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Getting Started with GDPR

I'm sure that many of you have seen the acronym "GDPR" by now and probably know that it is compelling many organizations to take action. But, what is GDPR and what should you be doing to prepare for it?

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Email Governance Best Practices

Executing any kind of email governance is one of the hardest ventures anyone can take on. Everyone is extremely possessive of their email and few want to share or have anyone talking about their email habits. It takes a strong-minded and determined person to tackle this issue, and those of us who practice information governance and records management are the right group of folks to take this on. Ok, but how?

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Effectively Adding Motivation to Your Change Management Strategy

In Daniel Pink’s Drive, he notes how money or similar rewards are only successful at motivating us to do the most basic of tasks (think stacking boxes). To motivate individuals around activities that require more cognition, he suggests, supported by scientific research, that we are primarily driven by three factors: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

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In-Place Records Management vs Record Centers. Why leveraging both is critical to the long-term success of your SharePoint ECM solution

One of the most common questions that have come up over the past five years as I’ve been focussing on SharePoint Records Management is whether or not to leverage in place records management or use record centers for records management in SharePoint. This blog outlines the benefits of adopting a hybrid approach that leverages both.

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Listing Unpublished Workflows in Collabware

One of the activities that needs to happen when upgrading Collabware 2.X to 2016 is reviewing and publishing all the workflows that Collabware creates, as part of the upgrade process, to replace your retention policies. This blog outlines out to create list of all the unpublished workflows.

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Leveraging content types in SharePoint ECM projects

Content types and their associated metadata add tremendous value to large scale SharePoint ECM projects. They can improve search and findability, enable workflows and even automate compliance. While there isn’t a one-size-fits-all design pattern that suits all organizations, this blog sheds some light on how to approach this fundamental SharePoint ECM topic that is just as much an art as it is a science.

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