With his breakthrough performance in Kindergarten Cop, Arnold showed us why he would someday be Governor of California and leader of the free-world. Or whatever. In the meantime, here are some “baby steps” (get it, Kindergarten, baby steps?) to using social media in your practice, courtesy of Sociable Lawyer.
1. Do not be afraid to try
2. Share your knowledge
3. Polish your online rep
4. Strength in numbers
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Who knew? It turns out that free tools online can help you achieve your personal, financial, and practice goals. Below you’ll find the 10-step plan to do it.
1. Get the big-picture of what you want do to using software like mindjet.
2. Develop task lists via Remember the Milk, Google Tasks, etc.
3. Use services like Bing and Hunch that give suggestions.
4. Record your progress via Springpad and like services.
5. Use tools like Diigo, Zotero, and Laterloop, to save work.
6. Searchpad can help integrate the results of your research.
7. Calendar and organize using services like Ning and Meetup.
8. Build or participate in communities of goal-oriented people.
9. Review content-sharing sites like WordPress, YouTube, etc.
10. Refine, reconfigure, repeat.
Sites to Checkout
Geezeo tracks personal finances in a community of like-minded people. The site just launched a Facebook application.
Mint: the more famous and earlier financial website recently purchased by Intuit, the makers of Quicken. Imagine the possibilities.
Goalmigo is an online community that helps you set, track and find supporters to reach your goals.
112 Apps that help you Get Things Done (GTD) is a great list, but of course who has time when you’re getting things done?
Google Chrome
Google Chrome will finally be receiving extensions a la Firefox. Here are some sample extensions and developer documentation. In short, Chrome is one tiny step closer to catching up with Firefox … which is about 1,000 miles ahead of the game.
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