A Brief Definition and History of Information Management
We live in the era of high speed, also applied to the exchange and management of information. Our era has its own language, its own jargon, if you’d like. For instance, we abbreviate a lot, expressing...
View ArticleYahoo swears it isn't going to screw up Tumblr -- but how realistic is that...
Reblogged from GigaOM: As the dust begins to settle from one of the most significant acquisitions in web-land since the Facebook/Instagram deal (s fb), the warm glow of euphoria created by Yahoo's (s...
View ArticleLiving by the Numbers: Big Data Knows What Your Future Holds
Reblogged from bluesyemre: Forget Big Brother. Companies and countries are discovering that algorithms programmed to scour vast quantities of data can be much more powerful. They can predict your next...
View ArticleThe Wild Wide Web and Data Protection Mechanisms
Wild Wild West You are surely familiar with all of those American movies of the fifties about the Wild Wild West, its brave cowboys and sheriffs, about all that gold rush and the fight to keep one’s...
View ArticleRecords Management and data portability: Digital Shadows or Electronic Shells?
Reblogged from Thoughts on management: The EU is proposing a right to data portability. How organisations respond, will have an effect on how they manage records in the future. People will be able to...
View ArticleThe Art of Preservation
Hollywood also needs its preservation expert Classy photographs of Hollywood stars and old Film equipments We live in an era when the right to joy and entertainment nearly equals other rights, such as...
View ArticleInformation Awarness Month!!
Reblogged from 3MPC Information Matters: As mentioned in yesterday's blog we are in the middle of "privacy awareness week". What you may or may not know in Australia, tomorrow is the start of...
View ArticleUpdating Our Information Governance Survey
Reblogged from Barclay T. Blair: Building off of the Information Governance survey we did last year, eDJ Group and my firm, ViaLumina, are conducting another survey on Information Governance, and we...
View ArticleBig Data -- An Illuminating And Timely Book
Reblogged from bigdatacompany: With all the negative feeling about Big Data, thanks to the recent revelations of government spying on American citizens, it is very important to put things into...
View ArticleThe Importance of Archiving Data
Memories When I was young I used to collect all sorts of things: cd’s with my favorite music, magazine articles for things that interested me, coins, DVD’s, gadgets from my holiday’s destinations and...
View Article5 Things Every Business Should Know about Big Data
Reblogged from EzFIM: In college, my laptop functioned on 256MB of RAM and boasted nearly 25GB of storage! And no, I did not go to college in the 1960s. This was less than a decade ago. Today, it's...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery and Why We Need it
Will Your Data Survive A Disaster? It would have certainly been absolutely great if we could have predicted all of the possible disasters. Life would have been much easier and comfortable; we wouldn’t...
View ArticleRecords Management And Its Importance
Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam’s masterwork Have you seen the film Brazil from director Terry Gilliam? It is a futuristic sci-fi dystopian story with a comic element of a man lost inside a bureaucratic...
View ArticleSilent Circle will "move on" from NSA-associated encryption standards, but is...
Reblogged from Gigaom: The secure communications provider Silent Circle is pretty upset about the apparent betrayal of the cryptographic community by the NSA, so it's moving away from encryption...
View ArticleTechnology and the College Generation
Reblogged from bluesyemre: As a professor who favors pop quizzes, Cedrick May is used to grimaces from students caught unprepared. But a couple of years ago, in his class on early American literature...
View ArticleThe importance of trust and the question of software escrow agreements
Trust starts from the very beginning. From the way you lay the foundations of a business. It is about the relationships you form with your employees, with your customers, with your providers. Trust is...
View ArticleTrust: It’s the Bottom Line of Life
Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO in South India, is an inspiring young man. He and his small group of people have dedicated their lives to provide basic health...
View ArticleUse of Social Media in Investigations
Reblogged from Blog Now: All investigators, when tackling rogue traders, fraudsters or errant employees, need to make use of the Internet as an investigatory tool. Unfortunately there is a lack of...
View ArticleHealthcare Information Management in the Era of Information Technology
Doctor looking through Records Where I come from, and as I was growing up, I remember clearly that there was a dream that many parents shared: to see their children growing to become doctors. Of...
View ArticleEdward Snowden: revealing the ongoing war on data that no one wants to know
It all started with a young man called Edward Joseph Snowden. A former CIA employee and NSA contractor who publicized many top – secret US and British government mass surveillance programs such as the...
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