All paper, when aged appropriately, becomes irrelevant. So cleaning off the
desk is more of an archaeological dig and disposal than an archival activity.
From: Steven Kenney
Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 10:12 AM
To: af
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software
Evil thoughts... If I had any power would I actually do it? I doubt it. Tech
staff know how to use it but with administrative non technical staff, you
really do need to train them on software. Including execs. Especially since
millennials and kids don't learn cursive anymore, nor proper grammar, it's no
wonder they can't learn simple programs. Almost need to make things into a
game nowadays for them to learn.
STEVEN KENNEY
DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY
A: 158 Erie St. N | Leamington ON
E: st...@wavedirect.org | P: 519-737-9283
W: www.wavedirect.net
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From: "Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com>
To: "af" <af@af.afmug.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:01:14 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software
If it was a file drawer full of paper sketches and little labels on each folder
would that be too hard for them?
If simple things are too hard then change the people instead of the software.
</EvilMode>
On 10/8/2020 11:58 AM, Steven Kenney wrote:
OneNote isn't what I'm looking for. Think of a repo of documentation,
howto's faq's articles. All sorts of content for technical documentation. I'm
not looking for something that makes and stores forms and files. Something
that can be indexed and easily searched, and displayed nicely for the average
user. I mean I literally have people complaining to me that Trello is too
difficult to learn on their own.
STEVEN KENNEY
DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY
A: 158 Erie St. N | Leamington ON
E: st...@wavedirect.org | P: 519-737-9283
W: www.wavedirect.net
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From: "Adam Moffett" mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com
To: "af" mailto:af@af.afmug.com
Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 11:37:49 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software
I messed with OneNote.....it actually is extremely awesome. I made a tower
info template in 1/2 an hour, I could start slapping in data in a consistent
format very easily. Dragging in pictures, text, videos, etc is
straightforward.
Then I hung up on two things....One was where is stuff actually stored. It
seemed like if I made something, it's stored in my Microsoft cloud account, and
if another guy made something it's stored in his Microsoft cloud account. If
one of us leaves the data needs to be persistent and stay with the company
somehow. There's probably a way to handle that, but I didn't get as far as
figuring that out.
2nd thing was versions. I had Office 2016, another guy had a different
edition. There were things I made and shared with him that looked all wrong or
non-existent when he viewed them. I think you'd have to commit to Office365
so everybody would always be on the same rev. But then I was kinda put off
that the issue came up at all. Suppose I put time into a great looking tower
site doc with drawings and the whole 9 yards. Then I don't need to look at it
again until 2025. Is it gonna be all screwed up now in the 2025 revision of
OneNote?
Convince me it's all gonna be ok and MSFT won't screw me up.
On 10/8/2020 10:17 AM, Steven Kenney wrote:
Microsoft is a actually a 4 letter word. Did you know that?
STEVEN KENNEY
DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY
A: 158 Erie St. N | Leamington ON
E: st...@wavedirect.org | P: 519-737-9283
W: www.wavedirect.net
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From: "Steve Jones" mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com
To: "af" mailto:af@af.afmug.com
Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 9:51:42 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software
Onenote is what I settled on.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 8:20 AM Steven Kenney <st...@wavedirect.org> wrote:
We have a wiki, however I'm looking to upgrade and provide something a
little more user friendly so all the non technical folks can share
documentation. I'm looking on prem open source something that is NOT wordpress
based. I've seen many CMS' out there but none of them have the look and feel
that we want. It must be simple to add content such as howto's, guides, faqs
etc. All the documentation a medium sized company growing quickly into a large
company will need. I guess it would be considered a KMS. It must have a
good API.
One system that really piqued my interest is Document360 however it isn't
open source, nor on prem and its ungodly expensive. So if you know something
similar please advise. What do you use?
STEVEN KENNEY
DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY
A: 158 Erie St. N | Leamington ON
E: st...@wavedirect.org | P: 519-737-9283
W: www.wavedirect.net
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