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8 Great Articles on ECM from around the AIIM Community

By: John Mancini February 18th, 2011

Please enjoy this roundup of articles by the intelligent information management experts that make up the AIIM Community.

AIIM Community

In the End, Any Organization Is Only as Good as Its People

By: John Mancini February 9th, 2011

Often in my presentations, I ask people whether they know that the Association I represent had its roots over 60 years ago in the microfilm business. I then proceed to talk about how our focus has always been about the management of unstructured information in the context of business processes, and then proceed to explain the migration from film to micrographics to images to documents to content.

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Electronic Records Management (ERM)

Continuing to Extend the Paper-Centric Records Paradigm Is like Having a Blacksmith Work on Your Lexus

By: John Mancini February 8th, 2011

Continuing to extend what we did with paper into the world of electronic information is like having a blacksmith work on your Lexus. At some point, we're all going to need to think through the implications of what we're doing right now. Like in Family Man, a favorite movie of mine, we get "glimpses" into something different, but we can't quite get our arms around it.

Privacy | Social Media

There Are Revolutionary Uses of Technology, and Then There Are Actual Revolutions

By: John Mancini January 28th, 2011

Those of us in the tech space like to talk about the revolutionary uses of technology. Well, that's all well and good, but there are also actual revolutions.

Facebook Vetting of Potential Employees – Not without Some Risks to the Employer

By: John Mancini January 25th, 2011

I had an interesting conversation with Michelle Sherman yesterday after publishing my post on Poking the Soft Underbelly of Social Media. She writes on social media issues for a very insightful blog, Social Media Law Update, for a law firm. Her articles related to e-discovery and retention are particularly interesting.

Poking at the Soft Underbelly of Social Media

By: John Mancini January 23rd, 2011

Now in the spirit of true confession, let me admit that I am a social media zealot. I was an early member of Facebook (according to my daughter, perilously close to the creepy edge before it was mainstream). I've been blogging for years on the AIIM Blog. Ditto Twitter, pretty early on. Together with Atle Skjekkeland, I launched an early content management social network (InformationZen) on a Ning platform over a weekend after our IT people told us it would be at least six months before they could get to it. Inside of AIIM, we were playing around with Yammer before IT even knew what was going on. My list of sins in the name of small business expediency is not insignificant.