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The truth about design titles is an entertaining ever-green article by the acclaimed creative designer Tobias van Schneider. Have fun reading it!
e.g. Art Director = Someone who has never opened Photoshop or any design tools in their career but gets away with it. Tends to hover around people saying, “I’m not quite feeling that color.”
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Locus Publishing has acquired the Bulgarian translation rights for The Freelance Way. Locus is a well-established publisher of quality non-fiction books for business, management, personal growth and related topics. The Bulgarian edition is expected to be published in 2022.
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By all means, LastPass is a great cloud-based password manager. It enables you to protect and access all your passwords with one master password (plus 2FA) in your mobile app or browser extension.
Note: If you are afraid to store your more important passwords in LassPass’ cloud, you can keep them locally in KeePass Password Safe, a popular open-source password manager available for every OS.
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When it comes to self-education, The Great Courses are a real jewel. Produced by The Teaching Company, they bring over 500 courses from the world’s best English-speaking lecturers — scientists, academics, businessmen, and other experts — into your smartphone.
Every course consists of individual lectures adopted for a popular audience. Each is 20-40 minutes long, which enables a gradual consumption of most complex subjects. You can purchase the courses on the official website and then listen to them using their apps, or you can save by purchasing them with occasional discounts as audiobooks on Amazon’s Audible (now in Summer Learning Sale all at $10 each).
Our 5 suggestions for great Great Courses:
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The simple online Gen-Z Guide to Freelancing has been written mostly for beginning creatives — by creatives at Continuum.
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If you want to start a podcast, Anchor by Spotify would arguably be the coolest and easiest solution around. It’s free, including hosting your episodes and their (mostly automated) distribution to Spotify, Apple, Google Podcasts, etc. The app is great, too — you may produce the whole show on your smartphone in no time.
Note: A more conservative hands-on alternative would be SoundCloud, which is a paid service.
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When it comes to social media, it all begins with Adam — namely Adam Zbiejczuk, our new Star Member and the go-to social-media consultant for Central and Eastern Europe. He is one of the best-connected industry experts in the area, but he also works with global companies in mastering LinkedIn for their business. Check out his impressive professional profile, and feel free to connect!
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Signal is not only one of the most secure messaging apps for work, praised among others by Edward Snowden and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. It also has a desktop version for Windows, Mac, and Linux, enabling users to chat, make video calls, send voice messages and files from both their computer and mobile phone. That offers a substantial productivity boost without sharing mobile’s SMS messages — a good solution from a security point of view.
Note: To keep up with a high level of Signal’s security features, it goes without saying that the computer should also be secured by password, hard-drive encryption, etc.
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Have you ever heard the often-repeated claim that freelancers make up a third of the U.S. workforce? That’s a highly misleading statement based on a super-wide definition of freelance work.
Fiverr’s recent 2021 Freelance Economic Impact Report entitled Sizing the Top Markets for Skilled Freelancers in the U.S. dived into official stats compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau. Looking at over 20 million tax returns for non-employer entities with at least $1,000 in annual receipts, they came up with a wholly different number:
“We estimate that there were 6.1 million skilled independent workers in creative, technical, and professional services in the U.S. as of 2020. Altogether, these skilled independents are estimated to earn about 1.1% of the U.S.’s GDP in revenue and make up 3.8% of the civilian labor force.”
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