I know this topic has been done to death – what should we call ourselves, is a virtual assistant a good name etc. I’ve addressed it before myself and  I’ve never really been able to come to a satisfactory conclusion although obviously I did choose my business name as Halo Secretarial Services not Halo Virtual (although I do own domain names for both, lol!) I even had a great suggestion not long ago to call myself a practice...

I just read the tuition announcement from Solo Practice University (courtesy of founder Susan Cartier Liebel via Twitter). I’ve been keep an eye on all the amazing faculty announcements and developments happening over at SPU recently and I have to say it sounds like such an amazing concept! I can’t imagine a better way for new lawyers to learn about running a solo law practice. Topics that will be covered include blogging for your...

What can I say? It was too exciting to be on tv, even if just for a short interview!  Here’s the link to CTV Edmonton’s Twitter story from Monday, March 2nd, featuring yours truly. Interestingly (to me, probably not to anyone else!) the story was about using Twitter and discussed the angle of how I’ve networked on Twitter to the advantage of my virtual legal assistant business. Interesting because they actually found me only...

I’ve talked about Twitter pretty regularly on this blog. I always  share that it is my absolute favorite place to network. Still, every time I talk to “real-life” friends or acquaintances I have a hard time helping them understand exactly what the appeal of Twitter is. I started my virtual legal assistant business last fall officially, but I started networking earlier in the year to try and make connections within the online...