Office Document Strategies Blog

Entering The Third Decade Of The Century

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Jan 8, 2020 @ 06:01 AM

For many of us it is hard to imagine that we are now into the third decade of the 'New" century.  If your career started prior to 2000 a lot of your ideas, systems and processes mentally were probably shaped by a very different way of doing things than we now experience.  For those who only know the world of the 21st century the contrasts are not as great but even for them much has changed in the last 20 years.

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Topics: business processes, Canadian Legislation, office technology, Canadian IT

Proposed Federal Election Act Changes Address Election Hacking

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, May 23, 2018 @ 07:05 AM

The Canadian Federal Government has introduced revisions to the Canada Elections Act designed to address concerns about how electronic interference affects future voting.  Given all the controversy about US, European and other jurisdictions being affected by both individual and country sponsored hacking during elections this is a timely and important topic for Canada given the numbers of elections coming over the next couple of years,

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Topics: Canadian Legislation, Canadian IT, cyber security

Canadian Government Builds New Centralized Website

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Dec 21, 2016 @ 08:12 AM

Any organization that has set out to build a new website after having built its presence over time will acknowledge that creating the revised site can be a difficult and monstrous task.  When that new site is designed to become the online portal to the government of Canada it is easy to see that it will become controversial and will be a major challenge.

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Topics: Canadian Legislation, Canadian IT

Wind Power May Have Value Without Subsidy | Microsoft Buy

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Nov 16, 2016 @ 08:11 AM

Recent announcements about Microsoft contracting for massive amounts of wind generated power to run several of its data centres causes me to think that this kind of  renewable energy just may have a good life without massive government structured subsidies.  

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Topics: technology tools, Canadian Legislation, Environment, Canadian Pricing

Microsoft Finally Rolls Out Azure Cloud In Canada

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Mar 23, 2016 @ 10:03 AM

One of the challenges for organizations wishing to use cloud services for their computing from a Canadian base has been the access to appropriate services based in the Canadian political jurisdiction.  This has been especially true when considering Microsoft cloud services as up to now there were no Canadian based data centres run by Microsoft.

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Topics: Document, data security, Canadian Legislation, Canadian IT

Most Popular Office Document Strategies Posts of 2014

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Dec 31, 2014 @ 06:12 AM

Over the course of 2014 we have covered a wide range of topics in this blog.  This post references those which have proven to be the most popular through readership views over the year.  Take a look and see if you missed any that others found useful. 

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Topics: Postage meter, postage rate 2014, business processes, Canadian Legislation

Canada Post Announces 2015 Postage Rates

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Dec 17, 2014 @ 07:12 AM

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Topics: Postage meter, postage rates, mailing machines, postage machines, postage rate 2015, Canadian Legislation

Businesses Are Responding To CASL

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Jun 25, 2014 @ 08:06 AM

In the past two or three weeks I have noted that there is a steady stream of emails from various businesses that have me on their email distribution list asking me to confirm that I still wish to be on their list.  The common theme is their need to comply with the Canadian Anti Spam Legislation which comes into effect Canada Day, July 2014.

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Topics: e-mail, Canadian Legislation, spam

Canadian AntiSpam Legislation (CASL) Becomes Effective July 1

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, May 7, 2014 @ 08:05 AM

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Topics: e-mail, Canadian Legislation, spam

Privacy Concerns Drive Paper Shredding

Posted by Lee Kirkby on Thu, Jan 2, 2014 @ 08:01 AM

Anyone who reads the news understands that privacy is a challenge in the fast paced world we live in.  Paper shredding in all of its many forms has grown to be a significant force due to these concerns.  For many people their concern about privacy leads to issues with how to handle the paper which comes to them as part of their daily lives.

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Topics: Canadian Legislation, shredders