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  How to Add a Microsoft Teams Chat Link to Your Email Signature Adding an email address, Twitter, LinkedIn, and company info to your email signature is all well and good, but none of those options allow the recipient to instantly chat with you. Fortunately, you can add a direct Microsoft Teams chat link so people can DM you with one click. It’s fair to say that providing a direct chat link to the whole world isn’t everyone’s idea of a good thing, and not everyone will be comfortable doing it. Depending on your role, your company might not even allow you to do this even if you want to. The good news is that people external to your company will only be able to use this link if your Teams admins have allowed external guests to chat with people inside your company. If they haven’t, this link won’t work. But for anyone who does engagement, PR, marketing, sales, or recruitment, this gives your customers a direct way to contact you. This is much better than having a message get missed in...

  How to put the luxury back into cashmere To the untrained eye, a $50 cashmere sweater can look from afar much like a $500 sweater. And both products can technically be categorised as “responsible cashmere”, a designation with multiple standards and definitions. “I am always worried when I see products being sold at prices that do not reflect their true cost,” says Anne Gillespie, director of impact acceleration at global nonprofit Textile Exchange. “Not only does it encourage thoughtless consumption, but it sets up a system that is in a race to the bottom. What we really need to see is pricing that reflects the full cost of producing a garment and bringing it to market including the externalities that are so often ignored. We cannot afford to continue this way.” Cashmere, an exclusively luxury product once upon a time, stems from Kashmir, a region in the Himalayas between India and Pakistan, where the fine hairs of the underbellies of cashmere goats were combed through to collect...

How to register for Covid-19 vaccination on Co-WIN explained here The next phase of the world's largest Covid-19 vaccination drive for the age-appropriate population groups starts from today (1 March) onwards. Registration will open at 9 am and citizens will be able to register, book an appointment for vaccination, anytime and anywhere, using the Co-WIN platform. A user guide for the citizen registration and appointment for vaccination has also been uploaded on the websites of the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and the National Health Authority (NHA). What can you do on  www.cowin.gov.in  self-registration module? 1) Register for a vaccination session 2) Selection of Vaccination centre of convenience 3) Book your slot to get the vaccine 4) Reschedule the vaccination date How to register for the Covid vaccine? Log on to www.cowin.gov.in Enter your mobile number Get an OTP to create your account Enter the OTP and click on the “Verify" button. You will be directed ...

How to take the long-term view in a short-term world There is more agreement about the damage short-termism is doing than about how to defeat it. But the evidence is piling up on how long-term thinking need not sacrifice returns now