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Tech Tip Thursday: cure for online multiple personality disorder (how to set up multiple users in chrome)

Thursday, November 29th, 2012

Did I mention I have jobby jobs now?

Having jobby jobs means that I am working furiously!
workinhard

It also means that I legitimately suffer from online multiple personality disorder…I’m Tweeting as myself. I’m Facebooking on behalf of one company. I’m eating donuts for another.

(Okay fine, maybe no one actually pays me to eat donuts. Don’t be a killjoy.)

The fancy term for this is multiple account management and it’s totes confusing. Not only am I confused because I act as different people across multiple social media channels, but I am doubly confused when I have to log in as different people to the same social network. I can barely remember the password to my personal Twitter account let alone the password to someone else’s!

Enter Google Chrome.

What’s that? You’re already using Google Chrome and you don’t see what the fuss is all about?

Well first of all, rude.

And second of all, did you know that you can create different profiles on Google Chrome allowing you to essentially act as completely different people with your own unique passwords and everything? (If you already knew that, why are you reading my blog? Did my mother send you?)

Okay so here’s how ya do it:

  1. Click the Chrome menu Chrome menu on the browser toolbar and select Settings.
  2. In the “Users” section, click Add new user.
  3. A confirmation dialog appears, choose a picture and enter a name for the new Chrome user.
  4. Click Create.
  5. A new window for the user appears, with a picture you’ve chosen for the user in the top corner. Here, you can sign in to Chrome with a Google Account to associate the account with the user. Once signed in, all the bookmarks, apps, extensions, theme, and browser settings for the user will be synced to the account.

Did I blow your mind?

Try it and tell me if it helps you manage your multiple (online) personalities a little better.

Tech Tip Thursday: I’m too busy to keep track of time!

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

Picture this…
I eat to pin. I pin to eat. #sanfrancisco #virtualflexwork

You’ve been working furiously all day.

Tweeting, typing, throwing in a load of laundry, pinning, planning and playing with your kids. At the end of the day you reflect back on it all and realize you have NO idea what you actually did. Worse yet you have no idea what to bill your paying clients.

I mean you’ve been Tweeting on behalf of the company you work for, and you might even have a timeline of tweets as your end of the day deliverable, but you have no way of quantifying the time you spent at the cocktail party that is Twitter, to your data loving bosses!

Commence to pull hair.

Hair pulling hurts! Stop that this instant!

Instead check out Toggl.

What: Toggl is a ridiculously simple web app that lets you track your time.

When: All day long. (Dirty.) Here’s how I do it (Dirtier!), I keep Toggl open all day (Dirtiest) and tab over when I start a new project or continue work on an old one. If you’re starting a new role or adding an additional project to your life it’s helpful to track everything. Once you get a better idea of where your time is going you can probably chill on the micro analyzing.

Where: Anywhere, online or off. Download Toggl apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android here.

Why: To understand what you spend time on. To discover workflow inefficiencies. To easily track and BILL for projects. (To boldly go where no one has gone before!)

Who: YOU! Work, eat, play and track it all.

This is not a sponsored post. I love Toggl. I love it hard.

Self esteem. Pass it on.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

It’s 2012 and my daughter is two and eight months.

She thinks she is fabulous with a capital F (and tells me so all the time!)

How long do I have until she stops looking at herself in the mirror and seeing the beautiful creature that she is (inside and out) smiling back at her?

I have myself on video in 1995 pinching the (invisible) fat on my inner thighs and lamenting to the camera. I was twelve.

In 2009, my cousin started making remarks about her hair being ‘ugly’ and saying she needed to go on a diet. She was eight.

At this rate I have three years, maybe less, to figure out how to keep the conversation about beauty, confidence and self-esteem going in the right direction with my daughter.

I know no one sat me down to talk about beauty and self esteem.

I know I had no clue what to say to my pre-tween cousin.

Do you know how you’re going to handle this?

Do you want a little help?

The wildly talented author, self esteem expert and Dove Global Self-Esteem Ambassador, Jess Weiner, created an awesome resource to help you have “the TALK” with the young ladies in your life. [CLICK HERE FOR IT]

This is a great resource for all women on starting a conversation in a simple way. In it, you’ll find unintimidating ways to start the talk about self-esteem.Download the Let’s Talk toolkit . (She even tells you what to do if the conversation recipient “just looks blankly at you, not saying anything.”)

Thanks Dove for sponsoring today’s post.

Everyday I’m hustlin’ (and sometimes it pays off)

Monday, November 5th, 2012

What’s more fun than going to a blogging conference?

Rockin’ the mike at one!

This past weekend my mentor and friend, Kelly Tirman and I had the opportunity to speak at a very special Brand edition of the Bloggy Bootcamp conference series.

Let me just take a moment to bask in the glow of that sentence.

Kid yelling, husband calling, friend messaging, boss pinging…..

and moment’s over.

If you look carefully at that last sentence you’ll notice it wasn’t just me griping about the usual: my kid, my android husband or my incredibly difficult to manage (and constantly growing) popularity.

No sireee! In there was a whole new kind of complaint, about my BOSS. Which can only mean one thing…that I have myself a jobby job! Or to be more specific, I have a virtual, flexible job that I snagged using my social media footprint as my portfolio.

That was the topic of our session, how to use your social media footprint to land (and succeed at) a virtual, flexible job for a corporation.

Take a look at the presentation over at slideshare and let me know what you think.

Better yet hook a girl up with another speaking gig, holding a microphone was aboslutely intoxicating and I gotta get my next fix!

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