In this article, EI Watch’s Jarrod Gingras explains how mass system adoption is the only real-world measure of any enterprise content management project’s success and suggests some practical steps that project managers can take to get their users on board.
“There are many ways to measure success of an information …
Continue reading »On 7th April 2010, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (EST), AIIM will host a webinar entitled “Information Preservation: Technologies that Work Today for Tomorrow”. The webinar, which is free to attend, will examine strategies for the preservation of information for long-term use and the technologies that are available to assist …
Continue reading »Loraine Lawson on IT Business Edge discusses why metadata simultaneously adds value to sets of data but also makes it more complex to integrate different data sets. She makes the comparrison between metadata and money:
“You know how they’re always comparing IT to utilities or the phone company? Well, it …
Continue reading »There is increasingly vocal opposition to the UK Digital Economy Bill. This article from copyrightaction.com discusses the ECL (Extended Copyright Licensing) provision included in the bill:
“Extended Collective Licensing, as enabled by S43 116B of the Digital Economy Bill, is perhaps the least understood aspect of the legislation. ECL …
Continue reading »In this article, CMS Wire’s Dux Raymond Sy explains how SharePoint’s site membership works and provides five main steps in the effective configuration and management of SharePoint’s user permissions.
“Managing user permissions in SharePoint can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, it empowers users to be responsible for defining …
Continue reading »In recent years, organisations must make sense of an rapidly increasing wealth of data on their customers, competitors and other business operations. In this article, The Economist’s Kenneth Cukier looks at the possibilities and pitfalls of this explosion in information.
“All these examples tell the same story: that the world …
Continue reading »In this article Rob Karel examines the reasons why, despite their paramount importance, so many metadata management strategies either fail or under deliver in organisations, and provides some practical steps for resuscitating a dying metadata initiative.
“There’s a reason for this unfortunate trend: a large number of IT professionals know …
Continue reading »An outrageous proposal in the UK Digital Economy Bill plans to undermine photographic copyright in the United Kingdom, it was revealed recently by the pressure group, Stop43.org.uk. Clause 43 of the proposed bill outlines plans to allow the use of photographs without the copyright owner’s knowledge or consent if …
Continue reading »In a recent statement to Arab newspaper, ‘The National’, Carlo Emanuele Bona, President of the Italian digital publishing consultancy Promedia, has revealed his own vision for the future of book publishing in the Middle East, namely digital asset management.
“In our opinion, every publisher should have a digital asset management …
Continue reading »In anticipation of the launch of SharePoint 2010 on 12th May this year, the Midwest SharePoint 2010 Conference to be held on April 15th in Milwaukee, promises to answer all your questions – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly! Attendees will also be eligible to win up to $5,000 …
Continue reading »A recent poll conducted by CMS Wire posed the question, “Is Your Organization Planning to Implement SharePoint 2010?” with some surprising results – namely that despite the hype, a significant percentage of respondents (36%) were not planning to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 following it’s imminent release in May. Of those …
Continue reading »Interest in HTML5 and in particular its support for video (bypassing the need for Flash and other non-native plugins) is gaining momentum. The status quo that has enabled Flash to assume the role of de facto video delivery method of choice looks set for a serious challenge with HTML5.
In …
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