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A bit of a personal post today, but I can’t help myself. If anyone wants to see why it is taking this economy so long to recover from the financial meltdown, here’s my suggestion — refinance your home, and then think a bit about what this one process says about the efficiency of information management and the legal and regulatory obstacles we have created around things that should be simple. And think about how utterly disconnected the people in the big white house and the pretty white dome about 25 miles from here (of both parties) are from the reality of what actually creates economic value. Here are the details. We have been in our home — our only home — for 16 years. The value of the home is roughly 2X what we paid for it, even after the past few years. We’ve been fortunate, and I know that. We have about 10 months left on the mortgage — yahoo! (the exclamation, not the company). The original note on the home was with Countrywide; the note was bought by another company that shall remain nameless about 10 years ago. We have near perfect credit and no debt. Knock wood….

After a great deal of hard work by some very dedicated and very bright people at GimmalSoft, the US Department of Defense has officially certified the GimmalSoft Compliance Suite for SharePoint 2010 against the US DoD 5015.2 Records Management Application Standard. As I’ve noted on this blog before, I am a member of the team [...]

Join Clay Shirky (Best selling author), David Pogue (New York Times columnist), Michael Chui (McKinsey “Big Data” analyst) and many others at the new AIIM Conference (March 20-22 in San Francisco). Become a presenter! Here’s the LINK to submit. http://www.aiim.org/Resources/Industry-News/42850 Here’s the LINK with Conference information. —– AIIM is introducing a new and unique annual conference in San Francisco, March 20-22, 2012, and is looking for forward-looking and engaging presentations. Use this opportunity to share and discuss your strategy and lessons learned for using content to engage customers or staff; automate the processing of content; and controlling content in a social, local, and mobile era. Attendees will learn from thought-leaders and early adopters, while networking and connecting with their peers. Plan the future of content management in an era of social, local, and mobile technologies. The 2.5 day conference program will consist of a series of entertaining and thought-provoking 20 minute presentations by business and IT executives. Learn about opportunities, challenges, and possible solutions Get ideas and strategies from industry rock stars and early adopters Choose between 3 tracks covering content management strategies in an era of social, local, and mobile technologies: Engage: Use enterprise content to engage customer, partners,…

Industry analysts quote the growth of unstructured content at around 40% a year. A big contributor to content growth is Redundant, Obsolete and Trivial (ROT) files. [As is the case with our 8 things series, the opinions expressed in the 5 myths guest columns are those of the guest contributor and not necessarily mine or AIIM's. This guest post is by John Bellegarde is Vice President of Marketing at Active Navigation (www.activenavigation.com). As usual, contra perspectives welcome.] Myth #1: There is no Content ROT in my organization — My organization has policies and procedures in place to make sure that there is no ROT in my file servers, collaboration systems or in my ECM system. Reality: ROT is everywhere. End users control what is put into storage, and they are impossible to control. First, they are information hoarders. When a user finds a document they like, they save a copy to their “O:” drive. Even worse, they do not feel empowered to delete anything, anytime. They even save archives, backup files and the like. Worst still, they feel that the “O:” drive is the place for their iTunes library and worse personal data. ROT is created every day, and just…