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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.

Four Tips to Keep Your Tech Clean and Efficient

Four Tips to Keep Your Tech Clean and Efficient

From smartphones to laptops and everything in between, our devices are constantly exposed to dirt, dust, and germs. Keeping your technology clean ensures a longer lifespan for your devices and promotes a user’s health. Listed below are four practical tips to help you keep your technology clean and functioning at its best.

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How to Avoid Tech Neck

How to Avoid Tech Neck

The strain on people’s bodies isn’t always taken seriously enough when someone works at a computer. Still, many official studies suggest that desk jobs can have a radical and rather negative effect on the health of individuals. One common ailment is what is called “tech neck.” Tech neck is a term that describes neck pain and damage stemming from looking down at computers or mobile devices for prolonged periods. To avoid tech neck, you can follow these helpful tips listed below.

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How to Transition to a New Office Location

How to Transition to a New Office Location

It’s always exciting when you can expand your business’ influence with a new location, but that excitement also brings with it all kinds of complications. There’s always something, whether it’s the technology for the new location or the logistics surrounding the opening. Listed below is a look at how you can make sure that technology is not the thing that holds your business back from opening a new location.

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A Look at Consumer Reports’ Scam Prevention Advice

A Look at Consumer Reports’ Scam Prevention Advice

Scams are everywhere in our highly digitized world, which makes it especially imperative that everyone is prepared to deal with them—both personally and professionally. The publication Consumer Reports’ cover feature for its August 2023 edition is dedicated to exactly this goal: helping its readers avoid the various scams and threats out there. Listed below is some of the advice shared in the article, and compare it to the best practices we recommend.

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Technology Solutions can Enhance Collaboration Within Your Business

Technology Solutions can Enhance Collaboration Within Your Business

With collaboration remaining a vital component of any successful business, it’s imperative to foster productivity and innovation through strategic implementation of technology solutions designed for this express purpose. Listed below is a discussion of some of the aspects of collaboration you need to know to do it more effectively, as well as technology that facilitates this process.

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Be Especially Aware of Blank Emails

Be Especially Aware of Blank Emails

We talk a lot about phishing. What it is, what it does, and perhaps most importantly, what it looks like. However, have you ever expected a phishing email to look like… nothing? As in, a completely blank message?

If you answered, “no,” that’s exactly what today’s cybercriminals are counting on.

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Critical Certifications Your IT Staff Should Have

Critical Certifications Your IT Staff Should Have

Information technology is a constantly changing industry, with practices shifting all the time. As a result, anyone you have working on your company’s IT should be actively seeking out various certifications to confirm that they are keeping up to date on modern trends and standards. To help you accomplish this, we’ve put together a brief list of valuable IT certifications that your IT personnel—whether they’re in-house employees or outsourced professionals—should have.

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Cyber Security Mistakes You Should Watch Out for

Cyber Security Mistakes You Should Watch Out for

While it is imperative that your business implement comprehensive network protections, there are plenty of simple ways that your business’ cybersecurity could potentially fail. This could easily cost you heavily in your available capital, financial and social alike.

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How to Maximize Productivity for Your Business

How to Maximize Productivity for Your Business

We’ve talked about what productivity is, how it can be measured, and how to protect it from what could impact it negatively. To bring this brief series to a close, let’s talk about what you can do to maximize it as much as possible for your business’ benefit.

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What Your Business Needs to Know about Enterprise Security

What Your Business Needs to Know about Enterprise Security

Businesses can't afford to grow complacent with their network security; it could make a significant difference between falling prey to an attack and remaining secure. The process of securing a network must be looked at holistically, from top to bottom. This idea of enterprise security is not new, but even a small business needs to keep it in mind, and these solutions are more accessible than you might think.

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Security Training for Your Team is Imperative

Security Training for Your Team is Imperative

One vital component of your business’ security is how well your team is trained to preserve it. Listed below are some of the aspects that you need to be sure you address as you educate your team.

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How to Protect Your Productivity

How to Protect Your Productivity

We’ve been spending the past few weeks examining productivity and how to optimize it. It's now necessary to address the problems that could throw the proverbial wrench into the works. 

Don’t worry, though, we’re also going to touch on how you can avoid and/or mitigate the issues that might threaten your productivity.

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How to Track Your Productivity

How to Track Your Productivity

This blog recently discussed productivity, and how it can be defined. We wanted to continue our deep dive into the concept of productivity with an examination of the different ways that you can measure your own.

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What Exactly is Productivity?

What Exactly is Productivity?

Productivity has been, is now, and likely will forever be heralded as one of the preeminent goals for any business. As such, it makes sense to understand as much as we can about it. To do so, we’ll be examining a different aspect of productivity for the next few weeks.

First up: what is productivity, exactly?

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Best Practices for Data Management

Best Practices for Data Management

Back in 1995, the Association of Records Managers and Administrators were in the midst of campaigning for the renewal of the Paperwork Reduction Act. As a part of their efforts, they created National Records and Information Management Day. It has since expanded into a week, and then into an entire month, for businesses around the world to consider their record-keeping practices.

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What Should Be Included in Your Backup and Disaster Recovery Preparations

What Should Be Included in Your Backup and Disaster Recovery Preparations

Did you know that World Backup Day is in just a few short weeks? While it is an imperative occasion for businesses to recognize, data backup should really be something you think about all the time; your backup is an integral part of the backup and disaster recovery portion of your overall business continuity.

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3 Network Protections All Businesses Should Have

3 Network Protections All Businesses Should Have

Last week, we went over why your organization's cybersecurity processes need to include training. This time around, we wanted to focus on the other side of things, focusing on the essential network protections that no modern business should be operating without.

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Basic Ways of Protecting Your Business from Hackers

Basic Ways of Protecting Your Business from Hackers

While many small businesses shrug off cybersecurity needs as too costly an investment for an organization of their size, this is a potentially catastrophic mistake. The fact of the matter is that small businesses are regularly targeted by cyberattacks, making the aforementioned cybersecurity needs even more needed.

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Stop Using Weak Passwords

Stop Using Weak Passwords

Simple passwords are often the bane of a business’ existence. If you routinely use strings like Password, 123456, Guest,  or Qwerty to secure an account, then you need to reexamine your password practices before they result in a data breach. A good password can go a long way toward helping you in this effort.

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Ways to Ensure Remote Work Stays Productive

Ways to Ensure Remote Work Stays Productive

Remote work on a widespread scale was introduced in less-than-ideal circumstances, but that doesn’t mean that modern businesses shouldn’t utilize it to their full advantage. Listed below are a few ways you and your company can support your team as they work remotely.

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