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Lucky 13 Tools for Job Seekers

by Tracey Holinka on September 25, 2009

in Professionals

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I put together these 13 lucky (cuz we did all the work) tools to aid job seekers from ones we’ve been collecting on delicious. Link Friday is a regular feature.

1. Highrise – Online service  to manage contacts for your job search. Also maintains email threads and notes on each person. Try the free version to see if it will work for you. From 37signals.

2. Backpack – Another great tool from 37signals. Great for job seekers who want to keep their job search notes, calendar and files online for access anywhere.

3. Zoho Online – Zoho provides all kinds of online productivity & collaboration apps such as planning, contact management, file storage & online conferencing. Great for job seekers who want to be able to access their job search files anywhere. Read the full post →

Tagged as: collaboration, Firefox Add-ons, Job Seeker, Link Friday, LinkedIn®, productivity, tools, Twitter

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Research Tools for Regular Folks

by Jo Golden on June 16, 2009

in Digital Survival™

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Happily, there are plenty of useful tools for searching, offloading, and managing information when you’re using computers and the Web for research.  Your tools of choice should depend on:

  • what you want to do with the information,
  • your comfort level with computers,
  • the software you’re using,
  • your computing environment (Mac, Windows, home, work, etc.),
  • and what will make your life easier.

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Tagged as: life easier, research, tools

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Research Methods for Regular Folks

June 12, 2009
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All of us can learn more than ever before  with computers and the Web. It’s time to think of ourselves as researchers and add some structure to our self-education.
Take your common sense with you on the Web and get ready to learn something new!
When you take charge of your own education, you and you alone [...]

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#journchat & TweetGrid Made My Night

December 2, 2008
power on

I’m compelled to interrupt this blog series for an important announcement…
In the past 2 weeks I’ve been part of a fabulous group erupting on Twitter at #journchat thanks to the work/moderating of Sarah Evans (@PRsarahevans on Twitter) and the many folks who showed up. She is making it easy for Journalists + PR, Marketing, Blogging [...]

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Computer for Connections—Gets My Vote

November 20, 2008
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My top 3 great things about the Web: access to information, access to people, access to people doing cool things with all that information. I’ve blogged about the information part, and today I want to address connecting to people and following the cool things they do.
Once you have accepted the challenge to learn the basics [...]

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