Organize Your Technology (Tools and Tips to organize, sync and simplify your life)

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Instructor: Diana Silveira As we start a new year, we all make the resolution to stay organized and become more efficient. During this workshop, help yourself become prepared to meet and exceed this goal. - Learn how to declutter, dedupe and easily organize your files - Organize incoming knowledge to maximize the time you have and to avoid becoming overwhelmed - Learn about tools you can use to help yourself stay organized - Organize your technology to ensure data security, back-ups, and other important processes are running at full efficiency. http://floridalibrarywebinars.org/

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Organize Your Technology: Tools and Tips to organize, sync and simplify your life

Image from http://de-stress4life.com/2011/05/30/less-mess-less-stress/

Organize

DEPUPE YOUR FILES

• Duplicate Cleaner• Delete Duplicate Files•

Organize Your Files

Create Folders

• Right Click on Desktop (or within folder)• New > Folder• Name Meaningfully

Everything Has a Place•No Files left on Desktop or in folder• Create as many folders as needed• Folders Need Meaningful Names

Tip: Use Folder View with Preview On to peak at files without opening them or use the slide arrow to make images largest enough to preview

Moving Files

• PC:• Hold control to select multiple files• Control + X = Cut • Control + V = Paste• Control + A = Select All• Alternatively, you can drag files to a new folder

• Mac• Hold Command to select Multiple Files• One select, click and drag to new folder

Tip: Make sure you cut don’t copy files as you move them

Rename Files

• Image003 v. 2011JulyGabrielPoolParty100

PURGE

Do you really need

it?Picture Source http://www.elisquared.com/2011/12/follow-friday-14.html

Change Your Set-Up

• Change your default Save Destination & Download Destinations to Desktop (Not my documents or downloads- where things will just gather)

Never Let it Happen Again

•When Downloading Rename Pictures, Documents give a meaningful Name• Date• Event• Person• Tag if possible

Downloading Pictures

Delete, Delete, Delete

The Key: Clear Your Desktop

Regularly

Organize incoming knowledge to maximize the time you have and to avoid becoming overwhelmed

Consider an Information Diet

Twitter, Email, RSS, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, LInkedIn

BE AWARE OF NETFLIX QUEUE SYNDROME WITH YOUR NEWS

Consider Dumping• Redundant News Sources• Those you are “saving” for later• Topics no longer of interest

Social Media• Follow in ONE place• Why are you following

them?• If you skim or skip

them 70% of the time – delete, hide or unfollow

Cleaning Up Facebook• Delete your “likes”• “Hide” annoying family• “Unfriend” a few people• Create lists of close friends and family

Hide a Person’s Feed

Email

• Get rid of the bacon

• Create an account or folder just for signing up

Tools you can use to helpyourself stay organized

Flipboard

Microsoft One Note

Evernote

Organizing Apps

• CardStar• Passbook• Reminders/ Forget the Milk• Notes

Organize your technology to ensure data security, back-ups, and other important processes are running at full efficiency.

Look into Password Managers

• Features:• Multi-browser• Multi-device• Password Generators

LastPass, Norton, Dashlane 1.1

Passwords

• Change Everything! • One word is not enough – words, symbols, numbers, capitalization• Longer the better• Double Authentication when possible

Security Questions

LIE!!!!!!!!!

Mother’s Maiden Name?

First Pet?

First Concert?

Favorite Book?

Grandmother’s Maiden Name?

First Car?

Back-up

• Dropbox• SugarSync• Carbonite• iCloud

• Browser Extensions• Uninstall Programs• Turn off items on start menu

Analyze Your Settings

Contact Me

diana@novarelibrary.com

Delicious.com/dee987/

slideshare.net/dee987

www.facebook.com/NovareLibraryServices

877-816-9638

Diana Silveira

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