Do you use SharePoint at your company? Did you know that if you own a Windows Server, you already have it? Many businesses do not know they own this powerful collaboration tool. Here are 5 things you can use SharePoint for at your office to be more productive:
- Use it to document and manage a process. A really popular use for this is Human Resources, keeping track of the steps and documents required for hiring and training new employees.
- Having trouble finding documentation for a procedure, a specific hiring form or marketing post card? Use a document library to help your team organize and ultimately find the documents your business needs to run. After you upload the document, your team can use the search function to quickly locate them for future use!
- Create announcements to keep your team up to date. At Dynamic Edge we use these to let everyone on our team know when we have a happy customer.
- Manage project tasks. Using SharePoint to keep track of tasks in a project is easy and effective. Tracking tasks and their completion in one central spot allows your team to keep score as they are working through large projects and keeps everyone on the same page regarding project completion.
- Track your company contacts using a contact list. At Dynamic Edge, we use contact lists to manage our marketing campaigns and our customer surveys.
Basically, anything you are currently typing data into excel for can be done inside SharePoint, the big benefit is that once you move to SharePoint your entire team can access it, all at once!
Want more help on SharePoint? Contact Debra about our next SharePoint class, or having one of our consultants turn it on for you. If you are a Fixed IT customer, just contact the Instant Support Team and they will take care of configuring it on your server!
