This edition of The OxyMorons was inspired by a New York Times article from January 1. It immediately struck me that a true OxyMoron play is combining things that don’t seem to go together to create a radically new value proposition.
How have eDiscovery and legal processes be impacted by the pandemic? Find out how — and what’s next — in my conversation with Ken Withers from The Sedona Conference.
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Changing the way organizations think about governance – changing the culture of governance – is a true OxyMoron mission. My conversation with policy guru Lewis Eisen.
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What does Augmented Reality have to do Information Governance? Find out in my conversation with Steve Weissman.
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My conversation with IG Guru Andrew Ysasi about the cybersecurity challenges facing organizations in nthe era of remote work.
The link between creativity and being an OxyMoron. A conversation with Dan Antion.
Along the way to publishing my book Immigrant Secrets, I discovered Reedsy.com, a platform for connecting authors and contractors that is disrupting the publications business. Here are highlights of my conversation with Reedsy.com co-founder Ricardo Fayet.
My most recent OxyMoron conversation was with Angela Watt, Information Management Supervisor & FOIP Coordinator with the City of Spruce Grove.
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At the core, if obvious modern day snake oil purveyors cannot be controlled, what on earth makes us think that Facebook ought to be at the center of our political conversations?
Crossing the Generational Divide — The idea for this show came out of a presentation a few weeks ago by Laurie Fischer (Managing Director, HBR Consulting LLC) and Kurt Neumann (Records and Information Principal, Prime Therapeutics) at the MER Conference (Understanding Workforce Generational Differences: Now More Important Than Ever). I was so intrigued by the conversation that I asked Laurie and Kurt -- truly a pair of OxyMorons, and a Boomer/Millennial partnership to boot -- to recreate it.
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One of the things that I’ve always admired about George Warner is the fact that he brings bit of “crankiness” to discussions about content and information management. When I raised this with George, he said, “Are you saying that I may not be the embodiment of patience and diplomacy?” — which gave me a good laugh. But I think that’s right on point — a bit of healthy and constructive impatience is the mark of a true OxyMoron.
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Today’s OxyMoron is Charley Barth, Global Director of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) from Cummins, Inc. Charley has a rich background in the public sector, which is where I first got to know him. In 2014, he was approached with a daunting challenge -- to introduce ECM technologies at a massive global company with very little prior ECM experience. It was this challenge -- requiring a rich set of OxyMoron skills in strategy and execution -- that led me to ask Charley to be on the program.
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In this episode of The OxyMorons, I chatted with two interesting speakers from the upcoming MER Conference, scheduled for May 24-27 about why organizations often resist governance innovations. Rafael Moscatel and Rob Bogue are true OxyMorons and change management gurus that can help organizations get moving with their governance plans.
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The guest on this episode of The OxyMorons is one of the most interesting characters I’ve run into in my professional career. Thornton May is a futurist, author, and educator and the chair of the Digital Value Institute. The Digital Value Institute is a new think-tank for identifying how technology is transforming industries and how leaders and organizations can respond. He was also the guy who originally hired me at AIIM 25 years ago.
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Glenn Gibson wears two OxyMoron hats, one in the context of the work that he does at Hyland and another as an author. It is the latter role that is the focus of our conversation. Glenn’s book is Before the Mic, and it’s all about how to compose meaningful, memorable, and motivational presentations.
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I have known Mark for several years, and he qualifies as a true OxyMoron -- someone who can operate with a broad sense of vision and mission but is simultaneously able to translate mission into plans and tactics that actually get done. And Mark does so in what is clearly a low stakes environment in which there is never any second guessing or anything that goes on of any consequence, said no one ever. AND he likes The Mandalorian.
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My guest this week is my old friend Atle Skjekkeland, who was gracious enough to be my beta test for my OxyMorons program. True confession - During the many years that we have worked together, we both likely have been tempted to leave off the “Oxy” part of the noun in referring to each other.
NARA is proposing to amend electronic records management regulations to add a subpart containing standards for digitizing permanent Federal records so that agencies may dispose of the original source records, where appropriate and in accordance with the Federal Records Act amendments of 2014.
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Five key takeaways from my conversation with Brian Tuemmler from Infotechtion.com, and based on his “MasterClass” – ification for unstructured content blog series.
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This was a post I did back in 2016 for the now defunct SlantNews. Reading George Packer’s excellent but sad piece in The Atlantic — We Are Living in a Failed State — made me think about it again. Four years later I can still feel the electricity of the crowd in the room when the Sam Goldberg video ran. Sadly, it seems like so long ago.
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