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By Mark Lucas, founder of JamesTech LLC, Columbia, MD.

Microsoft 365 · September 25, 2026

Your Team Spends a Day a Week Looking for Things. Here's How to Get It Back.

Staff lose close to a day a week hunting for files across desktops, drives, email, and shared folders. How to organize a firm's information in Microsoft 365 so it's findable, and why that's what makes AI useful.

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Financial Services · September 23, 2026

AI Automation for Financial Advisors: What to Automate First

Learn which financial-advisor workflows to automate first with AI, Power Automate, AI Builder, and n8n, while keeping judgment human-led.

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Financial Services · September 23, 2026

Microsoft 365 Automation for Financial Services Firms

See how Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, Power Automate, and Copilot can make financial-services operations secure, governed, and audit-ready.

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SharePoint · August 31, 2026

7 SharePoint Mistakes You’re Making (And How to Fix Your "Permission Hell")

Learn seven common SharePoint mistakes nonprofits and small businesses make, plus practical fixes for permissions, governance, folders, and metadata.

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AI Automation · August 31, 2026

The Evolution of Automation: From Early SharePoint to Modern Voice AI

Mark Lucas traces business automation from early SharePoint workflows to connected Microsoft 365 tools, n8n, AI Builder, Copilot, and Voice AI.

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Workflow Automation · August 31, 2026

The Real Cost of Manual Data Entry in Small Nonprofits (And How to Fix It)

Learn how small nonprofits can reduce manual data-entry costs, prevent errors, and improve donor service with practical workflow automation.

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