As someone who's moved to a non-Microsoft environment for the first time, I think there's really a need for practical guidance on using Google Drive.
Some of the features are positive - for example the east of sending links rather than attachments - but others really don't help encourage good behaviour to ensure people know which is the most authoritative version of a file. And the default to Google formats (even if you have Office installed) positively encourages multiple versions of the same document (one in XLS, one Google Sheets). Plus, being Google, the idea of structuring the data is an afterthought.
Using Google Drive is the norm in the tech sector, and very few such companies will have any governance infrastructure. I'm an information manager of many years' standing and I almost don't know where to start in trying to encourage people to save things in the right way (you can't use the concept of 'the right place' because it doesn't really exist with Google).
Anyone designing any courses?
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