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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.

Collaboration Tools to Implement for Your Business

Collaboration Tools to Implement for Your Business

Collaboration is a vital component of any business, and in the modern remote and hybrid work environment, it’s even more imperative than ever. Technology can facilitate collaboration in amazing ways, particularly for growing businesses that are quickly outgrowing their current accommodations.

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Three Cloud Functions that Improve Your Organization's Mobile Productivity

Three Cloud Functions that Improve Your Organization's Mobile Productivity

We write a lot about the cloud, and for good reason: it is one of the most utilized and valuable technologies available to business. The cloud plays a key role in elevating mobile productivity, providing diverse services and features that empower users to access, collaborate, and efficiently execute tasks. Listed below are three critical ways in which the cloud contributes to mobile productivity.

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Microsoft Makes Changes to Teams Collaboration App

Microsoft Makes Changes to Teams Collaboration App

Microsoft created the Teams platform with the aim of enhancing collaboration among individuals. The rise of remote collaboration has been ongoing for several years, and the COVID-19 pandemic solidified its place as a standard feature in business operations. Recently, Microsoft has introduced several enhancements to the platform to further augment its functionality.

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Common Small Business Technologies To Utilize

Common Small Business Technologies To Utilize

Small businesses increasingly rely on technology to drive their operations. If your business is considering allocating its capital wisely, the following digital tools can significantly contribute to achieving both short-term and long-term goals.

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Tips to Avoid Common Collaboration Mistakes

Tips to Avoid Common Collaboration Mistakes

How does your organization handle communication? Does it struggle to properly use its technology and collaboration tools? If so, we have some tips that can help you avoid the most common collaboration mistakes, especially those related to data security. Read on to learn how you can ensure you’re not putting your data at risk needlessly with inappropriate collaboration security mistakes.

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Four of the Best Tools a Businesses Should Have

Four of the Best Tools a Businesses Should Have

For a business to be successful, you need to stay on point. From managing projects to enhancing communication and automating tasks, technology has become an indispensable asset for businesses of all sizes. Listed below is a look at some of the best tools to help a business be the best business it can be.

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Strategies to Get People to Listen to You Better

Strategies to Get People to Listen to You Better

It’s critical that you are able to communicate with the people you work for, with, and over; a large part of this is ensuring that your points are heard. Listed below are a few strategies and techniques that can help you ensure that those around you are apt to listen to what you have to say.

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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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The Five Levels of Delegation

The Five Levels of Delegation

As the boss, you’re in a position to offload many of your business’ responsibilities to your employees. That’s more or less why you have employees in the first place. That being said, there’s more than one way that you can delegate tasks, depending on your personal style of management and the work style of each of your employees.

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Research Says Meetings Can Negatively Impact Productivity

Research Says Meetings Can Negatively Impact Productivity

Meetings are a common hold-up for getting things done in the office, an idea that is certainly not unfounded. Research supports the premise that meetings impact productivity. Consider what the numbers say and how you can work to ensure meetings don’t influence your organization’s productivity in a negative way.

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Four Ways to be More Patient

Four Ways to be More Patient

Our blog last week covered how patience is an imperative part of the most successful and productive employees’ arsenal. This week, we want to cover how you can help your employees be more patient. If you know someone in your office who could take things down a notch, this is just the blog for you with four suggestions that might do the trick.

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How Collaboration Helps Businesses

How Collaboration Helps Businesses

Business has changed dramatically over the last ten years. Costs have been rising. That means that businesses, just like everyone else, have to pay more for everything. This creates a situation where they may need to scale back on some things and not be as aggressive as was once possible. One way that most businesses can get around this is by investing in collaboration. Fortunately for them, technology has been getting more collaborative. Listed below is a look at three ways collaboration has found its way into business.

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Is Your Organization Equipped for Modern Collaboration?

Is Your Organization Equipped for Modern Collaboration?

Saving on capital expenditures is the successful business owner’s superpower. A lot of the strategic cost-cutting that is being done these days is via collaboration. When you increase the productivity of your staff, you can do more with less. Let’s look at some of the tools being used by successful organizations to enhance their productivity.

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Hybrid Work Practices are Changing How Office Space is Utilized

Hybrid Work Practices are Changing How Office Space is Utilized

Many businesses, seeking to balance the positives brought by remote work to the value that in-person, face-to-face operations provide, have leaned into hybrid work practices. This has led to many reconsidering how their office space is set up. How are these considerations shaping the modern workplace?

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Tips on Managing Remote Workers

Tips on Managing Remote Workers

Remote work remains a fundamental approach to workplace operations these days. While this has led to great opportunities, remote work adds a new level of complexity to managing your employees. Listed below are a few practices that can help make this management simpler and more effective.

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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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