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.

Looking for some VERY QUICK gut reactions to how Google+ is being perceived in its initial roll out for an article I am writing next week. Even if you are not currently part of the beta, would be interested in your perceptions relative to what you have read. Just click on this link – http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CQ4LHLFVX/ — just a very few questions and will share the results with everyone.

Sessions for the AIIM Virtual Conference on Social Business have been announced. We’re pretty proud of the line-up – have you registered yet? Register HERE. AIIM Virtual Conference Sessions Driving Collaboration and Engagement with Social Business Andrew McAfee Founder of the term Enterprise 2.0. The Network Way of Knowing and Deciding Dr. David Weinberger Co-author of the bestseller, The Cluetrain Manifesto Setting up for Success John Mancini President, AIIM Key Issues for Enterprise Information Management 2011 – Debra Logan (Vice President, Gartner) Getting Beyond The Field of Dreams: Building a Successful Social Business Strategy, Inside and Out – Claire Flanagan (Director, Social Collaboration Strategy; CSC) Change the Work! Stop Evangelizing and Start Doing – John Stepper (Managing Director, Deutsche Bank) Building an Effective Collaboration Framework – Edsel David (Director, Knowledge Management, Fannie Mae) Today’s Successful Enterprises are Social Enterprises – Andy MacMillan (Vice President of Product Management, Oracle) Records Management in the Social Media World – Aligning Strategy and Governance with Business Requirements – Dianne Kelley (Director of Records Management, Viacom) Social started in the cloud – why should it live anywhere else? – Dan Latendre (CEO, IGLOO Software) Social Business — It’s Not Just About Technology – Vinicius Da…