August 2009 

 


Welcome to the August installment of Infonomics. If you're reading this then you're not one of the lucky ones taking time off for some much needed rest and relaxation - we could all do with some of that these days! 

To cheer yourself up why not complete our next industry watch survey. You'll get free entry into our prize draw to win a Panasonic Digital Camera  - that should give you something to smile about.


Case Study Directory
Find, control and optimise your information - We've taken some of our own medicine this time, using the last few weeks to restructure content within our case study directory. We hope you'll find the experience more intuitive and be able to download some fresh new case studies submitted by our members and learn from the experience of others. GO> 


Latest Survey: "Records Management - how confident are we about discovery and long-term compliance?"

Managing electronic records is now a mainstream issue - particularly regarding legal vulnerabilities.
For a chance to win a Panasonic TZ7, we'd like to know about your problems, practices and policies in order to create and share the wisdom of the crowd.  Take the survey
 


Featured Whitepaper
According to Datafinity, more than 70% of companies believe that
a digital mailroom would play an important part in increasing the efficiency and success of their organisation. But what are the full range of benefits and how are they achieved? Download
 


Microsoft, Yahoo in Web search partnership
Microsoft and Yahoo  have launched a 10-year Web search deal to challenge market leader Google but stopped short of combining other advertising businesses or suggesting any deeper ties.
More Reuters


Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 - Work-meets-play or the future of business?
68% think that professional networking on the web is vital to career progression. LinkedIn is twice as popular as Facebook for business networking, with over 50% having an account.

As regards governance of usage and content, only 30% of companies have policies on blogs, forums and social networks, compared to 88% who have policies for email. Download the latest AIIM Market IQ Report
 


Paper - the legacy
Why do we like paper so much? Is there some genocode in our make up that inextricably binds us to paper? While we wait for some clever scientist to discover the link and maybe an enterprising pharmacist to develop anti-paper tablets we can take every morning, what do we do in the meantime?
Download the full whitepaper


It's a warzone
Microsoft is continuing its war with Google for internet dominance as it reveals the next version of its Office software will be available for free online. More Sky News


AIIM Training - Business Process Management (BPM)

Next Course
8th-11th September,
London, UK

Don't forget to take advantage of the current AIIM Training offer for summer courses. 30% discount is still available Click for Details

If you are interested in booking a place please contact Angela Hymas on +44 (0)1905 727600


Push for 'instant-on' web search
A company that provides "instant-on" computing will bring "instant search" to the PC for the first time.
More BBC News

Featured Whitepaper

Implementing a Digital Mailroom.

by Datafinity

 

Advisory Members

Our Advisory Members board will be meeting on the 9th October. If you are interested becoming and AIIM Trade Member click here

Webinar

Training Update

Download our 2009 wall planner

 
Updated with training dates and venues for Q3 and Q4 Click here

Market Research

AIIM Market Research - to help you benchmark your organisation. Topics include: ECM, Content Security, Findability, Enterprise 2.0, and Business Process Management.
 

Suppliers Directory

Working on an information management project? Need to know which suppliers or consultants to contact? Check out our new suppliers directory.


 

Infonomics Digital

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