Paperfree Day: Tweet jam to share ideas -

World Paperfree Day: Tweet Jam Join us on October 21 from 11-12:30 EST for a tweet jam focused on decreasing (eliminating?) our reliance on paper.

What’s a Tweet Jam
Musicians jam together by riffing off of a common theme; playing off of each other to create something unique and learning from each other as they do. With Twitter, we can do the same, 140 characters at a time. A Tweet Jam is a fast-paced conversation around a topic. simply a time and a place to gather on Twitter around a hashtag topic and learn from each other. Anyone can ask, or answer, a question.

What’s the AIIM Paperfree Jam (#wpfd)?
Simple really: we want everyone to share ideas about how to become more efficient as a business while removing environmentally harmful paper. Your business gets a boost. The planet gets a break. While we know it’s only 140 characters at a time, We want to generate questions and discussions about how to REALLY make a less-paper or paperfree world a reality. We will have questions lined up to kick-start the conversation (our draft list is below). Have a question? Respond to this post, send me a tweet (either @aiimcommunity or @bduhon), or email me at bduhon@aiim.org. Can’t think of any? Join us on October 21 and let the conversation spark ideas for you.

How Do I “Watch?”
It’s easy. Log in to Twitter (or your favorite Twitter front end; I like Hootsuite). Then use the hashtag: #wpfd to follow the discussion. To more easily follow the discussion, you can set up a separate column in Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, or something similar and use #wpfd as your search term. You can also use tweetchat.com (thanks to Steve Radick for the suggestion). Sign in using your twitter handle, type #wpfd into the box at the top of the screen, and tweetchat will follow the discussion – best of all, without you having to remember to put in the hashtag every time you write a new tweet.

* What's so bad about using paper for business?
* Why is it so difficult to get rid of paper in an org?
* Will the paperfree office ever come?
* What will it take to use less paper?
* What is the impact of smart phones/mobile devices on not needing paper any longer?
* What can tablets teach us about the future of paper?
* Is manual indexing what kills a good capture solution?
* PDF or Tiff, - does it really matter?
*ePresentment and Doc Composition tools can help in cutting down paper. Can we discuss in how many ways? (via email from Atanu Prasad Sarma)
* ?????? Your question here

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Submitted by Atanu Sarma October 05, 2010 - 11:04 PM

great idea..but can you please let me know what is the time frame?

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Submitted by Jessica Lombardo October 07, 2010 - 3:21 PM

October 21 from 11-12:30 EST

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Submitted by Chris Riley, ECMp, IOAp October 06, 2010 - 7:00 PM

I will get in my most spastic multi-tasking mood to be the best panelist I can be!

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Submitted by Michael Benayoun October 07, 2010 - 10:38 AM

With more and more organizations slowly but surely reducing and eliminating their reliance on paper, can we expect the scanning business (hardware and software vendors, integrators, etc) to become extinct in the next 10-20 years?

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Submitted by Ulrich Kampffmeyer October 08, 2010 - 4:35 AM

Hello everybody and thanks for the first set of possible questions.

We will discuss similar as well in a panel discussion in Stuttgart (http://www.DMSEXPO.de) on October WPFD 28th, 2010 (Please make sure in all communications that the tweetjam is one week before the 28th because some people already are mixing up the dates for the tweetjam and the WPFD itself).

There are some other questions, I will probably post to you in our tweetjam:

* will pads and electronic media kill the newspaper and books on paper?

* what is the real balance with green IT - growing natural ressources like wood versus electricity from firing oil, coal and other non-renewable ressources (yes this must be shortened and fitting to less than 140 characters + #WPFD ...)

* what can I personally do on WPFD to save unnecessary paper?

* what can everybody do to promote the use of electronic information management on WPFD to create more awaress?

* what is the impact of the dependency on electronic media when all paper is gone and power supplies break down?

* how are electronic media changing our behavior, our usage of information, and already our genes?

* can an electronic device ever replace the subtle tactile feeling of soft paper and turning the pages manually?

a.s.o.

Kidn regards,

Ulrich Kampffmeyer

#WPFD in Germany on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=132400980119575

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Submitted by Sheree Savo October 08, 2010 - 2:10 PM

Looking forward to the JAM. Want to intro myself 1st as I am very passionate on this topic. Company I am: InfoPreserve. We sell our SaaS to many Law Firms, their clients, MHR, RHIO's etc. Problem we solve for everyone is Authentication of ER, Insurance against both SW / HW adolescence & we embed an RM feature. Plus FRCP amended in 2006, stating docs born digitally must be presented in native format as required.... Plus we ELIMINATE PAPER. All our clients used to print volumes & send to physical storage.. no more www.infopreserve.com

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Submitted by Nish Shah October 13, 2010 - 4:13 PM

This is a great idea. I have been in the paperless indurstry for 15 years or so started out with just eliminating paper forms and filling them out electronically and slowly introduced, Ad-HoC workfliw, WorkFlow, Digitized Signatures, Digital Signatures and now extend those solutions on iPad and other devices that are coming. I truly belive that most of the industry and companies that process documents in paper or scan them into some type of imaging system were born digital and at some point it became paper.

We need to show how those documents can remain digital no matter what channel and how they can be processed electronically until it gets to it's final destination. As we say at iMM, reduce operating cost by streamlining paper based process into electronic.

Thanks

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Submitted by Cris Puccia October 13, 2010 - 4:54 PM

I recently became a marketing assistant at an Upstate NY document management company. It is a very interesting industry to enter into, and there is so much information to learn!

I'm excited to participate in the Tweet Jam and learn more from the experts in this industry.

Thanks!

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Submitted by Kapil Om December 07, 2010 - 5:19 AM

A new service "kleeto" in the same context is being launched for the first time in India

>> http://www.facebook.com/kleetoindia <<

kleeto has the vision to create a green, paperless world and is founded with the aim of simplifying the process of storage of documents – online and offline. It is the First ever Document Management Service in India that takes your documents to safe storage, gives you online access of your documents and provides quick retrieval

Like the facebook page to know more : http://www.facebook.com/kleetoindia

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