With charities of all shapes and sizes struggling to cope during the pandemic, more and more have been forced to turn to technology to survive. But charities shouldn’t turn to technology just to maintain a charity; it can also help to rebuild its funds. Recent research has shown that more than three quarters of charities […]
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Taming Your Inbox
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 […]
Continue readingGoogle Tip Top Tip – Using Google Calendar to Organise Your Time
“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 […]
Continue readingGoogle Tip Top Tip – Is Your Document Protected?
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 […]
Continue readingGoogle Workspace Tip Top Tip – Google Meet
Google Meet is a video-communication service developed by Google. It’s just like Zoom but better (in our opinion). It’s name changed recently, it used to be called Hangouts Meet, that may sound more familiar to you. We have put together some tips on how to use Google Meet as part of your day to day. […]
Continue readingHow To Keep Your Work From Home Motivation High
Working from home seems very appealing for many people, however it’s not always as glam as it may sound on the label. There is more to it than rolling out of bed and starting your workday in your pajamas. Working from home requires some adaptation in order to get the most out of your work […]
Continue readingCustomers Need to be Remembered
It is very common for businesses to focus most of their efforts on technology that will provide business transformation. In doing so, your customer (otherwise known as your most precious asset) is pushed back of mind. The current pandemic has demonstrated that working conditions have evolved, there is a new normal and seemingly no going […]
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Be honest, you saw that title and immediately thought of being able to take your own booze into curry houses, didn’t you? Oh. Just me then. Well, if you didn’t think that, you are right, BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device. It refers to the ever increasing trend for companies to allow employees to […]
Continue readingOptimizing your Home Working Environment
The Covid-19 global pandemic has shattered many certainties, routines and institutions, and it remains to be seen how they will be rebuilt, if and when we return to some form of normality (if “normality” will have any meaning in the post-pandemic world). One thing that has been drastically affected is the world of work, and […]
Continue readingBeating Covid 19 – keeping businesses and schools open (even when they have to close) using G-Suite
Coronavirus is here, there is no escaping it. At least not on the news, or in conversation with friends, family and colleagues where talk will invariably turn to COVID-19. In the next few weeks the scale of the outbreak here in the UK and across the world will become more clear. Businesses are already putting […]
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