How do you know if your new employees have read key documents?

How do you know if new employees have read key documents?When a new employee joins your organization a smooth onboarding process will ensure they transition to their role effectively. The new employee will want to complete the onboarding process quickly so they can begin their new role. You want to ensure they have completed all […]

Creating links to external content in Office365

Creating links to external content in Office365From time to time you may need to give the effect of storing documents in SharePoint Online, without them actually being stored in SharePoint Online document libraries. Maybe you have documents in external systems that you want to make available with SharePoint Online. Alternatively, you may have found an […]

How to Distribute a Training Video with DocRead for SharePoint

How to Distribute a Training Video with DocRead OK, so here’s the thing – you’ve created a fabulous training video and you now need to ensure that all relevant staff watch it and follow your guidance.In Office 365/ SharePoint onlineFirst, create a new video library to contain your videos. You can upload your videos directly into […]

How to add video to a SharePoint page

How to add video to a SharePoint page in under 5 minutesAdding videos to SharePoint online or Office 365 pages is quite simple and only takes a few steps.1) Create a new page to hold the videoNavigate to the site where you want to the page to be added and select the Settings Cog, then […]

Build a policy lifecycle solution with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 – Part 2

Build a policy lifecycle solution with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 – Part 2Welcome to part two of this series explaining how to create an effective policy lifecycle. Click here to read part one if you missed it. How to create a policy lifecycle solution with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 – seriesResearch and createCollaborate and approve […]

Build a policy lifecycle solution with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 – Part 1

Build a policy lifecycle solution with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 – Part 1Using the in-built features of SharePoint and off the shelf “no-code solutions”, it is possible to move from “out of the box” SharePoint to a fully featured Policy Management solution in a relatively short space of time.Ultimately, the decision to create a policy […]

How to automatically assign reading tasks to new employees

How to automatically assign reading tasks to new employees“We are currently using DocRead to manage an employee handbook. We have a group of every user in the company we have sent the handbook out to a couple weeks or so ago. This coming week we have 2 new users starting that we want to read and acknowledge […]

Five ways to improve internal communications in your organisation

Five ways to improve internal communications in your organizationSpeak to the HR or Marketing department of most companies and they will tell you the importance they place on good internal communications. Every organization values how it speaks to its own staff, and trumpets the methods it uses to give people a voice. Yet despite these best […]

5 Tips to maximize Internal Communications in SharePoint

5 tips showing how to use SharePoint for Internal CommunicationsIf you are responsible for communicating with various groups of staff in your organisation, then you need a good set of tools that allow you to do this in a very pain free manner.If you have access to SharePoint (or Office 365), then there are lots […]

Maximizing internal communications

Maximizing internal communicationsIn the modern business landscape, effective internal communication is the cornerstone of success. It enhances collaboration, productivity, and employee engagement, leading to a more cohesive and efficient organization. Microsoft 365, a suite of powerful productivity tools, offers a comprehensive solution to boost your internal communications. In this blog post, we will explore how the […]