Social: 50 Ways to Improve Your Professional Life

by Ankit Fadia

From the bestselling author of Faster: 100 Ways to Improve Your Digital Life

This time Ankit Fadia expands his expertise beyond computers and digital devices. He gives away technology tips and general advice on how you can enhance your professional life. This book includes applications that help plan your day, communicate effectively and manage finances.

• Does your resume have trouble getting noticed?
• What’s the most effective way to do your homework on people before you meet them?
• How can an app help you get more out of conferences?
• Can de-cluttering your Inbox really save you a lot of time?
• How to get more work done on flights?
• Should you hire a public relations firm?

Social puts you on the path that takes you being an employee to creating your own personal brand.

263 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 11, 2014

About the author

The bestselling author Ankit Fadia is a tech junkie who loves tinkering with computers, gadgets and everything tech. He has hosted a popular show on MTV called What the Hack!, where he gave tips, tricks and tweaks to get more out of technology and the Internet. Widely recognized as a computer security expert, he has delivered more than 1000 talks in 25 countries, received several awards and trained more than 20,000 people in India and China. He has studied at Stanford University and was chosen as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. Ankit loves to travel and has visited 100+ countries.

Reviews

[Ankita · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book came out a decade back in 2014. Many apps discussed are outdated now. Even then, it is still helpful. You can learn about various apps and programs for a variety of purposes like career, health, meetings etc. Not a bad book.

[Varun Rajwade · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is a decent read with some good tips on social networks and apps but the book ia quite shallow and with some apps being repeated..

[Tomy Mathew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice information to make use of.

Although the books was slightly old in the fast changing internet era, there are a good amount of information and tools that Ankit mentioned here in this book that we can make use of in the professional and social life.

Thank you Ankit for this book.

[Shaik Afsar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gud

[Amit Mathur · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's one of the best Productivity Book I have read in a while. Let me summarise the book for all those who doesn't have time to go thru' the whole book:

Productivity - Apps / Website

1. Google Keep: Create you task lists, and keep a track of your tasks.
2. Rapportive (www.rapportive.com)
3. Streak - Google chrome browser app
4. Unroll.me - browser app to clean inbox
5. www.Followup.cc is a tool that allows you to stay on top of your email by sending you reminders to follow up with your team members.
6. Infographics : www.easel.ly ; visual.ly ; Infotech.am
7. www.Shareholic.com
8. Contact Importer: www.cloudsponge.com
9. Control your social media apps: www.bufferapp.com
10. Syncpad allows you to convert your mobile phone, tablet or the browser on your computer into a virtual whiteboard for real time collaboration: syncpadapp.com ;
11. https://youcanbook.me/howitworks/
12. Immersion (HTTPS://immersion.media.mit.edu) : email Analyzer. It collects metadata (like to, cc and timestamp) from all your emails to give you interesting insights into the relationship that you have over time with your connection and contacts around the world.
13. Create an internal wiki for your personal brand: Media Wiki (www.mediawiki.org) ;TWiki (http://TWiki.org) ; Tiddly (http://tiddlywinks.com)
14. Learn design thinking
15. Mind mapping: MindNode (www.mindnode.com) ; X-Mind (www.xmind.net)
16. Time Tracking Tool: Toggl (www.toggl.com)
17. A good calendar App: Any.do/cal
18. Time Tracker: free download on Google chrome- this app will track how and where are you spending your time on the internet.
19. StayFocused: app is a free browser app that is currently available as an free download from the Google chrome web store. It allows you to set a maximum limit on the amount of time you want to let yourself slender every day on websites on the internet.
20. Google Now: is a virtual assistant app that studies, analyses, and understands everything that you do on your mobile phone and deliveres relevant information that you care about without you having to search for it.

[Krishna Chaitanya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Social - This is a book that enlightens you with many smart apps out there, that could make your life socially rich.. The book answers some 50 Qs on how to be socially active & smart suggesting one app for each of those questions. Immersion, Klout, Rapportive, Buffer & Airdroid are some apps that i found to be really cool & must try. A quick read and it won't take more than a couple of hours or so to finish this 250 page light content. Ankit Faida seems to be one informative author to be followed from now on. :-)

[Vish Wam · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would reccomend this book to anyone who aims to improve themselves as a skilled and talented individual. In this generation of lifestyle where smart phone apps and web browsers are ingrained into our very lives, the book makes us realize that these technologies could mean more than external devices- They have become our prosthetic enhancement in a way!
As technological advancement happens on one side, human realization of appropriately applying these technologies, is very much needed at this current age to keep pace with this fast moving world.
The Book Is a Must Read!

[Dheeraj Guduri]

It's a pretty great book filled with all smart pieces of advice for someone who is dependent on mobiles or tablets in the professional world. It provides you with successful applications used by successful people to add more quality to their everyday activities and also fine-tune your daily schedule much better.

It's worth a read for sure. You get to know 50 apps/methods to implement in your phone/working environment.

[Edwina D'souza · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was expecting more insights, experiences and personal stories. Book is all about app recommendations written by a tech geek for a tech geek. On the plus, i did find some of the apps (may be 10% of the apps) interesting and I might use them too.

[Nikhil Mishra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not much insight in the book. Only contains app information which can help you make your life productive. Most of the pages in the book are occupied by steps to download, options etc as if it was a user manual for a device. Had much expectation but found it impactless.

[Deepansh Arora · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book talks about tool which are practically useful in day to day life , will definitely help in managing one selves better :)

[Šąqįb Žąrgąr · Rating 4 out of 5]

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