Posted 08-14-2009 at 03:47 AM by VAF Admin
Updated 08-14-2009 at 06:17 PM by VAF Admin
Thanks to Hamid at Codehead, LLP for his quick custom hack, it's easy now to embed YouTube videos in your forum posts; here's how:
Find the URL for the YouTube video you wish to embed. Find the ID of that video (whatever is after the v= in the URL. Let's say the ID is vr3x_RRJdd4 (which is the ID of a video for the Free Hugs Campaign)
Then you would enter the following into your post to embed the video:
PHP Code:
[youtube]vr3x_RRJdd4[/youtube]
and this is what you'll get:
Give it a try next time you want to reference a video from YouTube - it's a great way to enhance your post by including the video itself too!
Premier 'Events Coordinator' Position Created at Virtual Assistant Forums
Jo-Carole Carpenter, President of Shore Office Services, is pleased to announce her recent appointment as Events Coordinator at the Virtual Assistance Go-To Forum for aspiring and veteran VAs from all corners of the world: Virtual Assistant Forums.
After 22 years with one of the largest international companies in the world, Jo-Carole Carpenter left the corporate world behind to launch her own Virtual Assistance business: Shore Office Services, LLC. She now provides virtual business support to entrepreneurs and small businesses. Carpenter serves proudly as a "virtual partner", effectively helping her clients grow their businesses....
What's Stopping You from Getting Clients - and What To Do About It
Posted 06-23-2009 at 11:06 PM by VAF Admin
Hosted by Get Clients NOW! author C.J. Hayden. Discover the barriers that prevent talented VAs from building a thriving business and how to overcome these challenges and attract more clients with less effort by making a few simple changes. Also, how you may be sabotaging your own marketing efforts, the three most reliable ways to build your business, and how to build a system to make marketing effortless. Click to read.
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Did you know that the VAF Chatroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for YOUR use? Well, it is!
Here's a quick and easy way to get your fellow member VAs in there with you for a quick social chat, right NOW (or whenever you feel like it):
Grab a link to the Chatroom and turn it into a Tweetable, TinyURL. Here, to make it super easy, we did it for you ---> http://tinyurl.com/c6a4bg [copy that]
Now log into your Twitter account and post an invite. Something like:
VAF members: join me in the Virtual Assistant Forums Chatroom for a quick social chat right now! http://tinyurl.com/c6a4bg
(feel free to copy and paste that for your own use, it's just under 140 characters...
Seven Social Media Skills YOUR Virtual Assistant Business Needs
Posted 04-23-2009 at 11:03 PM by VAF Admin
Hosted by Craig Cannings of VAClassroom. Discussion on the following in-demand skills and services: Social Media Strategy and Action Planning, Social Networking Profile Set-up & Management, Twitter and Facebook Marketing, Online Video Marketing, Online Reputation Management, and Social Media Content Marketing. Click to read.
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Twitter 101
Posted 04-03-2009 at 11:01 PM by VAF Admin
Hosted by Kimberly LeRiche of JK Virtual Office Solutions. Twitter basics - Twitter terminology explained. Plus, how to use Twitter to effectively market your services as a Virtual Assistant. Click to read.
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Information Overload - Where To Start
Posted 03-04-2009 at 11:00 PM by VAF Admin
Hosted by Angie Green. With the wealth of information and products out there for new and aspiring VAs it can be overwhelming trying to decide where to start and what to invest in. This discussion points out four areas to focus attention and energy for a strong startup phase and successful business launch. Click to read.
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Posted 02-24-2009 at 01:33 PM by VAF Admin
Updated 10-11-2009 at 04:24 PM by VAF Admin
We''re certain YOU have a great idea for a social group here at VAF and this blog post is your invitation to start one up. Here's how:
Click the GROUPS link in the main menu, then choose GROUPS (<--- or just click that link right there!) Once you reach the main page where all of our current social groups are listed, scroll down to the bottom and you'll see a link to Create a New Group. Click that link and fill in the fields on the next page - give your group a NAME (something nice and descriptive so people understand what it's all about!), fill in the description, make your group public or private, and click "Save" - your group is then ready to invite people to join!
Hosted by Diana Ennen, author of Virtual Assistant - The Series. Writing, distribution and valuable do's and don'ts of press releases. Discussion on how to make press release writing fun and effective, how the 'rules' have changed, as well as general formatting and submission guidelines. Click to read.
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If there's a forum section you'd like to subscribe to, click into the main forum section of your choosing and select 'forum tools' at the top right, then select 'subscribe' and 'instant email notification' to rec'v notice in your inbox each time a new post is made in that section!
If you subscribe but don't rec'v the notifications - please check that our emails are not going into your junk folder and add virtualassistantforums.com to your whitelist
As always, you can still subscribe to individual threads - and we've updated that feature to include instant email notification as well (you can adjust your subscription settings in your profile).
Hosted by Lily Chambers, President of Virtual Office Goddess. Lily walks VAs through the basics of setting up a Virtual Assistance practice as an LLC [Limited Liability Corporation] and the reasoning behind doing so. Click to read.
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HTML and CSS - The Basics
Posted 01-08-2009 at 10:54 PM by VAF Admin
Hosted by Hamid Alipour of Codehead, LLP. The idea of coding a website using HTML can be frustrating, intimidating, and seem difficult to learn - like another language. But it doesn't have to be. This series is designed to teach you to create, update, and maintain your own website, using current HTML and CSS standards in an easy to understand format.
Session ONE
Session TWO
Session THREE
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Session FIVE
Session SIX
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Posted 12-22-2008 at 01:17 PM by VAF Admin
Updated 02-01-2009 at 03:20 PM by VAF Admin
With a recent update to the software behind our Virtual Assistant Forums Chatroom we decided to make it a more focal part of the site. You'll find the chatroom on it's own page.
The chatroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you to connect live and network in real time with fellow members. Feel free to log into the chatroom whenever you like, invite your friends via PM to join you there, or just post a thread in the Talk section letting other members know you'd like to get the conversation started!
And of course, we're also planning some great live topic chat events in 2009 - so stay tuned!
We just turned the marketing power of your forum profiles on - and then up another notch!
Now, inside your profiles here on VAF you'll notice a 'Customize Profile' link at the top right of your information tabs [About Me, Contact Info, etc.] - use the link to change the colors, font styles, background images and more of your profiles.
And, in order to give you as much marketing leverage as possible we opened up the thousands of member profile pages to the search engines - Google, Yahoo!, MSN, they're all indexing YOUR pages right now - so be sure to take advantage of the huge SEO-positive impact of VAF and fill in your details.
We'll continue adding even more fields for you to add more of your information...
We were looking at the site menu recently and it dawned on us that not only were there so FEW of the great features here on VAF appropriately linked up in the menu, but there wasn't a *single* pixel of space left for all the great new features and pages we have planned for 2009. So we did a little remodeling
Please take a moment to check out the new (and we hope, improved) VAF main menu - there are now drop downs to help you more easily find and use the many key features here at Virtual Assistant Forums.
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