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	<description>- Issues facing; Expat professionals, Trailing Spouses, Portable Businesses, Near Retirement Professionals .... and other stuff of professional and personal interest.</description>
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		<title>Lists, Lists, Lists &#8211; Contact management gone awry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know about lists, right? We are on them, we make them, we print them, we send them, we build them…I could go on, but in the context of our Contact Management or CRM system what are lists, why do we need them and most importantly how do we know they are accurate? Cause or effect? In the context of this article, when I refer to a list I mean a list of individuals or organizations and typically some related information like their contact details, what they do, the products they sell, the color of their hair or whatever is important to your organization, or the person reading the list. Lists can be the output of your activities; sending someone a list of names. Or they can be an input; A list of delinquent debtors for example. Cause or effect. If you are generating a list, there is an obligation on your behalf to ensure the accuracy of the information you are providing, so how do we do that? List output One approach to ensuring that data included on lists is complete and accurate is to continually and constantly review the entire database, regularly scouring the data and confirming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next assignment &#8211; How the move affects our work life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you may have noticed the silence of the Ausmerican over recent weeks&#8230;well months in fact! We are on schedule to leave Prague next week, spend some time in Washington DC and experience the Obama inauguration, work, visit family then head to Wellington, New Zealand in March. Now that our last shipment of belongings has left it&#8217;s time to reflect on how a change of assignment affects the life and work of the &#8216;trailing spouse&#8217;. In my situation, a full-time teleworker, remaining productive, contactable and efficient is important to me and relies on an infrastructure; well organized office, desktop computers, high speed internet, Skype, VoIP phone, my bookmarks, printer, scanner&#8230; the list goes on. But what happens to all of this when you change locations? We received confirmation of our Wellington assignment about 6 months before we were due to arrive there. In this period work needs to progress as usual but the work environment changes significantly. First the planning; Travel, accomodation in DC (innauguration week &#8211; Good luck!), shipments by sea and air, clear out clutter before packing, do we ship a vehicle?&#8230; wrong side of the road, no we have to sell it. How do we ship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Hour Work Week &#8211; reality, myth or legend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Sean and I discuss The Four Hour Work Week, a book and lifestyle written and conceived by Timothy Ferris. Somewhat controversial, the book describes alternatives to our busy lifestyle. Those that have mastered this lifestyle, Timothy refers to as the New Rich&#8230;or the N. R. Is the &#8220;Four Hour Work Week&#8221; reality, myth or legend? Listen to the Netcast using this player or visit Talkshoe.com Tim Ferriss presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change. His book has two parts: (1) Realize how you spend your time and (2) Identify and apply tools to restructure your life to get more satisfaction from what you spend your time on. I&#8217;m here today with Trailing Spouse Network regular Sean McKee to talk about the book and some of the concepts. &#8211; I&#8217;ve listened to the Audible version a couple of times. Both times I&#8217;ve felt mixed emotions, from absolute garbage to&#8230;.maybe this guy has some good points. But on each occasion my interest has been held and I&#8217;ve taken away several ideas. Talking Points Do you accept the concept? Refer Amazon review comments Companion site at http://www.fourhourworkweek.com How do you feel about Outsourcing your life? Can [...]]]></description>
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