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For many entrepreneurs the social media playground has become just one more place of information overload — from RSS readers to Email to social networks, we’ve all got enormous amounts of data coming in at any given time, oftentimes from many different websites that demand your “immediate” attention. Several free and paid services have emerged in the last few years to try and tackle this problem. LifeIO is a fairly new service that launched in 2009 that helps you do it all. With integration of Email, calendars, and your social networks, LifeIO serves as a control panel for all of your communication, featuring tabs for Email, calendar, note taking, social sites, and RSS — in other words, a one-stop-shop where you can manage most of your online activities.
Even though it seems like a lot of personal information to store in one place, fortunately everything is encrypted and transferred via a secure HTTPS connection. Features are broken into broad sections, like ‘Social’ and ‘Email’, which you can jump between using a simple menu bar at the top of the screen. The site does a good job keeping things consistent and in order.
I am a firm believer in letting companies share in their own words what they do, so below are LifeIO’s description of their services. Check out the links to their excellent tutorial videos to show you how it all works.
If you’re looking for a way to simplify your life to give you time to build a more remarkable practice, check out this service. And as always, it’s free.
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| lifeIO simply and flexibly aggregates and integrates all of the elements of your daily online life in a single browser window. Mail, chat, social networks, calendar, todos, notes, rss and shopping. The lifeIO Now view displays the most recent things you’ve looked at. It’s an easy way to see what you’ve been up to lately and quickly followup items of interest. |
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| Email/Chat |
| lifeIO aggregates all of your email and chat accounts in one place. View them individually or in the aggregate. From the major services like Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, MSN, AOL as well as POP and iMAP accounts. LifeIO is a full email client that lets you send, receive, forward and send attachments from any of your accounts. LifeIO also lets you transform an email message into a calendar event, a note or a todo while keeping the message in your email archive. All of your messages are fully searchable too. |
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| Calendar |
| You can create as many lifeIO calendars as you wish and also import your Outlook, Google and Yahoo calendars and any iCal calendar file into LifeIO. LifeIO calendar can also display any of your lifeIO information in a calendar view, i.e. mail, contacts, todos, notes feeds and social network updates. |
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| Contacts |
| lifeIO imports your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo Address Book and Microsoft Outlook from a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file exported by the service. From the thumbnail view of any lifeIO contact you can skype, email and map. You can also display the contact’s photo or avatar. |
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| To-do’s |
| Organize your to-do list any way you want to and create as many custom categories to save your to-do’s as you wish. From your lifeIO todo list you can also tranform any todo item into an event, note, email and print it while keeping it displayed as a todo. |
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| Notes/ScratchPad |
| Create notes and save them to categories you create. You can turn any other item in lifeIO into a note, i.e. email messages, rss feeds, social network updates shopping items. All your notes are fully searchable. The lifeIO ScratchPad lets you keep freeform notes as you manage your daily activities and save them later as notes or to-do’s. lifeIO also autosaves all your ScratchPad entries every day. |
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| Content Feeds |
| lifeIO lets you discover content of interest to you in a variety of ways. You can use lifeIO Topic Feed Search, Bing, Twitter, Hulu, Youtube and Stock Feeds directly from lifeIO to quickly find content of interest to you; and the content you choose will update in real time whenever new items are published by the content publisher. You can also import your favorite feeds from Google reader, Yahoo and any other service that exports an OPML file. You can share the content you discover with all of your social networks and bookmarking sites.
You may save feed items as notes, to-do’s, events and email them as well. |
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| Social |
| lifeIO aggregates you social networks into a single window with real-time updates from Facebook and Twitter and lets you create new posts, tweets and comments to any item directly from lifeIO. You can also see all of the most recent posts from your friends and those you follow. All of your social network updates are archived for two weeks and are fully searchable. |
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| Shopping |
| lifeIO shopping lets you search for products and services from Amazon, Yahoo Shopping, eBay, iTunes Store, Craigslist and Fandango. You only need to search once for what you’re interested in, then lifeIO provides real-time updates for those items as new price and product information is published. |
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| Settings |
| lifeIO settings lets you quickly and easily customize lifeIO to suit your needs. Set up your mail, chat, rss feeds, social networks, calendars, categories, appearance and imports just the way you want them.For more tips, tricks and marketing techniques in social media, visit our website at www.lncpracticebuider.com To learn how to market your practice online, visit out eCourse learning center at www.lncpb.com. |
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For many entrepreneurs the social media playground has become just one more place of information overload — from RSS readers to Email to social networks, we’ve all got enormous amounts of data coming in at any given time, oftentimes from many different websites that demand your “immediate” attention. Several free and paid services have emerged in the last few years to try and tackle this problem. LifeIO is a fairly new service that launched in 2009 that helps you do it all. With integration of Email, calendars, and your social networks, LifeIO serves as a control panel for all of your communication, featuring tabs for Email, calendar, note taking, social sites, and RSS — in other words, a one-stop-shop where you can manage most of your online activities.
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