, she sat in front of a 19-inch television screen and chatted with him as if he’d never left.“It seemed like he was right there in the room,” Lewis-Terry said.Through the Video Visitation Program, relatives and friends of inmates are using modern videoconferencing equipment, set up this year at the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Alexandria, to visit loved ones incarcerated in state prisons hundreds of miles away.The program — run by a Richmond-based nonprofit group, Assisting Families of Inmates, and the Virginia Department of Corrections — is designed to make it easier for inmates to stay connected to their families. That gives them an incentive to behave better behind bars and improves their chances of long-term success on the outside, officials said.The average cost of an in-person visit, considering the price of gas, food and overnight lodging is about $500, said Fran Bolin, executive director of Assisting Families of Inmates. The fee for an hour-long video chat is $30.“This is so easy and convenient, and the price is not that bad at all,” Lewis-Terry said.About 15 visitors and five inmates are enrolled at the Alexandria church, one of four visitation sites at churches in Virginia. Bolin said she hopes more families will join soon. “ We want to serve the most families, friends and inmates impacted by the situation as possible,” she said.Prisoners typically must be free of infractions for six months to participate. Family and friends can download an application from the Web site of Assisting Families of Inmates or call the office.Volunteers such as Jerilyn Stanley, a member of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House, help keep the program affordable. Stanley’s father died in prison in 1999 while serving a 35-year sentence for manufacturing methamphetamine in California. When she talked with him by phone, she said, “the focus was all on him.” Video visits are more like those that families have over dinner ...
READ MORE Amid the towering piles and teetering stacks of video games that arrive every year there are always some that nag: the ones that got away. They are the games I wish I had been able to find more time to play and more time to write about. So, without letting them bother my conscience any longer, here are some of the most interesting games of 2011 that deserved more attention. RIFT I spent more time playing Rift without writing about it than any other game this year, and for that I apologize. Rift, introduced in March, is the best online fantasy game that is not called World of Warcraft. Back in the spring I spent at least 100 happy hours slinging spells and making new Internet friends as I explored Rift’s fantasy kingdom. Rift has sold more than one million copies and has been a worthier competitor to World of Warcraft than other online fantasy pretenders like Warhammer Online and Age of Conan. As the debut game from the heavily financed startup Trion Worlds (whose investors include Time Warner, Comcast and Bertelsmann), Rift has been impressive. The graphics appear more realistic (though not necessarily more attractive) than World of Warcraft’s, and the Trion team went beyond WOW in giving players the flexibility to customize their characters’ magical and martial abilities. But the real test of a massively multiplayer online game like Rift or World of Warcraft (or a more recent newcomer like Star Wars: The Old Republic) is not how snazzy its new features are when it first appears. The real test is whether its developers and players together create a community and product that can grow for years. Like so many other online games that have dared challenge World of Warcraft, Rift has not seemed able to sustain its initial success. Logging back into the game recently I was disheartened to see ...
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