Many of us are now approaching 2 months of working from home on a regular basis, while this might not have been a change for folks who normally work from home or do so more often than others, for us here at eGuide it has definitely been a change from our normal daily routine of working from our River North office.

During this health emergency, many of us are confined to our home offices taking meetings from the internet rather than face-to-face. While many large organizations have tools and platforms already in place to enable remote work, many small businesses, entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations are facing challenges when selecting the right set of platforms to continue business and serve their clients and constituents. 

As we leave 2019 behind, securing your home network is a great project to kickstart the new year. In this post, we will cover some of the options available to make your home network safer.

As an events professional, you have the arduous task of keeping up with multiple details about your client, their guests... and everything in between. Microsoft Excel can be an incredibly helpful tool for keeping track of and organizing all these details. But, many event professionals struggle with understanding the ins and outs of Excel, mastering formulas, and becoming experts in pivot tables. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could walk you through exactly how to use Excel to manage your event, step-by-step? Lucky for you, we’ve done just that!

At times, today’s technology can be both a blessing and a curse. Working on projects that span across several departments can quickly flood your inbox, making it difficult to locate pertinent documents or email messages you know you filed away in the corresponding folder. If only there was an easier way to collaborate on teams. Lucky for us, there is!

For the past 16 years every October has been National Cybersecurity Awareness month. This partnership between private parties and governmental organizations provides members of the community with useful information on how to remain safe and secure online. This year’s topic is “OWN IT, SECURE IT, PROTECT IT”

eGuide Tech Allies teaches you the beginning of making your very own website. This step by step tutorial will give you all you need to start out your new Wix website!

New to Google Analytics? Unsure about what a bounce rate is and what the difference is between users and sessions? No fear, Lauren from eGuide will walk you through the very basics of your Google Analytics dashboard as well as one of her favorite insights that Google Analytics provides for digital marketers.

eGuide CEO, Gregory Perrine, walks you through LinkedIn Job Recruiting tools. Built into the platform, LinkedIn allows for easy applicant, review, interview management, and candidate funneling.

Facebook and G-Chat are just the tips of the iceberg as it pertains to the modern apps that allow us to write and present a vast array of texts and responses. Grammarly is a grammar checking software that realizes the multifacetedness of modern communication, thus providing a service that allows us to manage our grammar from LinkedIn, Messenger, Salesforce, and beyond.

New year, new you, right? It’s the mantra that’s chanted from every Starbucks loving millennial (including myself — literally sipping from a Starbucks cup as I type) from just before the ball drops to the end of January. It’s the time where we focus on going back to the gym, improving ourselves, trying a diet, doing a health challenge, the list goes on. But what about your technology habits?

We've talked about the features and functionality (http://www.eguidetechallies.com/blog/trello) that Trello has to offer, and now you can see us actually walk through the program!

In the video below you will see eGuide Tech Allies owner, Gregory Perrine walk through how to set up an account, and get going with Trello.

The reality of the matter is, the world is only becoming more mobile, and more cluttered. With emails piling up in your inbox, apps pushing notifications through every few moments, and group text conversations blowing up from last weekend's festivities, it's no wonder why many people have technology paralysis and can't seem to complete a simple project or task. 

Enter Trello. Alright, yes, this is another technology tool, that has the potential of cluttering up your life but used properly, it can bring order to the chaos of your computer and phone.  

In the simplest of terms, an IP Address stands for "Internet Protocol Address". And a Local IP Address is what identifies your device to a local network. 

Great, What does that mean?

The best way to think of an IP Address is like an electronic return address label for your internet connection. Its unique code with a built-in set of rules (protocols) that allows you to send and receive information on the internet.

It seems like every purchase these days has some sort of Wifi capabilities - from printers to e-readers, to every new smart device, we are constantly testing the limits of our router and internet. 

So how does your internet stack up? 

Is easy to find out what your download and upload speed are currently functioning at with a free website called www.speedtest.net.