How to get employees to read and agree to your employee handbook with SharePointOne of the biggest challenges facing organizations today is not the creation and maintenance of the employee handbook, but how to ensure employees read and acknowledge / agree to it. Traditionally this has been achieved by creating a glossy brochure and requesting […]
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Regulatory Compliance – Information Management Policies Information Management Policies in SharePoint in my experience, are not used that heavily, but are an extremely easy way to apply policies to your documents. They are accessible from ‘Library Settings’ and are configurable per content type. For example, this means that all ‘documents’ in the library will have the policy applied. […]
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1 Tweet from Destruction? – How’s your Social Media Policy?Why would I need one? …..What harm can be done on social media?Well just from a very quick search on the internet you will find that social media screw ups can be anything from loosing customers or market advantage… In November, Twitter CFO Anthony Noto slipped […]
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How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutesThis post will outline how to add a web part to every users MySite. The web part we are going to add is the standard DocRead Reading Tasks web part, but this process can be applied to any web part in SharePoint.MySite host […]
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How to Distribute a Training Video with DocRead for SharePointOK, so here’s the thing – you’ve created a fabulous training video informing staff how to avoid injuring themselves when lifting heavy objects and you now need to ensure that all relevant staff watch it and follow your guidance. Before proceeding, please read ‘How to add […]
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SharePoint Lessons Learned – Don’t forget to use proven design patterns and practicesSharePoint should be seen as another layer in the technology stack that your code will interact with. But just because you are using this layer you should not forget to follow good and proven design practices. The following points describe some of the […]
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Five ways to improve internal communications in your organisationSpeak to the HR or Marketing department of most companies and they will tell you the importance they place on good internal communications. Every organisation values how it speaks to its own staff, and trumpets the methods it uses to give people a voice. Yet despite these best […]
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How to configure a yearly reminder on a SharePoint documentSharePoint Information Management Policies are very useful for automatically performing actions on a document at some point in the future. For example, your organization may conform to ISO 9001 standards which require that documentation should be regularly reviewed and refreshed. It’s also extremely good practice to […]
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Why LinkedIn Connections are a great pool of feedback!In February this year, DocRead was well into it’s 3rd month of being an officially ‘live’ product. All the hours of design, development, testing and documentation finally brought what I think is a truly amazing product to SharePoint. During this time I sent a mail out to […]
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Available Options for ensuring staff receive relevant trainingSharePoint is a fantastic repository for content. It so much better than what we had years ago where everything was stored on the file-system in a layer of folders, or in countless other systems. SharePoint has given an organization the ability to store (or surface) that content all […]
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