Over the past three years, Microsoft Teams meetings have become a staple of work life. But if you haven’t looked under the hood lately, you may be missing out on some of the fantastic capabilities Microsoft has added.

HOBOKEN, N.J. (PRWEB)
November 16, 2022

A NYC area Microsoft 365 expert explains how to conduct anonymous Microsoft Teams meetings in a new article on the eMazzanti Technologies website. The informative article first encourages readers to investigate some of the terrific capabilities Microsoft has recently added to Teams.

The author then explains how Teams meeting organizers can ensure that personal information for attendees remains private. She then relates that Teams now enables attendees to view a Transcript sidebar that shows all the dialogue in a meeting, along with speaker attribution.

Teams meeting participants who arrived late or had to step away can scroll through the transcription and catch up. She concludes by briefly discussing Virtual Whiteboards, spotlighting meeting attendees, and creating Breakout Sessions.

“Over the past three years, Microsoft Teams meetings have become a staple of work life,” stated Jennifer Mazzanti, CEO, eMazzanti Technologies. “But if you haven’t looked under the hood lately, you may be missing out on some of the fantastic capabilities Microsoft has added.”

Below are a few excerpts from the article, “Anonymous Teams Meetings, Live Transcriptions, and More Great Features from Microsoft Teams.”

Protect Identities with Anonymous Teams Meetings

“Occasionally, meeting organizers need to ensure that personal information for attendees remains private. Microsoft Teams provides two ways to make a meeting anonymous. With the first option, the meeting organizer sends a Teams meeting link through email.”

Keep Everyone Up to Speed with Live Transcription

“For a while now, Microsoft Teams has included the ability to generate text transcripts after the fact for recorded meetings. The Live Transcription feature proves especially helpful for attendees who struggle with hearing the meeting. Likewise, participants who arrived late or had to step away can scroll through the transcription and catch up.”

Drive Collaboration with Virtual Whiteboards

“While Teams has offered virtual whiteboards for quite some time, Microsoft added a host of new features to the Whiteboard app last year. To begin with, over 40 new templates help groups brainstorm, plan projects, solve problems and more.”

Create Space for Breakout Sessions

“Before or during a meeting, a meeting organizer or presenter creates one or more breakout rooms by clicking the Breakout Rooms icon (a small square on top of a larger square). They can either assign people to a breakout room manually or allow the system to make the assignments automatically.”

Harness the Power of Microsoft Teams

Anonymous Teams Meetings, Live Transcriptions, Whiteboard Improvements, Attendee Spotlighting, and Breakout Sessions illustrate the versatility and continuing evolution of Microsoft Teams. To learn more about how to get the most out of Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 applications, contact the Microsoft experts at eMazzanti Technologies.

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“By reporting all 3 measures, teachers can now get a realistic view of how their students are performing and use this ongoing data to help their students get to grade level reading.”

DURHAM, N.C. & BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (PRWEB)
November 15, 2022

MetaMetrics® today announced a new partnership with Readable English, making it the first education product to report Lexile® measures for oral reading, listening and reading comprehension.

Readable English is a research based, reading intervention supported by the Science of Reading. Readable English makes English phonetic by adding a pronunciation guide into each word providing the scaffolding needed for orthographic mapping. Using the markup, students can access and read grade level content and academic vocabulary with confidence! Readable English is for readers who struggle, special education, and multilingual learners.

Readable English is the only company offering benchmarking and progress monitoring for all three reading measures for grades 2-12.

“We developed Readable English with a simple goal: to get students reading at grade level,” said Ann Fitts, founder and CEO. “By reporting all 3 measures, teachers can now get a realistic view of how their students are performing and use this ongoing data to help their students get to grade level reading.”

This new partnership illustrates the growing interest from the education industry in MetaMetrics’ family of Lexile measures spanning the literacy construct.

Developed more than 30 years ago, the Lexile Framework for Reading measures a student’s reading comprehension ability and the text complexity, placing both the student and instructional material on the same scale to match the learner with reading materials at their level. In the past several years, MetaMetrics® expanded the power of the Lexile scale across the literacy spectrum, developing the Lexile Framework for Oral Reading and the Lexile Framework for Listening.

The Lexile Framework for Listening measures both the listening comprehension ability of students and audio complexity of resources so students can be matched to ability-appropriate audio materials.

The Lexile Framework for Oral Reading is a scientific approach to measuring both students’ oral reading ability and the oral readability of text on the same scale. For decades, student oral reading ability has been measured using Words Correct Per Minute (WCPM). The Lexile Framework for Oral Reading builds upon WCPM to take into account the difficulty of the passage a student is reading. Lexile oral reading measures provide a more accurate measure and a way to measure growth in oral reading.

“We expanded our literacy frameworks, recognizing that strong literacy skills are built on the foundation of oral reading fluency, listening and reading comprehension abilities,” said Malbert Smith, MetaMetrics CEO and co-founder. “We look forward to collaborating with Ann and her team as they pioneer reporting all three of our Lexile measures from their innovative program.”

About Readable English

Readable English, LLC brings an innovative suite of science-based products and services to the struggle against illiteracy, a condition that diminishes the lives of some 800 million people worldwide. This number includes two-thirds of our nation’s K-12 students who are reading “below-proficiency,” a situation that has shown no improvement for nearly 30 years. With patented technology, coaching, and professional development services, Readable English helps schools and districts boost measured reading proficiency by offering a cutting-edge solution to the underlying causes of reading failure. The mission of this fast-growing company is to accelerate reading proficiency and combat the deeply damaging effects of illiteracy, so students attain happier, healthier lives that are more productive, fulfilling and rewarding. For more information, visit https://www.readablenglish.com.

About MetaMetrics

MetaMetrics is an award-winning education technology organization that offers the only scientifically valid, universal scales for measuring silent and oral reading and listening (Lexile) and math (Quantile) with plans to develop measures for writing. The Lexile and Quantile Frameworks measure student ability and the complexity of the content they encounter. Lexile and Quantile measures and related technologies link assessment to instruction and provide the next steps for students of all ages and abilities. The measures also provide valuable insights into students’ potential for growth. MetaMetrics’ measures, products, and services are licensed to dozens of education product companies to help achieve that growth. For 35 years, MetaMetrics’ work has been increasingly recognized for its research-based approach to improving learning. For more information, visit https://metametricsinc.com/.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (PRWEB)
November 15, 2022

Egnyte, the secure platform for content collaboration and governance, announced several product enhancements that will improve the overall user experience by strengthening security controls, improving productivity, and ensuring better operations across the business. Based on customer feedback and market trends, the updates include enhancements to the web user interface (UI) through the ongoing redesign including improved readability for a best-in-class user experience (UX) and simpler, more efficient ransomware recovery features to quickly bounce back from a cyberattack.

“Egnyte is dedicated to giving our customers an easier way to conduct their business in one of the safest environments possible,” said Ramin Farassat, chief product officer at Egnyte. “Our latest enhancements are a result of our product, engineering, and sales teams listening to our customers to enhance the overall experience in our platform. As a result, these updates strengthen our position on offering a complete solution for businesses to manage and protect their content whether their users are collaborating internally or with external parties.”

Major updates to the Egnyte platform within the last quarter include:

General Platform

Egnyte Web UI Redesign: This is an ongoing project as part of Egnyte’s commitment to delivering a best-in-class user experience to its customers. Recent notable changes include font changes that offer better readability so more information can be displayed on each page, a row separator, and an updated design for links, workflows and tasks, and file previews.

Egnyte Desktop App Core: Built on Apple’s new File Provider framework, the Desktop App Core is easy to deploy on M1 and M2-based Macs. The app is tightly integrated with macOS and gives users a faster, better experience.

Security and Governance

Snapshot-Based Ransomware Recovery: Teams can now mount and remount snapshots in an easier and more intuitive way. Context-sensitive information is also available to guide users through the workflow. Overall, this improves the functionality of snapshot-based ransomware recovery to quickly and easily restore data to a particular point in time with a single click.    

Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC)

Smart Upload: Part of Egnyte’s AEC package, a purpose-built solution for AEC firms, Smart Upload helps users to organize and access construction photos faster. By linking project folders to geolocation, photos taken on the jobsite can be uploaded and automatically associated with the right folder.

Life Sciences

Controlled Document Management: Quality teams have enhanced capabilities to better streamline the management of documents, such as enabling source document download in the original file format and exporting a list of documents to a CSV format file.

In addition to the above enhancements, over the last few months, Egnyte has also increased its focus on assisting companies with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). Soon to be required for all companies that work with the U.S. Department of Defense, Egnyte helps companies to simplify CMMC compliance with auto-generated control documentation and a newly formed free community to provide information and answer CMMC implementation related questions.

“Without Egnyte, we would have all of our files in multiple different file servers in every office,” said Michael Farrar, director of technology at S&ME Inc. “It would be a nightmare to get certification for CMMC without Egnyte.”

For more details on Egnyte’s product enhancements over the last quarter, please visit our product updates section of the blog or join Egnyte’s Global Virtual Summit in December by registering at egnyte.com/summit22.

About Egnyte

Egnyte is the secure multi-cloud platform for content security and governance that enables organizations to better protect and collaborate on their most valuable content. Established in 2007, Egnyte has democratized cloud content security for more than 17,000 organizations, helping customers improve data security, maintain compliance, prevent and detect ransomware threats, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere. For more information, visit http://www.egnyte.com.

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We do one thing extremely well: we give enterprises unprecedented visibility into their entire corpus of existing contracts so they can search, find, and answer questions fast – Mark Harris, CEO and co-founder of Knowable

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
November 15, 2022

LegalTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes standout legal technology companies, products and services around the globe, today announced that Knowable has been selected as “Contract Management Solution Provider of the Year” in the third annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards program.

Knowable’s unique contract data conversion engine integrates machine learning with 350 human contract analysts providing QC across 25 languages. With a foundation of structured contract data, firms can achieve modern risk management and value capture. Knowable’s customers include many of the world’s leading companies, who benefit from the company’s 98% data accuracy guarantee.

“For decades, in-house legal professionals have struggled to solve a massive problem — a near total inability to access information from tens or hundreds of thousands of complex legal agreements they have with counterparties around the world. Answering simple questions is an odyssey. Larger contract initiatives, like regulatory activities, are even worse. It’s a mess that has plagued the industry for decades,” said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director of LegalTech Breakthrough Awards. “In a world where data accuracy drastically affects outcomes, and where unreliable contract data has historically plagued legal operations and their business partners, Knowable is the one company in the market that delivers both accuracy and reliability. Congratulations on being our choice for the 2022 ‘Contract Management Solution Provider of the Year’ award.”

Enterprise clients interact with Knowable’s data through Knowable Insights, an award-winning platform purpose built for the management and interrogation of executed agreements. Knowable Insights delivers accurate data and analytics, organized by contract family hierarchies, surfacing in a few keystrokes answers that liberate revenue, manage cost, and reduce risk. Data long hidden in documents buried across SharePoint and repositories are brought to the surface and streamed into other enterprise systems as needed across legal, IT, finance, sales, and procurement.

While Knowable is primarily seen as a Contract System of Record for ongoing contract management, corporate transactors also use Knowable contract data in the M&A diligence process to uncover deal risks, accelerate velocity, and improve integration outcomes. Meanwhile, others leverage Knowable to enable their CLMs, so users can trust their contract data.

“We couldn’t be more proud to be recognized as the Contract Management Solution of the Year,” said Mark Harris, CEO and co-founder of Knowable. “We call Knowable ‘The Executed Agreements Company.’ We do one thing extremely well: we give enterprises unprecedented visibility into their entire corpus of existing contracts so they can search, find, and answer questions fast. It’s time for the long era of contract chaos in big companies to end, and that’s why we exist—to make everything, in every corporate contract, Knowable.”

The mission of the annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards program is to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the top technology companies, solutions, and products in the legal technology industry today. This year’s program attracted more than 1,450 nominations from over 12 different countries throughout the world.

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About LegalTech Breakthrough

Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the LegalTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in legal technologies, services, companies and products. The LegalTech Breakthrough Awards program provides a forum for public recognition around the achievements of LegalTech companies and solutions in categories including Case Management, Client Relations, Data and Analytics, Documentation, Legal Education, Practice Management, eDiscovery and more. For more information visit LegalTechBreakthrough.com

About Knowable

Knowable is the world leader in post signature contract management, helping enterprises easily understand the opportunities and commitments in tens or hundreds of thousands of legal contracts. Knowable combines proprietary machine learning tools with scaled legal expertise to translate legal language into actionable structured data that provides unparalleled visibility and insights through its award-winning Knowable Insights platform and simple APIs. With Knowable, enterprises receive a trusted Contract System of Record that delivers 98% guaranteed accuracy across their entire corpus of contracts. After its spinoff from ALSP leader Axiom, Knowable entered a joint venture with LexisNexis® Legal & Professional. For more information, go to http://www.knowable.com.

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The Daily Edit discovers and compares news sources

The Daily Edit helps cut through media noise and bias with data so that each reader can make their own judgments about the news they’re consuming.

DOVER, Del. (PRWEB)
November 10, 2022

Media bias is a hot topic that has led many people to distrust the media. The Daily Edit is on a mission to cut through the noise by highlighting the facts of the world’s most important news stories, allowing the reader to make their own judgments.

The Daily Edit is the brainchild of Stephen Pegoraro, Michel de Jong, and Craig Nugent, three friends with a major beef over the quality of our news. The reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic brought them together to form a business around tackling the major issues of “fake news,” “biased news,” and news literacy. They found bias by omission was a frequently used tool in media to sway their audience and influence advertising algorithms, so the team set out to create a solution.

The Daily Edit is driven by a powerful machine learning algorithm that extracts key details from articles grouped by story, from over 13,000 news outlets, assessing them for commonality and consensus. Articles are then cross-compared for detail coverage, analysed for potentially misleading text, such as missing data references and anonymous sources, and assigned a Trust Index.

These two data points are not only visible in the body of each article – shown as highlighted text linked to further explanation – but they also inform the Trust Index. Articles with the highest Trust Index on any given story can be listed first on the feed or in order of “trending,” depending on user preference.

“The Daily Edit helps cut through media noise and bias with data so that each reader can make their own judgments about the news they’re consuming,” said Craig Nugent, founder of The Daily Edit. “As a society, we’ve reached an unprecedented crisis of truth. We need to work together and listen to other people’s viewpoints, whether we like them or not. This is not only my opinion but a basic tenet of democracy.”

The Daily Edit is available for download on iOS and Android devices and accessible via https://dailyedit.com/. It is free to students who sign up with an ‘.edu’ email address.

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Empowering Data-driven Businesses with AI-Agility

“Today, intense competition is being waged for AI resources as more businesses seek to become more adaptable in the face of adversity,” says AI Collaborator’s CEO and Founder, James Briggs. “We are giving managers the tools they need to assess their AI positions compared to their peers.”

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
November 10, 2022

AI Collaborator, the industry leader in empowering data-driven firms with the AI Agility they need for business transformation, today announces the launch of its AI-Agility Assessment Index™ in partnership with Digitopia, a leader in impact assessment.

What’s measured gets done. AI Agility is an organization’s ability to quickly adapt to meet internal AI capacity demands of its business priorities. The AI Agility Assessment Index™ is a diagnostic service for measuring and benchmarking your AI Agility to understand where you are, how you compare against your peers, and what you must do to improve your situation.

“In today’s business environment, intense competition is being waged for AI resources as more businesses seek to become more flexible, adaptable, and innovative in the face of uncertainty and adversity,” says AI Collaborator’s CEO and Founder, James Briggs. “As a result, AI technologies and talents are often now considered mission-critical resources for business continuity and digital transformation efforts. For success in this climate, enterprise technology leaders must shift their investment strategies to focus on creatively building organizational AI capacity to adapt and achieve business priorities. We are giving managers the tools they need to assess where they stand compared to their peers.”

“The partnership with AI Collaborator is extremely valuable not just for our respective organizations, but also for all enterprise AI buyers, ” says Digitopia CEO, Halil Aksu. “AI is the hottest topic in the technology world. Quantifying AI Agility is genius, and a collaborative ecosystem approach promises enormous benefits. The AI-Agility Assessment Index™ will help companies understand where they are, how they perform, and what they need to improve. Potentially accelerating their AI journeys while also helping them maximize the returns on their investment in AI.”

For more information on the AI Collaborator’s AI-Agility Assessment Index™ and how to deploy it in your business, visit https://aicollaborator.com/ .

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