The latest issue of ARMA's Information Management Magazine is out. I have the lead article, "Taking the Lead in the Information Race". In it, I argue that records managers cannot watch the technology world fly by - instead, they have to actively develop and maintain their "technology chops" in order to remain relevant.

I had previously written about maturity models that have been introduced in the Enterprise Content and Records Management (ECRM) space in the last year.  As I indicated in that blog posting, we've used the Enterprise Content Management (ECM3) model with some of our clients (you can download the model at this link).  It seems to have more widespread usage since I last wrote about it, with the developers of the model indicating over

I have never attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference (www.e2conf.com), but I did monitor the backchannel via Twitter during the most recent conference in Boston last week.  If you haven’t used Twitter in this manner before, it’s a great way to monitor the discussions and happenings at an event. 

I was monitoring the hashtag #e2conf when I saw a tweet from Susan Scrupski (@ITSinsider):

I have a confession to make: I was an English major in college. Not only did I complete a B.A. in English Literature, but also an M.A. and half of a Ph.D. (definitely a story for another posting). There are two prompts for this sudden bout of self-transparency.