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Top ten party tips
Christmas party? Bring in the experts
All work and no play?
Make it a private affair this Christmas
A party organiser reveals his secrets
Time to order next year's diaries
It's all in your cards
Tasting, tasting 1..2..3
Be sure you stay safe on the way home
What's in a name?
Be a part of a major secretarial survey!
Medical secretaries under threat?
Bite-sized learning for busy PAs
more stories...
Are you a kill-joy or a party animal?
Do you embarrass yourself annually at the office bash, or will you spend the
evening tucked safely in a corner? As our thoughts turn to Christmas, journalist
Roisin Woolnough invites you to test your party persona...
Welcome to our new-look e-zine, with a brand new name: "DeskDemon Express". I hope you like it as much as we do. We've also freshened up the look of the e-zine, to make it busy and attractive, while keeping it quick to load, easy to navigate, and user-friendly. We've also taken note of your requests, and each and every page of DeskDemon Express is printable, so you can keep on file all the useful information and contacts on offer. To celebrate our re-launched e-zine, we're also kicking off a major new competition, which will see one lucky winner as a "Guest Editor" for an issue of DeskDemon Express next year! That's right! One DeskDemon Express subscriber will get the chance to work with me to put together an issue of the e-zine in the spring. For anyone interested in writing or editing, it's a very exciting challenge! We'll release full details of the competition in the October edition, but in the meantime, get your thinking caps on. I'll be asking for a 300-word article on why you think you could edit the e-zine, as well as six feature ideas on a given subject, that you think would grab our readers. So look out for the entry form next issue - and you could be our first ever "Guest Editor", putting together your very own issue of DeskDemon Express!
In the meantime, it seems unbelievable as we all return from our holidays, but Christmas is not far away! Certainly not for those who are charged with organising the fun for everyone else. For this reason, we've come up with a great selection of features that you're bound to find useful, and, I hope, thought-provoking. From tips on party organising to views on how other cultures and religions feel about the corporate festivities, and from advice on getting home safely to a quirky perspective on what your Christmas cards say about your firm.
If you have nuggets of advice on Christmas Planning - or any other topic - don't keep them to yourself. Send them to express@deskdemon.com and we'll be happy to publish them. Anything which helps you all to do a better job is fine by us!
So, we hope you like the new look of DeskDemon Express and that you find this issue useful. With any luck, you'll be so organised by the time the festive season arrives, you'll be relaxed and cool, and able to enjoy the fun along with your colleagues.
With best wishes
