You wishing you could be like “everyone else” and have a blog?

But you don’t know what to do or where to start?

I know something that might interest you.

Traci Knoppe of Genesis Blogging is launching a “Beginner to Blogging” with Word Press, 4-week ecourse Monday, June 1, 2009. The course is limited to the first 1,000, and will sell out fast.

Here is the link to Traci’s site so you can get the details and see for yourself what all the hoopla is about.

And while you’re there, get on the mailing list. too!

Congratulations to Jeannine Clontz, Accurate Business Services, for winning the Thomas Leonard Virtual Assistant of Distinction Award and to Jef Keep, Daily Planet Virtual Services for winning the Janet Jordan Achievement Award at this year’s International Virtual Assistant Day (IVAD) Celebration, May 15, 2009.

The Online International Virtual Assistants Convention, (OIVAC) has been rescheduled to October 1-3, 2009. The Speakers’ lineup and topics are at OIVAC.

Mini-conference sessions leading up to the Convention will be held throughout the summer at the OIVAC site. check there often for details.

I’m pleased to announce that the International Virtual Assistants Day will be held as originally planned tomorrow, May 15, at 5 p.m., EDT.

However, the IVAD will be a “stand-alone” event instead of as part of the OIVAC as originally planned.

The link to attend the festivities and to enter the event room are at the Online International Virtual Assistants Convention site, http://www.oivac.org.

At this year’s IVAD, two outstanding Virtual Assistants will be honored for their contributions to the Industry.

Please join us as Friday, we celebrate these VAs and this very special day.

If you read here regularly, you know we’ve often posted about the upcoming Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC).

Unfortunately, today we are relaying a bit of unfortunate news regarding status of this month’s Convention.

The Steering Committee of the OIVAC has made the decision to postpone the Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC) until October, as this year we have not received the same high level of registrations as previously experienced. As we can see no logical reason for this, we are putting it down as yet another statistic of the economy.

The new date for the convention is 1 – 3 October, 2009, and we will continue to market the event during the coming months to ensure increased attendance is achieved.

We will not let the economy damper deter our efforts to recognize VAs and the celebration of our contributions to businesses located around the world. As a result, we will conduct the International Virtual Assistants Day (IVAD) celebration, on Friday, May 15, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. EDT, as previously planned. This is OUR annual day of recognition, and we encourage VAs from around the globe to continue to participate in this celebration.

The Thomas Leonard Virtual Assistant of Distinction and Janet Jordan Award winners will be announced, and we will be providing tons of FREE giveaways to attendees.

The link to the meeting room for this gala event will be distributed next week. So please mark your calendars and plan to attend.

In addition, we will host several FREE pre-event activities between now and October, so look for future announcements about these dates.

Thanks again for supporting us and we are sorry for the inconvenience. Having said that, we are extremely excited to now be working towards a more positive and energetic convention in October once the “doom and gloom” of the economy has eased.

Kind regards,

Sharon Williams
and the OIVAC Steering Committee