AIIM has gathered leaders from 18 Social Business and Content Management companies to serve on the second major taskforce project in the social content definition process, this one headed by ProfessorAndrew McAfee, known as the grandfather of E2.0. “I am excited to partner with AIIM on this effort,” says Dr. McAfee. “The technologies, practices, and philosophies of the 2.0 Era continue to affect companies in important ways, and it is critical to study the phenomenon as it unfolds. This project will give us the chance to see firsthand and in real time how organizations are changing the way they generate and use information, one of the most important transformations taking place in today’s business world.” In a kickoff meeting at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, task force executives architected the plan for the creation of case studies and a road map for the responsible use of Social and Enterprise 2.0 technologies in transforming key business processes. The road map will focus on use cases and select processes that are core to most business organizations. According to McAfee, Marketing and Sales are two groups that clearly should work closely together, but too often don’t. “We’re going to examine how…

We have the results, we’re just waiting on the design of the report. A few preview numbers… 3rd party ECM add-ons are still very popular despite the added content management functions of 2010. Upgrades to 2010 seem to be taking a while with only 8% of users live, plus 6% who are first-timers direct to 2010. In 6 months time, over 50% say they will be live on 2010. Interestingly, standardizing a taxonomy or metadata template was the biggest upgrade issue, showing that the new functions are being adopted – except maybe the RM functions – but over 60% still plan to use add-ons. Re-applying customization, and training staff were the next two issues. Much more to come…Contact Doug Miles if you are a blogger or writer and want an advanced look. In the meantime, SharePoint afficiandos might be interested in a couple of upcoming training courses — and a FREE course… Train in SharePoint best practices with AIIM – online or in the classroom. Upcoming SharePoint Classroom Sessions: San Francisco, CA, July 12-15, 2011 Toronto, ON, August 16-19, 2011 Atlanta, GA, September 13-16, 2011 Get a feel for our SharePoint training content, review this SharePoint Specialist module on Strategy…

Structured vs Unstructured Records– Really? by John Phillips (Management Consultant for Information Technologies Decisions) — ERM One of the things that always amazes me is how the proverb “the more things change, the more they stay the same” still applies today in the world where technology and recordkeeping concepts merg…read more Content, Records & Forms: Lands of the Lost by Steve Weissman (Execuive Director for Holly Group) — ERM Capture ECM One of the (few?) perqs of being a consultant in this space is the opportunity to spend time in a number of professional disciplines. For me, the usual suspects are content management, records, … read more Part Three: An Evening in A-Day-in-the Life of a Social CEO by JB Holston (CEO for Newsgator) — Social Business As reported in Part One and Part Two of this blog post, I ‘work socially’ as CEO of NewsGator. Here is a look at the evening of just one productive workday using social computing tools. Like… read more Don’t Forget the Fun Stuff by Daniel Antion (Vice President Information Services for American Nuclear Insurers) — SharePoint It’s 6:30 am, and my first task of the day is complete; I have just entered my…

If you have an Android device or and iPhone or an iPad, you might want to think about getting Pulse. Pulse is the most enjoyable RSS Reader I’ve found. The design is smart and easy to use. I like it better than Flipboard. You can choose from a variety of curated channels and/or link to the feeds in Google Reader. You can also add Digital Landfill as a channel (hint hint). All you need to do is search on “Digital Landfill” and you’ll see it in the list (see picture for the screen shot on the iPhone).