If you know me, you know I've been a longtime proponent of Microsoft To Do and its vast integrations across the Microsoft ecosystem. To this day, Microsoft To Do is one of my favorite task management applications. However, as the number of inputs in my life (personal...
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Practically Remote: Leadership
A lot of folks I work with say that managing remote teams is dramatically different than managing in person teams. In many ways, I agree. However, I also think that fundamental principles of modern leadership apply - the most important among them being trust. Key...
Practically Remote: Company Dynamics
For the first iteration of ‘practically remote,’ I think the topic of “company dynamics” make the most sense. You could also think of it as company structure, but I don’t want to put this topic in a box, let’s let it breathe! So with that in mind, I define company...
Practically Remote: Introduction
We’re coming up on 2024, innovation is upon us. Technology enables us to truly make work a thing we do, and not a place we go. Despite the fact that secure and productive remote work is ridiculously easy nowadays, there are still certain folks among us who think that...
Normalize Asynchronous Collaboration
There seems to be a rather unfortunate crusade against work from home and even hybrid work. There's a number of predicted problems that are driving this type of behavior from leaders. The obvious one being an 'old school' understanding of how work is done, or even...
Electronic vs Digital Signatures
Some time ago, I posted about certificate authentication, and certificates themselves. In those articles, I mentioned digital signatures and made a really small mention that digital and electronic signatures are two very different things. In this article, let's unpack...
Microsoft: The $20B Security Business
In late January, Microsoft shared that their Microsoft Security has grown to over $20 Billion (USD) in revenue per year. That's a massive milestone and puts them far ahead of much of the cybersecurity product market. Even cooler for a nerd like me, they put out some...
No – We aren’t trying to make a quick buck.
Has your MSP reached out to tell you that your hardware or software is out of date and you need to buy new stuff? I ran an MSP for five years, and I had to do it all the time. On its face, it may seem like we're trying to make a quick buck. However, the truth of the...