Most organizations don’t manage their email very well – and there are a number of white papers out there about how to archive everything, or how to manage email messages as records, or the value of outsourcing email, etc. But very few of them address the reason why email is so out of control – us! Most of us don’t use email very effectively, whether on an individual message basis or in managing our inboxes. So the focus of this post is on steps you can take to be more effective in how you manage your email.

I always suspected my coffee habit would lead me down a dark path.

AIIM, the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information, released an E-Book this week titled "8 things you wanted to know about SharePoint, but were afraid to ask."  You can find a summary of the book at this link.

With the widespread interest in and adoption of email management and archiving systems , a couple of observations can be made.