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Tony, thanks for these great suggestions. I just been given the task of creating a system for organizing our in-house documents. Your suggestions will serve that project well too!
On Monday, September 22, 2014 1:32 AM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
Hey Jay,
When we first met in Sacramento you were unemployed and I was contracting.
Now the roles are reversed.
I will gladly offer my two cents (taken with a grain of salt).
File them all by AO number. Recommend a record keeping tool that allows the
organization to:
â attach keywords and subject labels to each record
â give a user friendly title to each record
â write a short summary of each record
â provide decent search capabilities
â provide on demand lists based on the keywords and subjects which can be
used as widgets on their intranet pages
If you really want to be bold, suggest they find a system that also allows
them to set a review date to ensure the document is current, and an
expiration date.
Easy peasy.
-T
On Sunday, September 21, 2014, Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- laserpubs -dot- com>
wrote:
> Oh, well.
> It helps just to form and ask the question.
> I have found some useful docs out there - several cities have IT security
> policies posted publicly.
> And, picking a topic at a time, there's a fair bit of IT security info out
> there.
> It seems that they are less concerned with matching their current
> environment than getting a feel for what's considered good practice - and
> maybe, getting a blank-ish slate on which to mark their preferences.
>
> That's ok - a great learning experience. And from what they've told me,
> these will all be public documents. So they may be useful for others, and
> I'll be able to use them as samples.
>
> Cheers
> Jay
>
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