Don’t miss the AIIM Social Business Virtual Conference on September 8th, 2011 to get answers to these questions: What types of business processes can benefit from using social technologies? Are records and information managers able to achieve meaningful governance in a social world, or are they just getting in the way? Will conventional content and process management applications be able to adapt to a new generation of always on, always connected information workers? How can you develop an effective social business strategy? Register Here – http://www.aiim.org/Events/SOE-Conference Follow the event on Twitter using hashtag #sbcon11

The End of an Era – and the Beginning of Another… [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.] [Note...for a summary of who we are and why we do what we do in the wake of the end of our run with the "AIIM" label on the Questex show - see this post.] The Info360 event taking place from March 21 – 24 in Washington, DC will be the final “AIIM” Show to bear the AIIM name. This is the culminating activity of an evolutionary course we began 10 years ago when we sold the event (known as the AIIM International Exposition and Conference) to Advanstar/Questex. It also marks the successful transition to the Info360 name for the event, a transition initiated by Questex 3 years ago. Our action at that time was based on the belief that: a) large scale horizontal trade shows were changing rapidly; and b) so too was our industry. We believe that the past decade has borne out the foresight of AIIM and our Board of Directors from…

Like many of you, I have waited for a long time for Google to enter the social realm. Well, they’re in it now, and it’s called Google+. The first question to be answered before moving on to thinking about the implications is What the hell is Google+ and why should I care? Here are a few articles to get the basics… Google Plus and the Social Media Moonshot How Google+ Stacks Up Against Facebook Google+: First Impressions Google+ a clean, intuitive mobile experience so far So with that as background, here are my initial impressions about Google+, particularly in the context of associations. In thinking about this, I asked 60 early Google+ users for their impressions, and those are reflected in the data that follows. 1 — Google+ appears to be winning the PR battle with Facebook. Based on a very superficial level of usage so far, I am stunned at how receptive my little set of early adopters are to throwing Facebook under the train. Here was the question I asked…Based on what you know right now or have heard, how do you think Google+ compares with Facebook relative to the following…(% indicating Google+ better among active Google+ users)…

Like many of you, I have waited for a long time for Google to enter the social realm. Well, they’re in it now, and it’s called Google+. The first question to be answered before moving on to thinking about the implications is What the hell is Google+ and why should I care? Here are a few articles to get the basics… Google Plus and the Social Media Moonshot How Google+ Stacks Up Against Facebook Google+: First Impressions Google+ a clean, intuitive mobile experience so far So with that as background, here are my initial impressions about Google+, particularly in the context of associations. In thinking about this, I asked 60 early Google+ users for their impressions, and those are reflected in the data that follows. 1 — Google+ appears to be winning the PR battle with Facebook. Based on a very superficial level of usage so far, I am stunned at how receptive my little set of early adopters are to throwing Facebook under the train. Here was the question I asked…Based on what you know right now or have heard, how do you think Google+ compares with Facebook relative to the following…(% indicating Google+ better among active Google+ users)…