- Explanation of what is SharePoint - Web page with modules (web parts) to add functionality; Document sharing via document library.
- How can SharePoint be used by lawyers?
- Multiple lawyers collaborating on matter - only one copy of doc - most up-to-date version.
- Case studies from Director of Public Prosecutions and Solicitor for NT on how they are using SharePoint.
- DPP:
- Quite similar to JOIN
- Tries to provide DPP staff with access to all the resources they need to do their job
- Theoretically, anyone could update the content
- DPP lawyers produce research notes which are very useful. Previously, these were not shared well. Now any lawyer can add a research note into the system, and specify how important it is - and then the research note is subject to approval by senior lawyers.
- they use SharePoint as a single place to store information about their matters.
- they added a 3rd party search software into their portal.
- SFNT:
- He's made a few different SP sites - Reference manual - very similar to a wiki.
- SP databases can be exported to Excel very easily, to generate reports.
- It's also useful as a workflow management system. When working in groups, SharePoint makes it easy to project sites to keeping track of different documents and different versions of documents.
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