Weeklies

As I believe I’ve noted, I am now working on a workflow system for the office. Content be damned, what we need is a way to automate the transfer of documents between people and desks.

There are some hurdles, mind you. Firstly, I am new to this business. I’m fairly certain there are big holes in my knowledge of how the system works and how well it would translate to web-based database management. Then there’s the issue of what happens when the system breaks down?

Take today for example. We publish on Thursdays with most deadlines on Tuesday for page proofing on Wednesday. New Year’s Day is a holiday and falls on Tuesday and we’ve been hit with a snow storm today (Monday) and one will probably hit Tuesday night as well. Given this scenario, how would a workflow system make things easier, or would they make them harder?

I think I’ll do up a whitepage on that issue. In the meantime there’s copy I ought to be writing!