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Dayan
22 December 2020
The Macnamara Blog
How-To
How to share your calendar in Outlook
By default everyone in your organisation can see some basic details in your calendar. However this is limited to showing whether you are free or busy at a particular time.
Geoff Courts
22 December 2020
Macnamara blog
Macnamara Content Team
15 December 2020
How-To
How to add a signature in Webmail – Office365
If you ever wanted to put a signature in Outlook webmail, here’s how
Dayan
30 November 2020
How-To
Installing Office on your personal laptop/computer
Your guide on how to install Office 365 onto your device
Dayan
30 November 2020
How-To
How To Share a Folder in SharePoint with External Users
Perhaps you need to collaborate on documents, provide files for the external colleague to download, or even provide a location for them to upload files to your tenancy. If you need to share a folder with people outside of your organisation, you can do this securely with SharePoint.
Geoff Courts
30 November 2020
How-To
How To Open Another Mailbox in Office 365 Webmail
If you have access to multiple mailboxes, and you’re used to using Outlook where you can see them all together, it’s not immediately obvious how to see them all when using Outlook on the web. But, it’s easy!
Geoff Courts
30 November 2020
Best practices
How to make a secure password
It can be hard to think of a password that you can remember when you need it, let alone multiple passwords and variations. What can make this is easier is using a methodology or naming convention for your passwords.
Fru
18 November 2020
Best practices
Why you need a secure password
A strong password is essential for preventing others from gaining unauthorised access to your account or device. The stronger the password the more difficult it will be for a hacker to crack.
Fru
18 November 2020
Best practices
Why you shouldn’t password protect your Office Documents
Protecting your sensitive data with a password seems like a good thing to do, right? So why would we say it is not a good idea? Because protecting the location is better than protecting the document.
Geoff Courts
5 November 2020
Cloud Services
Teams or Zoom?
Both applications do the job of video conferencing well, and they’re not the only ones (e.g. Google Meet, Starleaf, Webex). But what’s the real difference, and when should you use one over the other?
Geoff Courts
5 November 2020
Hardware
Making sense of computer processor names, numbers and speeds.
How to compare different computer processors. It is not as simple as looking at the clock speed. This article is a little technical but aims to demystify.
Ciaran Kenny
25 October 2020
Security
The UK and GDPR after Brexit
What is the future for GDPR in the UK once the country has completed its transition out of the EU by the end of 2020?
Ciaran Kenny
27 September 2020
Macnamara News
Tracking Coronavirus using Power BI
Visual representations make trends and differences easy to spot. Trying to make sense of the news during the Coronavirus crisis provides a powerful example of
Ciaran Kenny
15 April 2020
Office Impact
How To Stay Calm and Be Resilient During a Business Crisis
You can’t escape the C-word at the moment.
And by C-word we’re not referring to “coronavirus” – nor “COVID-19” (though, you can’t escape those either).
The word of the day is crisis. Because you know what – COVID-19 is just one crisis. It’s surely not the first, and it won’t be the last.
So here’s one particularly valuable thing you can learn from this situation: how to stay calm and logical in the face of any crisis – big or small – that impacts your company.
Macnamara Content Team
26 March 2020
Office Harmony
5 (Science-Backed) Strategies for Unleashing Staff Creativity
Whether you’re the manager of a team or working on a project with a group of staff, there are times when creativity is needed.
And the more of it you can tease out from everyone, the better the results are going to be.
Now, let’s not be mistaken here… creativity is not just a thing for artistic pursuits. It’s about generating fresh ideas, thinking laterally, coming up with unique ways to solve complex problems… regardless of the field you work in.
Macnamara Content Team
27 February 2020
Office Impact
How to make intangible goals visible (so you can get that next pay rise)
Performing well at your job is one thing.
But what you really want is to be recognised for it.
You want to show your boss that you’re worthy of that stellar performance review (not to mention that promotion/payrise).
Macnamara Content Team
30 January 2020
Security
Small Business Security: It’s Not Paranoia, You Are Under Attack.
By the end of 2019, cyber-attacks and technology-enabled scams against small businesses were soaring off the scale.
Why?
The answer is sadly straightforward: the attacks are working. That is, they’re delivering lucrative returns on investments.
Ciaran Kenny
29 January 2020
Office Harmony
How (and Why) to Get Everyone Excited About Your Business Mission
It’s one thing to have a business mission. It’s another for your staff to live and breathe it.
Because getting them on board isn’t exactly a walk in the park.
In fact, less than half of workers in any industry feel strongly connected to their company’s mission, according to Gallup research.
So how do you communicate your mission in a way that makes your whole team want to jump up and fly the flag? And is it really that important anyway?
Macnamara Content Team
25 December 2019
Office Sanctuary
How to Cut Down the Number of Telephone Calls You Have to Deal With at Work
If there were a soundtrack to your workday, what would it be?
We can rule out Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5. (Clocking off at 5? You should be so lucky…)
Stayin’ Alive? Barely.
No… If there were a soundtrack to your workday, it would be the sound of your phone ringing. Because that thing just doesn’t seem to shut up.
Macnamara Content Team
28 November 2019
Security
How to Spot a Fake Email, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Scam
In our previous post on how to spot a fake email, we covered some easy ways to identify the spams, scams and spoofs that inevitably land in your inbox.
But it’s not easy to write one post covering everything. And it’s not uncommon for us to receive a few reports a day from our clients of scamming. There’s a lot of it out there, much of it increasingly hard to identify.
That’s why we’re going to break it down further today and take you through the anatomy of a scam email.
Geoff Courts
4 November 2019