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Subject:RE: Who's where, and how do we know? From:"Giordano, Connie" <connie -dot- giordano -at- twcable -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:18:08 -0500
Do you have a tool to set up and manage distribution lists? We use
Active Directory to identify all the information for a user, and a tool
called SelectDL to create distribution lists. The tool allows nested
lists, and is in wide use here. I belong to at least five lists, most
of which were added as soon as my profile was set up in Active
Directory.
Not sure if this helps, but I hope so....
Regards
Connie Giordano
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This is probably another of those "It depends on how IT has set up your
network" things, but I'll ask anyway.
Assuming that your employer employs more than a few hundred people, and
that your operations are scattered across several locations, how do you
find people? Say, for example, you needed to publish some procedure to
all the software engineers -- how would you do it without spamming the
rest of the company?
We writers were asked to produce some instructional stuff for a few
different groups in the company. Now there's the problem of getting the
material to the people who need it (when many of them don't even know
that they need).
The company IT and HR functions have been mostly consolidated (sort of)
since the last round of acquisitions, but there doesn't seem to be a
single public list that identifies not just names, numbers and e-mail
addresses, but titles/functions, Departments/groups, info that tells you
where people fit.
This is obviously a wheel that's been invented many times, so if your
company fits the description what is used where you work? I'll pass on
the suggestions.
Kevin (who might be the writer Kevin, or the lawyer Kevin, or one of the
Sales Kevins, or one of the developer Kevins, but how would anybody pick
me out of the crowd? -- ok, other than the gray hair and the twitch?)
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