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Testimonials
"For a freelance writer you guys are an absolute life-saver (I travel quite a bit and it is great to access from anywhere)."
Emma Williams
Freelance Writer
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"Things are going great with TimeFox. It's been a real time saver, and has also helped me track jobs a lot more closely than I could in the past."
Claire Doyle
Red Beret
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"TimeFox has helped us be more efficient in billing, which is critical, since business is booming for us right now. We have contracted a freelancer in another state to help us bleed off a little production work, and it took no time at all for us to train her to use TimeFox. So, TimeFox is helping us grow our business..seamlessly."
Lori Sallee
Deford Designs
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FunctionFox is committed to helping smaller creative companies improve their business. TimeFox, our web-based time and project-tracking tool, is designed to help smaller advertising, design, marketing and PR firms manage their business, and do more with their valuable time.
Love to laugh? If you think sense of humour is important, this month's issue is for you! Our friends at The Creative Group present 6 tips to help you, "Put Your Funny Bone to Work" to reduce stress and increase rapport in your workplace. Start having more fun at work right now! Check out our Creativity Spotlight to see what your colour preferences say about to your personality!
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Feature Article: Put Your Funny Bone to Work
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Put Your Funny Bone to Work
by The Creative Group
Go ahead and laugh. Your sense of humor can enhance your career prospects and build camaraderie with your colleagues. In a Creative Group survey of advertising executives, 97% ranked a sense of humor important in reaching senior management levels—and more than half said they consider humor very important.
Why the focus on levity? Displaying a sense of humor on the job shows you don't take yourself too seriously and helps relieve tension. A comic touch also helps you build rapport with those around you, opening the lines of communication. The truth is, humor makes you more fun to be around, something that should never be underestimated.
However, before you break out the whoopie cushions on your unsuspecting co-workers, you need to know the dos and don'ts of office jokes. Humor should be appropriate for a workplace setting and never at the expense of others. Following are five tips for showing your lighter side:
1) Check the "pulse" at work. You likely wouldn't wear black leather pants and your best green wig at a conservative workplace; finding your humor "style" is much the same. Make sure it fits your environment. Humor with an edge may go over better in more entrepreneurial environments, while more subtle comments fit in at established corporations. Fortunately, you don't have to deliver a stand-up routine to demonstrate you have a sense of humor. Being understated is usually most appropriate at work.
2) Laugh at yourself. Did you make a funny typo in a recent memo? Go ahead, poke fun at your mistake. It puts others at ease, and you don't risk offending anyone by making someone else the target of your joke. Just be sure to keep your comments light, you don't want your co-workers to think your attempt at humor is a cry for help.
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The Creative Group is a specialized staffing service placing creative, advertising, marketing and web professionals on a project basis with a variety of firms. For more information, visit
www.creativegroup.com.
If you have an article that you would like to share with FunctionFox customers,
please contact us at 1.866.369.8463 or email
info@functionfox.com.
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FunctionFox clients are all winners, but we'd like to offer big congratulations to a long time TimeFox user – and recent international design award winner – Vanessa Pizzinato of Small World Media Group.
Pizzinato clicked the "Call for Entries | 4th Annual Pcom Creative Awards" link in our March About Time newsletter, and submitted Small World's 'Visit Kingston' website, which uses illustration and innovative navigation to showcase the city's amenities to the competition.
The entry caught the attention of the judges, who were looking for "companies and individuals with talent that exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry." They found all of that in Small World's entry, and awarded Pizzinato and her team a coveted Merit Award!
FunctionFox is always looking for ways to help our clients be winners, and we're proud to have played a tiny part in Vanessa's big win. We regularly feature upcoming industry award competitions in our Advertising and Design News section, so keep your eyes peeled, click through and get ready to win!
Click here to see Vanessa and her team's award-winning work
http://www.portfolios.com/award/2007
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RefineDesign 2007
The Creative Technology Conference for Business, Creative and Web Pros
Sept. 17 – 18, 2007
Seattle, WA
Thanks to event sponsors like FunctionFox, RefineDesign 2007 is one training conference you won't want to miss!
You'll spend two days gaining valuable new skills, and learning better ways of working in the latest creative technologies, all from internationally-known, published experts like Deke McClelland, David Blatner, Thom Parker and Brian Wood!
Session topics include:
- Photoshop CS3 Keynote with Deke McClelland
- InDesign CS3 Intensive with David Blatner
- Roadtrip, AJAX. Destination, The Yahoo YUI
- CSS Layout Tips & Tricks
- Automating Acrobat
- Designing for Mobile Devices: Getting Started with Device Central CS3
- Illustrator CS3: Vector Powerhouse
- The Designer's Web Technology Decoder Ring
- Mastering Styles in InDesign CS3
- Spry in the Sky, Web Design using Dreamweaver CS3
- ... plus Flash, ActionScript, digital audio and more!
RefineDesign is hosted by eVolve, a training company, so we're serious about teaching top-notch content. Plus, attendance is limited (150 max.), so you can directly interact with seasoned experts who have the answers you need now.
Trying to convince your boss?
Download our "Why you should be at RefineDesign 2007" PDF at:
http://www.refinedesignconference.com/topreasons.html
Getting as excited as we are?
Great! Register now, and you'll save over $100!
http://www.refinedesignconference.com/
Not ready quite yet?
Okay, no problem. Just remember – space is limited, and the early bird rate of only $289 expires on July 31st.
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If you refer someone to FunctionFox, and they purchase a TimeFox subscription,
we'll give you a month's subscription to TimeFox! Refer 12 new customers,
you'll get a whole year's subscription on us!
Don't miss this chance to pass the word and realize considerable savings!
Here's how: Ask the person you refer to enter your name/company under 'Referral (Client or Friend)'
when they sign up for a demo at
www.functionfox.com/demo
or tell a friend at
www.functionfox.com/referral_program.
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please send your request to:
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