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  • 1.  Better Knowledge Management Needed

    Posted 02-04-2021 09:04
    IMO we need a collaborative FAQ of all the things that repeatedly are posted here. I don’t know what that looks like but we have a very high number of repetitive questions where the answers are buried in months of HL posts and not easily searchable.

    Our membership is also skewing toward “I’ll show up when I have a problem” and not as much 24x7 presence. This means a decent percent of inquiries have already been answered but have to be re-answered ( often by someone who is better than me at search ).

    I think we can do knowledge management in something like Google Docs or O365 where file storage could also be maintained.

    Personally, I need/want to be able to view key info offline if possible and 1,000% mobile first. If it’s not mobile first it’s not an option.

    HL for all its benefits has the appearance of being dragged along through a myriad of revisions - none of which brought it into a mobile first world.

    At this point MS Teams seems like it may even have caught up and surpassed HL in functionality.

    What’s my point?

    - Sage 100 is aging
    - Sage people are retiring
    - Focus of Sage BPAC partners is to whatever shiny Sage is promoting - leaving potential knowledge leakage as attention is diverted
    - Unless we build our own Sage 100 knowledge we are at the mercy of what we can search on HL or find on the Sage KB ( both tough to search )
    - With a powerful store of knowledge we can better serve our customers

    I’m not volunteering - merely offering a suggestion for a future idea




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    Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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  • 2.  RE: Better Knowledge Management Needed

    Posted 02-05-2021 08:48
    not volunteering, but I like the suggestions too.  And I wish we had a "like button" or a way to know a post has at least been seen and recognized as such.

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    Madeline Stefanou
    RKL eSolutions, LLC
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  • 3.  RE: Better Knowledge Management Needed

    Posted 02-05-2021 10:36
    Quite relevant critique and observations. Both the frustration and the opportunity are quite real.

    I can see how solving this problem becomes a key goal for us, once we get past MOTM and a new Exec Director onboarded.

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    Jerry Norman
    VP, 90 Minds
    Smartbridge Partners
    512.419.1444 x112
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  • 4.  RE: Better Knowledge Management Needed

    Posted 02-05-2021 10:37
    FWIW...  We switched to Teams this past year as it was a necessity for us to have a better collaboration tool, it came with our O365 subscription.   The experience is mixed and as with most Microsoft products there are some great features and some really annoying aspects.  We all remember the if Microsoft built cars joke.

    However, Microsoft is the Borg and resistance is futile.   Last week SAP announced that Teams will be replacing their internal collaboration tools inside their ERP products and even had Satya Nadella live on the announcement.   The 365 products have already been integrated and their near monopoly power on productivity apps appears to be growing even more complete.

    Like Wayne I am not volunteering and believe a switch at this time would be pre-mature.  If we had an in-person MOTM, or in a separate forum it might be good to have a Future of the Minds conference to gather feedback on how 90 Minds should evolve as the market continues to change.

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    Gary Feldman
    President
    I-Business Network, LLC
    Marietta GA
    6786270646 x224
    http://www.i-bn.com/
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  • 5.  RE: Better Knowledge Management Needed

    Posted 02-05-2021 12:54
    Has anyone ever figured out how to get multiple team accounts running in the Teams app simultaneously?  Because I already have two accounts, and that's without using it for Friendly Systems.  So if that can't be sorted out I really don't think it's an option here.

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    Phil McIntosh
    President
    Friendly Systems, Inc.
    Asheville NC
    678.273.4010 ext 5
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  • 6.  RE: Better Knowledge Management Needed

    Posted 02-05-2021 17:30
    I believe that when you are invited to the new team it should beccom available in the upper right hand corner.  I am almost always in 3 or more Teams organizations these days.   The one's I am invited to show up as (Guest)


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    Gary Feldman
    President
    I-Business Network, LLC
    Marietta GA
    6786270646 x224
    http://www.i-bn.com/
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