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zoom meeting best practices

With more and more businesses moving to a distance-based online platform, Zoom meetings have become increasingly popular. During the early days of the pandemic when business owners and employees were looking for quick and effective ways to communicate with one another, Zoom became a go-to application for this. While it did prove helpful, most business owners learned as they went along. The problem with learning any kind of Internet-based application as you go is you expose yourself and your employees to potential external threats. You also may not run your Zoom meeting as effectively and efficiently as possible. When it comes to Zoom meeting best practices, here is what you need to know and how you can improve your user experience. (more…)

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Downtime. Is there a worse word to hear when running a business? It means things come to a halt, and nothing is moving forward. As is the case with any other downtime, IT downtime is something you want to avoid. It can bring your entire network, website, and everything else associated with an Internet connection to a crashing stop. When this happens, it means no online sales, website visitors won’t be able to reach you, and even in-person sales may be blocked if you can’t access the Internet for credit card readers. Essentially it is a complete nightmare. To avoid such an issue, you need to know what causes IT downtime. (more…)

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microsoft teams vs slack

Collaboration platforms have become more important now than ever before, as businesses continue to run off-site, and employees take their jobs back to the home office instead of the traditional workplace. With modern business constantly changing, it is important for you to invest in a collaboration software platform. There are a handful of platforms dedicated to professionals such as yourself, but two of the most popular services are Microsoft Teams and Slack. (more…)

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What is a Virtual CIO

As a growing business, you may not have the use of a full-time board of directors. And even if you do, there are probably some positions you either don’t have the budget for a full-time, salary employee, or you just don’t need to have them on staff. At least not yet. One such individual is the Chief Information Officer. (more…)

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what is the average server lifespan

When you run your own small business, you know just how important it is to have hardware that can handle not only your current needs but the needs you might have in the future. As your business grows, you will eventually need to replace and upgrade your hardware. This is to assist with the additional information and bandwidth requirements of added data, not to mention to ensure your network doesn’t lag with new computers and other hardware you begin implementing onto your network. The equipment you run on your business server is only as strong as the weakest link, so if server speed begins to lag, nothing else will perform as quickly as advertised. (more…)

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