Posts Tagged ‘Services’
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Not much time to catch my breath and post this week. Last Sunday, we got a call from family and immediately began making plans to drive south Monday afternoon. Mike had to work and I had a meeting in the NAMI Howard County offices at 12:30 p.m. The half-hour meeting gave me the opportunity to sign my contract with NAMI, meet the other contractor that I’ll be working with and discuss the “game plan” for the next few weeks. While I work on the redesign of their information brochure for individuals with mental illness and their families, my team mate will be putting together a database of health care providers in Howard County, Maryland. By the time we meet again in a couple weeks, we should be through phase I of the project.
Monday afternoon, I let local friends know we were leaving town. When Mike got off work, we loaded up the car, had dinner and left town. We spent most of Tuesday with family and although a short trip, we’re glad we went. Fortunately, things have improved some during the week. The rest of the week was catch up on my Examiner.com column and work on a handout for a women’s retreat I’ll be attending next weekend. Today, Mike and I spent the morning on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, Maryland. We walked in the NAMIWalk for the Mind of America – the culmination of an annual fundraising effort to support the wonderful NAMI programs for individuals with mental illness and their families. Now it’s time to hit the hay. After church tomorrow, it’s back to work on the NAMI brochure.
Tags: carol plotnick, Chrysalis Publications, Community, free-lance writing, Laurel Community Volunteer Examiner, NAMI, Services, Writing
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Today I received a call from the NAMI Howard County office. NAMI [National Alliance on Mental Illness] is a national organization that does a wonderful job of educating and supporting people effected by mental illness, their friends and families and the public, in general. Their trained facilitators run support groups for both the person effected by the illness and for friends and family. NAMI has specific educational training sessions for family members, parents of children with mental illness, Hispanic groups and for consumers who want to become presenters for NAMI’s various outreach programs. Last week, I began attending their 12-week Family to Family course that gives family members a better understanding of mental illness and tools to better interact and support their loved one. After only two classes, I’m impressed with how much new information I’ve picked up.
The purpose of the call from them today was to ask if I was interested in a contract position with the organization. I’ll have more information about the project after I attend a meeting in their office on Monday. Basically, I’m one of two contractors who will be redesigning one of the NAMI brochures and then meeting with health care professionals in Howard County, Maryland and giving them the brochures for their patients who have or may have a mental illness. I’m happy to be associated with this fine organization and I’ll post more information after Monday’s meeting.
Tags: carol plotnick, Chrysalis Publications, contracting, contractor, customer, Family to Family, NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, service to others, Services
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
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Tags: blog, carol plotnick, Chrysalis Publications, Community, company profile, Facebook, Food Donation Connection, free-lance writing, Laurel Community Volunteer Examiner, publishing, service to others, Services, Twitter, volunteer, women, Writing
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Thanks to open source software, affiliate marketing, and paid advertising, document conversion is literally, free and easy. Open source software like Open Office allows you to open a Microsoft Word document, for example, edit it and then save it in a variety of document formats. Most useful is the option to save the document as a PDF [portable document format]. The Open Office Suite software [word processor, presentation, drawing, database and spreadsheet programs] is free. I use the word processor and spreadsheet functions almost exclusively; rarely venturing to the Windows side of the fence.
In the realm of paid advertising and affiliate marketing, there are a number of online document conversion software companies that will let you convert electronic files for free. The advertisers help to defray the cost of using the bandwidth and web servers. These web sites offer a broader spectrum of file conversion. For example, audio, video and archive file options are available. One such company is Media-Convert. The only caveat I’ll mention is, check the company’s limitations on file size. You’ll probably find the file conversion format you want, but – using the example of Media-Convert – you’re limited to a file no larger than 150 Mb.
Tags: affiliate marketing, file conversion, Microsoft, Open Office, open source, pdf, Services, virtual assistant, word processing
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
The Virtual Assistant division of Chrysalis Publications, LLC welcomes our first customer – Betty’s Janitorial Service. Owner, Betty Cannon, is advertising her company’s service to potential customers with a brochure and new business cards. Ms. Cannon, thank you for your business!
We’ve posted a link to Betty’s Janitorial Service web site in the W.W.W. category list of this blog. If you live in Howard, Prince George’s or Montogomery county [Maryland] and you need either residential or business janitorial service, give Ms. Cannon a call.
Tags: customer, Services, virtual assistant
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Welcome! Chrysalis Publications, LLC is opening it’s new web site with enthusiasm! In addition to showing off our first e-book – and watching it grow into other formats – we are offering editorial, writing and virtual assistant (VA) services. Not sure what a VA does? Check out Wikipedia. In short, if you’re familiar with the job description of an administrative assistant (AA), that’s the ticket. Put the AA in a home office and you have a VA.
Please return to this blog, as we will continue to build and polish the web site and blog. Give us a shout if you have something to say or a question to ask.
Tags: company profile, publishing, Services, virtual assistant, Wikipedia
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