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…

For those of you who are not yet aware of this, AIIM has launched two new communities focused on Enterprise 2.0 technologies and on Electronic Records Management. I was honored to be asked to be an expert blogger in the E20 community. Along with about 15 of my colleagues, I will be blogging about once per week on this new platform. Present company excepted, there are some GREAT E20 bloggers here. I’ve added the RSS food for the E20 bloggers and the ERM bloggers to my news reader. You can find them at the highlighted links. You might want to do the same — they provide a great “CNN-ish” regular update on the latest in their respective spaces. My 3 posts so far in the new E20 community are: Dinner in Charleston Forgive Me, Steve Jobs Big Blue and the Social Revolution Here are some action items you should take TODAY relative to these new communities… Whether you are from an end user organization, from the channel, a consultant, or a solution provider, JOIN THE COMMUNITY. There is no charge. You can find information on joining the communities HERE. Tell your friends. Tell your colleagues. Blog on the site of…

8 Things You Can Do With an Enterprise Wiki 8 Reasons SharePoint 2010 Looks Like a True ECM System 8 Ways Your Organization Can Improve Efficiency, Increase Productivity, and Reduce Risk 8 Things that will improve Team Productivity 8 Features in SharePoint 2010 That Rock 8 Things You Need to Know About the CMIS Standard 8 Things SharePoint 2010 Needs to Be a True ECM System 8 Hot Trends in Document Imaging, Scanning and Capture Another 8 Things That Make SharePoint 2010 a True ECM System 8 Things You Need to Know About Taxonomy, Metadata and Information Architecture in SharePoint 2010 And don’t forget my keynote from AIIM On Demand… Now over 1,500 views! John Mancini AIIM 2010 Keynote See more presentations by jmancini77 | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations And don’t forget our SharePoint e-book. Approaching 4,000 downloads. Download it HERE.