The 16th of this month (February 2021) sees the one year anniversary of the death of Larry Tesler. You may not know who he is, but as you are likely using a computer I am almost certain you have used his most famous invention. Tesler was born on April 24, 1945, in the Bronx in […]
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Health service providers had always identified the opportunities for technology to support the health and social care sector but it appears to have taken the pandemic to provide the catalyst. It’s likely that the first questions from your doctor’s surgery or medical centre have now changed when an appointment is required. No longer will medical […]
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All of us in the Innovate team love Google Workspace. It’s no surprise, then, that much of our communication is via Google Chat. Especially as we are now working from home more than ever. Did you know that Google Chat supports webhooks? These allow for bot-like integrations with some third-party products, and also the ability […]
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There is a new term in the HR industry; hybrid recruitment. As much as face to face recruitment continues to take place, it has dwindled considerably by the onset of the pandemic. Companies and recruiters alike are increasingly using digital strategies to recruit into vacant positions in order to keep open vacancies low. The main […]
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What is Google Drive? Think of Google Drive as a 2021 version of a hard drive. You may have heard the term “cloud computing” being used more frequently in recent years and Google Drive is part of it; a cloud-based storage solution that allows you to save files online and access them from any smartphone, […]
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Let me start by saying, I don’t like email. I think there are far better methods of communicating (especially internally) and I also think that in many cases email should be the last choice solution. I have many reasons for my disliking, almost as many as the unread messages you may currently have in your […]
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Innovation is spreading fast throughout the UK and in many cases with the support of the government. Everyone is hearing about the increased digital transformation that is happening in sectors such as health and social care. In education in particular, there has been a growing need for substantial Google training in order for schools to […]
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“Let’s schedule a meeting” has become default to solving solutions within a business environment. It’s important to realise that meetings may not always be the right solution and this plays a key part in using your calendar to manage your time. Meetings can be great tools for the following reasons: To get a project through […]
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It’s National Technology Day in the UK, today recognises the ways that technology changes the world, looks to the future of technology and honors technological achievements that impact all of us daily… Imagine the world without technology?! It’s safe to say that each and every day, it’s nearly impossible to go a full 24 hours […]
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This week, Google announced the general rollout of Multiple Orientation in Google Docs. The ability to have portrait and landscape orientation within the same document is something that the public sector and beyond have been asking for, for some time. It got me thinking of what I want to see next and immediately my thoughts […]
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