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Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.

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Email Management

8 Steps You Can Take to Better Manage Your Inbox

Close your email client. The vast majority of us keep our email client open all day long, just in case an important message comes in. This leaves us vulnerable to distraction every time a message comes in, whether it's that important note from the boss, an invitation to a webinar that may or may not be of interest, or an update on next week's potluck.

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Paperless Office

The PayItGreen Alliance

I recently came across an interesting concept sponsored by the NACHA folks -- the PayItGreen Alliance. The PayItGreen Alliance is a coalition of financial services companies that is committed to educating consumers and businesses about the positive environmental impact of choosing electronic payments, bills, and statements instead of paper. They encourage consumers to turn off the paper in their financial lives - specifically to use direct deposit, receive bills and financial statements electronically, and make payments electronically.

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14 Steps to a Successful ECM Implementation

Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.

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Document Management

10 Commandments for an Effective Document Management Project

I was thinking at last week's AIIM roadshow about the ingredients that enter into an effective document strategy. Here are my Ten Commandments. They are in no particular order, except the first one is intentionally first (kind of like the real Ten Commandments).

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Document Management

10 Fast Facts About the Value of Document Management

Pam Doyle, from Fujitsu, gave an incredible presentation at the AIIM roadshow in Chicago which contained some interesting “fast facts” about document management that I thought were worth repeating. These reminders of the value of document management are particularly relevant given the coming tightening of IT resources:

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AIIM Community

Could this be the most knowledgeable information management professional in North America?

I wanted to congratulate Abad Khushrooshahi, who I met at AIIM's Enterprise Content Management Seminar in Toronto, and who may very well be the most knowledgeable information management professional in North America. Abad works for Aegon Canada and recently completed our IOA (Information Organization and Access) course. What is notable about Abad is that I believe he is the first to complete ALL FOUR of our training specializations; Electronic Records Management (ERM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Business Process Management (BPM), and IOA.

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Electronic Records Management (ERM)

Top 10 Records Management Blogs

Here are the top ten blogs with the highest Technorati authority on the topic of records management:

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