This page is a dedication to those hard-working office professionals who daily keep businesses going worldwide.  Once known as the personal secretary, (and gatekeeper) the role now encompasses more than taking notes, typing, shorthand, minutes of meetings, screening phone calls, managing diaries and calendars and the myriad of other things that used to be.  Today, we are the office professional, whether it is in a physical sense or virtual, we are commonly known as administrative assistants, personal assistants, office manager, office staff, receptionists, etc to carry on with word-processing, data entry and database management, desktop publishing, audio and digital transcriptions, internet research, electronic diary management, and in some cases, staff supervision, graphic design and website maintenance.