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Manage Policies and Procedures in SharePoint – Q&A

Manage Policies and Procedures in SharePoint – Q&ANo matter what size your organization, at some point you will need to ensure that certain employees read and acknowledge policies and procedure documents – for example company policies, risk assessments or employee manuals. Depending on your organization, industry and compliance regulations the list of documents can seem […]

Manage your Policy Management Lifecycle in SharePoint

Manage your Policy Management Lifecycle in SharePointIf you are one the many policy management professionals who have been tasked with improving the policy management lifecycle in your organization, then this post will give you some insight into why SharePoint is a cool choice! Firstly, I am a big fan of SharePoint and I also develop […]

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePoint

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePointThis article will explain how to setup and configure audience targeting in SharePoint 2010. Before I get started with the guide, I’d like to mention that an Audience is a part of the User Profile Service Application. To manage a SharePoint Audience you will need to open Central Administration website Application Management—–> Manage […]

A comprehensive SharePoint list of learning and training videos

A comprehensive SharePoint list of learning and training videosI get asked so many times on the SharePoint Community.Net and SharePoint Community Group on LinkedIn for SharePoint training and learning resources, I decided I’d spend an hour (or two) and putting together the most comprehensive library of free videos I could find. There are some absolute […]

How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutes

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 […]

Do you need one document library or many ?

Do you need one document library or many ?The link below takes you to a list of all the things that you need to consider when deciding whether to maintain 1 SharePoint document library or to use many ? As you would imagine there is no correct answer, but hopefully this list allows you to make […]

How to govern and control DocRead for SharePoint

Do you need one document library or many ?DocRead for SharePoint is very powerful because with just a few clicks it’s possible to configure an important document to be sent and tracked to all employees in an organization. Once a document has been distributed, an employee will be notified by email (when the task is created, completed […]

Ease the pain caused by policies requiring frequent reviews and revisions

Ease the pain caused by policies requiring frequent reviews and revisionsThis post will look at some of the problems faced when policies need frequent reviews and those revisions need to be sent to employees so they can be kept up to date with developments. If, like so many organisations today, you have a comprehensive library […]

Policies and Procedures management in SharePoint – 6 ways we are going to help

Policies and Procedures management in SharePoint – 6 ways we are going to helpOver the last 2 years – whilst helping customers benefit from DocRead for SharePoint – we have discussed the management of policies and procedures (within SharePoint) on several occasions. We have found that some organizations are really struggling to understand how SharePoint can help them […]

New policies and procedures group created in LinkedIn

New policies and procedures group created in LinkedInManaging the full life-cycle of a policy or procedure in SharePoint requires you to use many of it’s features and can be quite a daunting task if SharePoint isn’t your day job. To help share best practice and encourage sharing of ideas we have created a closed LinkedIn […]