By Clair Jones
Next Avenue Contributor
Have you ever wondered what your Millennial coworkers are doing when they’re glued to their smartphones or tablets? Maybe it’s time to have a closer look.
They’re likely employing innovative technologies that you, too, should be using to make your job easier and make you more impressive to your current employer or your next one.
To stay up-to-date, learn these eight ways that technology can help you at work:
1. Manage your personal brand with IFTTT.
If This Then That (IFTTT) is a free service that makes updating your social media accounts, personal blog or LinkedIn profile easy. It uses what the service calls “recipes” to link your accounts. This way, when you post in one, an update is automatically posted in the others.
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For instance, you can make an IFTTT recipe that updates your LinkedIn Profile every time you publish a new post on your personal blog. Guides like this one from Lifehacker provide detail instructions about how best to use the service.