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Use these apps and web tools to boost your career prospects
By Clair Jones | December 8, 2014
Have you ever wondered what your Millennial coworkers are doing when they’re glued to their smartphones or tablets? Maybe it’s time to have a closer look. They’re likely employing innovative technologies that you, too, should be using to make your job easier and make you more impressive to your current employer or your next one. To stay up-to-date, learn these eight ways that technology can help you at work:
1. Manage your personal brand with IFTTT. If This Then That (IFTTT) is a free service that makes updating your social media accounts, personal blog or LinkedIn profile easy. It uses what the service calls “recipes” to link your accounts. This way, when you post in one, an update is automatically posted in the others. (MORE: How to Become a Boomer Tech Genius)
For instance, you can make an IFTTT recipe that updates your LinkedIn Profile every time you publish a new post on your personal blog. Guides like this one from Lifehacker provide detail instructions about how best to use the service.
Sunrise is a free calendar app that combines Google Calendar with LinkedIn, Facebook and other profile calendars to display a comprehensive view of your day. It lets you see real-time updates to meetings in one place, send messages to meeting attendees from within the app and even adjust your events based on time zone. Sunrise also puts alerts from your Facebook, LinkedIn and other linked accounts into your everyday calendar to ensure you never miss an important date.
Google+ Hangouts is a free videoconferencing service that works on any device and allows more flexibility than many of its paid competitors. You can start a videoconference directly inside an email, share your screen and collaborate on Google Docs relatively glitch-free. Doodle cooperates with your calendar to make it simple to schedule meetings with multiple participants and avoid overscheduling your time (it’s free or costs $39 a year if you want extra features). You can provide participants with a variety of meeting time options, all of which hover over their calendar. Once a time is chosen, Doodle automatically saves the meeting details. Doodle works seamlessly with different calendar formats.
4. Create dynamic work presentations with the Prezi and Keepvidweb applications. If you really want to impress your boss, ditch PowerPoint and use Prezi, whose customizable templates let you create dynamic, individualized presentations. You put in your text and images and then choose a color scheme, theme and filters. Prezi is free if you don’t mind sharing your presentations with its online community or $5 a month if you want to keep them private. Frozen video slides can bring even the best-planned presentation to an embarrassing halt. One solution: Keepvid, which lets you download your videos beforehand and save them to your smartphone, computer or tablet free of charge. It’s useful when Internet access is unavailable or unreliable or when you’re in a place where certain websites (like YouTube) are blocked.
5. Hack graphic designwithEasel.ly. Easel.ly is an innovative service that lets you choose from hundreds of infographic templates and customize them to suit your needs. Whether you’re creating visual aids for a presentation or making an attention-grabbing image for a report, you can avoid the cost and turnaround time of hiring a designer with this free resource.
6. Manage projects gracefully with Evernote. This free app, which has taken on cult-like status among its fervent users, makes project management simple and easy. Evernote lets you take notes, capture pictures of visual aids, record audio clips and store important project information in categorical files using one versatile interface. You can either email your files directly to Evernote or store them as you go, using simple tags. Evernote is a huge upgrade from run-of-the mill note-taking apps, because it uses secure cloud technology to make finding your information completely seamless when you’re switching devices. In short, it’s more efficient than taking regular notes, especially if you’re prone to misplacing files.
7. Protect company and personal data with LastPass. It’s is a free add-on that makes strong alpha-numeric passwords for each of your accounts, while requiring you to remember only one simple password of your choice. Password data is locally encrypted on your computer, so it’s not sent over the Internet. LastPass is great for protecting yourself when you’re using an unsecured network away from the office.
8. Stay abreast of current events with Pocket. Pocket is a free tool that lets you save for reading later the media that interests you. Say you discover something on your smartphone you don’t have time to look at now or that you’d rather view on a larger screen. Just email a link to your “Pocket,” or download the Pocket browser extension to bookmark relevant media as you discover it. You can also use tags to categorize your media. For instance, if you’re job hunting and interested in resumé best practices, you can start a resumé tag and revisit the media you’ve saved before your next CV revamp. Then, Pocket can rocket you to success. Clair Jones is a freelance journalist who loves to write about career and business trends, lifestyle advice, technology and travel. Keep in touch with Clair on Google+ and Twitter.
Inbox was built by the Gmail team to give you a new way to stay organized and get back to what matters. Everything from Gmail (your emails, contacts, and labels) is available in Inbox. Gmail and Inbox stay in sync so what you do in one app carries over to the other. Gmail and Inbox have many of the same features, but there are differences. To get the most out of Inbox, try to use it for all your email. You can always switch to Gmail when you need to.
Some features work just the same in Gmail and Inbox, like archive and done. For some other Gmail actions, there's an Inbox feature that does something similar, but works a bit differently.
[ed - imho, it is not too bad. It captures some gmail Priority Mail features in a simpler way, like adding a "lower-priority" grouping that is easy to manipulate, it does more quickly display the attachments in the mail when that is the point of the mail, and it integrates some functionality I only got by adding Boomerang to gmail (delay the reading of a mail).
I still need Gmail with boomerang for the "send later" features that I use on the PC, as Inbox doesn't have that. On my wifi-only tablet I still like the gmail caching of some categories in priority inbox in gmail for offline use, I'll have to see if Inbox interoperates nicely there in offline mode or not. It does seem that Gmail and Inbox do interoperate smoothly as advertised when on wifi, so certainly it is possible to use both, especially on a PC. YMMV :-) ]
Dear Lifehacker,
I don't know how it happened, but when I got home today I realized I didn't have my wallet with me. All my credit cards, IDs, and club cards were in there. What do I need to do to make sure my identity isn't stolen?
Sincerely,
Empty Pockets
Dear EP,
Man, that stinks! Losing a wallet with all your info is no good and it's not easy to replace everything you keep in there. If you have the time, the first thing you need to do is retrace your steps and call any stores you might have left it at. If calling fails to turn up your wallet it's time to start the process of cancelling and replacing everything you had in there. Let's go through a step-by-step process for what you need to do to cancel, check, and replace the contents of your wallet.
Step 1: Cancel Your Credit/Debit Cards
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The first thing to do is call and cancel your credit cards. We've noted before that it's a good idea to keep your credit card company's phone number on hand, but if you didn't do that you can visit their website to get the phone number. Explain to them your card was lost and they'll go over the last five or six transactions with you to make sure nobody has tried to use your credit card.
Next, they'll cancel your current cards and your bank will issue you a brand new number. When you're calling your banks don't forget about any department store credit cards you might have.Photo by Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious.
Step 2: Call the Police
Calling the police because you lost your wallet might seem like overkill, but it's an essential step for fraud prevention. No, the police will not actually be able to do anything about a lost wallet, but you will get a police report stating your wallet was lost and it will come in handy if someone tries to steal your identity or use your credit cards.
Step 3: Make a List of All Your Subscription Services and Online Accounts
Automatic bill pay and subscription services like Netflix are awesome until you lose a credit card and have to go through each and every one to add your new information. If you happen to lose your card at the end of the billing cycle you have to go a few days without the service.
Your only real option is to start making a list of all the sites, services, and automatic billing subscriptions you use. When you get your new card and number in the mail you have to enter in your new information to ensure your service won't be disrupted. It's also worth thinking about any online purchases you may have made recently that haven't gone through yet. If you pre-ordered something where your card isn't charged until it's shipped, you have to update your card number.
Step 4: Get a New State ID
The least fun part about losing your wallet is losing your ID. Nobody wants to spend a day at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Every state has a different policy for the steps you need to take, but don't be surprised if you have to appear in person, file a police report, or pay a fee. You can find a list of the requirements for your state over at The Unofficial DMV Guide.
Step 5: Make a List of Everything Else in Your Wallet and Make Some Phone Calls
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Depending on the variety of cards you had in your wallet, you may need to start making a bunch of phone calls to cancel them. Start by making a list of everything in your wallet. This means insurance cards, reward cards, retail cards, library cards, and everything else. Track down a phone number for the company and let them know your wallet was stolen and you want to cancel the card with your name attached to it. The last thing you want to get in the mail three months from now is a bill for overdue library books you didn't check out. Oh, and if you need to replace club cards, you may just want to start using Jenny's number instead. Photo by Martijn van Exel.
Step 6: Request a Credit Report and Initiate a Fraud Alert
Even after you cancel your credit cards it's a good idea to request a credit report and put a fraud alert on your account. You're entitled to a free credit report and fraud alerts after you lose your wallet. You can get your free credit report from Annual Credit Report and you can start a fraud alert at Experian, TransUnion, or Equifax. The service is free and will monitor your credit for 90 days. If you (or someone else) tries to set up a new account or take out a loan you'll receive a phone call to confirm it's you.
It's not a fun process, but if you take care of the above steps right away you can ensure your identity is safe and get your credit cards back quickly.
Sincerely,
Lifehacker
P.S. Ever lost your wallet (or purse) and realized you lost something that couldn't be replaced? Share your experiences and tips in the comments.
