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Email Management  |  Information Governance

Yet Another 'The Dog Ate My Homework' Email Scandal

As the quote goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." I guess, fool me a gazillion times, and we're talking politicians. Sometimes I feel like it is getting impossible to figure out where the politicians on The Good Wife and House of Cards leave off and where the real ones begin. So let me get this straight. We've got us another "Case of the Missing Emails."

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Compliance  |  Information Governance

3 Reasons You Need to Get Serious about Information Governance and Information Risk

The best time to get serious about information governance is yesterday. The second best time is now. For years we have been accumulating information in various forms from paper to electronic documents and social media content such as blog posts and tweets. Many organizations think that they have to keep all of this information. What they fail to realize is that not all information is equal. By keeping information that isn’t needed and not following an information governance plan, organizations put themselves in jeopardy. Proper information governance includes getting rid of information that no longer has any value to the organization. Simply put: you don’t need to keep it all – and you shouldn’t. The more information your organization accumulates, the more risk it generates. This combined with cascading changes in legal requirements means that organizations need to get serious about information governance. Here are three reasons why:

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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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Information Governance

14 Must Knows about Information Governance

These 14 “must-knows” are drawn from a survey of 487 information professionals conducted in April. Survey respondents represent organizations of all sizes. Larger organizations over 5,000 employees represent 33%, with mid-sized organizations of 500 to 5,000 employees at 39%. Small-to-mid sized organizations with 10 to 500 employees constitute 28%. 74% of the participants were from North America, and 19% from Europe.

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Information Governance

How to Get Serious about Information Governance

I recently sat down with Mark Diamond, CEO of Contoural, to talk about the current state of Information Governance.

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Information Governance

The IRS E-mail Scandal, or How the Dog Ate My Homework – Information Governance

I have been out of the country for about a week, so forgive my tardiness in commenting on the IRS e-mail story that has been percolating in the US press for the past week Most of the press stories I’ve seen while on a belated 30th anniversary trip to Sorrento (we’re on the verge of our 34th anniversary, so I guess it’s about time) have centered around the poor performance of the British and the Italians and the Portuguese in the World Cup. At the end of the personal trip, I attended an AIIM Executive Leadership Council meeting, but more on that in a minute.

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Information Governance

Information Governance – A Necessary Evil or Bridge to the Future?

The world of information governance is changing and old paradigms are being stretched to the breaking point with how we think about governing information. It's no longer just about what you keep and there are new aspects to consider. What's it all mean for the information professional? Use this presentation to help build out your information governance action plan for the next 2-3 years.

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