Early in the pandemic, all the virtual meeting platforms: Google Meet, GoToMeeting, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, and Zoom, found themselves in a gold rush. Zoom was the early leader--in part because of price: a freemium version allowed group meetings of up to 40...
Google is a security conscious company. I almost never get unfiltered spam or phishing attacks in my regular inbox.* By default, Google sends suspicious mail to the Junk E-mail folder (if it looks like spam but doesn't seem to contain anything harmful), or Google...
Someone recently said this to me and it got me thinking. Some people are loyal to a particular brand. Some families and even entire communities won't buy any truck if it isn't a GMC and no one can convince them otherwise. I get that some people don't like using...
So you're spending your time between home and office these days (or if you're lucky the lake and the office). How do you get any work done when all your files are on the office server? In an ideal world, your business would support you by: Using a distributed...
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...
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...
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...
Christmas has become a time for personal IT trials. Just before a Christmas flight in 2017, my laptop's motherboard failed. Granted, it was a 5 year old machine and had given me a good life; but it was still frustrating. The bright spot was that I had "eaten my own...
Telecommuting is growing across North America. Benefits include lower cost for office space and better staff retention. However, many managers and employers remain skeptical of its value. A study by Glenn Dutcher and Krista Saral from the University of...