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Office*2013 was a huge success with attendances up on previous years, and that has been reflected in the large number of new members we welcomed to our stand.
Once again taking place over 2 days, (8th and 9th October), the show had an action-packed line-up of free and feature seminars, inter-active panel sessions, first-class speakers, leading-edge experts, and more than 175 exhibitors – there will be much more from us in our newsletter of 16th October 2013 – some highlights for us included: |
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| Wow! One, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero members and rising! | ||
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Yes, Mrs Louise Cook of PwC became our 10,000th member on her visit to the pa-assist stand at Office*2013.
Here is a picture of Louise receiving her bottle of fizz from our President, Mike Caridia, to celebrate on us! More details and news in our upcoming newsletter. Shhhh! Keep this to yourself……. latest rumour is that we are already fast approaching 11,000! More champagne anyone? |
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| Mike Caridia, President pa-assist.com’s latest “in the spotlight” interview with Hamish Jenkinson, Office*2013 | ||
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Following on from his hugely popular Office* Keynote session with Penni Pike in 2012, the latest in Mike’s ‘in the spotlight’ interview series was Hamish Jenkinson, former PA to Madonna and Guy Ritchie and current EA to Kevin Spacey.
Hamish was incredibly entertaining, relating a number of amusing and insightful experiences of his time of working with these immensely talented, high-profile celebrities. There will be much more to report in our newsletter next week.
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| pa-assist and @panetworking announce sponsorship of Executive Secretary’s AdminChat with Twitter | ||
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Our fast growing Twitter feed @panetworking announced the sponsorship of Lucy Brazier’s #adminchat – that is broadcast every Thursday at 6pm (GMT Greenwich Mean Time).
John Palmer, our CEO said, “further to our sponsorship of Lucy Brazier and Executive Secretary’s weekly #adminchat series with our partner site BeMyVA.com, we are delighted to continue our relationship with this award nominated publication. Our new Twitter activities with @panetworking will be sponsoring the weekly, informative, learning and development #adminchat sessions in 2014. We look to support and encourage the growth of PA networking, and plan to continue to provide regular updates of PA networking events from both the PA Networks and the local Hays Recruitment PA Networking events via the pa-assist.com web site and the Twitter posts of @panetworking. |
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| I would also like to thank everyone for the extremely positive feedback that we have had from all of the PA Networking group co-ordinators, your messages on social media and the visitors to Office*2013 for this initiative. We are now beginning to include events that are being arranged for Virtual Assistants as a response to that feedback.”
Pictured above is the UK Office*2013 Twitter screen with our @panetworking sponsor logo. |
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| Leading the way for VAs: BeMyVA sponsored the inaugural VA Breakfast, UK, Office*2013 | ||
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Our partners BeMyVA.com, the leading independent, international directory of Virtual Assistants, sponsored the Office*2013 UK’s first VA Breakfast. In addition to coffee, tea and tasty pastries, the audience of Virtual Assistants and PAs interested in starting their own business, listened to an enlightening presentation from award winning solicitor Suzanne Dibble and received some outstanding legal business tips and “exclusive” offers to take up Suzanne’s accessible and affordable services for small business and start-up companies.
Suzanne also presented Jennie Bayliss of Office Wings Ltd., (picture on the left), the winner of the VA Breakfast prize draw with a bottle of champagne. |
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Snapshots of Office*2013
