Category: Content Management

Content management (CM) is a set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. When stored and accessed via computers, this information may be more specifically referred to as digital content, or simply as content.
Content management can also be described as the process for collection, delivery, retrieval, governance and overall management of information in any format. The term is typically used in reference to administration of the digital content life cycle, from creation to permanent storage or deletion. The content involved may be images, video, audio and multimedia as well as text.
Therefore, within this topic, we offer a vast amount of information from the basics of version history to Principles and Concepts of Information.

My Top 5 SharePoint Articles
My Top 5 SharePoint Articles
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This is a difficult list to compile. Some of my favorite articles topped my list at the time because they answered a question or solved a particular problem.

Why Going to Work is Like Going Back in Time
Why Going to Work is Like Going Back in Time
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In your private life you have perhaps a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop and/or a desktop. You can share information between these devices easily using tools like Dropbox, Evernote and Google Docs. You post a few pictures of your weekend on Facebook and all of your friends see them, comment on them, and make their posts on Pinterest, Twitter, and whatever other social nook they choose to use. All of this happens fairly effortlessly.

How To: Create Custom SharePoint 2013 Content Editor Web Part Styles
How To: Create Custom SharePoint 2013 Content Editor Web Part Styles
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When you deploy a SharePoint solution, especially if this is a public facing site or large intranet, you will have content authors, some of which have zero knowledge of HTML and web technologies, author content on the site.
For situations like this – you want to make sure your content authors use pre-defined styles when adding content to content editor web parts etc.

Creating a SharePoint Communication Message Framework
Creating a SharePoint Communication Message Framework
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One of the most difficult areas of delivering a SharePoint solution is identifying not just who should be targetted for User Adoption, but, going forward, how to sustain that User Adoption through communication. Reasons include rapid changes in the business culture, direction, and changes in technology concerning the methods used to communicate (e.g. business process changes from manual to email notification to automation, etc.).

SharePoint 2013 - Versioning and Document Sets
SharePoint 2013 – Versioning and Document Sets
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Last weekend I have been attending this year’s ShareCamp at Microsoft in Unterschliessheim. It has been an awesome event: two days ‘nothing but sharepoint’. I had offered to talk about my favorite SharePoint subject ‘Document Management’ and I was really surprised that so many participants wanted to hear that. To me this shows that -although DMS with SharePoint might not be a Level 400 session- it is still considered interesting and is demanded by many sharepoint users.

Fantastic eBook to Download
Fantastic eBook to Download
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We have an exceptional eBook this month to offer our community. Thanks to Asif Rehmani, MVP, USA for offering a Excerpt on “Security Management of SharePoint Sites” from his book “SharePoint 2013 First Look for Power Users”.

Whitepaper: Managing Compliance and Safety Reform in an Ever-Changing Regulatory Environment
Whitepaper: Managing Compliance and Safety Reform in an Ever-Changing Regulatory Environment
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IN A SWEEPING RESPONSE to BP’s Deepwater Horizon massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the US House of Representatives passed a bill in July toughening offshore drilling safety standards. Known as the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act, the House version removed the $75 million economic liability cap from oil spills, imposed new safety standards, increased the number of independent inspections and equipment certifications required, and increased penalties for safety violations.

Latest Version of HiSoftware Security Sheriff Launched
Latest Version of HiSoftware Security Sheriff Launched
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At the European SharePoint Confernece last month HiSoftware announced the release of Security Sheriff™ SP Version 3.0 for SharePoint. It marks a significant step forward in helping organizations to ensure SharePoint content security, encryption, tracking and asset management.

Content Management Workflow: Let's Get Physical
Content Management Workflow: Let’s Get Physical
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Healthy organizations are not that different from healthy bodies. To become a top preformer, you have to stay in physical from, and doing so requires work. You don’t become a marathon runner by siting on the couch and thinking about getting in shape. Is your compnay operating at peak performance? Or are you falling behind deadlines and missing obligations with your vendors and customers?