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Tech Tips With Margaret: Microsoft is Reimagining the Employee Experience with Viva
Companies have not been able to avoid the fact that the pandemic has required a shift in how employees operate. Sure, work continues to get done, but many workers are feeling disconnected, burnt out, and just frustrated trying to juggle the mingling of their home and job. Microsoft is already a trusted source for helping…
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Give Like a Boss: MCCC Presents Webinar on Sustainable Charitable Giving Without Draining Your Checking Account
As businesses and organizations begin to recover from the impact of the pandemic, charitable giving is more important than ever today—it is an investment in your community that is sustainable. To help residents learn about effective ways to support charities, Montgomery County Community College Foundation’s Planned Giving Advisory Council is presenting a free webinar, “Creative…
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Qlik Executive Named One of the World’s Top 100 Women in Technology
In honor of Women’s History Month, Technology Magazine is celebrating the female leaders all over the globe who are having the biggest impact on technology. As such, the magazine has unveiled its list of the Top 100 Women in Technology, and Poornima Ramaswamy, the Executive Vice President of Global Solutions and Partners at Qlik, ranks…
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Customers Bank Donates $20,000 to Reading Area Community College
Richard Ehst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Customers Bank and Dr. Susan Looney, President of Reading Area Community College participated in presentation ceremony on March 12 acknowledging Customers Bank’s contribution of $20,000 to Reading Area Community College. Customers Bank’s contribution will create scholarships for dual-enrollment high school students that are earning early college credits.…
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Malvern Bank Demonstrates Its Commitment to Education Through the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program
Malvern Bank, National Association is renowned for charitable giving and supporting a wide array of efforts and initiatives that aim to better the communities it serves. To exemplify the bank’s commitment to education, it is participating in the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program, which provides tax credits to eligible businesses contributing to an Opportunity Scholarship…
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Meridian Bank Expands Relationship with Real Estate Investment Firm, Finances $20 Million in Projects
Meridian Bank has expanded its relationship with Velocity Venture Partners, a Philadelphia-based investment firm, to finance five industrial real estate projects totaling more than $20 million. The five projects, each funded separately, exceed 330,000 square feet of industrial space in Bucks County (Quakertown, Newtown, Bensalem, and Huntingdon Valley) and Cherry Hill, N.J. Run by founding…
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Tech Tips with Margaret: How to Decide Between Using Zoom, Slack, or Gmail for Your Virtual Communication Platform
Now that everyone has had to become familiar with virtual communication, it has helped many grow accustomed to the different ways of doing so. However, talking via video call, an email, or a group chat all convey very different tones to your message. While each of these tools is incredibly useful, using them interchangeably is…
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Bryn Mawr Trust to Merge with WSFS Bank, Solidify Its Preeminent Position in the Region
Bryn Mawr Trust has announced it will merge with WSFS Bank in a transaction valued at approximately $976.4 million. The combination of two of the high-performing, locally based financial services companies solidifies their preeminent position in the Greater Philadelphia region. With nearly $20 billion in assets and an approximately $43 billion Wealth Management business as…
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How to Increase Your Video Quality in Zoom
Are you tired of seeing your 1080p webcam image show up in SD in Zoom? That’s because, by default, Zoom is actually SD right now, but there is a way to enable HD, and most people don’t know about it. In this post, you will learn how to enable HD mode in Zoom and get…
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Tech Tips With Margaret: Which is Better for Remote Collaboration, Microsoft Teams or Slack?
By Margaret Wilman Whether a team of employees is scattered around the country, or just so large that it makes communication challenging, a lot of companies have turned to team collaboration software to keep everyone connected. Two of the most prominent examples of this software are Slack and Microsoft Teams. Both chat services are highly…
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Ambler-based Phenom Scoops Up Its Third HR and Recruiting Company in Six Months
Phenom, the Ambler-based HR tech company, has finalized its third acquisition of HR and recruiting companies in the last six months, writes Paige Gross for the Technical.ly. After scooping up My Ally and Endouble last year, Phenom has now added Talentcube, a Germany-based experience-driven video technology company, to the list. This latest acquisition will accelerate Phenom’s…
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C&N Announces Strategic Changes to Pursue Continued Growth and ‘Optimize Organization for the Future’
C&N – an independent, community bank with locations in New York and Pennsylvania, including in Paoli, Newtown, and Doylestown – has announced strategic organizational changes that will allow it to pursue continued growth in a fast-changing marketplace. “C&N has been on a multi-year journey to optimize our organization for the future,” said Brad Scovill, C&N’s…
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Chadds Ford Native’s Designs at Downingtown-Based Haverford Systems Help People Connect
Matthew Davis, who grew up on an Angus farm in Chadds Ford, may not have forged the typical path to a career in technology, but that’s certainly where he is thriving today. Davis, 38, is the lead engineer for Downingtown-based Haverford Systems, Inc., an audiovisual design and integration company that also manufactures two video conferencing…
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Find Out Where Bala Cynwyd-based Hamilton Lane’s CEO Puts Probability of Recession This Year
Mario Giannini, CEO of Bala Cynwyd-based Hamilton Lane, puts the probability of a recession occurring this year at zero, write Melissa Karsh and Sonali Basak for Bloomberg. “There is virtually no chance that there is a recession in 2021,” said Giannini. “We’re not going into a downturn, and in fact, we may have an even…
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Tech Tips With Margaret: How Microsoft Teams is Helping Businesses
With the workforce heavily scattered due to the conditions of the last year, employers have needed to make a lot of adjustments to keep their teams unified. Fortunately, Microsoft Teams has helped many people adapt to the new way of working as smoothly as possible. Microsoft Teams comes free with subscriptions to Microsoft 365, and…
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Philadelphia Suburbs Among Best Tech Hubs for Real Estate Investments
Philadelphia is among the top ten hottest tech meccas outside of Silicon Valley that are most likely to benefit from the tech migration in 2021 and beyond, writes Lance Lambert for Fortune. While the pandemic might have ushered in remote work out of necessity, it is becoming clear that working from home is not going…
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Philadelphia Stays in the Top 15 for Women in Tech Jobs, But It’s Dropped in Rank
Out of 63 cities nationwide, the Philadelphia region came in 13th when it comes to the number of women in the tech industry, writes Paige Gross for technical.ly. The Philadelphia region dropped four places after ranking 9th last year and six places after ranking 3rd in 2019. The annual SmartAsset study looks at U.S. Census…
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Local Grads Develop a Coronavirus-Killing UV Light, The Hurricane
Two Sun Valley High School alum have come up with a device that uses ultraviolet light to kill any coronavirus that may be lurking about, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. The Hurricane is a handheld device created by Ken Cage and Bob Weeks, in collaboration with Mike Bernhardt and Derek Hutchinson. The…
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