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Maybe Seth Godin is right about publishing

My first reaction when I saw that Seth Godin was forgoing a publisher to develop, market and publish his own books was this: That's fine for Seth Godin. He's a well-known, best-selling author. He has... Read more...

The web is alive, I tell you! Alive!

Last week Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine and famous author of The Long Tail, wrote a compelling piece of link bait called "The Web is dead." Anderson's hypothesis was that apps like those... Read more...

The undeniable influence of SharePoint 2010

Some people love SharePoint. Some people hate it. But however you feel about it, you can't deny its influence on the market. When SharePoint 2010 was released in the spring, you could hear the bang... Read more...

The eBook market finally gets a $99 reader

Regular readers of this column may recall that just about a year ago on Sept 8, 2009, I wrote a post called: Forrester confirms eBook reader price must drop substantially. At the time, I wrote how a... Read more...

Managing bad or embarrassing content is tricky

I was on vacation for the past several weeks and it feels good to be back in the swing of things. While I was gone I came across this New York Times article on the issues related to the long tail of... Read more...

Top content management stories so far in 2010

I'm about to head out on a three week hiatus from FierceContentManagement. My colleague, Sharon Fisher will be taking over in my absence and keeping the home fires burning while I'm gone. As I... Read more...

IT can't control information flow forever

I recently responded to a problem posted on one of my social networks about sharing files between home and work. I suggested the person use Dropbox. I was a bit shocked to learn that the person's IT... Read more...

The conspicuous absence of ECM at Enterprise 2.0

As regular readers are no doubt aware, I spent a good part of last week catching up on all things Enterprise 2.0 at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. For a subject that deals with a... Read more...

The attack of the huge Enterprise 2.0 vendors

A funny thing happened at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston between last year and this year. All of a sudden larger vendors have discovered this space in a big way and it's changed the... Read more...

Time for Enterprise 2.0 to grow up

I'll be attending my third Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston next week. It's a great conference and I always learn a lot, but I hope the conference is moving forward this year. MIT professor... Read more...

The year of the tablet

Unless you've been living under a rock this year, you know about the phenomenal success of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. Peter Kafka reports on the All Things Digital blog that Apple has sold 2... Read more...

Records management could be moving to the cloud

Last week I wrote about some broad trends causing major shifts in the ECM market (in "Could we be witnessing the end of ECM as we've known it"). Tony Byrne from Real Story Group reacted to my piece... Read more...

Are we witnessing the end of ECM as we've known it?

"It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine." ~REM, It's the end of the world It's been a wacky couple of weeks in the ECM world, hasn't it? Even those who follow the industry as closely... Read more...

Content still makes the world go around

Last week I looked at the growing influence of mobile content. This week I want to look at the increasing importance of quality content on your company's marketing and brand image. I'm seeing more... Read more...

Mobile content takes center stage

Mobile devices have exploded in the last couple of years. Whether we are talking about the wide-spread proliferation of cheaper smartphones, the new iPad (and the upcoming line of wannabes) or even... Read more...

Most data shouldn't have an unlimited life

One thing is clear: There's lots of data out there and it's only going to grow. The question then becomes: What do we do with it and how to do we manage it? Lately, I've heard some people suggest... Read more...

Optimism returns at AIIM 2010

"Information doesn't manage itself. It never will."~Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Real Story Group Analyst I spent part of this week visiting AIIM 2010 and I sensed a distinctly different mood from the gloom... Read more...

Time for Apple and Adobe to bury the hatchet on Flash

The whole Apple-Adobe Flash battle took an ugly turn last week when Apple announced its new iPhone OS 4.0 and some interpreted the language in the developer's agreement to ban the use of Flash... Read more...

iPad could have enterprise value (but not how you think)

There's been a lot of debate this week about the iPad's utility in the enterprise. My colleague Lynnette Luna had a column this week on how the iPad is speeding up the "consumerization" of the... Read more...

AIIM 2010 preview

Welcome to the AIIM 2010 Preview Issue. This year's conference will mark AIIM's second year in Philadelphia. Last year's show took place under the shadow of a massive recession. This year, as we... Read more...