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Setting Boundaries and Goals With Digital Devices

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Digital devices are great for helping set particular kinds of boundaries and goals. Because of the power and size of new smartphones and tablets, you now can have a personal organizer and assistant on hand at all times, and it can make you a better person, if you let it.

Specifically, you can use your tech for working with addiction, getting yourself to be more on time, sequencing out your educational goals, setting your social boundaries, and even paying attention to how engaged you are with the world around you. And, the more you practice these techniques, the better you’ll get at them. [Read more…]

Using Mobile Devices To Help With Risk Assessment

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Though it might seem to be a bit of a high-minded idea, risk assessment is a huge part of most major decisions and processes. At a corporate level, there are certain types of risks, while at personal or individual levels, risk assessment contains other values, but ultimately the underlying concept remains that same.

The point is that you don’t want to carry on with mistakes that cost you time or money. Lucky things for us that many of the new potential that comes with current mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and the Apple Watch et al have solutions to many of these issues, so long as it all remains connected. [Read more…]

5 Tips for Staying On Top of Mobile Social Media Feeds

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Your smartphone is most likely your favorite gadget by default, simply because it’s on and with you most of the time, if you’re the average person these days. And though most people have some use of Internet browsing for information and GPS maps for location, a lot of what you do is with social media.

So, what are some ways that you can make sure that you’re completely up to date with all of the social media updates that are constantly emerging and evolving? Follow these five tips to ensure that you’re on the cutting edge.

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Listen For Rumors of Change

New formats and updates are perpetually in progress for all of the major social media platforms, but before big changes come out, there are often rumors of them. If you listen to these rumors, for instance, news about changes to Facebook, then you will be in the right mindset of adopt them as soon as they come out officially. If you can beta test some of them on your gadgets, that’s a benefit of being an early adopter as well, as you can help developers make a great product. [Read more…]

Work and Get Paid – On the Go!

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There are a ton of benefits to being able to work on the go. Just because of the option to take your work with you via your mobile devices now, technology frees up an enormous number of creative possibilities, and also chances to meet people face to face, instead of having to stay anchored to a desk in an office. Depending on your type of job though, there have been some aspects of mobile work that have lagged behind. However, thanks to some innovation by a few different companies, these restrictions are starting to fall by the wayside. Consider the following.

Mobile Tech and Work

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Mobile technology and mobile work have advanced in parallel. Better and faster communication on the go means that activities previous designated to physical spaces can now be done anywhere. It’s only natural that as soon as the possibility of creative work increases, people will take advantage of it. New cell phone technology has been at the heart of this mobile movement, but the fact that tablets are exponentially more powerful has also taken away some of the restrictions that came with carrying around laptops that had more space and power requirements. It’s a fascinating time to be an on-the-go entrepreneur, but one aspect of this that’s been a little troublesome in the past is the idea of payment. But no longer! [Read more…]