Today’s guest post was a group effort by some of the folks at Iron Mountain. Iron Mountain is a world leader in information management services, assisting more than 140,000 organizations in 39 countries on five continents with storing, protecting and managing their information. Iron Mountain currently safeguards and provides access to more than 425 million cubic feet of paper records, 10 billion emails, 65 million computer backup tapes, 2.5 million PCs and 20,000 servers. Iron Mountain was a sponsor of our Spring ECM seminar series; this was the topic they addressed in the seminars. Registration is already open for the Fall Series: Sep 14 2010 Atlanta, GA Sep 16 2010 Washington, DC Sep 22 2010 Toronto, ON Sep 28 2010 Boston, MA Sep 30 2010 New York, NY Oct 5 2010 Minneapolis, MN Oct 7 2010 Chicago, IL 8 Reasons to Outsource Document Management When confronted with information management challenges, many organizations operate on a reactive basis—developing ad hoc solutions to specific problems as they arise. And because of this, many document management programs are rife with duplicate capabilities, non-standard approaches and process inefficiencies. The result is that companies are becoming exposed to unnecessary risks and costs and missing out…

Just to give blog readers the inside track, I’m working on the 2nd editions of our current e-books… 8 Things You Also Wanted to Know About SharePoint — But Were Afraid to Ask (2nd edition!) 8 Reasons You Need a Strategy for Managing Information — Before It’s Too Late (2nd edition!) 8 Secrets of an Effective Content or Records Management Implementation (2nd edition!) …and some brand new ones… 8 Things You Need to Know About Social Computing and Content Management 8 Things You Need to Know About Getting Rid of Paper (The full set of 8 things posts is available on the DIGITAL LANDFILL blog.) Anything missing? Anything you’d like to see? Post a comment… Looking for content for your web site or blog? Feel free to post these lists — no charge — just copy and paste! 8 Things You Also Wanted to Know About SharePoint — But Were Afraid to Ask (2nd edition!) 8 Ways to Control Your SharePoint Infrastructure 8 Things to Consider When it Comes to Getting Paper into SharePoint 8 Things You Need to Know About Taxonomy, Metadata and Information Architecture in SharePoint 2010 8 Features in SharePoint 2010 That Rock 8 Reasons SharePoint looks…

Whitney Tidmarsh is the chief marketing officer for the Content Management and Archiving Division of EMC Corporation. Whitney is active in AIIM and currently serves on the AIIM Board of Directors. She can be followed on Twitter at @whitneytidmarsh. For more information about EMC, visit: www.emc.com. These 8 ways to control your SharePoint infrastructure loosely fall into three buckets — 1) Improve infrastructure performance, 2) Assert governance and control over your SharePoint infrastructure, and 3) Get more out of your SharePoint investments. EMC and Microsoft share a longstanding partnership aimed at providing customers with solutions and tools to benefit business workers around the world. There’s no doubt that Microsoft SharePoint is big and here to stay as a platform for customized information sharing. A recent IDC study showed enterprise adoption or planned adoption of SharePoint at 70% — and that figure seems conservative. Users are widely embracing SharePoint for tying together disconnected islands of data, integrating technology with business processes, and targeting and personalizing information for groups and individual users. The explosion of these active and inactive teamsites poses information management challenges for IT and the business. At the highest level, we believe an effective information management strategy enables enterprises…

First things first. Were you aware that AIIM has launched a new on-line Records Management Community? Check it out. Registration is free. You will find all sorts of information, organized into 4 parts — news from experts in the field, a collection of best practices information under the label “Everything You Need to Know Wiki,” a Buyers Guide (with user ratings), and a discussion area. Bear with us while we grow critical mass from our other social sites, but visit the community and I think you’ll get a clear idea of where we are headed. To give you an idea of the richness of resource that has started to build, here are some samples from our network of Expert Bloggers… Records Management at the 2010 AIIM Show By Mike Alsup Senior Vice President for Gimmal Group Here is what I saw related to records management at the AIIM Show in Philadelphia: SharePoint 2010 was clearly in ascendance. Pondering Information Governance (Again) By Jayne Bellyk RIM Program Manager for Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP Reading the words of my fellow bloggers last week, it seems that the topic of Information Governance (IG) is on most people’s minds. It is definitely on…