Blogs

AIIM asked me to relocate my Community blogging from the ERM Community to the SharePoint Community.  This was fine from my viewpoint, because my Gimmal colleague, Dr. Susan Cisco, has joined the ERM Community and she has forgotten more about records management than I will ever know. 

Also, this allows me the opportunity to make a statement of purpose.  I hope to provide an additional perspective on SharePoint and the enterprise content and records management markets from the perspective of a longtime ECM and RM participant. I believe in knowledgeable professionals working with other knowledgeable professionals to define and share best practices. My posts are intended to move this process forward. They are independent of my employer, Gimmal Group, and I am solely responsible for their contents. I believe that all knowledge is made better through discussion and debate. I welcome comments and scathing remarks.

I am the Founder and a Sr. Vice President of Gimmal Group, Inc., a leading ECM systems integrator.  Additional information is available at www.gimmal.com.  Previously, I was involved in the founding and growth of Align Solutions and BSG Consulting and held management positions at Accenture and Booz, Allen & Hamilton.

I made a number of SharePoint related posts while a member of the ERM Community:

SharePoint 2010 Capabilities and Best Practices

I responded to a post from James Lappin on the capabilities and scalability of SharePoint 2010 Records Management.  His post was interesting and that it gave me the context to address some of the capabilities and issues we are seeing on our SharePoint 2010 RM projects.

Hiring an ECM Consultant in the Age of SharePoint

This blog post focused on the differences in ECM and RM consulting in SharePoint compared to the traditions of ECM and RM consulting. 

EBS and SharePoint RM

Here is a post on the relationship of External Blob Storage and SharePoint RM.

Here is a series of articles we wrote in AIIM’s Infonomics Magazine on SharePoint. 

Change Management and SharePoint

Here is an article that Gimmal’s Karen Strong wrote on Change Management and SharePoint.

Taking out the Etrash

Two Gimmal colleagues, Dr. Susan Cisco and Brad Teed, wrote a column on deleting content from SharePoint in a compliant way.  This expanded on a column in the ARMA online publications on deleting electronic content in a compliant way. 

The Classification and Retention of Content in SharePoint

Two Gimmal colleagues, Dr. Susan Cisco and Jonathan Brandenburg described the relationship between the classification and retention of SharePoint content by users and the retrieval of content to satisfy business and legal requirements.

SharePoint Enterprise Information Lifecycles

Here is a column on enterprise information lifecycles and their relationship to content governance on SharePoint sites.

SharePoint, ECM, and RM - an Introduction 

Here was an introductory column on SharePoint and its impact on the ECM and RM markets.