Monthly Archives: November 2011

Business Continuity – Planning for your Law Firm’s Survival

You can’t schedule emergencies, but you can prepare for them Being prepared has two key aspects. For your business to survive a disaster, it’s key to know How will you continue to work in the event of a disruption? How will you restore normal operations once the interrupted services and facilities are re-established? Does your firm have written procedures…

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Forcing the order of Workspace Folders | FileSite close up
Forcing the order of Workspace Folders | FileSite close up

Why force folders to sort? Whether you like it or not, Microsoft Outlook imposes sorting on FileSite’s folders: an alpha-numeric sorted order. The sorting order is a design point for document management systems: I’ve incorporated it in Cersys DMS tune-ups and deployments for almost five years now, and I’ve been using it in email and…

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Noooo not another PowerPoint (funny)
Noooo not another PowerPoint (funny)

Every time you write a PowerPoint, Edward Tufte…

Environment baseline – Content Migration best practices
Environment baseline – Content Migration best practices

An Environment Baseline is the analysis and data collection effort that describes the existing content. The baseline defines the starting context for the content migration.  Any content repository which has grown over time, with contributions from many people, will conceal some surprises.  In defining the Business Requirements for a Content Migration, you best start with…

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