Posts by Tony Rushin
QuickTip: Excel AutoFit
Courtesy of: Chase Petersen, Network 1 Sales Operations Associate When entering data into an Excel sheet, oftentimes the cells need to be adjusted in order for all of the data to be visible. Instead of manually adjusting the size of each cell, there is a shortcut that will automatically resize each cell in the sheet…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Google Play Music is Facing the Music
By: Chase Petersen While Spotify is certainly the most popular music app – the app that I have been using for a long time is Google Play Music. It integrated with other popular apps that I used and I was able to bundle the subscription with YouTube to save some money. But, Google Play…
Read MoreQuickTip: PowerPoint Slideshow
Courtesy of: Richard Stokes, Network 1 Sales Consultant Have you ever found it tedious having to manually change a PowerPoint to slideshow mode before a presentation? Luckily, there is a quick way to start your presentation directly in slideshow mode. By default, PowerPoint saves a slide presentation as a file with the .pptx extension. When…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Canva
By: Andrew Edwards Do you consider yourself a creative but don’t have the time to learn all the intricacies of Adobe products? Canva, a collaborative graphic design platform, may be just the creative marketing tool you and your team needs. Canva, which can be accessed online on their website here or by way of…
Read MoreQuickTip: Find Copyright Free Images
Courtesy of: Tony Rushin, Network 1 Vice President – Sales & Marketing and Anne Marie Gourley, Sales Operations Associate No matter what field of work you’re in, it’s often useful to have access to copyright free images and other visual elements. However, it can be difficult to find an image that won’t infringe on any…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Google Earth
By: Lexi Jackson As an avid traveler, it has been disappointing not being able to explore new places this year. I wanted to experience Canada and possibly Italy in 2020, but of course that has been postponed until further notice. From time to time I will search my dream destinations on Pinterest to learn more…
Read MoreImprove Your Computer Audio
Courtesy of: Kevin Jackman, Network 1 Client Manager As remote work has become increasingly prevalent in today’s world, video conferencing has become an essential tool in the day-to-day workflow of many businesses. Whether it is for a team meeting or a project briefing, it is important that the quality of these videos is up to…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Google Meet
By: Courtney Rose At this point in the year you could likely name many conferencing apps, such as Zoom, Skype and Microsoft Teams. Did you know that Google also has their own free video conferencing service? They were a little late to the game with sprucing up their existing video conferencing service, but as of…
Read MoreBlinkist App
Courtesy of: Tony Rushin, Network 1 Vice President – Sales & Marketing Blinkist–listen to or read insights on books in around 15 minutes. I’ve been using this app for over 3 years now and it’s great. They have curated 3,000+ books and add about 40 new titles each month. A real person reads each book…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Group FaceTime
By Kristen Evangelista As we all know, the new today involves a lot more video chats, Zoom meetings, phone calls, etc. versus the typical face to face communication. I am hoping this has an end sometime soon, but in the meantime, what if I want to have a FaceTime chat with more than one…
Read MoreSnipping Tool
Courtesy of: Lexi Jackson, Network 1 Sales Operations Associate Did you know there is a faster way to capture an image on your computer without having to download the picture? Perhaps you want to add a picture from your company’s website into a presentation. You can easily capture a specific area of your computer…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: The Rollo Printer
By Kevin Jackman I’ve recently began a venture involving merchandise sales. In the past week I have packed and shipped over 200 sweatshirts to people all across the world. As you can imagine, that is a lot of shipping labels and ink. In order to print 200 shipping labels, I went through 3 cartridges of…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Microsoft Teams – How to Email a Channel
By Richard Stokes By now most are using a conferencing tool on a regular basis. We use Microsoft Teams, commonly referred to as ‘Teams’, since it’s part of our O365 subscription. Outside of the conference call component, we use its Instant Messenger or chat feature on a daily basis to communicate quickly between employees and…
Read MoreQuickTip: Time to Update Your Email Signature
Courtesy of: Andrew Edwards, Network 1 Sales Operations Associate The world is always changing, but the past three months have been truly unprecedented. As we adapt to our “new world” we may need to adapt our email signatures as well. Consider updating contact information in your email signature to reflect the easiest ways to now…
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