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7 key remote tech tools all real estate pros need right now

Sam Radbil Business Management, Services & Risk Management

The real estate industry has been propelled into its next iteration significantly because of the events of 2020. Few industries have adapted so quickly and so remarkably to the remote world in which we now live. Consider these seven remote tech tools needed by real estate professionals.

It’s time for a reset — we need to change the game of business

Jack Stack Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Millions of Americans are out of work as a result of the pandemic. It’s not their fault. A growing number of small business owners have been forced to close their shops through no fault of their own. The combination of the virus, the ongoing social outcries, protectionism, and trade wars have rocked our great entrepreneurial nation’s very foundation. These shockwaves aren’t expected to subside anytime soon. Now is our opportunity for a reset — we need to change the game.

National task force encourages Congress to maintain telehealth support,…

Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

Few subjects in healthcare have gained more attention than the meteoric rise in the use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doctors of all stripes turned to telehealth to keep their heads above water. Hospitals and health systems, too, implemented the technology in much the same manner: anything to keep revenue coming in and the lights on. However, nearly 60% of physicians interviewed as part of a recent survey said they remain leery about the quality of care they can provide remotely.

Special education is a challenge during COVID-19

Bambi Majumdar Education

There have been numerous debates on the pros and cons of e-learning during the pandemic. The school year has started, and a large portion of the nation's K-12 children are learning virtually. It is not an ideal situation, but it seems to be the best way to keep them safe from the virus. However, providing the same services to students with disabilities has been quite a challenge. Special education administrators across the nation are struggling to get their online learning programs off the ground.

Infographic: The power of mobile messaging

Maggie Kimberl Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Every year, companies invest millions of dollars to better understand and serve their customers. All that investment either succeeds or fails at the moment they interact with a customer. Each interaction is a moment of truth. Mobile communications are growing rapidly, and mobile interactions are becoming the most effective means of real-time interactive communication to deliver that moment of truth. Customers are now dictating where and how businesses communicate with them and not the other way around.

Stop developing your church website until you do these 3 things

Mark MacDonald Religious Community

You're trying to achieve a great online presence. You're looking at other websites and wondering why they're so informative and entertaining. It's not as simple as it looks. Your church needs a website, but it has to be good (or it'll be ignored). From my decades of helping churches develop communication materials and developing many websites for others and myself, here's what I've learned. Put your website hat down until you do these things.

5 ways for B2B companies to reach customers during COVID-19

Jess Dixon Marketing

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an enormous impact on the ways we live and work. For business owners and marketers, it might have meant a dip in revenue or challenges in finding new leads and customers. However, every challenge is also an opportunity. The pandemic doesn’t have to spell disaster for your B2B company. Read on to learn how to continue connecting with new customers in these difficult times.

Building social justice apps builds STEM skills, self-worth for students

Sheilamary Koch Education

From paper waste to police brutality, 145 children and teens took a deep dive into the social issues that most concern them this summer. Sounds like a good social justice project, right? What took the work of students who took the recent STEM Kids NYC course outside the realm of what we'd expect from a project on social activism was their final product. No, there were no reports, posters, presentations nor a single PowerPoint or video — instead, each student (aka computer scientist) created a digital app to illuminate their issue.

Report: Telehealth vendors are fighting off many more cyberattacks than…

Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

As telehealth use has skyrocketed throughout COVID-19, so has the number of attacks on these systems by cyber thieves, according to a new report from cybersecurity rating firm SecurityScorecard and dark web research company DarkOwl. Attacks on similar video services, like Zoom, were headline news earlier this year, too, at the height of the economic shutdown caused by the pandemic. As organizations have moved to remote environments or offered services through telecommunications, these technologies have become honeypots to cybercriminals.

Infographic: What has COVID-19 taught us about cybersecurity?

Maggie Kimberl Science & Technology

If we've learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic it's that we aren't prepared, and that is especially true when it comes to cybersecurity. There has been a sharp increase in hacking and phishing activity since the start of the pandemic because hackers knew they could exploit our stress while we were adjusting to working and schooling from home. Find out more about the new state of cybersecurity with this infographic.

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