Chaos To Clarity: Success in a Digital World

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Digital Survival™ Fundamentals

Get to know Facebook’s new privacy settings and take control of your Facebook profile.

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Protecting your privacy starts with you and the choices you make. Privacy online is a much bigger issue—if you want to know more, check out the following links.

1. The Center for Democracy and Technology’s Guide to Online Privacy will teach you the basics and has many useful tips.

2. Cookies are stored in your browser when you visit websites. Learn about what they mean for your privacy and how you can take control at Cookie Central.

3. Topsite compiled a great set of sites that can help you surf the Web anonymously, avoid spam, and encrypt your data to protect your privacy.

4. Are you a blogger? Check our the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s project Bloggers’ Rights. They have a large compilation of articles on privacy as well.

5. When you want to know more about privacy and civil liberties, the Electronic Privacy Information Center is must-look.

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Protect Yourself Online—Think Differently

June 8, 2010
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Once you’re thinking about privacy and the implications of sharing your information online you will (hopefully) engage in appropriate self-censorship. At the same time it’s important to (re)consider your expectations of privacy in a digital world.
Always remember that computers make it easy to collect lots of information about you, even though the [...]

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3 Must Read Posts on Facebook Privacy (link friday)

June 4, 2010
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The uproar over Facebook® privacy may have subsided but the next controversy is sure to be around the corner. Here are 3 posts to help you get a better sense of what happened and where Facebook is heading.
1. Facebook Executive Answers Reader Questions – Elliot Schrage, Vice President for public policy at Facebook, answers some insightful questions [...]

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Privacy. Identity. Exposure. Protecting Yourself on the Web

June 1, 2010
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You are your first line of defense, so if you don’t want people to know something about you, your family, or your habits—be quiet about it already.

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Self-Education with the Web: 7 Lucky Links

May 14, 2010
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Take charge of your education–it’s easier than ever with the many excellent (and often free!) resources available on the Web. You can empower yourself through education. What are you waiting for?
Here are 7 lucky links for your learning pleasure. Feel free to let us know about the ones you like too. Link Friday is a regular [...]

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6 Lucky Links for Free and Low Cost Mac Apps

April 16, 2010
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Use these lucky (cuz we did all the work) links from our collection on delicious to find some great low cost and free applications for your Mac®. Do you have another one to recommend? Add a comment and let us know.
1. Uninstalling applications on a Mac is easy compared to a Windows® machine. [...]

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7 Lucky Extension Links for Google Chrome

April 9, 2010
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In Tuesday’s blog post,  I wrote that I made the switch from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome on both my Mac® & Windows® machines. Below are my must have Chrome extensions. Extensions add additional functionality and customization. They’re super easy to install and don’t require restarting your browser, unlike Firefox Add-ons.
1. AdBlock – Keep ads from annoying you with this must have extension.
2. GMail Checker – [...]

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