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Tools and Tech of the Globetrotting Freelancer speech is ONLINE!

Hi everybody! The Tools and Tech of the Globetrotting Freelancer talk that I gave this year at the External Development Summit 2014 in Vancouver is finally online! It’s an overview of how I stay online, connected, powered up, and secure when I travel, based on my experiences working as a freelance outsourcing manager as well as being employed by large game developers. The part of the talk where I talk about the apps I use is the bit people liked the most, especially on how to keep your phone and your clients’ data secure no matter what. Feedback is appreciated!

Also, the slides are here: http://www.jonjones.com/2014/09/11/slides-and-information-from-my-xds-2014-presentations/

Here’s the video:

How Apps Can Help Any Freelancer Or Small Business Owner Be Productive

Great freelancer app tips from MakeUseOf! “How Apps Can Help Any Freelancer Or Small Business Owner Be Productive”

If you’re running your own small business or making a living as a freelancer, then you already know quite a bit about getting things done on your own. You have to, otherwise everything falls apart. So…
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55% of recruiters reconsider job candidates after seeing their social profiles

What does your social media presence say about you to hiring professionals? That’s a sobering thought. Check out this article, and especially the accompanying info graphic explaining how and where they’re most likely to look you up.

“55% of recruiters reconsider job candidates after seeing their social profiles” http://buff.ly/1EUIoJn

Are recruiters stalking your Facebook profile? The chances are good.
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Multi-PDF Tool PDF Shaper 3.0 released with Windows 10 support – gHacks Tech News

If you work with PDFs, check out PDF Shaper! This sounds super cool. You can extract text or images from a PDF, rotate pages, sign them, convert the PDF to a Word document or an image, and more. That’s the level of control I’ve always wished I could have with a PDF, which is ordinarily a horribly annoying format to use with nothing but artificially crippled, awful tools. Now, I can bend PDFs to my will!

“Multi-PDF Tool PDF Shaper 3.0 released with Windows 10 support” http://bit.ly/1Gxh71x

PDF Shaper 3.0 is the latest version of a collection of tools to manipulate PDF documents.
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Gmail filter to automatically filter twitter messages into nested folders by…

Here’s a handy Gmail filter to auto-filter Twitter messages into nested folders. Thanks, Robert Headley! http://buff.ly/1xdOfFh

Gmail filter to automatically filter twitter messages into nested folders
by +Robert Headley
I recently found myself working on a new #twitter that is… – Robert Headley – Google+
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