Friday, May 1 2026

Tag: freelance

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Your GenAI-Assisted Workflow: Strategic, Secure, and Client-Ready

Whether you’re embracing artificial intelligence (AI) to stay competitive, streamline your workflow, or fight back against outdated assumptions about tech fluency, the key is this: don’t just use AI—use it well. This guide offers a clear, practical approach to integrating generative AI (GenAI) into your work without losing your voice, your standards, or your client’s

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Logging AI Use: A Freelancer’s Guide

Why documentation isn’t optional—and how to do it without breaking your workflow Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way freelancers work—but if you’re not tracking your AI use, you’re leaving yourself (and your clients) exposed. Whether you’re using AI to summarize clinical literature, generate outlines, or polish drafts, your credibility depends on your ability

6 Easy Inexpensive Ways Freelancers Can Improve Cybersecurity

Today, on a discussion board for freelance medical communications specialists, a colleague asked (and I paraphrase here), How do you handle cybersecurity? They specified backing up data and using encryption, 2FA, and (either) a password-protected router or VPN. They are off to a great start, and I really enjoyed responding to their query–so I thought

Episode 8: Boost Your Bandwidth

Freelancer's Guide to Cybersecurity
Freelancer's Guide to Cybersecurity
Episode 8: Boost Your Bandwidth
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Stretching your Wi-fi to its limits? Is the Wi-fi set up that served your freelance work load well now struggling to handle the pandemic reality of multiple people working and studying from home? Does your Wi-fi’s strength limit where people can work and study in your home? The Wi-fi that worked reliably for my freelance

Episode 5: Protecting Your Home Office From Your Smart Home

Freelancer's Guide to Cybersecurity
Freelancer's Guide to Cybersecurity
Episode 5: Protecting Your Home Office From Your Smart Home
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The FBI has described the surge in IoT devices as giving bad actors—the formal term for hackers—“a virtual drive-by of your digital life.” These devices are vulnerable to bad actors and open all devices in the home to hacking. If you work from home, you need to protect your home office from your smart home.

Episode 6: Are Your Consultants & Employees Broadcasting Your Company Secrets From Their Home Offices?

Freelancer's Guide to Cybersecurity
Freelancer's Guide to Cybersecurity
Episode 6: Are Your Consultants & Employees Broadcasting Your Company Secrets From Their Home Offices?
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On today’s podcast, we address the question: Are your consultants and employees broadcasting your company secrets from their home offices? Are your contractors, consultants, and employees adequately protecting your sensitive information and intellectual property when they work from home? As we have reported before, smart home devices with speakers—for example, Siri, Alexa, Amazon Echo, Google