Email mail sucks. Let’s move on. [I'll be on vacation for the last week of July and first week of August. While I'm gone, I thought I would reshare some of our more popular blog posts from earlier this year.] One of the things I find interesting when I have conversations about the potential business impact of social technologies is the business person who says something like, “I have too much information coming at me right now. And besides, we already have a way for people to connect together and it works perfectly well and it’s called email.” It seems to me that email mostly gets a free pass when it comes to productivity and whether it actually performs the purposes for which it was originally intended. I decided to take a look at my own email stats for the past three business days to get an idea of how “productive” email is. Keep in mind that I have tried over the past year or so to move as much as possible OFF of email (e.g., email newsletters and the like), but some continues to creep in. Here is my data… So there you have it. We started out with…

The 12 Days of Christmas — My 12 Information Management Predictions for 2011 [I'll be on vacation for the last week of July and first week of August. While I'm gone, I thought I would reshare some of our more popular blog posts from earlier this year.] My Content and Records Management Predictions for 2011… It is OK to hum along the 12 Days of Christmas as you go through this list… Legal and records and IT types will seek to reassert old control paradigms on social and consumer technologies and will largely fail. Smart organizations will rethink what control and governance mean in this new era and only seek to control what must be controlled. Politicians and regulators will pass new information management regulations and legislation that will be State of the Art, circa 2005. As Gartner might say, this is will be with 100% probability. The “business” will demand cuts in legacy system spending to fund new initiatives centered on customer engagement and operating flexibility. Smart IT people will position themselves against the revenue side of the equation. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be hell to pay when there are security breaches. Social “neighborhoods” will spring up…

Lots of people touch “pieces” of AIIM — our training, or our webinars, or our publications. But they often come away not quite clear on how the pieces fit together. I thought I’d let you all inside my world. AIIM is, after all, nothing more or less than a reflection of the community we represent and are privileged to serve.

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