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How to Manage Remote Workers During a Pandemic

Managers haven’t seen their teams in weeks, but they can stay connected and keep employees engaged and productive using existing technology.

April 13, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Managing employees can already be challenging, Now, factor in remote work, and this becomes even more challenging. COVID-19 has closed offices around the world and forced many of us to work from our homes, meaning your employees are unsupervised and are left on their own to get their work done. Managers and team leaders haven’t […]

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Social Distancing

How to Stay Socially Connected While Practicing Physical Distancing During COVID-19

When you must go out, guidelines dictate that you keep at least 6 feet from you & others. But how do you stay socially connected while social distancing?

April 9, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Government agencies all over the world are urging us to practice social distancing, which is essentially staying home and not seeing anyone outside of the house. When you must go out, guidelines dictate that you keep at least six feet from you and other people to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that […]

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Enterprise Connect

Enterprise Connect Announces Best Of Industry Awards After Virtual Events

After virtual keynotes and sessions, Enterprise Connect has recognized a dozen companies with its Best of Enterprise Connect Industry Awards.

April 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Enterprise Connect, a conference and exhibit for the enterprise communications and collaboration industry that held virtual keynotes and sessions this year after COVID-19 forced its cancellation, has recognized a dozen companies with its Best of Enterprise Connect Industry Awards. Taking home awards were Journey, Genesys, Glia, Mio, Omilia, Pexip, Avaya, Kramer Electronics, RingCentral, Theta Lake […]

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Enterprise Connect

Enterprise Connect to Hold Virtual Keynotes, Speaking Sessions Next Week

Enterprise Connect, scheduled to take place later this month, will host an online webinar format featuring speakers during the originally scheduled event.

March 26, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Enterprise Connect, the enterprise communications and collaboration conference and trade show originally scheduled to take place later this month, will now be in an online webinar format on the originally scheduled days. From March 30 to April 1, the event will be hosting a three-day virtual program featuring the most popular breakout sessions in webinar […]

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Higher Ed Tech Managers: This is the Type of COVID Response You Should be Getting from Your A/V People

This is a great example of the kind of campus tech-related higher ed COVID response you should expect from your facility's A/V folks.

March 25, 2020 Josiah Way Leave a Comment

It started Thursday, March 6, 2020. The University of Washington released a statement that all classes would be moved online for the remainder of the quarter. Then Friday came Stanford’s announcement. The dominoes continued to fall. Within the next 48 hours, every major institution in the United States announced some version of transitioning on-campus classes […]

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Microsoft Teams Apps

Microsoft Adds New Features to Teams as Use Surges Due to COVID-19

Microsoft addes new features to Teams as usage skyrockets to 44 million daily active users due to COVID-19 and remote work.

March 19, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is releasing new features for its flagship unified communication and collaboration app teams just as usage on the platform skyrockets due to a swell of the globe working from home to avoid spreading COVID-19. In a blog post, the company detailed its new features and gave an update on how the platform has grown […]

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Microsoft Teams Service Interrupted as Europe Logs On For Remote Work

Microsoft Teams users forced to work from home or remote due to the novel coronavirus haven't had the best start to their week.

March 17, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Really, really, really great timing, Microsoft. Microsoft Teams, the organization’s instant chat, communications and collaboration app was down across Europe Monday morning for over two hours. That spelled disaster as Monday also marked the beginning of major shutdowns across the globe due to COVID-19. The company’s Twitter account dedicated to providing stats updates of Microsoft […]

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Enterprise Connect

Enterprise Connect Becomes Latest Tech Event to be Impacted By Coronavirus

The enterprise technology event featuring keynotes from Big Tech companies is being postponed until August and relocated to San Francisco.

March 10, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Enterprise Connect Orlando, scheduled for the end of the month, has been postponed until August due to concerns about the novel coronavirus which is impacting travel and leading to the cancellation of other tech events and conferences. The show — which features new enterprise technology from tech companies of all sizes — is rescheduled for […]

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Microsoft Expands NFL Partnership to Include Teams

Microsoft is expanding on its partnership with the NFL to bring unified communications and collaboration tool Teams to the league.

March 3, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If you’re an NFL fan like me, you’ve probably seen coaches and personnel on the sidelines during games and practices using Microsoft Surface tablets to draw up plays and review game footage. It’s been well received by the league and part of an ongoing partnership since 2013 that Microsoft likes to promote and one that […]

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