January is the month of new beginnings, but also the time to make a checkup on your online marketing infrastructure, app security, settings, and other things. Passwords & 2-Step Authentication Changing passwords is important. By now everyone should now that using the same password for different services is a no-go. 123test and password123 are also … Read more
To me, its the bad behavior of showing you notifications for *every* tiny detail. If there is a symbol to hate, it’s this: What does this icon do with your mind? You get a little curious, a little stressed, you click on it, and in 95% of cases you think “Why does Facebook think that … Read more
A few month back I decided to make the switch: From Gmail to ProtonMail for company email (all @freshvanroot.com email addresses). While there are obvious reasons for this move (encryption, privacy, security), I want to share my experience after using it for a few month. Done migrating from @gmail to @ProtonMail with main company account! … Read more
Welcome to the 100th blog post! As I like to read what the process and toolset from others bloggers looks like, I thought this would be a good opportunity to write about my own blogging workflow. Reading how others get stuff done is always an opportunity to learn and get better, or discover that little … Read more
I got a tip to check out this little Chrome extension called Chirp for Twitter. It makes sharing text excerpts of websites to Twitter really easy, and as that is something I do often I was looking for a little tool to help with that for quite some time. The extensions page only shows around … Read more
I was recently involved in a discussion over coffee on when to use Yammer and when to use Microsoft Teams. Where are the tools different and how can an organization decide on when to use what? Here is my take on it. As I wrote in my post on the introduction of Microsoft Teams, both … Read more
These tools won’t make your team more productive: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Facebook Workplace, Hipchat, SharePoint. All these tools came to life because many people thought that there is an issue to be solved around teamwork and team productivity. The much hated email inbox was the target for a long time, after we realized that … Read more
A few times a year I read non-fiction books, most of the time I put them away before getting to the last page. I recently read Deep Work from Cal Newport and it hit a nerve with me. The book is about how to get into the state of deep focused work, the type of … Read more
Did you enjoy a few days offline, spent some quality time with family and friends and are now staring at a full email inbox? Why not just spend half an hour on re-organizing all your subscriptions and notifications, deleting apps and accounts before starting into the new year with all the baggage from last year. … Read more
Microsoft wanted to buy Slack, but that did not work out, and Microsoft developed its own social enterprise chat solution, called Microsoft Teams. Microsoft’s tagline for this new product is “a chat-based workspace in Office 365.” As I am a user of both Slack and Yammer, I activated Teams right after the announcement of the … Read more