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How to Wow the Bean Counters

Tips to get the most ROI from your IT projects.

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Google Docs power tips: How to add charts, citations, and more

In Google Docs, you can easily enhance your documents with professional elements like a table of contents, a watermark, charts, and citations. We show you how.

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Microsoft: 365 Copilot chatbot is the AI-based future of work

Microsoft today demonstrated the many uses of its new 365 Copilot chatbot based on GPT-4, and the company introduced a new generative AI-based feature called Business Chat.

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Office 365: A guide to the updates

Get the latest info on new features, bug fixes, and security updates for Office 365/Microsoft 365 for Windows as they roll out from Microsoft. Now updated for Version 2302 (Build 16130.20306), released on March 14, 2023.

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New Tableau AI features and Slack integration aim for data accessibility

Salesforce subsidiary Tableau seeks to fuel data-driven insights for its customers by adding personalization and automation to its business intelligence software.

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Google previews generative AI features for Workspace users, developers

New previews include automated email, AI modeling and developer tools.

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OpenAI unveils GPT-4, a new foundation for ChatGPT

GPT-4 promises to open up new use cases for OpenAI's chatbot technology, enabling visual and audio inputs.

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Meta cuts an additional 10,000 jobs from global workforce

Four months after it laid off 13% of its workforce, Meta has announced a fresh round of cuts, impacting recruitment, tech, and business groups

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Microsoft Forms cheat sheet: How to get started

Online forms are an excellent way to conduct research, collect feedback, test knowledge, and more. Here’s how to use Microsoft Forms to create surveys, feedback forms, quizzes, and other interactive forms.

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Microsoft's tiny Word improvement is a big productivity boost

Microsoft is at last making it much easier to copy and paste plain text with a keyboard shortcut.

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5 wild new ways to make Android widgets more useful

Android widgets can do way more than you realize — if you know how to unleash their hidden potential.

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Unnecessary meetings draining employee productivity: Report

Not only are employees sitting in on more meetings now, but those meetings are also getting longer.

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GrammarlyGo and the coming wave of generative AI productivity

Generative AI is here to stay, and companies are already finding innovate ways to roll it into their products.

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Slack boosts AI capabilities with new ChatGPT app

ChatGPT for Slack enhances the collaboration tool's search capabilities, summarizes conversations, and will help you craft responses to co-workers.

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Q&A: Allstate HR exec on the rise of remote work: 'The world is changing….'

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Allstate sent 40,000 workers home. Even now, it hasn't required them to return to the office. In fact, it took a new tack to creating company culture and workforce efficiency.

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How to turn any website into a custom Android widget

Warning: Your Android phone's home screen is about to get a lot more useful.

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Atlassian lays off 5% of staff to refocus on cloud, ITSM

The collaboration software company follows in the footsteps of big tech companies including Microsoft, Facebook, and Google in cutting staff to position itself for the long term, focusing on cloud migration and IT service management...

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Buyer’s guide: How to choose the right business projector

There’s a business projector for every room, purpose, and budget. Here are the major categories, technologies, and specs you need to know, along with buying advice for different business needs.

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Microsoft touts new GPT-powered chatbot for Dynamics 365 CRM, ERP apps

A new AI-based extension to the company's Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP platform can automatically generate answers to customer emails, suggest marketing and sales campaigns, and summarize Teams chat threads and documents.

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