This month marks the end of our second year of providing a ridiculous amount of information about an extremely narrow subject to a very limited number of people – making us unquestionably the number one island-themed SharePoint Records and Information Management blog on the internet.  We just want to take a brief moment to wish ourselves [...]

Without question, one of the most important new SharePoint 2010 features is ‘managed metadata’.  This is certainly true for SharePoint-based Records Management, but also true for Enterprise Content Management, Information Lifecycle Management and search optimization, as well.  Microsoft defines managed metadata as ‘a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define and then [...]

So I just finished the new AIIM SharePoint Practitioner course.  I took it online, rather than in the two-day classroom training.  I have to tell you, I thought it was an excellent course.  There’s a clear ECM focus (this is AIIM, after all), but it’s really a very balance course, helping you understand what SharePoint [...]

Mike Alsup has been a recognized thought leader in the ECM/RM field since before it was actually considered a ‘field’.  Over the years, Mike (and the companies he has founded) did some groundbreaking consulting work with virtually all of the major content management applications on the market.  Like most industry visionaries, Mike recognizes the significant impact SharePoint [...]