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Auto Classification of Records
Doug Schultz Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 8:57am

I was reading an article this morning on InsideCousel about Auto Classification of Records.  The main point of the article was that employees cannot keep up with the amount of electronic content created each year if they need to manually classifiy records.  While not perfect, auto classification may allow for "good enough" retention with little effort by employees for most organizations.

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Content management | Discovery | Electronic records | Information management | Records management | Technology
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Content Chaos - An InformationWeek Survey
Doug Schultz Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 9:06am

A colleague pointed me to a recent article from InformationWeek titled Content Chaos (Available here but registration is required).   The article is based on a survey of 425 business technology professionals in July 2011.  I found a couple of the survey results interesting.

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Content management | Electronic records | Information management | Technology
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How Are Businesses Using SharePoint?
Doug Schultz Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 8:07am

I have referenced previous surveys from Global360 (Now an OpenText company) on how organizations are using SharePoint.  My last blog post on that topic can be found here.

The data from their most recent survey (September 2011) was recently published and presented at the SharePoint User Conference.

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SharePoint | Technology
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Personal Computing Device Usage in Corporations Continues to Grow
Doug Schultz Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 8:05am

International Data Corporation (IDC) and Unisys have previously released a report on the Consumerization of IT based on surveys of IT Managers and information workers. 

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Social media | Technology
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New Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey
Doug Schultz Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 5:36pm

Symantec, the vendor that helps organizations and consumers secure and manage their information, recently released a new report that shows some changes in the top items requested during eDiscovery. 

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Discovery | Electronic records | Email management | Knowledge management | Technology
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AIIM Email Management Webinar
Doug Schultz Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 10:24am
I had the privilege of being the featured speaker in a recent AIIM webinar titled "Email Management for Today's Modern Business Needs".

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Email management | Information management | Records management | Social media
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Using SharePoint for ECM
Doug Schultz Tuesday, July 5, 2011 - 7:21am
AIIM released a new Industry Watch study last week that discussed user experiences of SharePoint as an ECM application. It drilled into several areas to determine how well it was meeting expectations of users...

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Collaboration | Content management | Governance | Information management | SharePoint
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Am I Wasting My Time Organizing Email?
Doug Schultz Friday, June 24, 2011 - 1:09pm

I came across a recent study by IBM Research that asks “Am I wasting my time organizing email? A study of email refinding”.  The study of 345 users was contrasting the results of finding emails later between 2 groups of users - those who spend considerable effort creating folder structures and filing emails and those who rely on the alternative methods of finding emails such as search and threading.

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Email management
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Information Management Trends
Doug Schultz Monday, June 13, 2011 - 8:22am

Iron Mountain released the results of a survey last week that had some interesting data points.  The survey was conducted earlier in the year and included responses from over 5,500 professionals in mid-sized companies in the UK.

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Content management | Discovery | Electronic records | Information management | Records management
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MER Conference 2011
Doug Schultz Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 8:45am

It was my pleasure to attend the Managing Electronic Records (MER) conference this year. Access Sciences was one of 17 companies invited to exhibit.  In this blog posting, I will offer some perspectives and observations on what some of the best minds in records and information management focused on.

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Content management | Discovery | Electronic records | Information management | Records management | SharePoint
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