I had the privilege of being the featured speaker in a recent AIIM webinar titled "Email Management for Today's Modern Business Needs".

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.

We've all seen the blog posts, tweets and reminiscences, telling tales of how exotic and different SharePoint is from other systems. Difficult to manage, hard to understand, impossible to tame. While these statements do show up in tech circles, it is very common for non-technologists, non-IT folks, to recount them. But are they fair characterizations?

Not to intentionally steal the tag line from Randy Kahn's blog, but Are You Kidding Me?  How many times do we need to debate that keeping data forever is not beneficial to a company in almost any circumstance?