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- Use Keywords to Optimize Your Resume
- You know you're perfect for the job, but for some reason your resume failed to elicit a response from the HR department. Maybe that's because it has a keyword deficiency. In other words, it's not sprinkled with the words hiring managers look for when scanning mountains of resumes. Web Worker...
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Tune Up Your PC with Free Utilities
- As a general rule, I don't like those massive utility-software suites that promise to solve all your PC's problems and keep it running smoothly; very often it seems like they have the opposite effect. But I do like "little" programs that perform hit-and-run fixes, cleanups, etc. Web Worker Daily lists a...
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Protect Yourself at Public Wi-Fi Hotspots
- Most of us spend at least some time working on the road, which often means connecting to public Wi-Fi hotspots. The good news: They're free. The bad news: They're usually unsecured, meaning you could be vulnerable to hackers. Web Worker Daily has the scoop on free Virtual Private Network VPN...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Cut Your Ink/Toner Bills
- Spending a small fortune on inkjet ink and/or laser-printer toner cartridges? Web Worker Daily offers a simple but effective tip on cutting consumable costs:By setting your printers to print standard documents in Draft mode, and then switching to better output quality only when you need to, you can save a...
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- How to Deal with Information Overload
- Too much work. Too much information. Too much everything! Web Worker Daily feels your pain and tries to ease it with 21 tips for overcoming information overload. Here's a sampling: Disconnect once a day. In your time map, have a certain period where you’re disconnected. It’ll take some getting used to, but after...
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Get More Done by Communicating Less
- Drowning in e-mail, instant messages, RSS feeds, and other electronic communications? Web Worker Daily has a suggestion: limit yourself to once-a-day interaction with all these interruptive forces, thus freeing yourself to do actual work for the rest of the day.Author Leo Babauta offers eight rules for turning this crazy idea...
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Manage Your Contacts Online
- Looking for an online contact manager? Start with Big Contacts, which I wrote about a while back. True to its name, it's an impressively "big" service. Web Worker Daily has the scoop on five others, including Highrise, Plaxo, and still-in-development Oprius:This webapp actually aims to be an all-in-one personal organizer...
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Why Use LinkedIn?
- I used to think that LinkedIn requests were obnoxious. I felt like I was being roped into a social network that, unlike Friendster, has been scrubbed free of interestingness and instead has a glossy PR sheen. But as a business professional, it's become unavoidable; not having a LinkedIn profile is...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Getting Permission to Work From Home
- Most of my life, I've managed to work from home at least part of the time. Mostly, I can thank a few understanding employers more than any especially persuasive argument on my part. But what if you find yourself needing to justify a telecommuting role? Web Worker...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
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- Great Resources for Finding Work Online
- Looking to work remotely? In search of online employment? There appear to be some excellent opportunities to be had, even in this economy. Recently, Web Worker Daily described four resources for finding work online. Here is what they recommend: oDesk is an online...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Create and Share a Resume in Minutes with CeeVee
- Do you keep your resume locked up inside a Word document? How 20th-century. Web service CeeVee helps you build a polished-looking resume and then share it online via Facebook, Twitter, and other methods. To get started with CeeVee, you provide an e-mail address and password, choose a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Track Your Expenses with Xpenser
- Web-based Xpenser aims to take the hassle out of expense-tracking. The free service lets you submit expenses via e-mail, instant message, text message, Twitter, or even Jott. With so many options, it should be no trouble to record expenses no matter where you are. After signing up and...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Nail Your Response to an Online Job Ad
- Online ads are deceptively casual. But just because you're replying to an ad via e-mail, it doesn't mean you shouldn't bring your A-game and respond with all the sincerity, professionalism, and enthusiasm that you'd pack into a face-to-face meeting. Â Here are some tips for getting a call back when you...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- 33 Ways to Use LinkedIn More Effectively
- We've talked a lot about how you can use Facebook as business tool and Twitter as a business tool, but what about LinkedIn -- you know, the social-networking service that was actually built with business users in mind? Over at Web Worker Daily, you'll find 33 tips...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Finish Projects with Flair Using a Standard Checklist
- When you finish a project, do you toss it over the fence with a spirited "good riddance," or do you diligently ensure it meets your quality bar before you send it on its way with a dusting of angel tears and lilac? Have you even defined a quality bar? ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Give Your Fax Machine the Heave-Ho
- These days, who needs a fax machine? That's the question posed by Web Worker Daily, which argues that faxes are barely necessary in the modern business world, and when they are, you can usually turn to Internet alternatives. An excerpt:The precursor to the modern fax machine was patented in 1843. Business...
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- 8 Great Outlook Hacks
- Love it or hate it, Outlook is a part of daily life for countless computer users. Web Worker Daily offers eight tricks that can help you make the most of Outlook, including viewing multiple weeks in the calendar, setting Inbox reminders to act on messages, and enabling spell-check for all...
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- New Insights on How to Manage Remotely
- Clear communication is the hallmark of effective leadership, but it becomes even more important when your staff's all over the map. You need to have confidence in both your employees and the systems you have in place -- and your workers need to be on the same page. BNET's feature...
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- How to Use Gmail for Online Storage
- As you may have read in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Google may start offering free Web-based storage in the near future. Of course, savvy users have long been leveraging Gmail for exactly that purpose. Wait a sec -- how can you use an e-mail service for data...
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Visualize Connections with Bubbl.us
- A few months ago, Rick brought up the topic of work collaboration through "mind mapping" using the web tool MindMeister. If the concept of mind mapping is still a bit daunting, check out the simple and stripped-down app called bubbl.us that the folks at Web Worker Daily were just playing...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
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