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Your built in second computer – Windows Sandbox
Need a spare computer to test something for 2 minutes but (obviously) you cant justify the expense?Turn on Windows Sandbox to quickly spin up a temporary windows virtual machine that whatever you do there will be deleted once you close it.Want to check a suspicious...
Holidays and Handovers should not lead to Surprise Failures
Employees are entitled to holidays and there are times they'll get promoted or move onto different roles. Plus people will have a range of responsibilities. THIS SHOULD NOT BE A SHOW STOPPER TO THE BUSINESS! Staff should own processes but what does this mean and look...
Install Critical Websites as Apps – Reduce adoption friction
You have your processes and the correct places, that might be websites, that team members need to input and track data/work but you're met with excuses, 'oh i forgot about that app' or 'I lost it in all my tabs'. Or Introducing a new app but people keep losing the...
The dangers of tech sprawl
What is tech sprawl It's what we call it when a organisation has implemented so many tools that you to check multiple places for the latest update on one thing. You track client work in your kanban system, then you have your CRM and maybe different team members have...
Infinite Emails for Free
Your email address actually has infinite addresses. A few years email gained a new feature in adding a + symbol to your address for example: My public email is hello@greenwood-online.com but if i wanted to use that to sign up to a newsletter i could enter...
The expensive admin that quietly slows down your professional services
There’s a line I hear a lot from consultancies and agencies: “There’s so much manual work needed just to keep everyone up to date and projects moving.” And it’s usually said with a sigh, because everyone knows it’s true. The thing is, that manual work isn’t “real...
Intro To Microsoft To-do
Tech Tip Tuesday!I know this has become the highlight of you're week 😉Today, we're looking at Microsoft To-Do.Simple task management, major benefits.No matter where you assign tasks, Outlook/Planner/Loop, To-Do brings them altogether so you never miss what's been...
I’ve been resistant to AI.
I've been resistant to AI. Not because of AI itself but because I've been in IT for long enough to see that implementing the latest buzzword doesn't fix everything: Cloud Virtualise [whatever]-as-a-service I get it, they're buzzwords for a reason, they've made...
Intro to Microsoft Sway
Tuesday Tech Tip time! Microsoft Sway offers easy to make presentations that can be easily shared within teams or externally to potential clients.Watch the 12 min video below guiding you through making your first presentation that will help you stand out from the...
This small detail can have a bigger impact than you think
If you want to scale don't forget about this detail. Data capture. Think about it, you start small and build processes around how YOU do things, then the team starts to grow and you train others on the current processes but the problem is when the training has been...