Working remotely has become the preferred technique of many businesses as they pivot to serving clients and customers in the age of COVID-19. Moving to a hybrid work environment with some employees working from home while others continue working out of the office...
A basic Zoom subscription is $14.99/month. Dropbox is $12.99 (with a yearly commitment). Together, storing your documents in the cloud so your entire team can access them, and video conferencing with clients and colleagues is $28/month/user plus taxes. Google has just...
Looking for a Great, Secure, Affordable option to Zoom? Google just announced that it is making Google Meet FREE for EVERYONE! Why consider Meet? Meet is part of Google's Business Suite. It is reliable and easy to use. You don't need to install an app to use it on...
In a time when we are starved for human connections in our personal lives and virtual meeting options in our business lives, Zoom came along. It was slick and well marketed. Sure the free version was limited to 40 minute calls if you had a party of 3 or more, but it...
To support businesses at this time, Google has announced new capabilities for its video meeting software, Google Meet. Meet will now support up to 150 concurrent users and allow recordings of meetings to be stored to your corporate Drive directory for people to review...
For those people who use the free version of Google (@gmail.com), it's understandable that you may not like Google Drive: if you don't want to use Google's own apps like Docs, Sheets or Slides, you are left with manually uploading and downloading documents to and from...
Before we get to "SIM Swapping", two Factor Authentication (or 2FA) is also a term that has been in the news recently. It is a way of securing your email, banking, and social media accounts by requiring you to authenticate using more than one factor to prove your...
Tired of having to pick a password that has at least 8 characters and at least one uppercase, lowercase, digit and special character (but not a / or -) and can't be any of your past passwords or contain your username, first or last name? Tired of writing all these...
Work is changing. According to Gallup, 84% of people work in virtual teams. On average, an employee uses 22 different apps with 3 separate devices. Working remotely is now the norm fo 70% of traditional workers. https://www.youtube.com/embed/oGPc_o-e4BQ
Most of us know about the "Spam folder"–the place where mail gremlins send messages that they think is garbage. Depending on your email system, this decision could be based on whether you've ever sent or received mail from that address before, or if it has too many...
This includes any security patches and updates, system patches, and technical support. If you or someone you know is still running Windows 7 (or heaven forbid, Windows XP) workstations in their office, They are at a huge risk of malware or a ransomware attack. Atlas...
Many businesses are skeptical of cloud based solutions. They hear stories of large cloud based hacks and conclude that keeping their data on-premise is better. It's true that there have been major news stories of some very large cloud hacks involving Microsoft (2010),...