OneNote was first introduced as Microsoft OneNote 2003 a few years back. In its latest form, Microsoft OneNote 2007, the application is even more feature-rich than before. OneNote offers the flexibility of a paper notebook and the power of digital note taking tool.

OneNote has the ability to provide digital assistance for the use, performing specific tasks such as brainstorming, storyboarding, and minutes taking. For work at home types, it?s a handy tool, particularly if you deal with lots of paper, research documents and notes.

Just about anything else in an office-type environment, home, or while on the go (with a laptop) can, in some fashion, be automated with the software package.

OneNote 2007 includes one important feature that allows the user to import an image, such as a scanned document, saved in JPG, BMP, GIF, or PNG format. Then, OneNote does an on-the-fly optical character recognition (OCR) of the image.

For most documents, an image scanned into OneNote 2007 will result in recognizable text which is then available for you to copy-and-paste, either elsewhere or on the same page, or even into Notepad, Wordpad, or Microsoft Word.

As with all other Microsoft products, OneNote 2007 has it’s own blog devoted to full use of it’s features, along with a number of templates available free of charge.

OneNote integrates in near seamless fashion with Microsoft Outlook. You will find that during the install process, OneNote automatically adds a button to the Outlook toolbar. Clicking the button will allow you to export email or other Outlook items directly to OneNote. And, for further functionality, a user can create Outlook appointments in OneNote, then easily add the appointments to Outlook through OneNote.

After using OneNote for many years, I am of the opinion that I don’t want to be without this useful application. OneNote is an integral part of the Office2007 software suite or can be purchased separately here.

One further note, I found the book shown above to be of great help, allowing me to get the most of this application. As with other Microsoft products, the software is so featured packed that without some form of reference, I couldn’t have possibly discovered all the neat and useful features.

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The Brentwood Media Group/Westside Today publishes six monthly magazines across the Westside: Beverly Hills 90210, Bel-Air View, Brentwood News, Santa Monica Sun, Palisades 90272 and Malibu Beach. We are gearing up to start a new title in Westwood.

We have 50,000 circulation total, we’ve been around for 16 years, you can find us at www.WestsideToday.com.

We are in the process of upgrading our editorial coverage in each of our communities. We will be adding more localized pages and will soon include more in the way of local columns, photos, news-in-brief, letters to the editor, etc.

We seek writers and photographers who:

– can actually write and/or take pictures (this isn’t a given);

– love community life and who are out and about and know lots of people;

– are organized and easy to work with;

– can send in stories and photos via e-mail;

– can come up with their own ideas for content (we’re not going to assign you stories; you are going to tell us each month what you intend to send us).

This is lots of fun for someone with a little extra time who loves to get out and about and who isn’t looking at this as his or her main way of making a living.

We pay 20 cents a word; for photos, we pay $5 for each one we use.

If you handled everything in your community, you might make $200 a month and get some credits that you can use at local restaurants worth about the same.

So this is not a get-rich-quick scheme but it’s certainly a get-to-know-your-community quickly — and well — scheme. You can be a mini-media mogul or mogulette in your home town.

If you need to make more money and are willing to consider selling ads in your community, let us know.

We seek a chief correspondent in each of our towns (Beverly Hills, Westwood/Bel-Air, Brentwood, Santa Monica, Palisades and Malibu).

Please send in a cover letter via email telling us why you think you are the one. No need to send in writing samples or attachments, at least not yet.

Send your email to WestsideMediaGuy@aol.com.

Thank you.

* Location: Westside
* Compensation: Per word and per photo fees (see description)
* Telecommuting is ok.

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We work at home entrepreneurs may be on the cutting edge of office efficiency, also know as operating “a lean office“. Is it just because we work with limited funds? Or is it our “Scottish” nature?

Whatever the answer, it shouldn’t be a surprise, but it is to me, large corporations are adopting many of the money saving techniques that we work from home folks utilize trimming office expenses to the bone.

One interesting article details how corporations are using an on-line service that automates the time-consuming resource scheduling process for managing rooms and equipment so employees have more time to spend on real business issues.

Much is written on this website, but maybe of interest to us is the page on Office Hoteling.

Kind of makes me think of my start, working out of a spare bedroom.

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I am looking for writers to create threads/posts in forums. You must have good writing skills. I will pay Rs. 2 to 4 (US$0.05 to $0.10) per thread.

You will receive the payment once you reach Rs. 100. If you don’t live in India, I can pay thru paypal, in that case you should reach at least $5 before I can send the payment.

Send me your details with the writing samples. Depends on your writing, we will fix the rate — either Rs. 2 per thread or Rs. 4 per thread.

We prefer Indians living in India. Your threads should focus on technology, business and community related topics.

This is a genuine opportunity. It won’t make you rich. But, it will give you extra Rs. 400 ($10) a month.

* Compensation: Rs. 2 to 4 per thread
* Telecommuting is ok.

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Being that the majority of us spend our working hours “on the net”, discussion of cyber crime is certainly of benefit to us all.

As Deena Monroe, a Statesville, N.C., single mom found out, listing her resume on job search site Careerbuilder.com resulted in untenable consequences. As reported in the washingtonpost.com web site, Ms. Monroe was offered to make a few hundred dollars a week completing sales for a marketing company based in Australia.

After researching the company and concluded it was a legitimate firm, in mid-September of 2007, Monroe decided to participate in the offer. She was asked to add an e-mail address to her account at PayPal, which the company rep explained that she needed to transfer money on the company’s behalf.

As a result, Monroe was the victim of a money mule scam in which criminals make use of third parties to launder stolen funds.

The article concludes in attempting to suggest the extent to which schemes such as this exist on the Internet. The scams are becoming more sophisticated; however, the basic rules of common sense and online security have not changed.
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We are looking for several freelance bloggers to write blogs in all topics. This could be a part time or full time position depending on your needs. If you are interested, please email us your expectations (per month if full time or per hour if part time or even by per blog post), a sample of your work and some information about you.

* Compensation: Market Rate
* Telecommuting is ok.

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Part of the time all of us spend on the web is searching for that next, profitable job opportunity. Not everyone of us is looking for a way to leave our current job. We just want to earn some extra income.

One of the most advertised “opportunities” that I see during my web searches is called “processing online rebates”. Those companies and individuals promoting this work at home opportunity advertise that you can just sit at home, process rebates for $10 – $15 each, and make it big online.

To see how this “opportunity” works, I suggest that you enter “rebate processing jobs” in your preferred search engine input field, then press “enter”. What do you see?

The majority of the sites that come-up in your search window offer rebate processing jobs that don’t actually even offer any jobs at all. Rather, they want you to buy a publication to learn how to get into the field of rebate processing. Yeah right, we’ve seen that scam before.

However, many companies do contract their rebate processing jobs to individuals like you and I. But, you usually have to go to their offices and collect the rebate forms, then bring the forms home and prepare them in whatever fashion the company dictates. You may be responsible for data entry, mailing labels, and mailing. For that, you will be paid an average of about fifteen cents (USD) per rebate.

So, instead of the $500 to $1000 per day that many rebate processing sites promise, you will be doing well making $500 to $1000 per month.

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Company selling sophisticated mobile communications facilties to public entities such as cities, police departments, fire departments, states, and to private corporationss such as developers and emergency prone companies NEEDS a capable, personable individual who can respond quickly and articulately to Requests for Proposal (RFP) or Grant Applications. Compensation will be related to experience and success in past writing of this nature and may be structured on hourly alone or on hourly plus success fee. Please name specific preferences regarding compensation and identify examples of RFP and/or Grant Apps done.

* Compensation: Compensation will be related to experience and success in past writing of this nature and may be structured on hourly alone or on hourly plus success fee.
* Telecommuting is ok.

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Regular readers of this blog know that, from time-to-time, we like to report on the the scams that work at home entrepreneurs need to be aware of.

One Albany, New York, work at home mom almost became the victim of an easily recognizable, and very common, check cashing scam.

A Washington County, Sheriff’s Office Investigators say a woman had been looking online for at-home work, and found an offer with instructions to cash eight checks, worth 200 dollars each, then keep 10% of that amount and wire the rest of the money to an address in Haiti. Read more »

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If you can turn your ideas into cutting memorable ads, we?ll give you that opportunity. We?re looking for an experienced advertising copywriter who has done consumer, pharmaceutical, or business to business advertising copy in print and possibly radio. We?ve been doing highly creative recruitment advertising for over 30 years and we?re looking for a solid advertising copywriter with a lively mind and cutting approach. We want to bring the flair of what you?ve done in the past to our recruitment advertising. You must be able to work from your home in Hawaii and you must have a high speed Internet connection. We?re located in New York City and we would like to work with a copywriter who is comfortable working remotely. Please email samples (that can be viewed on a PC) of the best print ads you?ve done with resume to: cd@mcfrank.com

* Location: Remote
* Compensation: hourly, per project
* Telecommuting is ok.

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VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocal) is an electronic application optimized for the transmission of voice through the Internet. A major development starting in 2004 has been the introduction of mass-market VoIP services over broadband Internet access services, in which subscribers make and receive calls as they would over their conventional “land-line” telephone system.

One type of service, usually fixed to one location, is generally offered by broadband Internet providers such as cable companies and telephone companies as a cheaper flat-rate traditional phone service. Often the phrase “VoIP” is not used in selling these services. Instead, the industry is advertising the phrases “Internet Phone”, “Digital Phone” or “Softphone”. The service is usually aimed at phone users not necessarily tech-savvy. Also, the provider touts the advantage of being able to keep one’s existing phone number.

Those of us thinking of the cost savings of using VOIP will do well to read a recent article from PCMag.com. This in-depth review lists a number of commonly available VOIP products. The systems are listed by expense and complexity and vary from self-installed products suitable for offices with five to ten employees, to completely hosted virtual solutions, to a high-end system that can grow to support more employees, and even enterprise-class PBX hardware.

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Personality Writer/Editor ? Got Sass, Humor, and Wit?

Then this is the perfect opportunity for you! We are looking for a writer/editor to host an online cocktail party of vacation destinations to our web page viewers. We are looking for someone with an effervescent personality who is dying to assert themselves in an online community of people who are looking for fun, adventure, entertainment and ? most importantly ? vacation ideas for both short term vacations and longer term staycations.

This will be a super fun, creative position with a super fun, cutting edge innovative company Viscape. The best part about the job is that you can work from your laptop, wherever that may be. Of course, we are already assuming that you have excellent writing skills and that you are likely edgy and zany?..like us! We are also assuming that you are a social creature ? both online and offline. If so, Viscape could be the perfect opportunity you are looking for! We can?t wait to meet you!

Initially, this position is on an independent contractor basis for a trial run, but may convert to a full time position with proven performance.

About Viscape
Viscape is a Web 2.0 social marketplace for vacation properties and second homes, launching in March 2008! Check us out?www.viscape.com! Ride the wave!

* Location: Arlington, VA
* Telecommuting is ok.

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Last month, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was ordered by a federal arbitration panel to allow its legal instrument examiners to telework on a pilot basis. Like other U.S. government agencies that deal with sensitive information the ATF was against letting these specialists telework because it says the material they need to remove from agency offices in order to telework posed a security risk.

By law, all executive agencies should be enabling eligible employees to telecommute. Public Law 106-346, which went into effect Oct. 23, 2000, called for agencies to increase telework participation by 25% of the federal workforce annually, until 100% of eligible employees ?participate in telecommuting to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance.?

As fuel prices soar and traffic congestion becomes more menacing, even the Federal government will have to embrace a “work from home” mentality. We have, they should too. Read more »

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Are you a fashionista with a passion for beauty, follows the latest trends, and loves to tell others about them. An exciting internet company that is creating a whole new way for women to explore new looks and learn how to realize them seeks a beauty editor who will be responsible for the writing and editing of beauty/cosmetics related content for the web site.

- Should have deep understanding of what women want in beauty and cosmetics.
- Responsible for writing and syndicating features, articles, beauty tips, trends, suggestions, etc.
- Experience with web sites of beauty related brands, media, blogs
- Know what it takes to build online communities related to beauty
- Experience with interactive content, multimedia content, and video a plus
- Degree in journalism or communications preferred, experience in editorial of beauty required
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interest in beauty industry and enthusiasm for online communities, media
- If interested please send resume and writing samples

* Compensation: Per contract
* Telecommuting is ok.

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People are starting to live longer faster than ever before. The average age is now around eighty and climbing quicker than the actuarial tables have estimated. People in their fifties and sixties now consider themselves part of the new middle aged. More and more of them are starting to work from home. Where will it all end? No one knows, but certain scientists are estimating average life spans of well over one hundred in the not to distant future.

What are we doing to prepare for this new longevity? We better do some planning before we end up with a train wreck.

Planning For The future:

1. What will the health and life insurance people do when faced with masses of people in their nineties plus looking for coverage?
2. What will happen to Social Security and Medicare?
3. Will the demand for new life prolonging drugs continue unabated?
4. Will people have to modify their wills and trusts to account for grandchildren and great grandchildren?
5. Will body part cloning become a reality?
6. How will corporations deal with an aging work force?
7. What are the social ramifications of Longevity re marriage, sex, and divorce?
8. Will children have to provide more care to parents?
9. Will there be enough assisted living facilities?
10. Will people living to one hundred plus have the mental and physical capacity to lead worthwhile, primarily pain free, productive lives? Read more »

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