Google Workspace Training Tip: Organising Your Drive

What is Google Drive? Think of Google Drive as a 2021 version of a hard drive. You may have heard the term “cloud computing” being used more frequently in recent years and Google Drive is part of it; a cloud-based storage solution that allows you to save files online and access them from any smartphone, […]

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Taming Your Inbox

Let me start by saying, I don’t like email. I think there are far better methods of communicating (especially internally) and I also think that in many cases email should be the last choice solution. I have many reasons for my disliking, almost as many as the unread messages you may currently have in your […]

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Google Tip Top Tip – Using Google Calendar to Organise Your Time

“Let’s schedule a meeting” has become default to solving solutions within a business environment. It’s important to realise that meetings may not always be the right solution and this plays a key part in using your calendar to manage your time. Meetings can be great tools for the following reasons: To get a project through […]

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Google Tip Top Tip – Is Your Document Protected?

This week, Google announced the general rollout of Multiple Orientation in Google Docs. The ability to have portrait and landscape orientation within the same document is something that the public sector and beyond have been asking for, for some time.   It got me thinking of what I want to see next and immediately my thoughts […]

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Google Workspace Tip Top Tip – Google Meet

Google Meet is a video-communication service developed by Google. It’s just like Zoom but better (in our opinion). It’s name changed recently, it used to be called Hangouts Meet, that may sound more familiar to you. We have put together some tips on how to use Google Meet as part of your day to day.  […]

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Google Workspace Tip Top Tip – The Power of ‘IF’

In this Google Workspace Top Tip I look at the power of ‘IF’ and how you can utilise it to “Automate the Boring”. ‘IF’ is probably the most powerful word in the Encompass Innovate dictionary.  Often heard with its close friends ‘what’ and ‘we’, together they drive innovation. They help us to identify new solutions […]

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