You’ve likely heard of Snapchat, the beloved app of teenagers (and others) for sending disappearing selfies. Â And you’ve likely discounted this popular service (which sends approximately 400M photos/day) as appealing only to consumers. But wait . . . there’s evidence that the vendor community is already developing corporate equivalents of Snapchat’s disappearing functionality that may
For many years, most organizations have had policies governing employees’ use of e-mail (e.g. no political solicitations, no profanity, etc.) and the Internet (e.g. don’t download or share information that’s offensive, illegal, discriminatory, etc.). And many organizations are in the process of implementing policies to guide employees on what organizational information/data can (and cannot) be
Information management practitioners are familiar with metadata (or data about data) in the context of records.  It is one of many tools that can be used to identify and categorize information, thus making it easier and faster to find in the future. Records metadata is a useful tool which doesn’t get a lot of attention. But metadata
(Please note: Some cartoons originally posted in this article caused some technical difficulties, so they have been temporarily removed and replaced with links. Hopefully we will be able to restore the original images soon.) I’m always on the look out for humourous cartoons to use in training materials and the Dilbert comic strip by Scott
Is E-Mail obsolete? This question seems to be everywhere these days.  Marc Zukerberg (CEO of Facebook) made this prediction in 2011, possibly based on his assumption that Facebook will ultimately replace everything.  However, some trends do appear to support the idea, such as studies from tech analyst firm ComScore which found that email use by teenagers
The Toronto Star recently profiled Form-Mate, the last carbon paper manufacturer in Canada. Like most people, I haven’t used carbon paper for many years. In fact, many younger people have probably never encountered this relic from our typewriter generation at all, or experienced the original, pre-email version of  “cc:” (“carbon copy”).  Before we had the “print
Traditionally, you’d show up to a meeting toting a paper notebook in which you’d jot down comments, ideas, decisions, and action items. Then, after most meetings, you’d return to your desk and transcribe your notes, issue e-mails re: action items, and maybe update some electronic resources (e.g. a wiki) with information from the meeting. And if you were the
I’ve been reading a lot recently about social media and collaboration tools and came across an interesting article in a Harvard Business Review blog (HBR Blog Network) about social collaboration within organizations. Brad Power, a consultant and researcher on process innovation, recently published an article entitled “How Collaboration Tools Can Improve Knowledge Work” which discusses the benefits of internal,
For this month’s issue of Information Management Journal (IMJ) I reviewed Dr. Nick Bontis’ book “Information Bombardment: Rising Above the Digital Onslaught” Â This book is written for a mass audience, and I address it from an information management perspective.
While presenting in Ottawa last week at the Infonex seminar, Managing E-records in Canada’s Public Sector, I attended a presentation by Lewis Eisen.  A former practising lawyer and a former IT systems manager, Lewis is currently the Manager of Records Management Services at Industry Canada. Entitled “Improving Collaboration Among IM, IT, and Legal Professionals“, Lewis explored the challenges that
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