Just In Freaking Time (JIFT) Training

It's a bit of an accidentally well kept secret, but did you know that you can utilize the strength of AIIM Skills Development Training courses for your company's "Just In Time" training needs? Let ... read more

Stop Talking About SharePoint Governance

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... and start ACHIEVING it. A lot of people have noticed been asking why I’ve been noticeably absent from discussion for the past few months. I can now unveil why I have been so crazy busy... read more

BitCasa & The Future Of The Cloud

If you haven't heard about BitCasa yet, you are sure to be hearing about it soon. BitCasa is a cloud storage provider that offers UNLIMITED storage space at what will be minimal cost (it's free rig... read more

Why The Story of The Great A&P Matters Today

At the AIIM Conference 2012, I'll be discussing the lessons we can learn from a company whose prime had passed about 75 years ago. Why am I dredging up this company of yesteryear? Simply put, it is... read more

Visual Depiction of SharePoint 2010 (White Board Video)

Making sense of SharePoint 2010 by looking at it visually. Part one goes from Site Collections to Content Types, part two will go onward from Content Types. Hope you find this helpful! read more

Mapping Content Types & Metadata (White Board Video)

I created this quick white board tutorial to explain the relationship between content types and metadata (or columns). read more

AIIM Social Business Infographic

AIIM's Full Social Business Report can be found here: http://www.aiim.org/Research/Industry-Watch/Social-Business-2011 read more

A Few More Reasons To Attend AIIM Conference 2012 (#AIIM12)

1. The Pogue Factor David Pogue is a really funny guy, ridiculously clever. Not only will he entertain but the guy is really one of the smartest and most practical technical folks of our genera... read more

Will The Future Enterprise Computer Have No Hard Drive?

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I was talking the other day about how, when given the choice, your users will likely save their content to their local hard drive or their shared drive instead of SharePoint without some form or us... read more

Identification to Adoption: ''Can a company afford not to be on the cutting edge?''

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I recently attempted to answer a question on Quora about when Microsoft would be adding microblogging functionality to SharePoint “out of the box”. It really brought my attention back to something ... read more

Too Much Too Soon: Incremental Release Of SharePoint Functionality

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I’ve had a lot of offhand conversation about user adoption of SharePoint lately and what I’ve found is that when companies give all of the functionality of SharePoint at launch they struggle more w... read more

Excluding The Information Professional In SharePoint

There is a conversation that keeps repeating every time I'm speaking at a SharePoint event, it's the question of  "where do I fit in"? I'm usually put in the "Special Topics" section of the SharePo... read more

I Hate SharePoint Search Refiners.

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(EDITS: See Michael Pisarek's comments and follow up blog post below. I think the post still has merit with values changed, although probably not at the top of the to-do list in implementation with... read more

Are Cloud Applications The New Information Silos?

For the greater part of the last decade there has been consolidation among ECM vendors and this has been championed by the business community for the most part because prior to this consolidation w... read more

Death Of The End User

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Most popular SharePoint websites try to categorize their content based on the type of SharePoint user that comes to the website. This same categorization ends up applying to many SharePoint events ... read more

Why SharePoint Is Falling In Love With AIIM

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Since SharePoint 2010 was released, the expert community around SharePoint has received a massive influx of a different type of person than they were used to. These people have titles like Informat... read more

Governance Is Not An Issue In SharePoint / Not The Droids You Are Looking For

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“Governance is not an issue in SharePoint 2010... we have lots of customers doing it on a large scale.”   Thus declared Jeff Teper of Microsoft at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 K... read more

Scenes From A SharePoint Installation Process

Microsoft has done some brilliant marketing around SharePoint, they’ve managed to manipulate the very software approval process at many large organizations. To say “Bravo!” in their honor may be an... read more

Einstein on SharePoint

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“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” – Albert Einstein One of the main takeaways from this past weekend’s SharePoint Saturday The Conference in Annandale, VA i... read more

Upgrading SharePoint

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With most businesses running prior versions of SharePoint, I discuss the various methods of upgrading SharePoint. read more

Gremlins, Transformers, Coins & Why Your SharePoint Is Failing

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SharePoint has the ability to meet many business requirements but quite often it falls short. I see nearly every issue arising from SharePoint arising from two problems; they’re both different side... read more

Starting With SharePoint

SharePoint is both amazing and amazingly complex. What are your personal best practices for managing the initial deployment of SharePoint? read more

Is The Line Between Inside and Outside The Firewall Getting Blurry?

Is it just me or is the line between inside and outside of the firewall getting blurrier. As marketing and PR departments reach out via social media and employees are connecting on Facebook and Twi... read more

Positioning SharePoint in 140 Characters or less...

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Please excuse my formatting issues (Easier to read version here), but there was a terrific conversation on Twitter about SharePoint and it's position in the future that I wanted to bring to everyon... read more

Personal/Professional: What’s The Right Mix?

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In all social networks I’m a big advocate of blending the personal and professional. If you send me all updates about what your company is doing, I’m likely going to ignore you. Likewise, if it’s a... read more

Which Collaboration Are We Talking About?

In the AIIM Enterprise 2.0 course there is a discussion around 3 different approaches to collaboration: Interpersonal Content/Context Procedural In the Enterprise 2.0 sphe... read more

Enterprise 2.0 with Joomla

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For those of you who don’t know Joomla, it is an open source content management system. You can read more about it (and my review of it) in the Buyer’s Guide. I have used Joomla for years in buildi... read more

Productivity As A Driver For Enterprise 2.0

There are many business benefits for Enterprise 2.0 adoption, the primary among these (at least in the current economic environment) seems to me to be productivity. Alright, productivity may not be... read more

Pricing Models and What Drives The Decision

As I’ve been consulting companies of all sizes and talking to folks within many age groups I’ve started to see what may be a trend in regards to pricing model and ages. Older folks seem to have an ... read more

Avoiding Proprietary Formats Like The Plague (Scanning, DM)

I’m by no means an expert on the plague, I just want to take that off the table right away. I have, however, gotten stuck because of some company’s ridiculous proprietary format. When you get stuck... read more

Enterprise 2.0 In A Small Company

The company I work for is small, in the 1-25 employee category. We hardly qualify as an "Enterprise" but that hasn't meant that we haven't marched forward with our Enterprise 2.0 implementation and... read more