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Chloe Anagnos

Cultivating a career beyond borders

Chrome Plugins You Need to Be More Productive

May 1, 2019 · In: Technology

A plugin is an additional piece of software that can be added to a given program to enhance that program’s function.

If you’re not using plugins on Chrome, you’re missing opportunities to make your life even easier. No matter your industry, here are some universal plugins that can boost your productivity on a daily basis.

Block Site

If you’re spending too much time on social media or can’t seem to stay out of your inbox, then Block Site is the plugin for you.

To use this plugin, visit the websites you’re spending too much time on, and schedule times that you can’t access them. Block Site will work its magic and make sure you stay away from these websites and stay focused until the time you designate passes.

Facebook Pixel Helper

For all of you marketing junkies, this plugin will enable you to see any Pixel from Facebook installed on a given website. This plugin helps you check to see if the pixels on your websites are working and make sure they are collecting data.

For nonmarketing junkies, this plugin will help you to see which websites are gathering your information to remarket to you, and note the websites that are tracking you as you click on certain links. When you see a pixel detected, consider this plugin your friendly reminder to clear all your cookies, or forever be haunted by increasingly targeted ads.

Smallpdf

Smaller images enable your website to load more quickly, and with large file types, sometimes certain pages on your website may not load at all. Use this plugin to optimize your visual content and make sure your file sizes are up to par with the correct file format. This plugin can also come in handy if you’re emailing a photo or video content to your colleagues, and allow you to upload more content at a time to an email or file.

Loom

Loom is a plugin that allows you to record yourself and your screen in real time. It’s perfect for tutorials for YouTube, your employer, or for your colleagues to share skills and learn how to do something quickly and effectively.

Even if it’s something as simple as how and why you save a document in certain file format, this plugin quickly creates high-quality videos that can come in handy when you may least expect it.

Keywords Everywhere

Looking to boost your SEO? This plugin will allow you to see the cost per click of keywords on Google, YouTube, Etsy, and even Amazon. Instead of toggling back and forth from Keyword Planner, this plugin will help you stay up to date on what’s trending online, and allow you to adjust accordingly.

Even if you’re just looking to curate the perfect social media caption and see what’s trending, this plugin can help.

Todoist

Todoist makes staying on track with your to-do list easy. If you don’t need a comprehensive project management solution, Todoist serves as an excellent tool to keep track of everything you need to do during the day.

It easily syncs from your browser to your phone as well and can be used from anything as simple as chores and grocery lists you need to finish to complex projects you’d like to have on your radar.

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

This plugin loads the LinkedIn profile of any contact you’re corresponding with via email directly onto your screen in a pop-up tab. No need to remember all their personal data if you’re not in a CRM platform because this plugin will quickly show you a given contact’s photo, company name, and location as you’re drafting an email from your inbox.

Google: EU Regulators May Censor the Internet With Copyright Rule

January 18, 2019 · In: News, Technology

The European Union voted for a sweeping piece of legislation that will change the internet as users on the Continent know it. But as European Parliament members discuss the directive’s final wording, Google took the opportunity to issue a warning so users would better understand what this new legislation could do.

According to Google, the directive could completely wipe the internet clean.

Because the Copyright Directive gives news publishers the right to charge for search engines to use snippets of their stories, Google can’t show snippets without purchasing licenses. So if the rule goes into effect, European users may end up searching for something online, only to find nothing but an empty search-results page. After all, Google would much rather omit snippets than pay for licenses to show results from every single publisher.

Another potential result of this type of law is that Google may end up distorting the results users get simply because it would prefer to pay big publishers for their content. This means that independent and smaller publishers would be completely silenced.

As the company’s VP of news, Richard Gingras, wrote recently, this would put Google in the position of picking winners and losers.

“Online services, some of which generate no revenue (for instance, Google News) would have to make choices about which publishers they’d do deals with,” Gingras wrote. “Presently, more than 80,000 news publishers around the world can show up in Google News, but Article 11 would sharply reduce that number.”

If anything, this piece of news should send chills down the spine of anyone who takes freedom of speech seriously.

But this new rule would not only menace people seeking different narratives when it comes to the news, but it would also be a problem for businesses.

To marketing professionals in Europe, the Copyright Directive would severely impact their ability to help clients reach their audience. In an age when everyone uses search engines to find service providers or to consume news, European business would be in grave danger.

Leave the Internet Alone

With the European Parliament, Commission, and Council holding closed-door meetings to finalize the bill’s wording, activists are urging Europeans who are worried about their freedom of speech to pressure their representatives to take a stand against the Copyright Directive.

As explained by The Verge, if the European Council passes the legislation on Jan. 18, the final negotiation between the parliament and council will take place on Jan. 21, pushing the final vote to March. By 2021, the directive would then have to be implemented as law by all EU nations. Thankfully, activism prompted by the strong criticism the bill received is helping to change the narrative, and EU members are starting to voice their opposition to the bill.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explained, over 4 million Europeans signed a petition against the Copyright Directive’s censorship of independent news outlets. With European leaders in the entertainment, news, and sports industries also joining the fight against the bill, the message is clear: leave the internet alone.

The European Union has long ignored what people want, by imposing rules that have alienated European citizens. With the discontent only growing, we could soon witness a major change in how Europeans see the union and its power over them. And the idea of Brexit could soon spread across the Continent.

One thing is for sure: European states would be free to set their own rules if there wasn’t a European Union. And it’s because power would be decentralized that people’s freedom, especially on the internet, would be better protected.

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