Michael Sampson, a Collaboration Strategist in New Zealand, has a short survey on his website asking people what they are using SharePoint for in their organizations.  He posted some in-progress results after a handful of people have responded to the survey.

I was reading a blog post by Seth Godin last week.  In upstream and downstream, Seth talked about how most people just think of their job as a set of tasks that takes place in a box.  He suggests that if we go upstream of what happens in our box and alter the stuff that comes to us, it is a lot easier to do great work.  He further suggests that if we go downstream and teach

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?

An article from the e-Disclosure Information Project titled "SharePoint 2010 is the next dumping ground for lawyers to understand" caught my attention this week.  While the article was about a product to help organizations deal with e-discovery specifically for content stored in SharePoint, I was drawn to the notion of governance for managing information is still an afterthought in many technology implementations.

I was reading a blog posting today pointed out on Twitter titled "SharePoint is Causing Information Management Problems."  The article was pointing out how information in dead SharePoint project sites is basically lost to the organization.

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 was recently reading a blog posting from Chuck Hollis, VP Global Marketing for EMC Corporation.  His blog post was titled, "Does Your Organization Invest in IT?"

International Data Corporation (IDC), the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets, recently announced that the Software Storage Market experienced solid growth in the first quarter of 2010 (1Q10) with a 7.2% growth rate when compared with the same quarter last year (see press release). 

I read a blog post this week titled "...and then the consultants leave" by Andrew Crow.  It really caused me to pause and think about what do I leave behind for my clients after an engagement is finished.