Digital Landfill http://www.digitallandfill.org/ Latest data, trends, and statistics on content management and social business, scanning, BPM, SharePoint and ECM from AIIM President John Mancini -- home of "8 things" Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:44:42 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 38.977109-77.385278www.aiim.typepad.comhttp://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifECM Industry Watch Today We Released Andy McAfee's 3 reports on Social Technologies and Business Process http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/UXaRCeZI68A/today-we-released-andy-mcafees-3-reports-on-social-technologies-and-business-process.html http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/today-we-released-andy-mcafees-3-reports-on-social-technologies-and-business-process.html The three reports can be downloaded directly from the AIIM web site (you need to login, but they are free) at THIS LINK. Here's the press release... New Research Shows That Enterprise Social Technology Gets Work Done Research scientist Andrew McAfee and the AIIM Task Force track the adoption rate of social business and reveal social business/Enterprise 2.0 best practices for three key business engagement models Silver Spring, Md., January 25, 2012 - AIIM, the global community of information professionals, today announced the release of a three-part white paper series, titled “When Social Meets Business Real Work Gets Done” authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the AIIM Task Force on Social Business and Innovation. The research, conducted over the past six months, revealed that companies are realizing significant, measurable benefit from the adoption of social technologies in the areas of marketing and sales, open innovation and enterprise Q&A, which is defined as the capability to let people ask and answer questions companywide. Despite the growth of external social networks for personal use, the adoption of similar social business technologies has lagged. Based on this new research, businesses may want... The three reports can be downloaded directly from the AIIM web site (you need to login, but they are free) at THIS LINK.  

Here's the press release...

New Research Shows That Enterprise Social Technology Gets Work Done

Research scientist Andrew McAfee and the AIIM Task Force track the adoption rate of social business and reveal social business/Enterprise 2.0 best practices for three key business engagement models

 

Silver Spring, Md., January 25, 2012 - AIIM, the global community of information professionals, today announced the release of a three-part white paper series, titled “When Social Meets Business Real Work Gets Done” authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the AIIM Task Force on Social Business and Innovation.

The research, conducted over the past six months, revealed that companies are realizing significant, measurable benefit from the adoption of social technologies in the areas of marketing and sales, open innovation and enterprise Q&A, which is defined as the capability to let people ask and answer questions companywide. Despite the growth of external social networks for personal use, the adoption of similar social business technologies has lagged.

Based on this new research, businesses may want to re-consider this “wait and see” approach toward social business. The key findings included: 

  • More than 60 percent of firms who did invest in collaborative frameworks achieved big gains in knowledge sharing and communication accuracy between marketing and sales.
  • Open innovation delivers beneficial changes to both internal processes and external products, and is meeting the expectations of its sponsors. Open innovation helped realize major changes to the internal processes of 48 percent of responders and to the external offerings of 34 percent of responders.
  • A 60 percent satisfaction rate was reported for organizations with a rewards-based enterprise-wide Q&A. Respondents said high-quality answers often come from unexpected sources indicating that social tools are cultivating advanced knowledge sharing. 

“All three areas addressed by the Task Force demonstrate that when people engage properly with each other and with technology, trust, self-organization, and good business results emerge," says Dr. McAfee. “The three use cases are true examples of social business because they depend on people with strong, weak and potential ties to organize their own workflows, roles and credentials."

Recommendations include “socializing” marketing and sales assets to reduce search costs and redundant work; focusing open innovation environments to improve both products and processes; and adopting enterprise Q&A structures that are frictionless to remove company-wide communication hurdles.

"We are clearly moving into a new phase in social technologies, one in which the critical success factor
will be the integration of social technologies into key organizational processes,” according to AIIM President, John Mancini. “The end objective should not be to simply set up social networks inside our organizations, but to actually make our organizations social. There is still a lot of work to be done to fulfill this potential, but the three use cases suggest that significant progress is happening inside business."

The “When Social Meets Business Real Work Gets Done” research papers on Connecting Sales and Marketing, Fostering Innovation and Enterprise Q&A are available to the public for download at: http://www.aiim.org/SocialMeetsBusiness.

Led by Andrew McAfee, the task force, launched in June 2011, included 18 executives from social business and content management companies. Its mandate was to study the implementation of social technologies in business and focus on three areas demonstrating success. The research included survey data published in the recent AIIM Industry Watch on Social Business Systems - Success Factors for Enterprise 2.0 Application. This 2011 Task Force built upon the 2010 Task Force, led by Geoffrey Moore, that resulted in the ground-breaking paper “Systems of Engagement and the Future of Enterprise IT”, named in Forbes as the “Best Social Media Idea of 2011”.

About Andrew McAfee
Andrew McAfee (http://www.andrewmcafee.org) is a Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Digital Business, part of the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, MA. McAfee is a researcher, writer, and teacher about technology’s impact on the world of business. His book, Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for your Organization’s Toughest Challenges was published in late 2009 by Harvard Business Publishing.

About AIIM

AIIM has been an advocate and supporter of information professionals for nearly 70 years. The association mission is to ensure that information professionals understand the current and future challenges of managing information assets in an era of social, mobile, cloud and big data. Founded in 1943, AIIM builds on a strong heritage of research and member service. Today, AIIM is a global, non-profit organization that provides independent research, education and certification programs to information professionals. AIIM represents the entire information management community, with programs and content for practitioners, technology suppliers, integrators and consultants.

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McAfee and AIIM Task Force Findings
 
]]> Web 2.0 John Mancini Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:44:42 -0500 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/today-we-released-andy-mcafees-3-reports-on-social-technologies-and-business-process.html Why we need Information Professionals http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/C195_Xlvh5I/why-we-need-information-professionals.html http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/why-we-need-information-professionals.html Per IDC's Digital Universe report, "Although the amount of information in the Digital Universe will grow by a factor of 44, and the number of containers or files will grow by a factor of 67 from 2009 to 2020, the number of IT professionals in the world will grow only by a factor of 1.4." That's why we need Information Professionals. ----- New Information Certification View more presentations from Atle Skjekkeland Per IDC's Digital Universe report, "Although the amount of information in the Digital Universe will grow by a factor of 44, and the number of containers or files will grow by a factor of 67 from 2009 to 2020, the number of IT professionals in the world will grow only by a factor of 1.4."

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Did you see my conversation with Ken Bisconti from IBM on the Future of Social Content?  Ken on the AIIM CIP -- "Anyone in IT or in an information related discipline today should be thinking about it." 

 

 

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We also spend a bit of time talking about the AIIM Certified Information Professional program. Details here. Per Ken on the CIP program, "Anyone in IT or in an information related discipline today should be thinking about it." 

Here's the direct link for those who get this via email and don't allow embedded content.

A Conversation with Lenny Liebmann and Ken Bisconti.

Watch live streaming video from ibmsoftware at livestream.com
]]> John Mancini Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:26:37 -0500 IBMhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/aiim-and-ibm-on-the-future-of-social-content.html User ID-10-T error by Editor http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/i2PEZ3jROrU/user-id-10-t-error-by-editor.html http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/user-id-10-t-error-by-editor.html For those Digital Landfill subscribers who get my weekly email update, my apologies that the last few issues have had the same subject line. I would like to say this is because of some complicated issue, but the simple truth is that it was a User ID-10-T error by the editor relative to some Mail Chimp settings (the email host). Thanks! For those Digital Landfill subscribers who get my weekly email update, my apologies that the last few issues have had the same subject line.

I would like to say this is because of some complicated issue, but the simple truth is that it was a User ID-10-T error by the editor relative to some Mail Chimp settings (the email host).

Thanks!

 

 

]]> John Mancini Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:14:21 -0500 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/user-id-10-t-error-by-editor.html #Kodak and the Tidal Wave of Digital Technologies http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/iy9ni-MLMJ8/kodak-and-the-tidal-wave-of-digital-technologies.html http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/kodak-and-the-tidal-wave-of-digital-technologies.html News of the Kodak (NYSE:EK) Chapter 11 filing is obviously creating ripples throughout the mainstream press. But closer to home, as one of the founders of both AIIM (back in the NMA days) and as an icon in the document management industry, Kodak’s filing highlights for me the challenges implicit for any organization as they try to navigate the complicated waters of the digital age. [Editor’s note: as neither a legal nor a financial genius, please cut me a bit of slack me as I think through the implications of the filing for our industry.] Here’s how I understand what is going on. First, here’s some information straight from a microsite that Kodak has set up to discuss the reorganization. (Additional information can be found at http://www.Kodaktransforms.com.) On January 19, 2012, Eastman Kodak Company and its U.S. subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 business reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The business reorganization will enable Kodak to bolster liquidity in the U.S. and abroad, monetize non-strategic intellectual property, fairly resolve legacyliabilities, and enable the Company to focus on its most valuable business lines. Non-U.S. subsidiaries are not part of the filings, are... News of the Kodak (NYSE:EK) Chapter 11 filing is obviously creating ripples throughout the mainstream press. But closer to home, as one of the founders of both AIIM (back in the NMA days) and as an icon in the document management industry, Kodak’s filing highlights for me the challenges implicit for any organization as they try to navigate the complicated waters of the digital age.

[Editor’s note: as neither a legal nor a financial genius, please cut me a bit of slack me as I think through the implications of the filing for our industry.]

Here’s how I understand what is going on.

First, here’s some information straight from a microsite that Kodak has set up to discuss the reorganization. (Additional information can be found at http://www.Kodaktransforms.com.)

On January 19, 2012, Eastman Kodak Company and its U.S. subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 business reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The business reorganization will enable Kodak to bolster liquidity in the U.S. and abroad, monetize non-strategic intellectual property, fairly resolve legacyliabilities, and enable the Company to focus on its most valuable business lines.  Non-U.S. subsidiaries are not part of the filings, are not subject to the Court proceedings, and are operating as usual.

The filing frees up $950 million in funds from Citigroup (plus the cash that is already on hand) to continue operations within the Chapter 11 framework. This is in the context of a business plan moving forward that has been approved by the court.

I would imagine that news of the filing must come with some amount of relief for folks in the document management group given that uncertainty is always the least desirable position to be in. Per Kodak, the document management business has been strong. However, given that results for this business are not broken out separately from the rest of the company, whatever these results are, they have clearly been masked by the troubles of the rest of the company.

Prior to the reorganization, Kodak tried to sell its portfolio of consumer digital capture assets to free up cash. Getting a buyer to agree on the pricing of these assets must have been challenging in the uncertainty prior to the filing (likely the understatement of the week). With the path forward at least clear now, it appears the sale of these assets will move forward. 

These kind of Chapter 11 processes normally last about 18 months. Kodak last week restructured its business from three to two major operating units, one consumer focused and one commercial. Within the commercial segment, there are now three major pieces: 1) Enterprise Services and Solutions Group (under which the document management business operates); 2) Graphics and Entertainment and Commercial Film, and 3) Digital and Functional Printing Group.

Technology continues to roll over and around segments and companies that were once considered invulnerable, either 1) sweeping them away or 2) leaving them dramatically transformed in its wake. The next 18 months and a new start will determine which result will be Kodak’s future.

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]]> certified information professional Compliance and records management John Mancini Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:51:08 -0500 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/what-do-you-need-to-know-about-information-capture.html The Best Social Media Idea of 2011 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/Eok0SWsx-ck/the-best-social-media-idea-of-2011.html http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/the-best-social-media-idea-of-2011.html Per Giovanni Rodriguez of Forbes, the best social media idea of 2011 was AIIM's work with Geoffrey Moore! Screen Shot 2012-01-05 at 4.05.18 PMPer Giovanni Rodriguez of Forbes, the best social media idea of 2011 was AIIM's work with Geoffrey Moore!

For those of you who haven't seen the original piece, it is entitled Systems of Engagement and the Future of Enterprise IT: A Sea Change in Enterprise IT.  

If you missed it the first time, download it now.  And watch this space in the next few weeks for three new AIIM white papers by Professor Andrew McAfee.

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]]> John Mancini Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:23:25 -0500 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/the-best-social-media-idea-of-2011.html What the heck is AIIM is up to re Information Certification? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/qAgfdFqwSxI/what-the-heck-is-aiim-is-up-to-re-information-certification.html http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/what-the-heck-is-aiim-is-up-to-re-information-certification.html The following is a good presentation by my colleague Atle re what we are up to with our information certification program. I took the test before Thanksgiving secretly without telling my staff -- In case I failed. (Note: Given that the development process has been ISO consistent, I have not been privy to the development process.) I won't say I got an "A" but I did pass! So get in on the ground floor. The educational videos are great and can walk you through the content. A few quotes to illustrate why this certification is so needed... The vast majority of organizations see the need to manage information as an enterprise resource rather than in separate "silos," departments or systems, but they don't know how to begin to address the challenge, as it is so large...Professional roles focused on information management will be different to that of established IT roles...An "information professional" will not be one type of role or skill set, but will in fact have a number of specializations. (Deb Logan and Regina Casonata, Gartner) The IT worker needed by businesses … for the future needs to be multi-skilled – with a mixture of technical skills combined with... CertinfoproThe following is a good presentation by my colleague Atle re what we are up to with our information certification program.

I took the test before Thanksgiving secretly without telling my staff -- In case I failed.  (Note: Given that the development process has been ISO consistent, I have not been privy to the development process.)  

I won't say I got an "A" but I did pass!

So get in on the ground floor.  The educational videos are great and can walk you through the content. 

A few quotes to illustrate why this certification is so needed...

  • The vast majority of organizations see the need to manage information as an enterprise resource rather than in separate "silos," departments or systems, but they don't know how to begin to address the challenge, as it is so large...Professional roles focused on information management will be different to that of established IT roles...An "information professional" will not be one type of role or skill set, but will in fact have a number of specializations.  (Deb Logan and Regina Casonata, Gartner)
  • The IT worker needed by businesses … for the future needs to be multi-skilled – with a mixture of technical skills combined with strong business and communication skills. (World of Work, 2011)
  • …most executives perceive it [RM] as an administrative cost center…the strategic relevancy of the records management function has taken a slight dip… (ARMA/Forrester, 2011)
  • There are not enough people with the necessary skills to help companies capitalize on the opportunities that data provides (2011 EMC Study)
  • IT is not providing a sustainable competitive advantage, just as having electricity does not provide a sustainable advantage when everyone has it. (Coldstreams.com 2011, reporting on IEEE seminar)
  • 44% of records managers are not included in the IT strategic planning process, including requirements definitions and vendor selection – up from 35% in 2009 (ARMA/Forrester, 2011)
  • The inability of our profession to come to grips with the explosion of electronic records will spell the doom of the profession. In many organizations, that omission has made us irrelevant. (Patrick Cunningham, CRM, 2010)
  • The problem is that not enough people know how to use the new tools of the Internet, mobile, and cloud computing. The workforce as a whole does not have the right mix of skills. (Maurice Mugambe, 2011)

25 years ago, people would have viewed the idea of professional certification in project management as a lunatic idea.  Hundreds of thousands or certifications later, it is clear that there is a definable body of knowledge associated with project management.  The profession of project management is recognized as key to the success of organizations. We believe that the concept of an "information professional" is a concept whose time has come.  Yes, it is in its early stages.  But it is coming.  Join us.

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]]> certified information professional Compliance and records management John Mancini Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:07:24 -0500 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/what-the-heck-is-aiim-is-up-to-re-information-certification.html What do you need to know about Master Data Management and Text Analytics? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/gOn1j0Ohuv4/what-do-you-need-to-know-about-master-data-management-and-text-analytics.html http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/what-do-you-need-to-know-about-master-data-management-and-text-analytics.html Here's a short primer on Master Data Management and Text Analytics from our Information Certification educational videos (they're free! -- and feel free to embed them on your own web site!) Here's a short primer on MDM and Text Analytics from our Information Certification educational videos (they're free! -- and feel free to embed them on your own web site!)

 

 

 

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]]> certified information professional Compliance and records management John Mancini Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:06:16 -0500 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/http://www.digitallandfill.org/2012/01/what-do-you-need-to-know-about-master-data-management-and-text-analytics.html Links for 2011-02-08 [Digg]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/Sy5DwpRLIc4/ Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 PST http://digg.com/ #2011-02-08<ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/news/business/continuing_to_extend_the_paper_centric_records_paradigm_is_like_having_a_blacksmith_work_on_your_lexus_digital_landfill">Continuing to extend the paper-centric records paradigm is like having a blacksmith work on your Lexus - Digital Landfill</a><br/> At some point, we all are going to need to think through the implications of forever extending what we did with paper into the world of electronic information. ALA a favorite movie -- Family Man -- we get &quot;glimpses&quot; into something different, but we can't quite get our arms around it.</li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~4/Sy5DwpRLIc4" height="1" width="1"/>http://digg.com/ #2011-02-08Links for 2011-01-25 [Digg]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/4kCfWqCIXlU/ Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 PST http://digg.com/ #2011-01-25<ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/news/business/facebook_vetting_of_potential_employees_not_without_some_risks_to_the_employer_digital_landfill">Facebook vetting of potential employees - not without some risks to the EMPLOYER - Digital Landfill</a><br/> The issue we were talking about was one I hadn't considered before, and related to something we all do -- checking out a potential employee's presence on social media, especially Facebook, before hiring. In fact, it's one of the things I warn my kids about -- what what you post, because it carries risks in how you will be viewed by a potential employer.</li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~4/4kCfWqCIXlU" height="1" width="1"/>http://digg.com/ #2011-01-25Links for 2011-01-24 [Digg]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/F2JDI6QwC_g/ Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 PST http://digg.com/ #2011-01-24<ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/news/business/poking_at_the_soft_underbelly_of_social_media_digital_landfill">Poking at the Soft Underbelly of Social Media - Digital Landfill</a><br/> Let's start thinking systematically about how we should manage and govern and retain all of this ephemeral content. Let's start thinking about how our old system of records definitions need to change. Let's understand that there are risks in just winging it. Let's get on with implementing social technologies, but responsibly.</li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~4/F2JDI6QwC_g" height="1" width="1"/>http://digg.com/ #2011-01-24Links for 2010-12-20 [Digg]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/1sr0WWPn3kU/ Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 PST http://digg.com/ #2010-12-20<ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/news/business/the_12_days_of_christmas_my_12_information_management_predictions_for_2011_digital_landfill">The 12 Days of Christmas -- My 12 Information Management Predictions for 2011 - Digital Landfill</a><br/> My Content and Records Management Predictions for 2011...It is OK to hum along the 12 Days of Christmas as you go through this list...</li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~4/1sr0WWPn3kU" height="1" width="1"/>http://digg.com/ #2010-12-20Links for 2010-12-07 [Digg]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/HSjZpblsmWA/ Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 PST http://digg.com/ #2010-12-07<ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/news/business/8_things_you_need_to_know_about_getting_rid_of_paper">8 Things You Need to Know About Getting Rid of Paper</a><br/> New e-book available from AIIM on scanning and capture -- free -- and free to use/post on your own web site.</li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~4/HSjZpblsmWA" height="1" width="1"/>http://digg.com/ #2010-12-07Links for 2010-12-06 [Digg]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/3_RI4XtpNBY/ Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 PST http://digg.com/ #2010-12-06<ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/news/business/8_things_you_need_to_know_about_social_networking_content_management_but_were_afraid_to_ask">8 Things You Need to Know About Social Networking &amp; Content Management - But Were Afraid to Ask</a><br/> New e-book from AIIM; free download -- use it on your own web site -- licensed under Creative Commons</li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~4/3_RI4XtpNBY" height="1" width="1"/>http://digg.com/ #2010-12-06Links for 2010-11-23 [Digg]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~3/LH3nPPnOvdA/ Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 PST http://digg.com/ #2010-11-23<ul> <li><a href="http://digg.com/news/business/8_reasons_why_santa_claus_needs_cloud_based_document_management_digital_landfill">8 Reasons why Santa Claus Needs Cloud-Based Document Management - Digital Landfill</a><br/> In an interview with Santa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loECb-bkiQY), today's guest blogger KnowledgeTree identified 8 reasons why Santa needs document management in the cloud. 1 -- Reduction in Paper. Santa receives millions and millions of letters each year and has always done his part when it comes to recycling. However, an online document management system that accepts uploaded letters and stores emails will take Santa&rsquo;s green initiatives one step further by eliminating the need for paper altogether. The cumulative impact on reducing global warming will make the polar bears very happy! 2 -- Elimination of IT Infrastructure. Winter temperatures at the North Pole average around &minus;30 &deg;F. The brutal cold wreaks havoc on Santa&rsquo;s existing data center. Where most servers need to be kept cool to operate efficiently, Santa&rsquo;s servers need to be kept warm &mdash; at considerable cost. With a cloud-based DMS, Santa can reduce his energy costs, avoid technology obsolescence, and reduce the support burden on his IT elves. 3 -- Accessibility of Documents. Although Santa stays close to home for much of the time, he has a killer travel schedule one night a year. Rather than having to pop in to a FedEx/Kinkos to receive a fax on Christmas Eve,...</li> </ul><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcmIndustryWatch/~4/LH3nPPnOvdA" height="1" width="1"/>http://digg.com/ #2010-11-23