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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Communications Tools that can Help Your Business

Communications Tools that can Help Your Business

Digital communication is a critical part of running any business, so you need to do your part by equipping your employees with the tools they need to communicate effectively both in and out of the workplace. Listed below are three of the most effective tools that will enable your business to flourish.

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What to Look for in a Video Conferencing Solution

What to Look for in a Video Conferencing Solution

Video conferencing has become a popular way for businesses and their team members to communicate, with many platforms rising up to meet this demand. This growth brings up the question of how one goes about picking the best one for their organization’s needs. Listed below are a few features that should be present in any option you consider for you to keep in mind.

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What Your Business Needs to Know about Remote Collaboration

What Your Business Needs to Know about Remote Collaboration

With businesses handling operations in different ways, their employees must adapt to the circumstances handed to them. Some businesses have begun to experiment with the status quo and are for the first time realizing the value that can come from permitting staff to work remotely. Listed below are some of the ways your team might depend on technology to make remote collaboration effective and how you can optimize your experience with these collaborative platforms.

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A Look at How Collaboration Tools Affect Your Team

A Look at How Collaboration Tools Affect Your Team

Many companies were very suddenly introduced to the capabilities of modern collaboration tools, as… circumstances forced them to either go remote or cease operations for an unknown amount of time. That being said, while collaboration tools were suddenly a requisite for work, could these tools now be responsible for isolating your team members from one another?

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How to Enhance Your Collaboration

How to Enhance Your Collaboration

Businesses are rarely successful with just a single individual doing all the work; rather, businesses are largely successful when a group of people are working together toward the same goal. To promote this kind of collaboration within your business, we suggest you keep the following tips in mind.

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Security Issues with Remote Work

Security Issues with Remote Work

More workplaces are utilizing the power of remote technology, but this also creates issues with security that must be addressed. How can you ensure that your business isn’t putting itself at risk as a result of this general displacement of your workforce? Listed below are some action items you might choose to implement for your organization.

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Advantages of Utilizing Unified Communications

Advantages of Utilizing Unified Communications

Wherever a business’ team happens to be working, maintaining communications is an enormous priority. This is not only for the sake of operations, but also for the sake of your company culture. This can be accomplished via a strategy known as unified communications.

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Will Organizations Still Have Separate Departments Going Forward?

Will Organizations Still Have Separate Departments Going Forward?

HR. Sales. Customer Service. IT. Accounting. Management. These different business departments have been categorized and compartmentalized for decades, cooperating but mostly operating independently of one another. Will this remain to be the case, with so many people now working remotely and communicating with their teammates as needed? 

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Advantages of Remote Work

Advantages of Remote Work

Remote work has been embraced over the past two years, in no small part due to the impact of the pandemic. That being said, some of the impacts of remote work have made it clear to many businesses that its advantages shouldn’t be sacrificed once it is no longer required. Let’s review how businesses can improve by continuing the practices of remote work, even after the need for remote work has passed.

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Document Sharing in Google Drive

Document Sharing in Google Drive

Collaboration is something that no modern business can do without, which is why so many modern applications feature it so heavily. Below is a look at Google Drive and one of its collaborative capabilities that so many businesses are now utilizing: Document Sharing. 

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How A Document Management System Can Help Your Business

How A Document Management System Can Help Your Business

Do you know how much paper you use each year? Do you know how much paper you have stored in your office? Do you realize that none of that is necessary? Modern digital filing systems as a part of a document management strategy can stop you from wasting your business’ resources on paper, filing, and printing. 

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Google Docs' Handy Features

Google Docs' Handy Features

Within Google Workspace is Google Docs, a helpful word processing solution that can be accessed via your web browser. In case you’re new to using Google’s productivity software, we have decided to assemble a short introduction to some of Google Docs’ most useful tools and features.

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Three Apps that can Boost Your Team's Collaboration

Three Apps that can Boost Your Team's Collaboration

Boosting collaboration is a central theme to many businesses' operational strategies. The more that people can do as a team, the less expensive operations have to be. That is a sound business strategy. Many modern businesses are looking to software to build a successful collaborative situation. Listed below are three such apps that, if utilized properly, will help any business enhance their team’s ability to work together. 

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What Has Zoom Done to Enhance Its Security?

What Has Zoom Done to Enhance Its Security?

As a communication tool, the video conferencing app Zoom saw a significant bump in its popularity with both personal and business users as the coronavirus pandemic made other means of meeting no longer viable. Nonetheless, this sudden increase in its user base also revealed some serious security problems with the platform. What has Zoom has done to resolve these problems since then?

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Gmail Upgrades the User Experience

Gmail Upgrades the User Experience

Distinctly demonstrating their prioritization of their G Suite offering, Google continues to enhance the platform’s many solutions to upgrade the user experience. Most recently, this has included giving Gmail a few extra functionalities to help further integrate a business’ communications. A look at these functionalities is listed below.

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Essential Technology for Remote Workers

Essential Technology for Remote Workers

The office is a tool designed to enhance business. Remember the office? Some long for the day when they can get back there, while many remote workers enjoy not having to physically be there anymore. One thing is certain: many people are still working from home, having been sent there in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many, with no return date in sight. Below is a look at a couple pieces of technology that are popular with the remote work crowd. 

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How Collaboration Solutions can Help Your Business

How Collaboration Solutions can Help Your Business

The advancements in technology directly contributes to the amount of productivity a business sees. This is evident is in the way in which businesses utilize collaboration tools to move business forward. Below is a brief look at what exactly we mean by collaboration tools and how they benefit the businesses that use them. 

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Video Conferencing Solutions can Enhance Your Organization's Collaboration

Video Conferencing Solutions can Enhance Your Organization's Collaboration

If your business is like many others, you’ve delayed some of your more capital-intensive plans and focused on efficiency. Since things are starting to reopen in many places, it’s been made clear that keeping your business running with remote workers is a solid strategy, but you can’t keep your projects on the back burner forever. Utilizing video conferencing solutions to help run your projects can be a good stopgap that can give your organization some flexibility. 

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Tips on Inspiring Remote Collaboration

Tips on Inspiring Remote Collaboration

Recent events have illustrated how helpful a remote workforce can be, but this method of maintaining productivity isn’t without its challenges. For example, a staff that is used to working side-by-side in an office may have difficulties adjusting to this new work paradigm. Luckily, there are a few company activities that can help make better remote habits stick. 

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One Trait that Makes Video Conferencing Less Awkward

One Trait that Makes Video Conferencing Less Awkward

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, more business than ever are now conducted via video chat. You may be using it yourself as a tool to work remotely. Nevertheless, while these conversations may help keep your team connected to one another, the experience certainly isn’t the same as what would be found in the office conference room. There is one specific trait that can help video conferencing be as smooth as possible for everyone, though. 

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