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5 Best Free Apps for Business

Top Business Applications for Smartphones and Tablets

By: Scott Steinberg

April 27, 2012

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Free apps can help businesses and working professionals be more productive.

Top Applications for Entrepreneurs, Mobile Professionals

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PodCamp, BarCamp and Unconferences for the 21st Century

The next generation of conferences are user-generated and chock full of information and networking.

By: Leslie Ayres, The Real Job Search Guru

April 7, 2012

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Podcamps, Barcamps and UnConferences are a new way to learn.

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PodCamps and BarCamps are the next generation of conferences, user-generated and chock full of information and networking.

Job Hunting Guide: 5 Personal Branding Tips

Expert Hints, Strategies and Advice For Getting Hired

By: Scott Steinberg

March 27, 2012

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Personal branding is essential for anyone looking to get hired.

The Job Hunter's Guide to Personal Branding

Travel Like a Celebrity: A Sleek Black Limo and Driver Are Waiting for You

Uber, the new, high-tech, luxury black car limo service, makes it easy and somewhat affordable to travel like a celebrity.

By: Irene S. Levine

March 4, 2012

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Small Luxuries: Uber allows you to travel like a celebrity in a shiny black car with a driver.

Uber, the new, high-tech, luxury black car limo service, makes It easy to travel like a celebrity.

5 Tips for Avoiding the Nefarious Pocket-Dial (aka the Butt-Dial)

It’s easy to be victimized by your own “smart” phone but here are 5 easy tips to avoid a pocket-dial.

By: Irene S. Levine

January 24, 2012

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Here are some tips for avoiding accidental pocket-dials.

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An accidental pocket-dial can be embarrassing for both the victim and the perpetrator.

When it comes to embarrassing pocket-dials, there are victims and perpetrators.

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Eight Easy Ways to Protect Your Email from Hackers

These tips, tools and techniques will help you defend yourself against people who are trying to hack into your email account and worse.

By: Leslie Ayres, The Real Job Search Guru

November 21, 2011

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You'll never know who they are, but it's important that you protect yourself from hackers who are working to get into your computer via email, phony links and subterfuge.

Eight easy tips, tools and techniques to protect your email, bank accounts and personal information from hackers.

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11 Internet Shortcuts to Your New Job

Ramp up your online job search by leveraging the power of the internet.

By: Leslie Ayres, The Real Job Search Guru

July 18, 2011

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Sure, you use the Internet when searching for a job. But are you using it as best you can?

25 Business Travel Tips and Secrets

How to save time, money and frustration when business takes you on the road.

By: Leslie Ayres, The Real Job Search Guru

May 9, 2011

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Traveling for business can be grueling. Long lines, inefficient airports, schedule delays and time away from home and family can turn a simple trip to see a client or go to a conference into an exhausting and lonely ordeal.

Anyone who travels for business has their own tricks, rituals and secrets to make it easier on the road.

These are 25 business travel tips that I've acquired along the way from road warriors I've met in both business and personal travels.

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TED and TEDx: Changing the Way We Think

TED conferences share ideas and crack open your mind, heart and creativity.

By: Leslie Ayres, The Real Job Search Guru

April 12, 2011

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If you haven't heard of the TED Conference, and you are interested in new ideas, prepare to discover a whole new infusion of the kinds of fresh thoughts that are influencing and changing the world as we know it.

Founded in 1986, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design and is dedicated to "ideas worth spreading."

Coffee Culture and “The Other Office”

How the local coffee shop has become everyone’s place of business.

By: Leslie Ayres, The Real Job Search Guru

January 8, 2011

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I write this sitting in my "other office," a bustling happy place which many people know as Bongo Java East, my local coffee shop. Working at home is great, but sometimes you just need to feel other people around, and the coffee shop fills that need for many of us. Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City took her laptop to her local coffeehouse to write, and the neighborhood coffee shop was the setting for many scenes in TV hits Friends and Frazier.