• Tech Tips With Margaret: Which is Better for Remote Collaboration, Microsoft Teams or Slack?

    Tech Tips With Margaret: Which is Better for Remote Collaboration, Microsoft Teams or Slack?

    By Margaret Wilman Whether a team of employees is scattered around the country, or just so large that it makes communication challenging, a lot of companies have turned to team collaboration software to keep everyone connected. Two of the most prominent examples of this software are Slack and Microsoft Teams. Both chat services are highly…

  • Tech Tips With Margaret: How Microsoft Teams is Helping Businesses

    Tech Tips With Margaret: How Microsoft Teams is Helping Businesses

    With the workforce heavily scattered due to the conditions of the last year, employers have needed to make a lot of adjustments to keep their teams unified. Fortunately, Microsoft Teams has helped many people adapt to the new way of working as smoothly as possible. Microsoft Teams comes free with subscriptions to Microsoft 365, and…

  • Tech Tips With Margaret: Microsoft Teams Brings Workers Together No Matter Where They Are

    Tech Tips With Margaret: Microsoft Teams Brings Workers Together No Matter Where They Are

    The workplace has become more spread out than ever for many people, with it being commonplace now for some people to not even be in the office while on the job. That’s why more companies have been unifying their workers virtually through the usage of Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is a tool for unifying workers…

  • Tech Tips With Margaret: New Zoom Features Help Organizations Create Productive, Healthy Post-pandemic Workplaces

    Tech Tips With Margaret: New Zoom Features Help Organizations Create Productive, Healthy Post-pandemic Workplaces

    Many workers are well-acquainted with the fact that Zoom has been an integral part of the work experience due to the conditions of the last year. However, as more people become vaccinated, some companies are looking towards physically reuniting their workforce in the coming months. The people behind Zoom anticipated this and have developed additional…

  • Tech Tips With Margaret: The Advantages of Zoom Phone

    Tech Tips With Margaret: The Advantages of Zoom Phone

    Everyone has become well-acquainted with Zoom’s video call service, and it has become one of the standard ways for working professionals to stay in touch virtually. However, Zoom also recently celebrated the two year anniversary of its new service designed to give professionals even more versatility: Zoom Phone. As the name suggests, Zoom Phone is…

  • Tech Tips with Margaret: 4 Pointers to Keep Your Zoom Meetings Safe and Secure

    Tech Tips with Margaret: 4 Pointers to Keep Your Zoom Meetings Safe and Secure

    The last year has turned Zoom into a normal part of the workday for many people. However, communicating virtually can make it more difficult to keep sensitive information secure. It can be easy to overlook that someone who is not supposed to be part of your virtual session has slipped in. The way we work…

  • Tech Tips With Margaret: Injecting Fun and Personality into Your Next Executive Zoom Meeting

    Tech Tips With Margaret: Injecting Fun and Personality into Your Next Executive Zoom Meeting

    For many, the last year with the pandemic has turned video conference services like Zoom from conveniences into workplace necessities. It hasn’t been an easy transition having to navigate challenges like video chat etiquette. However, now that Zoom meetings have been the norm for workers for so many months, the biggest hurdle might just be…

  • Tech Tips With Margaret: 9 Hints to Make Your Zoom Meetings More Productive and Less Draining

    Tech Tips With Margaret: 9 Hints to Make Your Zoom Meetings More Productive and Less Draining

    Wherever you turn, someone wants to have a Zoom meeting. They happen with the best of intentions, to update everyone on company goals or to refine the projected revenue estimates for next year’s budget. So what’s so wrong about having lots of meetings? It’s a time killer. Meeting scientist Joseph Allen, Ph.D., says senior managers…