Here are some headline points from our just released SharePoint and ECM survey. Just as a reminder, downloading the survey results is free, but you do need to register on the site. SharePoint and ECM survey highlights: Only 8% of SharePoint users have completed their upgrade to the 2010 version, whereas 21% are deploying 2010 as a first use. Of these 6% are live. 28% are in the process of upgrading from 2007 to 2010. Half of the user base expects to be live on 2010 by the end of 2011. 36% of responding organizations consider they have SharePoint “in use across the enterprise for content management.” Included are 11% with no other content systems, 19% running unconnected ECM/DM/RM systems running in parallel and just 6% who have SharePoint fully integrated with other systems. A third of organizations have 90-100% of active users with licensed access, predicted to grow to over half in 12 months time. IT is by far the most advanced department for adoption and use, followed by Line-of-Business – likely reflecting the widespread use for project management. The IT department is in charge of SharePoint in all but 28% of organizations. Only 17% have a representative governance…

I’m a big fan of the MarketingProfs web site and am currently reading the book Content Rules by Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman. Content Rules is well worth reading for anyone who cares about web and social content. The book contains a list that caught my eye (and per the authors, was influenced by one of my favorite books from high school days , Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style). The list is 18 words or phrases that should be banned from marketing, sales, corporate communications, business schools, blogs, and boardrooms. (In the interests of true confession, I am personally not entirely innocent in the use of these words; but I will be now on.) Here are the 18… Impactful Leverage Learnings Synergy Revolutionary Email blast Proactive Drill down 30,000 feet Incentivizing Almost any word ending in -ize Solution Users Almost any word rooted in technology but applied to humans (e.g.,ping, bandwidth, offline) Previously good but now overused words (e.g., robust, granular, strategic, traction) Mashed together words (e.g., buy-in, mission-critical, best-of-breed) Silly phrases (e.g., “run it up the flagpole,” “eat our own dog food,” “out of pocket”) Offensive combo phrases (e.g., “brand Nazi,” “drinking the kool-aid”) Which got me…

We’re looking for organizations interested in being trainers for the upcoming AIIM Information certification. Background is in the presentation below. If the embed doesn’t show up in your reader, click directly on this link – http://www.slideshare.net/norwiz/new-information-certification. Those interested should contact Atle Skjekkeland. New Information Certification View more presentations from Atle Skjekkeland

Here was the lead story on the morning news … “The Alaska governor’s office, which is handling the release, is distributing a total of 132 boxes on Friday and another 18 boxes on Monday to news outlets, several state offices and state legislators who requested them and paid the more than $700 copying fee for each set of documents.” OK, let me get this straight. The Alaska governor’s office is taking digital information and turning it into paper instead of just releasing the information in digital form. Sigh. So is it safe to assume then that the official record of these email communications is the paper version? Sigh. And also safe to assume that all the metadata associated with these communications is of no interest? Sigh. And to make things even nuttier, the Washington Post is reportedly looking for 100 volunteers to crowdsource finding juicy paper needles in this paper haystack. For information THAT WAS IN DIGITAL FORM TO BEGIN WITH. Sigh. As I have said many times in presentations, continuing to apply paper based assumptions to digital information that is further and further removed from paper is like asking a blacksmith to fix my sports car. Sigh. I wish…