When it comes to being able to use work content when they want; many of us break the law (OK, just your company’s IT law and who cares about those guys, right? Productivity-blocking, anti-social, slow – you get the idea). A brief stat from AIIM research illustrates this point: “30% are seeing increasing use of unofficial cloud content management and file shares. Only 5% have an “official” cloud-based option. 19% prevent access to non-approved sites.” Or, just think about yourself or your co-workers – have you used Gmail to circumvent file size limitation in your Outlook inbox? Used Dropbox or Box for the same reason? And, by now, we’ve all emailed files to our home computers to be able to work on them at night or on the weekend. Four years ago, I published an article “Content on the Edge” that talked about some of these issues.
Since then, smartphone and tablet use has exploded and we want to, sometimes, be able to work on those platforms too (as opposed to mostly just accessing email “way back then”).
So how do you provide access to content wherever, whenever workers want it? How do you do it without creating more content silos? Governance policies?
Let’s #infochat about it Thursday, January 24 at 11.
Questions
I haven’t settled on an official questions list yet. Suggestions? Send to me at bduhon@aiim.org.
What’s a Tweet Jam
Musicians jam together by riffing off of a common theme; playing off of each other to create something unique and learning from each other as they do. With Twitter, we can do the same, 140 characters at a time. A tweet jam is a fast-paced conversation around a topic. It is simply a time and a place to gather on Twitter around a hashtag topic and learn from each other. Anyone can ask, or answer, a question.
What’s the AIIM Infochat (#infochat)?
Simple really: managing information (well) is, to understate it, somewhat complex. We want to get together regularly (look for a schedule soon), kick around ideas/strategy/tips/suggestions/tools/trends, and emerge a little bit more knowledgeable at the other end of the hour. While we know it’s only 140 characters at a time, we want to generate questions and discussions about how to REALLY make the business processes work
How Do I “Watch?”
It’s easy. Log in to Twitter (or your favorite Twitter front end; I like Hootsuite). Then use the hashtag #infochat to follow the discussion. The best way I’ve found to follow one of these is tweetchat.com. Sign in using your twitter handle, type #infochat into the box at the top of the screen, and tweetchat will follow the discussion – best of all, without you having to remember to put in the hashtag every time you write a new tweet.
#Collaboration