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Technology Predictions for 2009 From CMS Watch
The CMS Watch analyst team offers 12 predictions that could shape content technologies in 2009.
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Political and Legal Battle Over Missouri Governor's E-Mail is Over
Gov. Blunt’s office has provided more information and records than any other elected official in the history of Missouri.
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KM Past and Future: Solutions for a Changing World
Despite today’s economic difficulties, there is reason to be cautiously optimistic about the knowledge management industry.
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King County, Wash., Meets the Four Elements of Records Management
The pressure of citizen service requirements, litigation, the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure, the media, audits and activist organizations and individuals are forcing agencies to take a closer look at how they help citizens find the information they need.
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Bush White House E-Mails Delayed in Transfer to Archives
Technical glitches, lawsuits and lagging computer forensic work are slowing the delivery of electronic mail messages and documents from the outgoing Bush administration to the National Archives.
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Eight Reasons to Keep Investing in Managing YOUR Information
Lawrence Wescott II, Esq. and Randolph A. Kahn, Esq.
An economic downturn is not the time to stop your information management projects. Let your competitors fall by the wayside, keep investing in the efficient use of your information.
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Save a Lot of Money in 2009
Mark Diamond
Where is your electronically stored data? Map it.
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Waffles and Taxonomies
Rich Payne
Along with smothered and covered hash browns, everything you can learn everything you need to know about taxonomy at Waffle House.
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Live and Learn
Reflections by one records manager of the top 10 things she learned in 2008. Number one, and applicable to any situation, remember that just because you’re right doesn’t mean you’re going to win.
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Best Practices 101
James Watson
A perspective on technology in enterprise content management deployments.
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Getting Social
Ganesh Vednere and Nishan DeSilva
Social networking has given birth to a new model inside organizations—social business networking. But for records managers, properly managing these new ways of communication and the resulting data are of critical importance.
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Whaddya Call It?
Don DePalma
While using multiple terms to describe one thing is common, doing so can lead to product confusion and even compliance issues in the business world. Why you should be worried about terminology management.
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Best Practices 101: ECM Functionality
James Watson, Ph.D.
What enterprise content management (ECM) functionality is available to your users? How do you decide who gets what functionality? And are you delivering ECM functionality as efficiently and cost-effectively as you could be?
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When to Jump into ECM
TK Train
Unmanaged information becomes more unmanageable each day
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RIM's ROI
Helen Strenk
Where’s the value in records management? A walk through three reasons why RIM could be valuable.
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One Who Gets It: Nancy Richards
Nancy Richards is bringing enterprise content management to Swedish Medical Center. How this "team of one" is making management of content better, faster, and greener.
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Show Me the Money!
Steve Kass
When required by budget cuts to halt or shelve a project, don’t just stop. Consider the following actions when economic circumstances derail your current project
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Now What?
Helen Streck
You understand the need to control your information. Moving from understanding to action requires you to develop a strategic plan for your records and information management program.
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Back Up on Backup Tapes
Randolph A. Kahn, Esq., and Lawrence Wescott II, Esq.
Backup tapes do have a role in disaster recovery. When it comes to ediscovery, you need to look at other alternatives.
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Avoid Depending on Barney – in Any Language
Donald DePalma
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Records and Information Management Is a Team Sport
Helen Streck
A successful records and information management (RIM) program, like a successful Olympic athlete, requires a team of people working toward a common goal. Records managers cannot expect to create a policy in a vacuum.
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To Saas or Not to Saas?
Dan Carmel
Five Tests to Determine Whether On-Demand Document Management is Right for Your Organization
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Are You Sure You Want “Best Practices”?
Steve Kass
Everyone wants best practices. Who wouldn’t? After all, we all want to run our business the best way, and we all want to conform to the best way of doing things
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The Cornerstone of ECM
TK Train
It flows from managing your business records well.
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Translation Joins Mainstream Content Workflow
Don DePalma
Having information in your customer's native language is critical for doing business internationally -- people won't buy what they can't read.
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Instant messaging equals instant danger in the enterprise
G. Patrick Pawling
IM increases productivity, saves time and enables real-time cooperation. And it's dangerous. Real-time collaborative tools carry their own set of complications.
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The Content Problem Is Not about Technology. It's about Too Many Words
Donald A. DePalma
When describing their products or unique selling proposition, many companies invert the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words.
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A Sound ERMS Strategy
Janelle Julien
A Web Exclusive Interview with AIIM Certified Records Manager and ERM/ECM Instructor Carl Weise
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Acronym Mania
Theresa M. Resek
What does that acronym stand for?