Your website’s success depends on several factors. One often overlooked factor is the performance of your website. Performance can be ignored for a number of reasons: You don’t notice your website’s slow performance. You’re overwhelmed by “backend” work. You don’t … Continue reading
The use of cloud storage has grown tremendously in recent years. Implementation of cloud technology has made it more convenient to access files from anywhere and it has allowed businesses to keep data private and secure. In addition, cloud services … Continue reading
Microsoft’s Outlook, part of the Microsoft Office suite, is one of the world’s most popular email, calendar, and task management applications, filled with features and functionality that work for every size organization. I’ve been using Outlook for years and I’m … Continue reading
If you’re one of the 85 million active users of Microsoft Office 365, you’ll see a new app tile in the app launcher as of March 14, 2017: Teams. I’ve been using Teams since it was released in preview last … Continue reading
True story: It’s Saturday afternoon, the doors have been closed and locked after a busy retail morning. One employee stays late to finish a few orders. He visits a couple websites too and at one of them a warning pops … Continue reading
Using a strong password is one of the simplest security measures people can take to protect themselves online. Despite how easy it is to make a strong password, using predictable passwords remains all too common. When you use a predictable … Continue reading
Over the past year, Microsoft has been doing its best to keep business users of Office 365 confused—in a good way! Every few weeks, it seems, a new tile appears under the cheerful greeting I see when I sign in … Continue reading
“Moving to the cloud” means changing to a type of computing that’s based on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers, local storage devices, and local applications. “Local” means on the premises of your organization (inside your office/s!). “The … Continue reading
The need to back up data—transactions, reports, drawings, photographs, spreadsheets, specifications, all the things computers help you create in the course of a business day—is something we all understand. Losing data can mean hours of rework, gaps in business accounts … Continue reading
How much time do you spend thinking about the IT infrastructure on which your business depends? If you’re like most owners of small-to-medium-sized businesses, you think about IT when something isn’t working right. The Break/Fix Model Your sales reps can’t … Continue reading
