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Network Management, Inc. has been serving the Virginia area since 1994, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Tip of the Week: Best Practices for Sharing Your Screen

Tip of the Week: Best Practices for Sharing Your Screen

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 21, 2025
  • How To

Just about any collaboration platform these days will allow you to share your screen. The functionality works largely the same, regardless of whether you’re using Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or something else, but we want to cover how to use it on these popular platforms. We’ll assume you’ve already joined a meeting for this article, so let’s get started...

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Create Great Relationships with Your Vendors

Create Great Relationships with Your Vendors

Running a business is like managing a bunch of moving parts with relationships with employees, customers, operations, and, of course, vendors. Vendors supply your business with the products and services that keep things running, but if you’re not careful, those relationships can turn into time and money pits. So, how do you make vendor relationships work in your favor? Here...

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How Backup Has Gotten Better and Better in Recent Years

How Backup Has Gotten Better and Better in Recent Years

By now, you’ve heard us discuss how data backup is extremely important for every organization. We try to spread awareness of the negative impacts to a business that doesn’t have a comprehensive backup plan in place. Fortunately, data backup has come a long way in the past decade, making it easier, faster, and way more reliable. Let’s take a look...

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Tip of the Week: How to Use Excel to Create QR Codes

Tip of the Week: How to Use Excel to Create QR Codes

QR codes are a popular way to direct individuals to specific web pages, like your business’ website. You can make them with relative ease, so there’s no excuse not to use them. Today, we’ll go over how you can make them in Microsoft Excel, a tool your business already probably uses to some extent. (more…)

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How to Share Your Screen in Meet, Teams, and Zoom

How to Share Your Screen in Meet, Teams, and Zoom

Modern collaboration platforms, like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom, have considerably expanded how and where work can be done. Let’s go over how to use the screen-sharing features these three platforms offer. (more…)

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Don’t Let a Crisis Completely Derail Your Business

Don’t Let a Crisis Completely Derail Your Business

There is no shortage of events that can throw a business off track, from severe storms to human error to cybercriminal activity. Fortunately, a little preparation can make them much easier to navigate. Let’s discuss creating a crisis plan to address these kinds of events. (more…)

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Businesses Need to Focus on Protecting Customer Data

Businesses Need to Focus on Protecting Customer Data

Cybersecurity is a major issue for every for-profit, non-profit, and individual out there. There are near-constant threats coming at you every day, and if you don’t take this particular threat seriously, you will likely have a tough go of it if you want to use the Internet or online resources. The fact is that people absolutely need to be sure...

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What You Should Know About Social Media Scams (According to the Big Banks)

What You Should Know About Social Media Scams (According to the Big Banks)

Social media might connect people unlike any tool previously seen, but it’s not all sunshine and daisies. After all, this same revolution in communication has brought about one of the largest ways to scam unsuspecting users. Today, we want to take a look at how these social media scams work and what you can do to keep yourself safe. (more…)

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Understanding AI Literacy (and Why It’s Important)

Understanding AI Literacy (and Why It’s Important)

Artificial intelligence has taken the world by storm, and you can now find it in just about all areas of life. Businesses in particular have a lot to gain from AI, yet many people still don’t know what it is, what it actually does, and, most importantly, how to use it well. Today, we’re tackling AI literacy and how you...

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How Prepared Are Your Team Members to Maintain Your Security?

How Prepared Are Your Team Members to Maintain Your Security?

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • February 28, 2025
  • Security

Certain information needs to be well-known in the professional workplace at every level of an organization. Cybersecurity best practices are examples of such pieces of information. Unfortunately, a recent survey has shown that a significant portion of adults in the United Kingdom—about one in three—failed a cybersecurity test. What’s worse, this test was designed for 11-year-olds Let’s discuss what this...

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