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Virtual meetings are the new frontier. As a consultant, an agency, or a freelancer, you use them to conduct strategy sessions, workshops, or to present your work. How your clients experience these meetings makes all the difference. If you want to ensure productive meetings with your clients, especially now with so many remote work challenges, there are a few hurdles you need to overcome.

Remote employees are generally more productive and pleased with their careers, according to studies, and remote companies can absolutely be tenable and sustainable long-term. Employing remote employees who utilize their home offices to conduct their daily activities saves companies money on office supplies, space, and computers.

With technological innovation accelerating faster than ever—and the pandemic entering a new phase—CIOs have never faced more uncertainty and complexity. That’s why we’ve partnered with Caspian Studios to sponsor Season 3 of the CIO Classified podcast. CIO Classified is a podcast for CIOs, decision-makers, and technology leaders that want to push their business forward and stay on the cutting edge.

Multichannel vs. omnichannel is a well-known debate in the online business world. The terms are used for both customer support and marketing, but what do they mean? What's the difference? And which method is best to satisfy the needs of both the business and the customer? While the final decision is entirely yours, let us help you learn about these two ways of interacting with clients, how they are different, what companies choose said ways, and which way is considered the best.

As a leader or manager of a team, you’ve probably been asking yourself the same question over the past year: How can you inspire your team when you aren’t together? Without the spontaneous, in-person conversations that sprout in an office environment, many distributed and remote team leads have turned to video meetings. But replacing informal catch-ups and quick questions with 30-minute meetings takes up time, costing individuals 157 hours in productivity over the past year.

A family tree diagram is a simple chart that helps you track and document your ancestry. It visualizes your lineage and traces relationships back to common ancestors. You can create a family tree that goes back to your ancestors, such as great grandparents or grandparents, or you can draw one to show your children and any grandchildren. Some family diagrams show both ancestors and descendants. The goal of this chart is to record the important people and events in your family’s history.

Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) is a popular collaboration and video conferencing app designed for individuals, freelancers, small businesses as well as large corporations. You can use it to conduct virtual meetings instantly. All you need to do is click the ‘Meet Now’ button to get started. But what if you want to schedule your next business meeting to accommodate everyone’s schedule?