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11:34 AM
All my GLBT people and supporters - I would like to be the first to let you know Sunny.org is giving away free calendars for 2011. All you have to do is visit the website http://www.sunny.org/rainbow/planner/ and fill out the form for a 18-month calendar with vibrant photos, GLBT events leading up to the 2011 IGLTA Convention in Fort Lauderdale.
Don't forget to take advantage of the many other offers Sunny.org (the official website for Fort Lauderdale, Florida attraction has to offer)
9:12 AM
All of us have. So, with the holidays coming up, there's no better gift than something that will make day-to-day tasks at work or home simpler, faster, and less stressful.
Below are six time-saving products along with examples of how much time your gift can save a working professional on your gift list. Based upon annual salary information provided by salary database PayScale.com, you'll see how much money the greater time efficiency from your gift will earn, too.
1. CardScan Executive -- $259.99
Time saved = 1.5 hours for every 100 business cards
Though everything else seems to have gone digital, nothing can replace the old-fashioned business card. But the contact information needs to make the digital leap. CardScan Executive quickly scans business cards and synchronizes the information with all of your contact management systems. It completes 15-30 business cards in a minute, while you work on other things.
So, if it would normally take one minute to enter the information on each card, for every 100 cards, that can equal about $30 in time saved for an experienced executive assistant with a median annual salary of $43,000. Any business professional or job seeker will find this a great gift and one that is also sure to reduce clutter after business meetings, interviews, and networking events.
2. MissNowMrs.com -- $29.95
Time saved = 13 hours
A professional woman who wants to change her name after getting married usually spends about 13 hours figuring out the process, according to Danielle Tate, founder of MissNowMrs.com. This site provides an alternative to bureaucratic confusion with a simple questionnaire tailored to the bride's location. When the bride has finished, she prints out the correct package of completed forms to sign and then submit to government offices, banks, and all the places that need to know her new last name.
"You don't have to make too much an hour for $29.95 to make sense instead of wasting a day or two off work getting it done," says founder Danielle Tate. For an elementary school teacher earning $42,000 a year, those 13 hours are worth about $260.
3. Bento for iPhone -- $4.99; Bento 3 (Desktop version) -- $49.00
Time saved = 1 hour per week
The Bento App for iPhone is a one-stop organizer and tracker for all of your files. This app easily stores and can sync your files up with the Bento 3 (or earlier version) desktop program. It comes with a wide variety of templates, and it is built to be flexible so you can create your own storage templates. It's hard to find anyone who couldn't use this app.
A stay-at-home parent can use it to plan meals, track holiday gifts, or plan parties, while a marketing project manager can use it to connect projects back to specific customers, customize internal data, and track the progress of the team. This application allows you to keep all relevant files linked together, so you spend less time toggling between deep folders, potentially saving you an hour per week with the added efficiency. For a marketing project manager earning just under $60,000 annually, that time is equivalent to almost $1,500 over the course of a year.
4. Timed Coffee Maker -- $80-200
Time saved = 75 minutes per week
"One of the simplest [time savers] I recommend for people is to get a coffee pot with a timer," says Elizabeth D. Bowman, productivity consultant and president of Innovatively Organized, a professional organizing company. A good coffee maker with a timer allows you to set everything up at night and have fresh coffee ready in the morning -- and you don't have to spend 15 minutes at your local coffee shop every morning on the way to work. That can add up to 75 minutes every work week.
Models range widely in price, but you can find a good model for under $100 if your budget this year is tight. And although it may not be paid time that's saved, the equivalent cost at work for an early-rising construction manager earning about $62,000 a year is about $35 per week.
5. AP Stylebook App -- $28.99
Time saved = 5 minutes per week
AP style is used by most professional writers and journalists as a punctuation and spelling guide for written work. Many marketing and communication experts also use it for branding material. The printed version is no pocket-sized manual, however, and most journalists and writers don't spend all their time in one spot. Enter AP Stylebook App -- this app gives you a mobile version of the stylebook so you don't have to wait to get back to the office to maintain your branding guidelines when "tweeting" on the go.
If this app saves just five minutes per week for a journalist earning about $43,000, over the course of the year, that time is worth about $90 -- at least enough to get a nice massage.
6. zBoost Cell Phone Signal Booster -- $179.99-$399.99
Time saved = 5 hours per month in saved commute time
More and more professionals are doing at least part of their work outside of the traditional office. Whether that's from the freeway or your home office, cell phone signals don't always reach your location as clearly as desired. Fortunately, zBoost has a variety of products that can be set up in your home or car to improve signals by one or two bars, drastically reducing dropped or missed calls for a radius 1,200-2,400 square feet, depending on the model.
This product saves time for any professional who can reduce a commute by working from home with a clearer signal. For an average IT project manager earning about $70,000 per year, the gift will pay back its worth in time saved in just under six weeks.
Source: All salary data is from PayScale.com. The salaries listed are median, annual salaries for full-time workers with 3-5 years of experience and include any bonuses, commissions, or profit sharing. Hourly rates are calculated by dividing the yearly salary by 2080.
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9:00 AM
- Put grandparents on the map! Did you know that kids call their grandmothers "Nonno" in Italy and "dziadek" in Poland? Visit MyGrandPlace.com to see the names that kids around the world use for their grandparents. Next, print off a free world map from Eduplace and color it. Write the grandparent names that you have learned inside the outline of the appropriate country. Mount the map and give it to grandparents to let them know that they are the best grandparents in the entire world.
- Learn to say "grandmother" and "grandfather" in American Sign Language. Have children prepare a video for grandparents with a special message.
- Write a note in braille for the grandparents. You can find the braille alphabet and numbers on the AFB website. Use dots of glue and sprinkle with sand or salt to create texture. If your grandparents don't read braille, be sure to provide a written version of the message that they can understand.
- Have kids learn a special Grandparents Day song to perform. The Holiday Zone has songs to choose from.
See More: Grandparents Day with Activities and Crafts
9:02 AM
1. Apply Your Talents to a Social Cause
Whatever you do for a living, from accounting to cooking to teaching, there's a community organization that can use those skills to help make the world a better place. Why just be a nurse when you can become a citizen nurse? You may think you are too busy with your job to do good. You also may think making a difference is better left to saintly, self-sacrificing heroes like Mother Teresa and Florence Nightingale. But think again.
You have valuable talents that can be harnessed for a cause, even if it's just for a few minutes a day. Careers today are being reinvented in ways that benefit both the individuals who practice them and the society in which they live. There's a new way of thinking about work that satisfies the desire for self-advancement and personal benefit, as well as the latent idealism so many people have learned to suppress or ignore. That's what being an engaged professional is all about.
2. Find Ways to Get Your Workplace Involved in Social Activism
More and more companies are now practicing good citizenship. How can yours provide support to worthy causes through donations of time, talent, goods or services? Start by re-examining your occupation's ethical code or professional standards, or your employer's mission statement or professional standards. Think about a small way you can help lead fellow employees to follow these standards more proactively. Consider how you can help everyone in your profession to start thinking like citizen professionals and applying their professional skills to address social problems that could benefit from those skills.
If your line of work doesn't already have a recognized code of conduct or ethical standards, consider writing one. It should embody your personal ethical values and encapsulate how those values are expressed in the work you do. Share your effort with a couple of like-minded colleagues. It may stimulate some lively discussion about what you can do to incorporate social benefits into your daily work.
3. Become a Mentor
Offer your hard-earned wisdom to benefit young people in need of guidance and encouragement, from school kids in your neighborhood to new graduates just entering the workforce. Everyone is qualified to be a mentor, and the experience is just as rewarding for the mentor as the mentee. You can do this informally with someone you know or through an organized program such as Mentoring USA, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Experience Corps and New York City's Middle School Mentors program. Students, children and younger people in your industry could all benefit from your mentoring.
4. Act 2: Devote Yourself to Citizenship
As baby boomers begin retiring, some are looking back on the turbulent yet promising days of their youth, wondering what happened to their dreams of reshaping the world. Instead of winding down in retirement, today's active citizenship movement offers retirees the opportunity to apply their restless energies to the pressing needs of society. For many, the new activism may hold the answer. They can join the thousands of retirees who are shifting from the business world into the non-profit sector. They are using their talents and skills to help young people and the disadvantaged, as well as programs that support culture and the arts.
5. Become a Digital Citizen
If you are searching for ways to connect, there are thousands of worthy organizations that use the Internet to engage supporters, mobilize resources and solicit ideas. You can discover projects in your own community and around the world that excite you. You could participate in a digital forum about a public issue you care about, donate electronically to support a charity you believe in or share information about a topic you're an expert on—all for the benefit of thousands of other citizens like you.
Many not-profit organizations, citizens' networks and community groups already use the Internet to leverage their knowledge, connections and power—but many are not doing so. Take a look at the groups and causes you support, and evaluate how effective their digital presence is. If they don't have one, or if you can see ways in which their digital activities could be made more appealing, engaging and impactful, why not volunteer to research and develop those improvements? You don't need to be an expert in programming or web design. Volunteers or paid professionals with those skills can be recruited later. As long as you have imagination and a passion for the cause you're serving, you can contribute something meaningful to the project.
Jonathan Tisch is the author of Citizen You: Doing Your Part to Change the World, The Power of We and Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough. He is co-chairman of the board and a member of the office of the president of Loews Corporation, and chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels. Tisch has appeared on The Today Show, The Early Show, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, CNN, CNBC and Fox News Channel. He is also the host of the Emmy-nominated Bloomberg TV and Plum TV show Beyond the Boardroom.
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6:30 PM
Nikki Beach
One Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL
305-538-1111
Kick back with a cocktail in this Ibiza beach-party-inspired outdoor lounge and bar.
Oceans 234
234 N. Ocean Blvd., Deerfield Beach, FL954-426-8261
An upscale restaurant and bar just steps away from the sandy shoreline with live music and a DJ every weekend.
Timo
17624 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, FL
305-936-1008
This hip South Beach trattoria uses wood-burning fires to create the flavors of the Mediterranean.
Jade Garden Restaurant
244 South University Drive, Plantation, FL
954-475-2788
The food is definitely charming for the price.
Blue Moon Fish Co.
10317 Royal Palm Blvd., Coral Springs, FL
954-755-0002
Stylish seafood in Coral Springs.
4405 W. Tradewinds Ave., Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL
954-267-9888
Fine dining and fresh seafood on the Intracoastal Waterway
These are only a few of the restaurants in South Florida for Sunday Brunch. See additional by clicking on the source link
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